Artist/Staff Bios
Artist/Staff Bios
Chana Morgenstern was born and raised in Jerusalem and resides in San Francisco. She is currently at work on a multi-media project combining over thirty interviews she conducted with Israelis and Palestinians on the subject of home. Chana was co-founder of SF School of the Arts Creative Writing Department and for two years served there as teacher and resident artist. She is an MFA candidate in fiction at Bard College and is working on an upcoming novel. Her plays and monologues have been performed at the New College Theater and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum. Chana is co-founder of Artifact: a reading series of innovative writing, which she curates with Melissa Benham in their Mission District home. She is the author of the chapbook Touching New Jersey (Little Red Press) and the recipient of Miriam Ylvisaker Fellowship in Fiction. Recent work of Chana's can be read in Red Letters Journal, On our Backs Magazine, El Pobre Mouse, Shifter Magazine, Marjorie Wood gallery, and forthcoming in Blithe House Quarterly.
Andrea Michelle Brooks has served communities both overseas and domestically. For four years she was an international community mediator and HIV/AIDS educator, working in Tanzania, Nigeria, Israel and Palestine. Her experience in conflict resolution includes serving as a Coexistence Facilitator for Seeds of Peace International Camp. Recent showings of her photographic works have been displayed at START Soma gallery, San Francisco City Hall, Hotel Des Art and Earth Island Journal. In 2005 Andrea co-curated and exhibited in False Walls, a site-specific exhibition for emerging photographers. She currently resides in San Francisco and is the Director of Education and Client Advocacy for Pets Are Wonderful Support (PAWS), a non-profit organization devoted to assisting low-income, disabled individuals with their companion and service animals. Through both her activist and creative work she explores myths of creation, identity across borders, empathy and violence, the impact of history on modern conceptions of self and the health benefits of the human animal bond.
Bashar Azzeh, was born and raised in Jerusalem. He earned his BS and Masters at Murray State University, KY in Systems Management and is currently working on his PHD in Political Science with a focus on conflict system management and conflict resolution . Having returned to Jerusalem in 2006, he currently works as a senior economist for Italian Consortium of Solidarity (ICS). ICS is an international NGO engaged in protection of victims of armed conflicts and international crisis, with a focus on displaced people and victims of human rights abuses.. Within his responsibilities is to manage and coordinate a project entitled 'Strengthening of Rehabilitation Services to Victims of Torture in the North and South of the West Bank' in collaboration with TRC (Treatment and Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture).
Chana Morgenstern was born and raised in Jerusalem and resides in San Francisco. She is currently at work on a multi-media project combining over thirty interviews she conducted with Israelis and Palestinians on the subject of home. Chana was co-founder of SF School of the Arts Creative Writing Department and for two years served there as teacher and resident artist. She is an MFA candidate in fiction at Bard College and is working on an upcoming novel. Her plays and monologues have been performed at the New College Theater and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum. Chana is co-founder of Artifact: a reading series of innovative writing, which she curates with Melissa Benham in their Mission District home. She is the author of the chapbook Touching New Jersey (Little Red Press) and the recipient of Miriam Ylvisaker Fellowship in Fiction. Recent work of Chana's can be read in Red Letters Journal, On our Backs Magazine, El Pobre Mouse, Shifter Magazine, Marjorie Wood gallery, and forthcoming in Blithe House Quarterly.
Andrea Michelle Brooks has served communities both overseas and domestically. For four years she was an international community mediator and HIV/AIDS educator, working in Tanzania, Nigeria, Israel and Palestine. Her experience in conflict resolution includes serving as a Coexistence Facilitator for Seeds of Peace International Camp. Recent showings of her photographic works have been displayed at START Soma gallery, San Francisco City Hall, Hotel Des Art and Earth Island Journal. In 2005 Andrea co-curated and exhibited in False Walls, a site-specific exhibition for emerging photographers. She currently resides in San Francisco and is the Director of Education and Client Advocacy for Pets Are Wonderful Support (PAWS), a non-profit organization devoted to assisting low-income, disabled individuals with their companion and service animals. Through both her activist and creative work she explores myths of creation, identity across borders, empathy and violence, the impact of history on modern conceptions of self and the health benefits of the human animal bond.
Bashar Azzeh, was born and raised in Jerusalem. He earned his BS and Masters at Murray State University, KY in Systems Management and is currently working on his PHD in Political Science with a focus on conflict system management and conflict resolution . Having returned to Jerusalem in 2006, he currently works as a senior economist for Italian Consortium of Solidarity (ICS). ICS is an international NGO engaged in protection of victims of armed conflicts and international crisis, with a focus on displaced people and victims of human rights abuses.. Within his responsibilities is to manage and coordinate a project entitled 'Strengthening of Rehabilitation Services to Victims of Torture in the North and South of the West Bank' in collaboration with TRC (Treatment and Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture).
posted by andrea and chana at 7:22 PM
2 Comments:
Andrea and Chana are extremely fascinating people. Andrea's wide ranging experience with people of various nations and cultures will be a valuable contribution to the project they are undertaking. Photographs will certainly enhance the understanding of the results of the interviews. I look forward to reading the report.
Bashar and his great love of life and people will carry him far in a project of this type. One can only wish that every once in awhile he would call his Nashville "Mother". We miss you and look forward to following this project.
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