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Flag #2: Rainbow Springs, Florida
February 21st, 2012 by admin
Location: Rainbow Springs, Florida Name: Christopher Hale We caught up with Christopher while canoeing through Rainbow Springs natural springs and freshwater river in Rainbow Springs, Florida. Archaeological evidence indicates that people have been using this spring for nearly 10,000 years. Christopher was using it to train for an upcoming triathlon despite the fact that the [...]
Flag #6: Zuccotti Park, New York
February 21st, 2012 by admin
Location: Occupy Wall Street – New York, New York Name: Joshua Boulet Joshua Boulet is an artist who camped out at Occupy Wall Street and began documenting the scene through his meticulous ink drawings. This photo was taken on October 29th during the first snowstorm to hit New York since the Occupation began. Josh, who [...]
Flag # 11: Senegal
February 21st, 2012 by admin
Location: Dakar, Senegal Name: Mamadou Diop, Mamadou Diop and his fellow university students have been protesting against teacher strikes over the last few weeks and more recently against the Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade who is seeking a third run at elections at the end of this month. Wade’s candidacy goes against the constitution, which he [...]
Flag #11: Senegal
February 20th, 2012 by admin
Location: Senegal. Dakar Name: Huguette Lassort Huguette Lassort, director of Cibiti, a local nongovernmental organization in Dakar helps improve prison conditions and supports prisoners around Senegal.
Flag #11: Senegal
February 12th, 2012 by admin
Location: Dakar, Senegal Names: Babacar and Khady Babacar and Khady are two students taking part in an educational exchange program between a school for intellectually deficient children and a regular public school in Dakar. This mainstreaming educational program is helping overturn the social stigmas associated with mental deficiencies in Senegal.
Flag #6: Montauk, New York
February 7th, 2012 by admin
Names: Suse Lowenstein and Peter Lowenstein Location: Montauk, New York On December 21, 1988 Pan Am flight 103 bound for John F. Kennedy Airport exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. All 259 passengers on the flight died along with 11 people on the ground. 176 of the passengers were Americans. 36 of them were from Syracuse University. [...]
João Pedro Marnoto
February 7th, 2012 by admin
João Pedro Marnoto born in 1975 in Porto, Portugal, after completing his Photography B.A. Hons in the United Kingdom, received a grant from the Portuguese Centre of Photography to develop a personal project, a photography/video installation titled ”Pity vs Charity – observation and reflexion”. Afterwards, he turned increasingly into documentary with his first book “The [...]
Flag # 5: Portugal
February 7th, 2012 by admin
Names: Miguel Nóvoa, Gonçalo Mota, Manuel De Sousa Gomes, Anna Brufau, João Pedro Marnoto (holding flag), Patife, Violeta Vilaça, Nuno Martins, Joana Braga, Oscar, Rui Quina Location: Highlands of Miranda do Douro, Northeast Portugal The group featured in this image is a small sampling that represents the larger organization of the A.E.P.G.A. (Association for the [...]
Flag #4: Ankara, Turkey
February 6th, 2012 by admin
Names: Sinem Kuzucan (left) and Aras Güngör (right) Location: Ankara, Turkey Sinem and Aras are transgender and gay activists specifically dedicated to the rights of Lesbians Gays Bisexuals and Transgenders in Turkey and for the rights of Turkish sex workers. Prostitution is legal in Turkey and is regulated by the Turkish government under article 227. [...]
Flag #3: Beijing, China
February 5th, 2012 by admin
Location: Beijing, China. Name: Zhang Bingjian Chinese artist and filmmaker Zhang Bingjian is standing in his studio with an installation of over 1,600 portraits of corrupt Chinese officials. The project is called “The Hall of Fame” and is comprised of paintings Zhang commissioned by Chinese artisans all over the country based on photos he collected [...]
Flag # 2: Leesburg, Florida
February 3rd, 2012 by admin
Name: Nicole Davis Location: Leesburg, Florida On July 5, 2011 an Orlando based jury found Casey Anthony not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Marie Anthony. I had heard of a memorial called “The Waterfall of Tears” built by a father of two in Leesburg, Florida after the rape and murder of Jessica Lunsford [...]
Flag # 1 : Southern Philippines
January 25th, 2012 by admin
Back in 2008 Red Flag Magazine was just an idea. As the pieces came together and the vision took a more structured shape there was till one last detail missing: A title. I sourced titles from friends and colleagues, but nothing seemed to fit. Name after name filed in and several even made it all [...]
The End
January 5th, 2012 by admin
The Buyout
December 27th, 2011 by admin
The receipt came to a total of 57 feet long, representing $19,000 worth of purchases. The store goes by the name of Hercules Fancy Grocery, and the project is the end result of one thought: What would happen if someone were to buy out an entire store? The team that performed the “Buyout” consisted of [...]
Leila Samii
December 26th, 2011 by admin
Leila Samii is currently studying International Business, Computer Science and Design at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Leila has been working with Red Flag Magazine from the very first issue. From studying environmental science in Oxford, England, to the craters of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii, Leila holds a very natural dedication [...]
Adrian Baschuk
December 24th, 2011 by admin
Baschuk is a Documentary Filmmaker, Correspondent, and Producer. He was an International Correspondent/Producer for Al Gore’s Current TV and has reported on all 7 continents including the tenuous regions of Iraq, North Korea, Israel, Venezuela, Tibet, Pakistan, and the Palestinian Territories. His reports were nominated for Peabody, DuPont, and Emmy Awards. He’s produced, directed, and [...]
George Carlin on “Stuff”
December 20th, 2011 by admin
George Carlin took to the stage after a 5 year hiatus in 1981 and explained to his fans the intricacies of our need for and overabundance of stuff in in a way that only he could. This is a truly classic skit, and deserves 5 minutes of your time, if just to put into perspective [...]
All That Glitters
December 19th, 2011 by admin
Journalist and producer Adrian Baschuk travels to the Northern Philippines and documents the effects of gold mining on those doing the actual mining, purifying, and smelting as well as the environment and community surrounding the mines. In this short video we get a glimpse of his ongoing project documenting goldmines across the world.
The Magic Bus
December 16th, 2011 by admin
All of us are seeking something that material objects cannot seem to provide – a place of peace, fulfillment or true freedom. The Hollingsworth-Kruse family stopped just seeking and decided to take action. Samantha Kruse and Tom Hollingsworth, a Miami-based couple, cut all ties with the stuff they had on land and moved their family, [...]
Tiny Houses
December 15th, 2011 by admin
This past week we have been focusing on places of dwelling or the spaces that we call “home”. When it comes to “stuff” our home is often the place where all our things converge under one roof and where we feel most connected. As we have been reexamining our relationship to stuff we also encourage [...]
Jason Hamilton
December 13th, 2011 by admin
Jason Hamilton was born and raised in the rural heart of Southern Ontario. He moved to Toronto in 1997 where the vast urban landscape continues to vex and contrast with the limitless expanse of his youth. He’s been a film technician for thirteen years as well as a freelance writer for the last four. He [...]
4 Buildings
December 11th, 2011 by admin
Door’s First
December 10th, 2011 by admin
Though I didn’t read the installation instructions on the plane I had spent time in previous months reading the manual and watching quick videos on Youtube of how to construct the yurt. I felt confident in my knowledge that I could answer most questions or concerns pertaining to the erection process (insert joke here.) And [...]
Buddhist Economics
December 9th, 2011 by admin
In 1973 a little book came out with a very large message: Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered. Its author was not a hippie or a yogi from the East, but rather he was outwardly what one might categorize as a “square”. His name was E.F Schumacher and he was [...]
Artist – Andrew Schoultz
December 8th, 2011 by admin
Dana Haim
December 7th, 2011 by admin
Dana Haim is a textile designer and artist originally from Miami, FL and artist currently based in Brooklyn, NYC. She received a BFA in Textile Design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2005 and later spent about four years living in Tel Aviv, Israel, where she was endlessly inspired by the sprawling, urban, [...]
How Cloth Changed My Life
December 3rd, 2011 by admin
I have always had a strange affinity towards fabric. Some of my earliest childhood memories consist of me holding a piece of plain white cotton cloth. I collected these pieces and became inseparable from them. I loved to feel the release when one string would quickly unravel the entire cloth. I loved to touch the [...]
Action #2: The Burning House Project
December 1st, 2011 by admin
“If your house was burning, what would you take with you? It’s a conflict between what’s practical, valuable and sentimental. What you would take reflects your interests, background and priorities. Think of it as an interview condensed into one question.” This is the one question New York-based photographer Foster Huntington asks to the world at [...]
M.F. Sandler
December 1st, 2011 by admin
M.F. Sandler teaches English and mostly writes poetry or about poetry for Allography and other venues. He tweets @mfsandler.
On the Gowanus
November 28th, 2011 by admin
I remember going to a party on a roof in Alphabet City just a little after I moved to New York City ten years ago. On an early fall night, the party was filled with recent college graduates like myself. One woman gestured towards the rotting water towers and Brooklyn’s abandoned post-industrial waterfront, and cooed [...]
Matt Keleman
November 27th, 2011 by admin
Matt Kelemen is a Las Vegas-based freelancer who thinks he has lived in at least one semi-sustainable community. A former music journalist, he covers architecture and design, writes profiles and features, and reviews films. He did not use any air-conditioning during the writing of his article.
Expomania: Consumer Chaos or Signs of Intelligent Life in the Capitalist Universe?
November 26th, 2011 by admin
I’m searching for the bejeweled fishing pole. I know it’s here. I’ve been taunted by glimpses of it in the brochure, but trying to locate it in the massive confines of the 3.2-million-square foot Las Vegas Convention Center is like trying to locate WMDs in 170,000-square-miles of desert. Maybe it was just a lure meant [...]
Suicide and Demand
November 25th, 2011 by admin
A lot of people sacrifice themselves for their work, willingly or unwillingly. An NFL football player risks his body and mind for millions, a career bartender his liver, or even the more obvious dangers of a job like a wartime journalist who may pay the ultimate price caught in the line of fire. But there [...]
Anna Louie Sussman
November 21st, 2011 by admin
Anna Louie Sussman is a New York-based investigative reporter covering local and international human rights and social justice issues, politics and policy, gender, culture, and the odd crime story. A graduate of Brown University (BA Comparative Literature ’04) and the London School of Economics (MSc. Human Rights ’08), her work has appeared in the Wall Street [...]
Koert Davidse
November 14th, 2011 by admin
Documentary filmmaker Koert Davidse, born in the Netherlands in 1959, studied photography and visual arts at the St. Joost Academy in Breda. In 2004, After several years working as a scriptwriter and as a freelance documentary filmmaker, he started his own production company called seriousFilm with his partners Yan Ting Yuen and Marc Thelosen. He [...]
Artist: Simon Evans
November 8th, 2011 by admin
With his piece titled “Everything I Have” (2008), Berlin-based (American born) artist Simon Evans offers up all the material contents of his life exposed and laid bare like a confession. He used inkjet photos Scotch taped directly to a 60 x 40 inch sheet of paper to visually catalog each material object he currently owns. He arranged [...]
Interview with Annie Leonard
November 7th, 2011 by admin
For years, Annie Leonard used to lecture people about stuff. With a big sheet of butcher paper and a marker, she guided live audiences through The Story of Stuff, a critique of our culture of consumerism, waste and disposability, drawing as she went along. She turned it into a 20-minute illustrated narration, which went viral [...]
The Clean Bin Project
November 6th, 2011 by admin
In 2007 the filmmakers behind the Clean Bin Project, Grant Baldwin and Jen Rustmeyer took a cycling trip down the Pacific Coast of the United States and discovered after months of carrying everything they needed on their bicycles, that they had too much stuff. “In fact there was an entire house filled with all [...]
“Manuscripts Don’t Burn”
November 6th, 2011 by admin
Books themselves are a fairly bad investment. A standard trade paperback effectively depreciates down to $0.00 as soon as it leaves the store and is typically used only once. There are very few other investment opportunities that are as fiscally unforgiving. With this realization comes another, that what we are actually purchasing is the solace [...]
Ellos Son Gigantes
November 5th, 2011 by admin
Ellos son Gigantes or They Are Giants (Rotterdam, 2009) is the second in a series of five short films by seriousFilms productions about collectors. Director Koert Davidse explains, “According to collectors there is a huge difference between those who save and those who collect.” For more than thirty years the featured charaters in this documentary, [...]
Action #1: Closet Case
November 4th, 2011 by admin
Artist: Jenny Holzer
November 3rd, 2011 by admin
Conceptual artist Jenny Holzer is best known for her projections. Like a mirror reflecting back the image of who we are – Holzer’s projections can be quite alarming. Her medium is often words and her ever-changing canvas can range from a solemn marble bench, to the side of a building, to the intimate surface of [...]
Meet the Collectors
November 2nd, 2011 by admin
7 Billionth
November 1st, 2011 by admin
Sound Piece by Jacob Kirkagaard and Video by Juan Carlos Orozco Velásquez Essay by Salman Rushdie and Milan Rushdie In 1997 I wrote an open letter to the six billionth world citizen, who was born that year, encouraging the poor little thing to imagine itself out of the straitjacket of religious belief. Astonishing that a [...]
Cover
November 1st, 2011 by admin
The Cover
October 31st, 2011 by admin
Nathaniel Sandler
October 31st, 2011 by admin
Nathaniel Sandler is Associate Editor of Red Flag Magazine. He is a graduate of Vassar College where he received a B.A. in Asian Studies and won some pretty unassuming writing awards. From there he spent two years in Japan teaching high school and travelling across Asia. More of his work can be read at the [...]
Emi Gennis
October 31st, 2011 by admin
Emi Gennis is a freelance cartoonist and illustrator living in the American South. In 2008, she received a B.A. in Art History and Visual Arts from the University of Chicago. Her work can be found in several anthologies of comics, self-published collections, as well as online at emigennis.com. She is currently pursuing an M.F.A. at the [...]
Kyle MacDonald
October 31st, 2011 by admin
You ever hear the story about a guy who traded a red paperclip for a house? Well, I’m that guy. Hi. My name is Kyle. I grew up in Belcarra, near Vancouver. (You can read my autobiography 1979 – 1990 here: part 1, part 2.) I’m really into projects. Usually fun things that take on [...]
Juan Carlos Orozco Velásquez
October 31st, 2011 by admin
Audiovisual performer, teacher and experimental researcher, Juan Carlos Orozco Velásquez is a Colombian artist who moves between philosophy, sciences and art in order to develop intermedia projects. His multiple interests go from history of vision and optics, metaphysics, video technologies, philosophy, theater, dance, live video, expanded cinema, magic, parties, politics, between others. He is the [...]
Salman Rushdie
October 31st, 2011 by admin
Salman Rushdie is the author of eleven novels: Grimus, Midnight’s Children (which was awarded the Booker Prize in 1981), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown and The Enchantress of Florence, and Luka and the Fire of Life. He [...]
Dedication Page
October 31st, 2011 by admin
Dedication Page
October 31st, 2011 by admin
Cover Artist: Agnes Denes
October 31st, 2011 by admin
Agnes Denes, a Hungarian born artist/scholar with a PhD n Fine Art, is one of the originators of Conceptual art and also a pioneer of the environmental art movement. Her work engages ecological, cultural and social issues, and are often monumental in scale. In 1996 Denes completed “Tree Mountain — A Living Time Capsule” in [...]
Vicki Raines
October 31st, 2011 by admin
Vicki Raines lives and works in New York City. While small apartment sizes and a commitment to sanity have kept her from actually hoarding, she does believe one could never own too many books. Since 2004, she has worked in the areas of field organizing, political advocacy, and volunteer management, currently applying her skills to an [...]
Ernesto Caivano
October 31st, 2011 by admin
Ernesto Caivano was born in Madrid, Spain. He was raised in Buenos Aires until moving with his family to El Cajon, California at age 14. Two days after his 18th birthday he dropped out of Granite Hills High School in El Cajon, and was arrested the same day over a dispute with a classmate. In [...]
Jacob Kirkegaard
October 31st, 2011 by admin
Jacob Kirkegaard is a Danish artist who focuses on the scientific and aesthetic aspects of resonance, time, sound and hearing. His installations, compositions and performances deal with acoustic spaces and phenomena that usually remain imperceptible. Using unorthodox recording tools, including accelerometers, hydrophones and home-built electromagnetic receivers, Kirkegaard captures and contextualizes hitherto unheard sounds from within a variety of [...]
Mark Cohen
October 31st, 2011 by admin
Mark Cohen, our “artist in residence” for the Children’s Issue, approaches his street photographs, mainly taken in his hometown of Wilkes-Barres Pennsylvania, with what has become known as his iconic “grab shots”. The work featured in this issue, all dating from the late 1970s, presents a time when children were teetering between the idyllic notion [...]
Shelly Sowell
October 30th, 2011 by admin
Shelly Sowell, M.Ed., LMHC, works as a psychotherapist and educator in Miami, Florida. She has a Master’s degree in Human Development Counseling from Peabody College at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. In addition to her counseling practice at the Mind Spectrum Institute (www.mindspectruminstitute.com), Sowell teaches mindfulness and meditation in schools and organizations throughout South Florida. [...]
Letter from the Editor
October 30th, 2011 by admin
Alexandra Cousteau
October 30th, 2011 by admin
National Geographic Emerging Explorer Alexandra Cousteau is part of one of the world’s most famous environmental dynasties. She is grand-daughter of legend Jacques-Yves Cousteau who first started teaching her to dive at the age of seven. She left on her first expedition with her father Philippe and mother Jan to Easter Island, Chile when she [...]
Letter from the Editor
October 30th, 2011 by admin
Someone asked me the other day: “What is your favorite flower?”, and I immediately answered: “A dandelion.” It was a spontaneous answer and it took me by surprise. I would have guessed it would be a species more pedigree, more concrete or at least more colorful. Then I realized that the dandelion is so much [...]
Icarus Redux
October 29th, 2011 by admin
Icarus was the son of the master craftsman and eminent Greek innovator Daedalus. In their attempt to escape from exile in Crete, Icarus and his father took to the skies, each on a pair of handcrafted wings made of wax and feathers. Before taking off, his father cautioned Icarus not to fly too close to [...]
Remembering Smell
October 29th, 2011 by admin
Smell is our most primal sense it links us with other animals. It is connected to the limbic system our center of emotion and a new source of stem cells. When Bonnie Blodgett, founder and editor of the award winning garden journal The Garden Letter, began mysteriously smelling rancid scents that she described as “every [...]
Artist: Jim Hodges
October 29th, 2011 by admin
Jim Hodges transforms ordinary objects – paper napkins, fabric flowers, silk scarves, mirrors, tissue paper – through subtle interventions that bring home the immediacy of life and the lasting power of transitory moments. In A Diary of Flowers, 1992-93 Hodges pinned to the wall hundreds of used coffee-shop napkins, each carrying sketches of flowers rendered [...]
Migration Interrupted
October 29th, 2011 by admin
For generations on end, birds have remained in the same migration patterns, returning to an unchanged safe haven they knew would be there. This was the case for the Brown Pelican, recently removed from the federal endangered species list last fall. Normally taking a path to Mexico or Southern California, these birds have experienced an [...]
Artist: Noel Grundwaldt
October 29th, 2011 by admin
Noel Grundwaldt draws upon external cues from the natural surroundings of her rural upstate home. For this series of watercolors, Grunwaldt creates lush renderings of dead fowl. Breathing new enthusiasm into these lifeless creatures, Grunwaldt effortlessly transforms her subject matter into vibrant and intricate works of art. Aesthetically suspended between notions of life and death, [...]
Letter from Our Guest Editor
October 29th, 2011 by admin
The Cover
October 26th, 2011 by admin
Yasmin Newman
October 25th, 2011 by admin
Yasmin Newman is a writer, photographer and presenter from Sydney, Australia, with a consuming passion for food media. Returning to the land of her mother, the Philippines, to research a cookbook, Yasmin’s journey takes her around the country where the beaming smiles of children she meets hide a deep-seated problem of child labor – and [...]
The Cover
October 25th, 2011 by admin
Cover Artist: Mark Cohen
October 25th, 2011 by admin
Mark Cohen, our “artist in residence” for the Children’s Issue, approaches his street photographs, mainly taken in his hometown of Wilkes-Barres Pennsylvania, with what has become known as his iconic “grab shots”. The work featured in this issue, all dating from the late 1970s, presents a time when children were teetering between the idyllic notion [...]
Claire Scoville
October 24th, 2011 by admin
Claire Scoville is an artist working in film, video, projection, and photography. In 2008, she co-founded Cinema e Artes em Azeitao, a culture initiative and creative non-profit in Portugal. She believes in the words of her grandfather, Herbert Scoville, Jr., the scientist and nuclear arms control activist: “Our leaders . . . have lost the path [...]
Dr. Marcelo de Andrade
October 24th, 2011 by admin
In 1985, the Brazilian native, founded Pronatura one of the first environmental conservation corporations in South America. Pro-Natura has since brought its work to Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, and to the Republic of Vanuatu. Dr. De Andrade later cofounded Terra Capital and most recently Earth Capital – both Private investment firms committed to fiscally [...]
Adrian Baschuk
October 24th, 2011 by admin
Baschuk is a Documentary Filmmaker, Correspondent, and Producer. He was an International Correspondent/Producer for Al Gore’s Current TV and has reported on all 7 continents including the tenuous regions of Iraq, North Korea, Israel, Venezuela, Tibet, Pakistan, and the Palestinian Territories. His reports were nominated for Peabody, DuPont, and Emmy Awards. He’s produced, directed, and [...]
Christophe DiFalco
October 24th, 2011 by admin
Christophe L. DiFalco, Esq.: Mr. DiFalco is a partner of DiFalco & Fernandez, LLLP, an East coast based law firm with offices in New York, NY and Coral Gables, FL. His practice focuses on general corporate advisory work, board of director advisement, entity structuring, and mergers and acquisitions, with a wide-variety of companies from public entities [...]
Letter from the Editor
October 24th, 2011 by admin
Today water is a commodity – a convenience we carry in a plastic bottled sold to us by a corporation for a staggering profit. It is a place for recreation – where we etch its surface with fiberglass boats powered by oil. Water is the backdrop to our day spent lying on the beach in [...]
Dedication Page
October 24th, 2011 by admin
Letter from the Editor
October 24th, 2011 by admin
Cover Artist : Raymond Pettibon
October 22nd, 2011 by admin
Raymond Pettibon, our “artist in residence” for the Water Issue, holds a degree in economics from UCLA. In 1977 he pursued a career in art starting out designing album covers for punk rock bands including The Minutemen, Sonic Youth, and Black Flag – a band started by his brother Greg Ginn for which Pettibon played [...]
The Water Fund : An interview with Financial Advisor John Dickerson
October 20th, 2011 by admin
RED FLAG MAGAZINE: How did you get interested in water? JOHN DICKERSON: At Summit, we have been water investors since 1980, when I first volunteered as treasurer of a municipal water district. Becoming intrigued with the space due to the cash flows generated by my non-profit utility, I asked Wall Street for their research on water [...]
Water Wars : Las Vegas
October 20th, 2011 by admin
Las Vegas shouldn’t exist. This was my opinion before I migrated from wet, sinkhole-ridden Florida to the inhospitably arid Las Vegas Valley. It’s also an opinion shared by many of the ranchers that live hundreds of miles north on both sides of the border between Nevada and Utah, who fear their way of life threatened [...]
Sweden, the Model (Green) Citizen, is Giving Away Prizes
October 20th, 2011 by admin
When it comes to the environmentally conscious, if thinking on a global scale, there are a few countries that sit on a high ledge in order to serve as models to the rest of the world. Sweden, according to a 2008 Yale study, is number three on that list. (FYI: The U.S. made slot 38). [...]
Pool Report
October 18th, 2011 by admin
The swimming pool is a symbol of the American Dream, or at least it feeds into the mythology of an All-American good time. There is something about the dive or the plunge into a chlorinated hole of electric blue that presents the illusion of refreshment – of a fun, healthy summer. But, there is a [...]
Reena K. Shah
October 18th, 2011 by admin
Reena K. Shah graduated cum laude from the University of San Francisco in 2007 with a B.S. in Politics. At USF, she served two terms as V.P. of Service of the USF Politics Society and spearheaded a campaign for the university to promote social and environmental sustainability by joining the Graduation Pledge Alliance. Reena spent [...]
Lisa Olsson
October 18th, 2011 by admin
Lisa Olsson was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden, and that is also where she has done most of her journalistic work. Besides working for Scandinavias biggest newspaper Aftonbladet and the magazine and web site of organization Amnesty she has been freelancing for various media focusing on human rights. She is also writing about film [...]
Lotta Zachrisson
October 18th, 2011 by admin
Lotta Zachrisson has been working as a journalist since 2002, the first few years being employed by various media (newspapers, tv, radio) in her home country Sweden. In 2006 she moved to the Jerusalem to start reporting about the conflict for Swedish, French, Spanish and US media. She has since traveled around the world – [...]
Hayfa Matar
October 18th, 2011 by admin
Hayfa Matar is an Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain. She also held the position of Counselor to the President of the 61st Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Previously, she worked at the Embassy of Bahrain in London as researcher to the Ambassador, and has also worked as [...]
Becky Straw
October 18th, 2011 by admin
Becky Straw received her MSW at Columbia University, with a focus on International Social Welfare and Social Enterprise Administration. She is currently the program director at Charity: Water where she manages 890 water and sanitation projects in 13 countries. She has always loved water issues but gets really excited talking about toilets, diarrhea, and the [...]
Nicky Yates
October 18th, 2011 by admin
Nicky Yates received her Master’s degree in Psychology from NYU in 2007. She left the New York County District Attorney’s Office as a Child Victim Specialist in 2007 to join the charity: water staff. Her passion for international aid was sparked after spending time in Namibia and Kazakhstan. The amazing atmosphere at charity: water and [...]
Esther Havens
October 18th, 2011 by admin
Esther Havens is a humanitarian documentary photographer who focuses on social-awareness campaigns with non-profits around the globe, capturing stories that transcend a person’s circumstance that reveal the strength of an individual regardless of the situation in which they find themselves. Esther has traveled extensively to over 40 countries and seeks to open hearts and minds [...]
Philippe Cousteau
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Philippe Cousteau is the son of Jan and Philippe Cousteau Sr. and the grandson of Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau. As a member of the legendary family, Philippe is continuing the work of his father through EarthEcho International, the non-profit organization he founded with his sister and mother and of which he serves as CEO. In addition [...]
Katharine Werner
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Katharine Werner grew up on Miami Beach. In 2004, she graduated from New York University. She has since worked in the New York offices of Miramax/The Weinstein Co, and most recently on the film “Morning Glory” for Paramount Pictures.
Adam Schroeder
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Adam R.W. Schroeder is a fiction writer born and raised New Yorker. He graduated with honors from Bard College in May 2009. He divides his time between Long Island and Manhattan.
A Braver Newer World?
October 17th, 2011 by admin
“How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sebastien?” When Raj and his wife Whitney decided to have a baby, only the best would do. There was little question of the viability of their love making organically, but Raj and Whitney wanted to be sure of a few things. Raj wanted to be sure of a [...]
A Walk in the Woods
October 17th, 2011 by admin
A FEW YEARS AGO, I visited Southwood Elementary, the grade school I attended when I was a boy growing up in Raytown, Missouri. I asked a classroom of children about their relationship with nature. Many of them offered the now-typical response: they preferred playing video games; they favored indoor activities—and when they were outside, they [...]
Julie Hooper
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Julie Hooper is a Certified Integrative Health Counselor by The Institute for Integrative Nutrition and Teacher’s College Columbia University. She specializes in nutrition and lifestyle counseling for people in the spotlight who need to look and feel their best. She is currently involved a series of workshops, empowering women to make wiser and more intuitive [...]