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Nehad Khader
2008 Art and Change GrantNehad received an Art and Change grant to interview local Palestinian women and facilitate two community gatherings where they shared their work and stories, and taught...
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Michelle Posadas
2007 Leeway Transformation Award 2007 Art and Change GrantMichelle is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work includes puppetry, performance, sculpture, photography, illustration, video, web design, and...
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Wolfie E. Rawk
2009 Art and Change GrantWolfie E. Rawk was born in Teaneck, NJ. He obtained a BA Degree in Studio Arts at Hampshire College where he organized a Queer Artists Caucus. He moved to Philadelphia, PA in...
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Changing the World With Social Networking
Despite the constant onslaught of new tools and tactics, something very fundamental about change has not changed at all: stories matter. Storytelling has been the most powerful building block for...
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Desi Shelton-Seck
2008 Leeway Transformation AwardGrowing up in Camden, Desi experienced life as inner-city female, not knowing how it would impact her until she moved away. Through her education she realized that the...
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María Teresa Rodríguez
2007 Leeway Transformation AwardMaría is a documentary filmmaker, producer and teaching artist whose work often centers on untold stories of Latinos in the US and abroad. Many of her films, such as...
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Pallabi Chakravorty
2010 Art and Change Grant 2006 Art and Change GrantPallabi is a dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist who creates works of performance fusing classical Indian dance, Bollywood dance, and Urdu...
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Yaba Amgborale Blay
2010 Art and Change GrantYaba Amgborale Blay is a professor of Africana Studies and Women and Gender Studies. Yaba combines her academic research and love of photography into visual learning tools. She...
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Elba Hevia y Vaca
2008 Art and Change Grant 2004 Windows of Opportunity GrantElba Hevia y Vaca was born in La Paz, Bolivia, where she studied classical Spanish dance from the ages of five to thirteen and became...
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Catzie Vilayphonh
2010 Leeway Transformation Award 2010 Art and Change GrantCatzie Vilayphonh is a Lao American writer, spoken word poet, and performance artist. She uses her work to inspire other Asian Americans,...
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Deborah Caiola
2010 Leeway Transformation Award 2008 Art and Change Grant 2004 Window of Opportunity Grant 2001 Window of Opportunity Grant Deborah is a painter and teaching artist. She is inspired to create art...
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Betty Leacraft
2011 LeewayTransformation Award 2009 Art and Change Grant 1999 Window of OpportunityBetty is a culturally-inspired fiber mixed media artist, her work is informed by artistic and cultural traditions of...
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Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela
2005 Leeway Transformation Award Marissa is a writer, activist, DJ, teacher, and also runs a small literary press. Over the past six years, fiction has become her primary means of artistic expression...
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Chaska Sofia
DJ precolumbian (Chaska Sofia) is a philadelphia-based genderqueer dj, musician, artist, media activist, and popular educator. She transforms dancefloors into block parties with a unique blend of...
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