Profiles

Elisabeth Hoffman

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Sara Terry

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Claire Putzeys, Research Fellow

Claire Putzeys is a Masters’ student at the Fletcher School Claire for bio of Law and Diplomacy, at Tufts University, where she is working on a degree in International Security and Development Economics. She is a graduate of Colgate University, where she double majored in International Relations and French. Claire has worked previously at the U.S. State Department and Pine Street Inn Homeless Shelter in Boston, and as a research assistant and assistant director of alumni affairs at Colgate University. She enjoys playing volleyball, reading, and traveling in her spare time. She currently resides in Boston, MA and has dual citizenship in Belgium.

Kirsten Rian, Visiting Poet and Mentor, Sierra Leone Trip

Kirsten Rian leads workshops internationally using poetry as a tool for literacy, healing, and storytelling within the refugee/immigrant and homeless communities. She is a Poet-in-Residence through the Literary Arts Writers-in-the-Schools program in Portland, Oregon, teaching poetry to at-risk high school students. She also leads poetry workshops through Multnomah County Library, The IRC, IRCO and others. Her poetry has appeared in Rhino, Upstreet, and other national literary journals, and has been nominated for inclusion in the 2008 Best New Poets anthology. She was awarded a Soapstone artist residency, and San Francisco Center for the Book recently printed a limited edition letterpress broadside of her work. Active in the national photography community for 20 years, she is an independent curator and arts writer, and has coordinated over 375 exhibitions, and 65 books and catalogues. She served as Executive Director of Blue Sky Gallery, an internationally-heralded nonprofit photography institution, for 16 years. Her intrinsic belief in arts advocacy spills over to all her projects.

Angie Lederach, Sierra Leone Research Fellow

A three-month Voice to Vision fellow, Angie Lederach is a recent graduate from the University of Notre Dame where she double majored in Anthropology and Peace Studies. Angie is from Nederland, Colorado, where her parents, Wendy and John Paul, and brother, Josh now live. In the last few years, she has worked with peacebuilding organizations in the Philippines and Ghana. She currently lives at the Peter Claver Catholic Worker House in South Bend, IN. In her free time she enjoys backpacking, snowboarding, fishing, traveling, and reading.