MENTORS TO THE WRITERS WITH ROLES
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Danesh Antia
Olivia Ford Barbara Janowitz Darwin Johnson Charity Thomas Will Owen |
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Mentor Bios
Danesh Antia is from India. Having studied design, illustration & typography in Mumbai, he lived and worked there for almost ten years and moved to Melbourne in 2009. He is currently based in Brooklyn, practicing visual communication and graphic design. Some of his work lives at rootnation.in
Olivia Ford was born in Crown Heights and raised in Flatbush, Brooklyn. She has taught and mentored teenagers in pre-college residential summer programs, and supported the leadership of high school-age cabin leaders as a staff facilitator for several seasons with the Mosaic Project, a human-relations outdoor school for 4th and 5th graders in Northern California. She lived in the East Bay Area from 2001 to 2007, where she volunteered as a listener on a peer-led national LGBTQ youth hotline. She also crafted and facilitated curriculum during the pilot season of the Fusion Summer Program for Mixed-Heritage Youth. Olivia is currently the community manager at TheBody.com, a comprehensive Web-based HIV/AIDS news and information resource, where she edits the work of several dozen bloggers writing regularly for the site. She has presented workshops at conferences throughout the U.S. on topics ranging from media relations to homophobia and racism to using online storytelling as a means to combat HIV/AIDS stigma. Olivia holds an A.B. degree in Sociology from Princeton University and an M.F.A. in Writing and Consciousness from the New College of California. She enjoys film trivia, writing short stories, reading long ones, and cooking like a vegetarian. She's also attended several births as a trained doula, and plans to eventually seek certification.
Barbara Janowitz is an arts consultant with years of experience in arts programming and management. She is a native of New Jersey and has lived in Brooklyn since the 1980s.
Darwin Johnson is from Harlem, NY. and presently resides in Brooklyn NY. Darwin studied physics at the University of Iowa. He's been an IT Consultant for over 10 years, but started programming in the 1979 on a Commodore PET. Darwin bought his first computer, a Commodore 64 in 1982 and has been programming ever since. One of the more unique aspects of the Commodore 64 is it contains a music chip called the SID chip, that is still used to make electronic music today. Darwin's early programming experience with the SID Chip oriented him towards computers as musical instruments. He presently makes live electronic banjo music under the moniker schwaahed. After attending the Natural Gourmet Cookery School in 1995, Darwin taught weekly cooking classes for HIV+ clients at Victim Services in East New York Brooklyn and active intravenous drug users at Saint Ann's Corner for Harm Reduction in the South Bronx. Darwin also served as the private chef for the founder of the Natural Gourmet Cookery School, Annemarie Colbin, during this period. Darwin assisted Annemarie in writing a cookbook Food and Our Bones. As an IT Consultant Darwin has worked as a programmer and system administrator for everything from small non-profits and individuals to Fortune 50 companies. Darwin presently is the IT Director for the Somaly Mam Foundation.
Charity Thomas left Chicago, went to school, came to New York, worked on some cool music videos and commercials with some cool people, went to school again, then started telling stories on stages around town. She hosts the monthly series "Tell Me a Story" (she came up with that name herself) at bar Sepia in Brooklyn while doing various and sundry to feed her 'artist'. Oh, she writes stuff too.
Olivia Ford was born in Crown Heights and raised in Flatbush, Brooklyn. She has taught and mentored teenagers in pre-college residential summer programs, and supported the leadership of high school-age cabin leaders as a staff facilitator for several seasons with the Mosaic Project, a human-relations outdoor school for 4th and 5th graders in Northern California. She lived in the East Bay Area from 2001 to 2007, where she volunteered as a listener on a peer-led national LGBTQ youth hotline. She also crafted and facilitated curriculum during the pilot season of the Fusion Summer Program for Mixed-Heritage Youth. Olivia is currently the community manager at TheBody.com, a comprehensive Web-based HIV/AIDS news and information resource, where she edits the work of several dozen bloggers writing regularly for the site. She has presented workshops at conferences throughout the U.S. on topics ranging from media relations to homophobia and racism to using online storytelling as a means to combat HIV/AIDS stigma. Olivia holds an A.B. degree in Sociology from Princeton University and an M.F.A. in Writing and Consciousness from the New College of California. She enjoys film trivia, writing short stories, reading long ones, and cooking like a vegetarian. She's also attended several births as a trained doula, and plans to eventually seek certification.
Barbara Janowitz is an arts consultant with years of experience in arts programming and management. She is a native of New Jersey and has lived in Brooklyn since the 1980s.
Darwin Johnson is from Harlem, NY. and presently resides in Brooklyn NY. Darwin studied physics at the University of Iowa. He's been an IT Consultant for over 10 years, but started programming in the 1979 on a Commodore PET. Darwin bought his first computer, a Commodore 64 in 1982 and has been programming ever since. One of the more unique aspects of the Commodore 64 is it contains a music chip called the SID chip, that is still used to make electronic music today. Darwin's early programming experience with the SID Chip oriented him towards computers as musical instruments. He presently makes live electronic banjo music under the moniker schwaahed. After attending the Natural Gourmet Cookery School in 1995, Darwin taught weekly cooking classes for HIV+ clients at Victim Services in East New York Brooklyn and active intravenous drug users at Saint Ann's Corner for Harm Reduction in the South Bronx. Darwin also served as the private chef for the founder of the Natural Gourmet Cookery School, Annemarie Colbin, during this period. Darwin assisted Annemarie in writing a cookbook Food and Our Bones. As an IT Consultant Darwin has worked as a programmer and system administrator for everything from small non-profits and individuals to Fortune 50 companies. Darwin presently is the IT Director for the Somaly Mam Foundation.
Charity Thomas left Chicago, went to school, came to New York, worked on some cool music videos and commercials with some cool people, went to school again, then started telling stories on stages around town. She hosts the monthly series "Tell Me a Story" (she came up with that name herself) at bar Sepia in Brooklyn while doing various and sundry to feed her 'artist'. Oh, she writes stuff too.
