Sponsors
Bio’s of Producers:
The Executive Producer of the Multicultural Artist Residency in the
United States is Stephanie Rose Bifolco. She is a community organizer, leadership trainer, and
social worker. She specializes in
Mexican migration, low-wage worker organizing and direct action, popular education,
Theater of the Oppressed, and healing justice. She has experience working at and collaborating with dozens
of worker centers and immigrant rights organizations throughout the northeast
United States and Mexico, such as the Mid-Hudson Migrant Education Program at
SUNY New Paltz, El Secretaria Nacional del Migrante de Ecuador, New Immigrant
Community Empowerment, Cabrini Immigrant Services, Unidad Latina New Jersey,
JUNTA for Progressive Action, Instituto de Investigacion y Practica Social y
Cultural A.C., Transnational Institute for Grassroots Research and Action
(TIGRA), and the New Haven Workers Association. Stephanie has a Masters Degree in Community Organizing and
Social Work from Hunter College School of Social Work. Stephanie lives and works in New York
and Mexico. She also plans and supervises
community and cultural exchange programs between Mexico and the United States
and leads workshops nationally and internationally. Contact Stephanie at steph@bifolco.com, 011-516-592-1219.
The Assistant Producer of the 2012 Residency is Marco Antonio Castillo Martinez, the founder of El Centro de Atencion a la Familia Migrante Indigena, (CAFAMI) in the rural town of San Francisco Tetlanohcan, Tlaxcala, Mexico. Marco graduated from the University of Puebla as an anthropologist in 2001. At that time, he went to live in a village called San Francisco Tetlanohcan. With a rich history in Nahuatl culture, Marco began to organize with young people and women from the village whose family members have migrated to the United States. Marco soon formed the nonprofit organization IIPSOCULTA (Institute for Social and Cultural Research and Practice) with the mission of creating conditions for justice and equity through education, organizing, and solidarity. Their first project was the creation of CAFAMI in San Francisco Tetlanohcan. Today Marco leads IIPSOCULTA’s projects in four different countries, and has formed a coalition of individuals, groups, communities, and organizations who collaborate together in order to create an alternative system of migration with dignity. Past information about IIPSOCULTA can be found at http://iipsocultaus.wordpress.com. Contact Marco at iipsoculta@yahoo.com, 52-246-110-8112.
Hosts
at each Residency:
Five Colleges, (Hampshire College, Smith College, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst College, Mt Holyoke College) Amherst, Massachusetts
·
Name and
contact information of the primary Five College host for this residency:
Will MacAdams, Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater, Hampshire College. Velma García, Associate Professor of Government at Smith College, affiliated with the Latin American & Latino/a Studies Department. Michelle Joffroy, Associate Professor of Spanish & Portuguese at Smith College, affiliated with the Latin American &Latino/a Studies Department. Megan Lewis, Assistant Professor at University of Massachusetts, Theater History and Criticism, Department of Theater. Harley Erdman, Graduate Program Director at University of Massachusetts, Associate Professor: Dramaturgy, Department of Theater.
Will MacAdams, Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater, Hampshire College. Velma García, Associate Professor of Government at Smith College, affiliated with the Latin American & Latino/a Studies Department. Michelle Joffroy, Associate Professor of Spanish & Portuguese at Smith College, affiliated with the Latin American &Latino/a Studies Department. Megan Lewis, Assistant Professor at University of Massachusetts, Theater History and Criticism, Department of Theater. Harley Erdman, Graduate Program Director at University of Massachusetts, Associate Professor: Dramaturgy, Department of Theater.
Brecht
Forum, 451 West St, New York City, New York 10014
· Name and contact
information of the Brecht Forum hosts for this residency:
Marie-Claire Picher, PhD, founder of
the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) at the Brecht Forum. Read
more about TOPLAB at their website: www.toplab.org.
· Daniel
Carlton, founder of Carlton
Industries.
Southern
Connecticut State University, 501 Crescent St, New Haven, Connecticut, 06515
and
· Name and contact
information of the primary Southern University host for this residency:
Dr. Marianne Kennedy, PhD, Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs,
Southern Connecticut State University.
Erin Heidkamp, Director
Office of International Education.
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269.
Name and contact information of the primary Southern University host for this residency:
Dr. Anne Gebelein, Associate Director, Center for Latina American and Carribean Studies.
Edward McCarthy, President, New Haven/Tetlanohcan Sister Cities Project.
Ruth Hernandez, Graduate Student at University of Connecticut, Stores, Connecticut.
