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About Water Water - Who We Are
The Water Water Nyiads
We're an eclectic coalition of individuals and organizations,
growing every day. We share a concern in protecting this precious
resource.
Angela Alston - Festival Producer
Angela Alston is the Producer of the Water Water events in New York City, and is also producing the Kyoto video segments. Angela is an award-winning media maker whose work has screened in Europe, Canada and the United States. She has an extensive background in public relations, including three years as public affairs coordinator for Cornish College of the Arts. She is currently technical director of Democracy Now!, a national, listener-sponsored public radio and television show pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the country. Angela is also vice president of the Board of the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, and chaired the organization¹s strategic planning process. She received an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BA in philosophy and biology from Swarthmore College.
Missy Galore - Festival Director
Water Water Festival Director Missy Galore has created events and environments for clients ranging from designer Tod Oldham to the Warhol Museum. She has also organized her own theme-driven happenings. Among these is T3 4Pe@ce, a three-day,
non-stop town meeting of art, music, performance and political forums
including over 150 participants. Missy is one half of Feedbuck Galore,
a New York City-based video art group she co-founded in 1993 with Jon
Buckley.
Lauren Price - Arts Programmer and Grant Writing Consultant
Lauren has a longstanding interest in social issues and the arts.
After graduating from Williams College in 1993 with a B.A. in Art
History, she worked in Washington, DC, for the Center for Youth
Development and Policy Research at the Academy for Educational
Development, and as an Associate Producer for State of the Art, Inc., an Academy-Award-winning documentary production company. Following an intensive internship with Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Lauren relocated to New York City and currently is a grantwriter for The New 42nd Street, the nonprofit arts organization responsible for the operations of The New Victory Theater, the New 42nd Street Studios and The Duke on 42nd Street Theater. Lauren's own
artistic expressions include black-and-white photography, and a short
film, Pumps, which screened in the 1999 San Francisco International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and the 2000 Reel Affirmations Festival in Washington, DC.
John Sauer - Communications Manager, Action Against Hunger USA
John Sauer is responsible for the development and implementation of communications strategies for the organization, which includes press and media relations, publications, web site, and education initiatives. From 1999 to August 2001, John was Project Coordinator in Adjumani, Uganda, for Action Against Hunger. His responsibilities included managing a water and sanitation program benefiting the 70,000 Sudanese refugees and the Ugandan national population. From 1995-1997, he worked in Russia as a Project Director for Psalm 23 e.V., a German organization that supports children in need. Based in St. Petersburg, John directed an emergency humanitarian program for 3, 500 children living on the streets and in prisons. From 1994-1995, as Representative for Rwanda in Kigali, he developed an emergency aid project for unaccompanied children in northeast Rwanda. From 1993-1994, John worked for SOS Kinderdorf International (SOS Children's Villages), first in Uganda and then in Rwanda. As Coordinator in Kigali, Rwanda, he developed and managed a relief project during the war and established facilities to care for 200 children. John is currently fulfilling requirements for a masters degree in International and Intercultural Management.
Andrew Dieringer - Director/Producer, Free Speech TV's Mobile-Eyes on Water
Andy Dieringer has been involved in television journalism at Free Speech Television (FSTV) since graduating from the Film Studies Department at the University of Colorado in Boulder in 1996. He has been involved in creating alternative media outlets like the Activist Media Project in Boulder and the Rocky Mountain Independent Media Center. Andy produced the first television ads for a Colorado Green Party candidate for Congress and played a key role in live convention coverage at the Los Angeles Democratic National Convention. He has just completed a feature-length documentary, In a Prison Called Palestine, produced from footage shot during an eight-day tour of Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip in June 2002. Future plans include directing a ten-day FSTV tour of the southern United States following the World Social Forum. The tour will make use of FSTV's new cyberbus to organize and satellite-cast town meetings exploring issues brought up during the WSF.
Jeffrey Galusha - Action Against Hunger, Volunteer/Director of the Water March
Water issues have always had an influence on Jeff; his family avocado farm was cut down because of the high cost of water, he worked for over two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia, implementing two catch pond and well projects, and recently his video The Lachen Winter Grounds helped refugees in a barren area in Azerbaijan receive $500,000US for irrigation and portable water development. Jeff¼s business, NGO Media, helps nonprofit organizations use emerging technologies for education, evaluation, and fundraising purposes. Jeff earned a MA in Education from the United States International University in 1999. Jeff is a co-producer of Konscious TV and a technical assistant to Konscious.com. He has a long relationship with Action Against Hunger as a volunteer and he is currently working as the director of the Water March.
Simba Russeau - Video Reporter for Third World Water Forum
Simba Russeau is a self-taught photojournalist with a commitment to telling a story. Having spent seven years as a homeless youth, she experienced the harshness of being a young lesbian of color and
realized her mission is to capture the lost voices of the people. Those experiences led her eventually to New York City where she became a photo assistant to Isak Tiner, a children's and fashion photographer. After a year as an assistant, Simba became affiliated with the Independent Media Center, an alternative media activist collective dedicated to empowering the people to become the media and
to provide independent journalists with an outlet for reporting the truth. Currently, she is a camera operator at Democracy Now!, where she also gains journalism and production skills. Her writing has been published in Rolling Stone, The Indypendent, and Punk Planet. Simba has produced two video documentaries: The Voice of the People, on the Free Trade of Americas in Quebec City and a short on the Prison Moratorium Project. She is currently editing a documentary about East Timor's Independence Day. As a talk show host for a webcast radio show and audio correspondent, Simba has interviewed non-governmental officials from Haiti and several African countries, as well as an exiled journalist from Turkey and Satish Kumar, an Indian spiritual teacher who walked from India to Washington, DC, to spread the message of world peace. She is also currently an audio correspondent for Free Speech Radio News, an international news show, and has worked for PBS's In the Life and Roulette TV.
Project advisors include:
Special thanks for in-kind support and lending us an ear from time to time:
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