SPECIAL EVENT | The Westin O’Hare, Rosemont, Illinois | OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Walls & Bridges:
Diverse Voices on Migration and Social Justice Thursday, July 18, 2019, 4 - 6 PM Live Stream: https://www.youtube.com/c/FieldingEdu/live Presented by Fielding Graduate University’s Sustainability Working Group (SWG), Building Inclusion Council (BIC), and doctoral concentration in Sustainability Leadership, this community event reveals the power of film to highlight essential issues around migration, power and ecology. The activist filmmakers and scholars on our panel will share clips of their work and offer commentary with an interactive World Cafe discussion. PROGRAM EMCEE: DAVID BLAKE WILLIS, PhD, Fielding faculty INTRODUCTION: FRED STEIER, PhD, Fielding faculty PANEL DISCUSSION: Bios below ILSE CRUZ was born in Jalisco, Mexico, and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated Top 10 from Benito Juarez Community Academy and currently teaches dance at Chicago public schools, helping to run a dance studio in one of the city’s largest Latino neighborhoods. She plans to continue her education at the University of Illinois in Chicago beginning in Spring 2020. KATHERINE NAGASAWA is a public radio producer, journalist, and documentary filmmaker. She was a Kartemquin Diverse Voices in Docs Fellow and is currently multimedia producer for WBEZ’s Curious City. She is working on a Japanese American Confinement Sites grant project about Japanese American history in Chicago.
SOHIB BOUNDAOUI is an AlgerianAmerican filmmaker based in Little Palestine, Chicago. He is an alumnus of Kartemquin’s Diverse Voices in Docs and Youth FX’s Next Doc. He is the founder of AlMosaic, an artist collective and is working on the web series “Arabica” with Chicago Filmmakers. COLETTE GHUNIM’s first documentary The People’s Girls shed a spotlight on sexual harassment in Egypt. She is currently working on Traces of Home, her first feature length film, documenting her journey back to Mexico and Palestine to locate her parents’ original homes. She is co-founder of Mezcla Media Collective supporting Chicago women of color filmmakers. GORDON QUINN is artistic director and founding member of Kartemquin Films. He has been making documentaries for over 50 years. Quinn’s cinéma vérité films investigate and critique society, documenting the unfolding lives of real people. Kartequim supports young filmmakers and high-quality, social-issue documentaries. CLOSING: RICH APPELBAUM, PhD, Fielding faculty