Global Lives Project Staff

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David Evan Harris, Executive Director

David Evan Harris is Executive Director of the Global Lives Project and Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Future. David is a cross-disciplinary mediamaker, working at the intersection of art, activism and academic inquiry on the politically charged questions surrounding globalization and social justice.

His forthcoming book, Você Vai me Servir ("You Will Serve Me," Annablume Publishers, São Paulo, 2011) is a comparative ethnographic study of relationships between domestic workers and their employers in Brazil and the US. David lived in Brazil from 2004-2007 as a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar, receiving a master's degree in Sociology from the University of São Paulo. David received his B.A. in 2003 from UC Berkeley, where he created his own major in "political economy of development and environment."

In college David took part in the International Honors Program, where he spent eight months traveling and studying in Tanzania, India, the Philippines, Mexico, and the UK. In 2000, he held an internship at the White House Council on Environmental Quality and has since worked as a consultant to numerous non-profit and educational organizations in the US and Brazil.

In Brazil, David wrote and directed newscasts for CurrentTV. His writings and photographs have been published in print and online with the BBC, Adbusters, the Sarai Reader, Glimpse Magazine, Next American City, Focus on the Global South, Alternet and Grist. He has spoken publicly about his work to audiences at UC Berkeley, Stanford, United Nations University, New York University, UC Santa Cruz, Apple, Google, and numerous other conferences and public events. David’s written work has been translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and Chinese. He speaks fluent English, Portuguese and Spanish and intermediate French.

 

Interns

Lindee Hoshikawa, Temple University
Lindee currently studies film and media arts at Temple University, Japan campus. Before deciding to go back to school to finish her degree, she had been working as musician, audio engineer and lighting technician in the Seattle and St Louis areas. Lindee has always been around video production equipment, as her father had once been a camera man and independent video producer. Since moving to Tokyo, Lindee has enjoyed working as composer, ADR engineer, production assistant, and editor, on a number of short films and projects. Lindee enjoys meeting fellow artists and technicians through working on such productions, and is delighted to be a part of the Global Lives Project. In the future, Lindee hopes to explore the art photography and cinematography, while always working to keep her music alive.  

 

 

Simone Goldsmith, Temple University
Simone's fascination with discovering new cultures, languages, foods and customs has already taken her far from her Australian home. Simone ventured off solo on exchange to Japan at only 14 and then again at 16 to French-speaking New Caledonia. Her case of severe itchy feet continued and after graduating high school, Simone left straight to Japan on a Gap Year to work for a Japanese travel agency. She later went to Hong Kong to work for and have her byline regularly published in Asia Spa Magazine. Simone is now back in the Land of the Rising Sun to hone her Japanese language skills five years in the making and to earn a Communications degree with a minor in Japanese at Temple University Japan. Excited to be involved with the Global Lives Project, Simone is working on the post-production of Global Lives Project - Jamila Jad (Lebanon, 2009).