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David Evan Harris, Executive Director
David Evan Harris is Founder and Executive Director of the Global Lives Project and Research Director 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, 2012) 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,Guardian, 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 the Smithsonian, UC Berkeley, Stanford, United Nations University, New York University, UC Santa Cruz, the British Museum, Apple, Google, Adobe and numerous other conferences and public events around the world. 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.
Lauren overflows with enthusiasm, and attacks everything she does with an indomitable energy. Her passion is contagious, and her natural role is as an organizer and motivator of people. While earning her degree in architecture from UC Berkeley, minoring in Global Poverty and Practice, Lauren worked on design/build projects in South America, leading volunteers on a sustainable architecture mission to Bolivia. Lauren was also the producer of an award-winning internet talk show Live From the Future. More recently, Lauren has worked in the field of Environmental Health Justice as a community organizer and health correspondent in Wilmington, CA and recently returned from conducting research in Brazil on a Fulbright Fellowship. As Program Coordinator for the Global Lives Project, Lauren leverages her years of experience producing online media, and coordinating nonprofit projects internationally to grow the impact of the Global Lives Project.
Daniel Chein, Video Producer/Editor, USA
Daniel is a video producer and an editor for the Global Lives Project. Alongside his work with GLP, his current projects include directing a short film about the contested history of Angel Island and editing a feature-length documentary about the chairman of a Maasai village. This summer, he will be working with filmmakers and anthropologists to produce an HIV/AIDS awareness film specifically addressing rural Maasai in Tanzania. While abroad, he intends to produce a new shoot for the GLP as part of “Lives in Transit”. Daniel received a BA from San Francisco State University in anthropology and will be pursuing a MA from the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology in the fall of 2013.
Interns
Jordan Katz, New Media Producer, USA
Jordan is a New Media intern for The Global Lives Project. Jordan graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara in June 2011 with degrees in Global Studies and Communication. Her media background includes work in radio news and video production. She has lived in Barcelona, Spain and has traveled through Europe, Morocco and Turkey. She is interested in the effects of globalization on women in rural contexts and sees the Global Lives Project as a way to bring those and other issues to light. For now, she is helping produce promotional video content for GLP, but she also hopes to be part of a Global Lives shoot in the future.
Saphassorn June Santijitrungruang, New Media Producer, Thailand
June is the one with long name, originally from Thailand. After graduating from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok Thailand, she came to San Francisco to study Multimedia Communications at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. Producing and editing creative videos is what she loves, and that brought her to be a video intern at Global Lives Project.
Purvi Rami, Development Manager, USA
Purvi Rami is the Development Manager for the Global Lives Project. Education is her passion. Her desire to increase access to education for poor and underprivileged communities led her to start Greenlight Services, a nonprofit organization that aimed to provide parents with the tools they need to help their children succeed in school and in life. Prior to joining the Global Lives Project, Purvi researched grants for an orphanage in Cameroon and was a Corporate Relations Intern for the American Cancer Society. She also has six years of experience working for local government. Purvi holds an M.P.A. and a B.A. in Communication Studies. She is fluent in English and conversational Spanish and is learning Gujarati. In her spare time,
she loves to read and travel.
Jordan Katz, New Media Producer, USA
Viviani Oliveira is is the Global Lives Project’s Translation Coordination Intern. She graduated with a Bachelor's in Communication from the University of Franca São Paulo (Uni-FACEF). Viviani has worked in advertising for both a Brazilian firm and the city of Franca- São Paulo. Additionally, Vivani has worked as a dance teacher teaching ballet and jazz for kids and teenagers. In 2011, Viviani spent 6 months studying dance and English in San Francisco and fell in love with the city, and is now back to the bay area working with the Global Lives Project. Viviani is very excited to contribute her native language and communication skills to help the Global Lives Project and gain an experience working and living outside of Brazil.
Past Contributors
Charlotte Gibbs, Translation Coordinator, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Sarah Smith, Graphic Designer, Loyola University Chicago, USA
Simone Goldsmith, Translation Coordinator, Temple University Japan Campus, Tokyo, Japan, Australia
Anna Pankina, Translation Coordinator, Voronezh, Russia
Elena Gozzi, [title/year], Università degli Studi, Milan, Italy