Voice to Vision Bios
Introduction to Voice to Vision Staff and Fellows …
Sara Terry
A former staff correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor and magazine freelance writer, Sara Terry made a mid-career transition into
photojournalism and documentary photography in the late 1990s. Her long-term project about the aftermath of war in Bosnia — “Aftermath: Bosnia’s Long Road to Peace” — was published in September 2005 by Channel Photographics. Her work has been widely exhibited, at such venues as the United Nations, the Museum of Photography in Antwerp, and the Moving Walls exhibition at the Open Society Institute in New York. Her photographs are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and in many private collections. In 2005, she received a prestigious Alicia Patterson Fellowship for her work in Bosnia. She is also the founder of The Aftermath Project (www.theaftermathproject.org), a non-profit grant program which helps photographers cover the aftermath of conflict. She is represented by Polaris Images. She resides in Los Angeles.
Kirsten Rian
Kirsten Rian leads workshops internationally using poetry as a tool for literacy, healing, and storytelling within the refugee/immigrant and homeless communities. She is a Poet-in-Residence through the Literary Arts Writers-in-the-Schools program in
Portland, Oregon, teaching poetry to at-risk high school students. She also leads poetry workshops through Multnomah County Library, most recently working with the Vietnamese community.
Her poetry has appeared in Rhino, Upstreet, and other literary journals. She was awarded a Soapstone artist residency, and San Francisco Center for the Book recently printed a limited edition letterpress broadside of her work.
Active in the national photography community for 20 years, she is currently Executive Director of The Aftermath Project. Rian served as Executive Director of Blue Sky Gallery, an internationally-heralded non profit photography institution, for 16 years, and is also an independent curator, and writer, having coordinated over 375 exhibitions, and 65 books and catalogues. Her intrinsic belief in arts advocacy spills over to all her projects.
Angie Lederach – Research Fellow
Angie Lederach is a recent graduate from the University of Notre Dame where
she double majored in Anthropology and Peace Studies. Angie is from Nederland, Colorado, where her parents, Wendy and John Paul, and brother, Josh now live. In the last few years, she has worked with peacebuilding organizations in the Philippines and Ghana. She currently lives at the Peter Claver Catholic Worker House in South Bend, IN. In her free time she enjoys backpacking, snowboarding, fishing, traveling, and reading.
Claire Putzeys – Research Fellow
Claire Putzeys is a Masters’ student at the Fletcher School
of Law and Diplomacy, at Tufts University, where she is working on a degree in International Security and Development Economics. She is a graduate of Colgate University, where she double majored in International Relations and French. Claire has worked previously at the U.S. State Department and Pine Street Inn Homeless Shelter in Boston, and as a research assistant and assistant director of alumni affairs at Colgate University. She enjoys playing volleyball, reading, and traveling in her spare time. She currently resides in Boston, MA and has dual citizenship in Belgium.
Libby Hoffman
Libby Hoffman is the Founder and President of Catalyst for Peace. A former Political Science professor at Principia College, Libby has been active in the conflict resolution and peacebuilding field for nearly 20 years. She is a co-founder and former Executive Director of Peace Discovery Initiatives,
which pioneered in positive approaches to peacebuilding, and mobilizing religious resources for peace. She has designed, convened and facilitated backchannel Middle East peacemaking initiatives, bringing together Israeli and Palestinian grassroots peacemakers with American policymakers.
Libby is currently partnering with the United Religions Initiative on the design and implementation of their pilot project in The Moral Imagination and Interreligious Peacebuilding. The project works with interreligious teams working to end religiously motivated violence in their communities – currently India, northern Uganda, the Philippines, and Ethiopia.
Libby has a Masters from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, at Tufts University, and a BA in Political Science from Williams College. She lives in Falmouth, Maine, with her husband and three children. She is active in her church, currently serving as 1st Reader (conducting services) of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Portland, Maine.
