ABOUT US
We are a small team working together to introduce teens and young adults to the historical records made by young people during challenging times in the past and to use them as a way to prompt observation, reflection, and documentation of the Covid-19 Pandemic.
ALEXANDRA ZAPRUDER
In 2002, Alexandra published her first book, Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust, which came out of her research as a founding staff member at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Since then, she has spent most of her professional life researching and teaching about young Holocaust-era diarists. In the past several years, she has expanded her studies to include diaries written by young people in other wars, genocides, and times of conflict. She is interested in the ways that young people document their experiences of daily life and how those records can be preserved as valuable primary sources for the future. To view Alexandra’s bio, click here. For more information about her and her work as a writer and educator, visit the home page of her website, here.
THE EDUCATORS’ INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Founded by teachers for teachers, the Educators Institute for Human Rights (EIHR) supports communities recovering from violent conflict. We do this by applying lessons from the Holocaust and other egregious violations of human rights, such as the Rwanda genocide, as a starting point for teaching secondary school students about how these conflicts evolve and how to prevent them.
In the face of rising violent extremism and hate-filled rhetoric, educators across the globe are looking for training, materials, and support to teach about these subjects responsibly and confidently. Working teacher-to-teacher, in coordination with country-based partners, we develop teaching materials customized to individual country contexts, convene training workshops and summits, and support the formation of educator networks. Addressing teacher trauma and isolation tied to personal experience of atrocities is an important and distinctive feature of our approach, as is following the lead of local partners in agenda- and priority-setting.
For more information, please visit www.eihr.org.
CARLIN WRAGG
Carlin Wragg is a writer, designer and media producer with expertise in the delivery of site-specific media for museums, libraries, archives and environments. In her role as Director of Media for the exhibition design firm, Ralph Appelbaum Associates, New York, she has led the production of media for a range of projects in the U.S. and abroad, including the Holocaust Museum Houston in Houston, Texas, and the National Veterans Memorial and Museum in Columbus, Ohio. Prior to joining RAA, Carlin was at Local Projects, New York, where she provided content research for the media alcoves at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, and helped launch Change by Us, a multi-city social platform for civic engagement. In addition, she spent eight years developing the Axe-Houghton Multimedia Archive at Poets House, where she led an initiative to digitize thousands of rare poetry recordings of poets and scholars. Carlin holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MPS from New York University.
LINDA FITTANTE
Linda Fittante is a Brooklyn-based photographer and graphic designer. She specializes in natural light portraiture, landscapes and designing websites. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Newsweek, Nieuwe Revu, De Journalist, Wordt Vervolgd, Tribune.com, NPR.com, and Penguin.com. Fittante's strong sense of dynamic composition, finely honed technical skills and charismatic personality bring forth beauty in every project. Fittante's education included study at the International Center of Photography and Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, working in Rodney Smith's New York studio, and a degree at the Corcoran School of Art + Design. You can see her photography here.
Contact us at dispatches@eihr.org