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\"\"<\/a><\/strong>Jared Azud ’20<\/h5>\n

Jared Azud is an Anthropology and Art History double major who focuses on\u00a0ritual: expanding upon\u00a0ideas of\u00a0domesticity, media and spirituality, technology, the diary and the archive.\u00a0 Jared’s Buzzwords are: Hello Kitty, lip gloss, gremlins, Criterion Collection, rom-coms, votive, pyroclastic\u00a0flows, love letters, space, vegan banana bread, and transparency.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Haja Isatu\u00a0Bah ’21<\/h5>\n

Haja Isatu\u00a0Bah is an international student from Sierra Leone. She is an\u00a0Environmental Studies major and is currently the public relation officer for African Heritage\u00a0Awareness club and Muslim Students Organization.\u00a0 Her interest in documentary storytelling\u00a0developed alongside her passion for environmental justice issues.\u00a0 She enjoys being involved in\u00a0discussions that are facilitated towards creating solutions for justice problems; social and\u00a0environmental.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Liv Fidler \u201819<\/h5>\n

Liv Fidler is an American Studies major and Media and Film Studies minor from San Diego, California. Her passion for visual documenting started with darkroom photography at age 13 and has grown\u00a0ever since. She worked at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust for several summers, helping lead their documentary filmmaking programs and\u2013among several photographic, audio doc. and film endeavors there\u2013made short films about local Holocaust survivors. Last summer, she was a script coverage intern at Paul Feig\u2019s (Bridesmaids, Freak and Geeks) production company. She is currently writing her senior thesis\u00a0on body politics and comediennes.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Samantha Marie Garcia\u00a0’19 <\/span><\/h5>\n

Samantha Marie Garcia <\/span>is a Sociology major with a passion for writing. She focuses on how to interweave personal narrative and sociological perspectives throughout her work. She has found the vivid intersections between works of non-fiction and sociology compelling. Through analyzing the works of one of her favorite authors Joan Didion, she continues to find the beautiful ways stories unravel the societies we live in. She happily works at the Scribner Library as a Circulation Assistant. She loves curating the monthly display and finding books older than 100 years old quietly sleeping on the shelves. She is a member of the Tang Student Advisory Council and has worked with several other amazing women to curate The Hyde Gallery\u2019s first exhibit \u201cEye Candy\u201d and continues to look forward to all the new\u00a0adventures she has left to embark on!<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Chris Isaacson ’19<\/h5>\n

Chris Isaacson is\u00a0 a senior at Skidmore College. On top of being a part of the Storytellers’ Institute, he is also producing this year\u2019s National College Comedy Festival at Skidmore College. As an amateur comedian, he studied at The Second City in Chicago and UCB in New York. This past semester he wrote his American Studies thesis on the morals of prank shows and hopes to continue exploring a similar vein this summer at the Storytellers’ Institute.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Sarah Maacha\u00a0’20<\/h5>\n

Sarah Maacha\u00a0’20 is from Marrakech and is currently a junior at Skidmore College, majoring in International Affairs and minoring in Business Management. \u00a0It was during her sophomore year, studying abroad in Paris, that she reconnected with her passion for storytelling through writing and her analog photography class. \u00a0She is a graduate from the African Leadership Academy (ALA), a two-year Pan-African boarding school in Johannesburg. \u00a0It was at ALA that she developed a passion for African culture and ways of communicating diversity through storytelling using various art mediums. She was the CEO and co-founder of CYCA (Connecting Youth Connecting Africa), which is a student-run enterprise that sought to use art literature to help Africans overcome their preconceptions about each other.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Sarah Marlin ’20<\/h5>\n

Sarah Marlin is a junior at Skidmore College studying history, theater, and political science. Growing up in Saratoga Springs, both the arts community and her proximity to the Adirondacks have shaped her to be the gal she is today. \u00a0Beyond classes, Sarah fills her time with participating in sketch and improv comedy groups, DJing at WSPN 91.1, or wandering around Northwoods. \u00a0In Spring of 2018, she spent the semester studying comedy at The Second City in Chicago. Sarah is interested in comedy writing and performance as a means for healing personal traumas, community growth, and is excited to explore humor beyond the realm of entertainment.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Sanjna Selva ’21<\/h5>\n

Sanjna Selva is an International Affairs major and Media and Film Studies minor with a passion for documentary film-making, photography and social justice. \u00a0In May, she presented at a public photography exhibition about a silent march for Martin Luther King Jr. in Saratoga Springs. Sanjna recently co-produced a film examining free speech at Skidmore, in partnership with the Office of the Dean of Students and is currently producing a short film for next spring\u2019s Tang exhibition. \u00a0A storyteller at heart, Sanjna is also in the process of filming her first independent documentary about child trafficking in orphanages across Nepal. \u00a0She serves as the news section editor for Skidmore News and hopes to someday pursue a career as a foreign correspondent and to continue dabbling in the world of documentary film-making.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Adam\u00a0Simon ’19<\/h5>\n

Adam\u00a0Simon\u00a0 is a soon-to-be graduate of Skidmore College. \u00a0He has worked in the fields of film, philosophy, audio engineering, printmaking, and radio broadcasting. \u00a0His work aims to consider and engage with sonorous representation in various fields of experience —\u00a0the political, the environmental, the personal. \u00a0Over the course of several years he has worked to develop a network of youth radio workshops in the Capital Region of New York. \u00a0In addition to community radio shows, he hosts his own show featuring experimental\u00a0folk and electronic music on WSPN, Skidmore\u2019s college radio.<\/p>\n

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Jared Azud ’20 Jared Azud is an Anthropology and Art History double major who focuses on\u00a0ritual: expanding upon\u00a0ideas of\u00a0domesticity, media and spirituality, technology, the diary and the archive.\u00a0 Jared’s Buzzwords are: Hello Kitty, lip gloss, gremlins, Criterion Collection, rom-coms, votive, pyroclastic\u00a0flows, love letters, space, vegan banana bread, and transparency. Haja …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1098,"parent":1778,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1166","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1166\/revisions\/1276"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}