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REV- is composed of individuals and organizations who use art as form of social practice. We are artists, community organizers and advocates, youths & families, architects, socially-responsible businesses, botanists, designers, educators, activists, & *$#(@!!.

Artistic Directors: Marisa Jahn, Rachel McIntire, Stephanie Rothenberg
Editorial Assistants: Benjamin Fogarty, Lisa Larson Walker, Merve Ünsal

Marisa Jahn - Artistic Director
Of Ecuadorian and Chinese descent, Marisa Jahn is an artist, writer, and community organizer who believes that bridging culture and grassroots politics brings about innovative forms of social change. Marisa’s work has been presented in public spaces and venues such as the MIT Museum, The New Museum, ICA Philadelphia, ISEA/Zero One, Eyebeam (NYC), the National Fine Art Museum of Taiwan, National Museum of Art in Bishkek Kyrgyzstan, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 2009, Marisa was an artist-in-residence at MIT’s Media Lab, an artist teacher with Center for Urban Pedagogy, and designer-in-residence at the advocacy group Street Vendor Project. As an art educator working with underrepresented youth since 1998, Marisa was recognized by UNESCO in 2006 as a leading art educator. A graduate of UC Berkeley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Marisa's work has been featured in Art in America, Los Angeles Times, Frieze, Punk Planet, Clamor Magazine, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Make Magazine, the Discovery Channel, The Wall Street Journal, and more. Marisa is the Executive and Creative of People’s Production House, a media arts and journalism production institute that teaches with low-wage workers, teens. and youth to produce ground-breaking media. Marisa is also the Creative Director of Newsmotion.org.a new model for civic media, public art and documentary reportage. www.marisajahn.com

Rachel McIntire - Artistic Director
Rachel McIntire is an artist and educator living in San Francisco. Her work has been guided by questions that explore how the arts are used in providing narrative generating opportunities for individuals and groups. Before pursuing her Master’'s Degree from Harvard’'s School of Education, Rachel played a fundamental role in developing a cadre of art-based programs serving youth throughout the Bay Area, including the art program at the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula, The International Children’s Art Alliance, Mural Music and Art Project, and the Arte Campesino, which was created to promote the use of visual representation as an agent for social change and youth leadership in the rural towns of eastern Honduras. Upon graduating, Rachel lived in Mexico City where she continued her research of the role of the arts in community development examining how the arts can promote transformative dialogues in public space. While in Mexico she worked with La Secretaria de Educacion Publica in Mexico City in the Department of International Relations developing public arts curricula that supports youth in transmigration between the US and Mexico for largest binational education program, PROBEM. Also in Mexico, Rachel collaborated with numerous arts groups and artists that serve marginalized youth. Since 2005, Rachel and partner Amanda Lichtenstein have worked to develop Break Arts (www.breakarts.org). She is currently the Chair of the Art Department at Convent of the Sacred Heart High School and the Director of the Public Art Consulting for the Mural Music and Art Project.

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Stephanie Rothenberg - Artistic Director
Stephanie Rothenberg is an artist and educator using performance, installation and networked media to create provocative interactions that question the boundaries and social constructs of manufactured desires. She has lectured and exhibited at venues including the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA), Zer01 Festival, Banff New Media Institute, Hallwalls Media Art Center, ConFlux Festival, Amsterdam International Film Festival and the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing. In addition to her work as an exhibiting artist, she has assisted with design for visual campaigns and public art projects for several non-profit organizations and activist groups in New York City and Western New York including Retail Action Project, Buffalo-Niagara Riverkeepers and the Coalition for Economic Justice. Recent awards include a 2009 Creative Capital, 2008 New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist award (NYSCA), a 2007 Eyebeam Artist-in-Residence in NYC and a free103point9 Artist-in-Residence. She received her MFA in 2003 from The Department of Film, Video and New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently Associate Professor of Visual Studies at SUNY Buffalo where she teaches courses in Communication Design and Emerging Practices.

benji Benjamin L. Fogarty - Editorial Assistant
Of Guatemalan and American descent, Benjamin Fogarty is a fourth year Anthropology student at Columbia University. After deciding to bridge his Guatemalan and American heritage, he's researching neoliberal education in Guatemala for an honor's thesis while establishing Travel to re-Think, a Guatemala/USA accredited educational exchange program focused on addressing the knowledge/power relationship and the collapsing of conceptual binaries, social justice project modules, sustainable agriculture, career orientation and Spanish language. Last summer, he worked at the Human Rights Comission of Pakistan in Lahore, conducting field research and writing a report on systemic corruption in the education system. He currently interns at REV- working on design, html, and grantwriting after interning at the Urban Justice Center's Street Vendor Project. He plans on returning to Guatemala to work on grassroots education initiatives, opening a pie, coffee and smoothie shop, and eventually returning to the West coast for graduate school. He maintains a photography blog at luisfogarty.wordpress.com

lisa Lisa Larson Walker - Editorial Assistant
Lisa Larson-Walker was born in Chicago and is a graduate of The Cooper Union School of Art. She is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and editor currently living and working in New York City. www.lisalarsonwalker.com

merve Merve Ünsal - Editorial Assistant
Merve Ünsal is an artist/writer based in New York. A native of Istanbul, Turkey, she has recently finished an Internet-based artist’'s project questioning the nature of political crime and is currently working on various writing/research/editorial projects: www.merveunsal.com, www.merveunsal.com/try.

	Marisa Jahn - Artistic Director Of Ecuadorian and Chinese descent, Marisa Jahn is an artist, writer, and community organizer who believes that bridging culture and grassroots politics brings about innovative forms of social change. Marisa’s work has been presented in public spaces and venues such as the MIT Museum, The New Museum, ICA Philadelphia, ISEA/Zero One, Eyebeam (NYC), the National Fine Art Museum of Taiwan, National Museum of Art in Bishkek Kyrgyzstan, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 2009, Marisa was an artist-in-residence at MIT’s Media Lab, an artist teacher with Center for Urban Pedagogy, and designer-in-residence at the advocacy group Street Vendor Project. As an art educator working with underrepresented youth since 1998, Marisa was recognized by UNESCO in 2006 as a leading art educator. A graduate of UC Berkeley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Marisa's work has been featured in Art in America, Los Angeles Times, Frieze, Punk Planet, Clamor Magazine, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Make Magazine, the Discovery Channel, The Wall Street Journal, and more. Marisa is the Executive and Creative of People’s Production House, a media arts and journalism production institute that teaches with low-wage workers, teens. and youth to produce ground-breaking media. Marisa is also the Creative Director of Newsmotion.org.a new model for civic media, public art and documentary reportage. www.marisajahn.com
	Rachel McIntire - Artistic Director Rachel McIntire is an artist and educator living in San Francisco. Her work has been guided by questions that explore how the arts are used in providing narrative generating opportunities for individuals and groups. Before pursuing her Master’'s Degree from Harvard’'s School of Education, Rachel played a fundamental role in developing a cadre of art-based programs serving youth throughout the Bay Area, including the art program at the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula, The International Children’s Art Alliance, Mural Music and Art Project, and the Arte Campesino, which was created to promote the use of visual representation as an agent for social change and youth leadership in the rural towns of eastern Honduras. Upon graduating, Rachel lived in Mexico City where she continued her research of the role of the arts in community development examining how the arts can promote transformative dialogues in public space. While in Mexico she worked with La Secretaria de Educacion Publica in Mexico City in the Department of International Relations developing public arts curricula that supports youth in transmigration between the US and Mexico for largest binational education program, PROBEM. Also in Mexico, Rachel collaborated with numerous arts groups and artists that serve marginalized youth. Since 2005, Rachel and partner Amanda Lichtenstein have worked to develop Break Arts (www.breakarts.org). She is currently the Chair of the Art Department at Convent of the Sacred Heart High School and the Director of the Public Art Consulting for the Mural Music and Art Project.
	Stephanie Rothenberg - Artistic Director Stephanie Rothenberg is an artist and educator using performance, installation and networked media to create provocative interactions that question the boundaries and social constructs of manufactured desires. She has lectured and exhibited at venues including the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA), Zer01 Festival, Banff New Media Institute, Hallwalls Media Art Center, ConFlux Festival, Amsterdam International Film Festival and the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing. In addition to her work as an exhibiting artist, she has assisted with design for visual campaigns and public art projects for several non-profit organizations and activist groups in New York City and Western New York including Retail Action Project, Buffalo-Niagara Riverkeepers and the Coalition for Economic Justice. Recent awards include a 2009 Creative Capital, 2008 New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist award (NYSCA), a 2007 Eyebeam Artist-in-Residence in NYC and a free103point9 Artist-in-Residence. She received her MFA in 2003 from The Department of Film, Video and New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently Associate Professor of Visual Studies at SUNY Buffalo where she teaches courses in Communication Design and Emerging Practices.
	Benjamin L. Fogarty - Editorial Assistant Of Guatemalan and American descent, Benjamin Fogarty is a fourth year Anthropology student at Columbia University. After deciding to bridge his Guatemalan and American heritage, he's researching neoliberal education in Guatemala for an honor's thesis while establishing Travel to re-Think, a Guatemala/USA accredited educational exchange program focused on addressing the knowledge/power relationship and the collapsing of conceptual binaries, social justice project modules, sustainable agriculture, career orientation and Spanish language. Last summer, he worked at the Human Rights Comission of Pakistan in Lahore, conducting field research and writing a report on systemic corruption in the education system. He currently interns at REV- working on design, html, and grantwriting after interning at the Urban Justice Center's Street Vendor Project. He plans on returning to Guatemala to work on grassroots education initiatives, opening a pie, coffee and smoothie shop, and eventually returning to the West coast for graduate school. He maintains a photography blog at luisfogarty.wordpress.com
	Lisa Larson Walker - Editorial Assistant Lisa Larson-Walker was born in Chicago and is a graduate of The Cooper Union School of Art. She is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and editor currently living and working in New York City. www.lisalarsonwalker.com
	Merve Ünsal - Editorial Assistant Merve Ünsal is an artist/writer based in New York. A native of Istanbul, Turkey, she has recently finished an Internet-based artist’'s project questioning the nature of political crime and is currently working on various writing/research/editorial projects: www.merveunsal.com, www.merveunsal.com/try.