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Wendy Sternberg, MD replied to Tina Robiolle's discussion Peace Education in Fragile States: A Hope for the FutureWendy Sternberg, MD commented on Deborah Drew's blog post Art and Music's Role in Peacebuilding"Please take a look at Genesis at the Crossroads and Saffron Caravan - this is our whole mission to create cross-cultural bridges using the neutral and creative space of the arts. We sustain those bridges through education and deepen them with…"
Wendy Sternberg, MD's event was featuredGenesis at the Crossroads presents Saffron Caravan in Israel-Palestine at Multiple locations in E. and W. Jerusalem, Tel Aviv-Yafo and Beer Sheva
September 14, 2011 at 7pm to September 21, 2011 at 7pm
Wendy Sternberg, MD posted an eventGenesis at the Crossroads presents Saffron Caravan in Israel-Palestine at Multiple locations in E. and W. Jerusalem, Tel Aviv-Yafo and Beer Sheva
September 14, 2011 at 7pm to September 21, 2011 at 7pm
Wendy Sternberg, MD is now friends with Mbuh Rene NSUH, SUDDHASATTWA BARIK, Abu Bakar Siddique and 2 more
Richard Close left a comment for Wendy Sternberg, MD"Wendy
IbrahimWe are launching a YouTube digital storytelling contest with UNESCO for Africa youth. If you are interested send me an email at rclose@richardclose.info
There will be a music video contest as well.
The site is under construction…"
Iyamuremye Eraste commented on Wendy Sternberg, MD's blog post Pepsi Refresh Campaign, Please take a minute to vote for Genesis at the Crossroads"Please vote and support Genesis
Eraste"
Wendy Sternberg, MD posted a blog postPepsi Refresh Campaign, Please take a minute to vote for Genesis at the Crossroads
HELP SUPPORT WORLD PEACE…WE NEED YOUR VOTE!Genesis at the Crossroads was selected to compete for the Pepsi Refresh campaignHelp us win... send this to everyone you know encouraging them to vote too!http://www.refresheverything.com/crossculturalcommunicationisrefreshingGenesis at the Crossroads (GATC) bridges cultures in conflict through the arts by creating and implementing innovative artistic, arts-education…See More
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- Wendy Sternberg, MD – GATC Founder & Executive Director - For her work on GATC, Wendy has been featured numerous times as a WBEZ/NPR guest on Eight Forty-Eight and Worldview, the BBC, Al Jazeera, and UN Radio. She also appeared as a guest on CBS, ABC 7 & Channel 5 News Chicago, WTTW TV and WCIU TV. She and GATC have been the subject of numerous articles in The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Sun Times, The LA Times and The Washington Post, The Bangkok Post, The Chicago Reader, and JUF News, among many others. She was named Finalist for the 2003 Fourth Annual Susan F. Berkowitz Award for Teaching Tolerance to Children, was featured as a Woman to Watch in Chicago in the January 2004 issue of Today’s Chicago Woman Magazine, and was nominated in 2004 for Crain’s Chicago Business 40 Under 40 Award. In 2005, she was featured in Chicago Magazine and was elected to the Illinois Arts Council’s Ethnic and Folk Arts Program Advisory Panel for 2006-9. Cook County Treasurer, Maria Pappas presented her with the 2006 Award of Excellence and she was featured in a cover story by Chicago Jewish News as one of the 10 Jewish Chicagoans of the Year (2006.) In 2007, she presented GATC to the National Conference of Children’s Museums’ Diversity in Action Showcase, (Chicago,) to Consul Generals, Mayors, university deans & students, architects and the media (Casablanca, Morocco) and also to members of Congress, DC-based interest groups and the media at the Alliance for Middle East Peace Conference on Capitol Hill. She is the recipient of the 2007 Publicity Club of Chicago’s Silver Trumpet Award in Issues Management & the Wilmette Rotary Club’s 2008 Frankel Award for fostering cross-cultural understanding worldwide. Rotary International recently named her a Paul Harris Fellow. She was one of 26 global leaders selected from 18 countries to participate in the 2009 Rotary International Peace& Conflict Studies Program at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, 2009.
She earned both a BA in French literature with a semester abroad in Paris, and an MD at University of Pennsylvania. With international educational grants and foundation support over the years, she studied Hebrew, led a Project Renewal Program for children in an Israeli North-African resettlement community and extended her medical studies to include Third World pediatrics in India. Wendy completed a 14-year career in Internal Medicine and her role as Teaching Faculty at Northwestern University Medical School at the end of 2008. Among her many hobbies, she has Israeli-folk danced for 19 years and hiked all over the world.
- Please list the countries and/or regions in which you (or your organization) have direct and significant expertise
- United States
Morocco
Jordan
Egypt
Iran, Israel and the Palestinian Territories - in progress
- What is your current country of residence (or location of your organization)?
- United States
- What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?
- Founder & Executive Director, Genesis at the Crossroads
- What is your personal or organizational website?
- http://www.gatc.org
- Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise (or the primary sectoral areas of your organization) ?
- Conflict Resolution, Culture, Dialogue, Education, Humanitarian Relief, Social Entreprenuership
- Which are your primary skills areas(or the primary skill areas of your organization)?
- Budgeting, Capacity Building, Communication, Curriculum Development, Fundraising, Program Administration, Program Design
- What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?
- international education and arts-education
community and society healing
- If appropriate feel free to list several of your (or your organization's) publications
- none...yet
Currently working on a few NPR submisions for "In This I Believe" and and op-ed piece for the New York Times.
In the next year I will produce a series of essays that will ultimately be the framework for the chapters in my comprehensive memoir about my personal journey from medicine to the arts not-for-profit/NGO arena.
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HELP SUPPORT WORLD PEACE…
WE NEED YOUR VOTE!
Genesis at the Crossroads was selected to compete for the Pepsi Refresh campaign
Help us win... send this to everyone you know encouraging them to vote too!
http://www.refresheverything.com/crossculturalcommunicationisrefreshing
Genesis at the Crossroads (GATC) bridges cultures in conflict through the arts by creating and… Continue
WE NEED YOUR VOTE!
Genesis at the Crossroads was selected to compete for the Pepsi Refresh campaign
Help us win... send this to everyone you know encouraging them to vote too!
http://www.refresheverything.com/crossculturalcommunicationisrefreshing
Genesis at the Crossroads (GATC) bridges cultures in conflict through the arts by creating and… Continue
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- At 3:02pm on February 19, 2011, Richard Close said…
Wendy
IbrahimWe are launching a YouTube digital storytelling contest with UNESCO for Africa youth. If you are interested send me an email at rclose@richardclose.info
There will be a music video contest as well.
The site is under construction http://i-am-the-story.ning.com
Richard
- At 2:57pm on June 14, 2009, ckvishwanath said…
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