Email Jamila Jamila Webb, Class of 2003, is from St. Louis, Missouri. She plans to use dramatic expression to nurture oppressed souls and underrepresented voices. Her fusion of an Urban Studies major with a Drama minor will hopefully buttress this career and life aspiration. She has been a core member of the Black Student Union during her four years at Stanford as well as Program Coordinator for the last two years. She is also the Coordinator for Community Programming at the Black Community Services Center. Last summer Jamila held an internship with Northlight Theatre in Skokie, Illinois in their Dramaturgy/Literary Management Department. She has appeared in many Stanford plays including: Midsummer's Night Dream, The Real World 2002, When Words Fail, and Winter One Acts. She will assist composer/director, Daniel Valdez.
Emunah Yuka Edinburgh, Class of 2003, lived on five different continents before settling in San Francisco. Majoring in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE), Emunah's passion and experience lies in the visual arts. She has studied painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, metal work, photography and printmaking. She worked for one year at the CCHH Community Arts Program (a San Francisco-based art studio for homeless and low-income artists) teaching basic technique, leading workshops, and curating shows. In 1999, Emunah painted a mural in Stanford's Harmony House for the Committee on Black Performing Arts. This mural, Matumaini (Hope in Swahili) received the Public Mural Award from the Precita Eyes Muralists of San Francisco. Emunah also has some experience with video. She produced a 30 minute documentary on Nicaragua for her 8th grade class and assisted filmmaker Nancy Brink in teaching a documentary video workshop for Upward Bound students this summer. Emunah's aim with IDA is twofold: to empower young artists of color, and to establish an ongoing meaningful collaboration between the arts and activism on campus. She will assist documentary filmmaker Spencer Nakasako in teaching Drama 110. Email Emunah
Email Orlando Orlando Lara, Class of 2003, is a Chicano Studies major with a focus on Mexico-U.S. Border Studies. He is from Spring, Texas and Salamanca, Guanajuato. Orlando's goal is to continue to seek and create community through the arts at Stanford by promoting collaborative community art. He has experience in both visual and performing arts and has participated in, produced and teched several art shows and theater productions while at Stanford including the Cesar Chavez Commemoration, Floricanto and IDA's First Person Plural. Last year, Orlando taught a Student Initiated Course titled "Documenting the Undocumented," led an ASB trip to the Arizona-Sonora Border, and helped organize a conference on Labor and Migration. He continues to nurture his obsession with border studies this year as he writes his honor's thesis on the collaboration between El Poblado Maclovio Rojas and the Border Arts Workshop. Orlando is a returning IDA Student Fellow. In 2002 he assisted bassist, Mark Izu in teaching Drama 110. This year, Orlando will assist composer/director, Daniel Valdez in addition to serving as IDA's overall program assistant.
Eto Otitigbe, is from Albany, NY. He is a masters student in the Program of Mechanical Engineering Design at Stanford. He is essentially involved in creating things. His work transcends many varied media such as painting, printmaking, installation art, sound art, set design, digital art and furniture design. He is interested in using the arts, design, science and technology as tools for creative problem solving. He received his Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in 1999. During his undergraduate studies he apprenticed with various artists in painting, printmaking and design. Eto was a student in the IDA visual art class taught by Mildred Howard in 2002. As IDA Student Fellow, Eto will assist performance artist, James Luna. Email Eto
Email Caroline Caroline Kuntz, Class of 2004, originally from the Seattle area, attended high school in Northern England. She is a Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity major with an interest in hybrid performative arts and the formation of identities for women of color and artists of mixed race. Caroline is a writer and performer of theatre and dance. Most recently, she has performed Mexican folkloric dance as a member with the Ballet Folklorico de Stanford as well as flamenco. She recently finished an internship at La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley where she helped coordinate their annual Latino performative arts festival, Hecho en Califas. She formerly served as El Centro Chicano's publicity coordinator, and is also a founding member of the Stanford chapter of Sigma Theta Psi, multicultural interest sorority. Caroline will assist choreographer Joanna Haigood in teaching Drama 110 this winter quarter.