Introducing the staff of the Voices Education Project:
- Marilyn Turkovich, Curricula Director
Marilyn has been involved in education in various capacities; teacher, curriculum coordinator, principal and at the undergraduate and graduate levels in teacher training, for several decades. She was the former director of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest's Urban Education Program in Chicago, the Committee for Teaching about Asia for the Association of Asian Studies, and the Textbook Committee of the National Council for the Social Studies. Her teaching has led her from the U.S. to work in India, Guatemala, Japan and Brazil. She frequently designs training for the corporate world and study and activity guides for media companies. Marilyn enjoys travel, reading, being involved in the art world, and cooking. - Charles Baker, Bookkeeper
Charles completed UW's Certificate Program in Accounting in 2004. He has worked on the accounting staff of the San Francisco Symphony and, in Seattle, of Community Home Health Care. - Ronald "Otts" Bolisay, Director of Technology & Communications
- Renan Jeffreis, Software
- Renan is a software and database developer, and a volunteer for many nonprofit organizations in Seattle. Renan was the first Web software developer at Microsoft, responsible for building one the first website development tools in the software industry, and part of the founding team of the Microsoft Developer Network.
- Rich Moniak, Outreach Coordinator
Rich, of Juneau, Alaska, is the father of an army soldier who has served two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. He is a civil engineer for the US Coast Guard. He began publicly speaking out against the Iraq war in August 2005 in a series of guest commentaries published in the Juneau Empire. He co-founded the Alaska Chapter of Military Families Speak Out, is a central figure in the Juneau People for Peace and Justice, and is an associate member of the Veterans for Peace. - Andrew Himes, Founder and Web Developer
Andrew Himes is a technology consultant, writer, director and producer. He has been working for social change since the 1960's. During the 70s, Himes was a community and labor organizer in Alabama. During the 1980s, Himes spent several years as a technology journalist and editor, and in 1992 went to work for Microsoft, where he helped pioneer the company's embrace of the Internet by managing the first web team at Microsoft. In 2004, he produced his first film, Voices in Wartime, a documentary that uses poetry to explore the trauma of war. He is the co-editor of the Voices in Wartime Anthology, director of the short film on PTSD, Beyond Wartime, and founder of the Voices Education Project, which brings the voices and stories of veterans and civilian witnesses to a wider audience in classrooms and on the Internet via social media. The Voices Education Project works to create peace one story at a time.
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