Tamera Marko specializes in transnational multi-lingual, multi-media community literacy projects in the Americas (Spanish, Portuguese, English). She channels her work as an historian of Latin America and her 15 years of teaching writing to combine genres of new media, composition and historical memory to research and publish in "the genre called for by each project." Marko's academic, media and poetry publications explore youth and motherhood human rights projects. Her work has been featured in academic journals, film festivals, theaters and universities in Medellin, Rio de Janeiro, Durham and Boston. “Facebook is a great tool for transnational communication, but it is not enough for profound changes in consciousness necessary for local-global justice. For this, we must also cross borders and know each other face to face.” In a collaboration between Emerson College, MIT, Duke University, and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Medellín, she directs "Medellín: violencia is not the whole story . . ." Most recently, this project involved 100 Emerson students worked through new social media to bring 7 young emerging artists from Medellín, Colombia to exhibit their work at Emerson College, MIT, UMass Lowell and Roxbury Community College. The exhibit included 200 photographs and 17 videos and paintings. Before academia, she was a journalist covering human rights in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the United States. She is currently Acting Director of the First Year Writing Program at Emerson College in Boston and a Faculty Affiliate at Duke University.She founded and directs DukeEngage Colombia.
Jota (jose) Samper has been working as an architect and artist for 10 years and also as a professor of architecture and urban design for the last three years. He was born and raised in Medellín. He studied architecture at the Universidad Nacional de Medellín. Since then, he has done art and architectural projects in five countries: Colombia, Panama, the United States, Mexico, and France. His work has won more than 5 national and international awards. He is a PhD at the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning He’s work seeks to understand if policies and practices that have both political and physical implications in the urban context are directly related with the reduction of violence. The main objective of this research project is to explore the real success or failure of these policies in a search to find successful strategies that can be implemented in other city/region/nation contexts around the world.
Along with his work as a teacher of architecture in North Carolina he’s is co founder of DukeEngage Medellin, Colombia a civic engagement abroad program since 2007. Were students from duke University along with architects and Historians help communities to collect their memories in their own words.
DukeEngage Medellin 2010 Students
Andrei Santalo
Carolina de Armas
Cassidy Fleck
Katrina Robelo
Molly Superfine
Stephen Bergin
DukeEngage Medellin 2011 Students
Amrita dixit
Gabriela Arredondo-Santisteban
Gideon Rosenthal
Jessica David
Kendall Murphy
Molly Superfine
Lydia Rappoport-Hankins
Natalie Robles
Stephanie Amador
Along with his work as a teacher of architecture in North Carolina he’s is co founder of DukeEngage Medellin, Colombia a civic engagement abroad program since 2007. Were students from duke University along with architects and Historians help communities to collect their memories in their own words.
DukeEngage Medellin 2010 Students
Andrei Santalo
Carolina de Armas
Cassidy Fleck
Katrina Robelo
Molly Superfine
Stephen Bergin
DukeEngage Medellin 2011 Students
Amrita dixit
Gabriela Arredondo-Santisteban
Gideon Rosenthal
Jessica David
Kendall Murphy
Molly Superfine
Lydia Rappoport-Hankins
Natalie Robles
Stephanie Amador
