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Tara Plochocki, Co-Coordinator for The 9-10-3 Project with the Gu Chu Sum Tibetan Ex-Political Prisoners¹ Association in Dharamsala, India, has spent the last three years focusing on current issues facing the Tibetan people. She has published numerous reports on human rights conditions in Tibet for the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Dharamsala; and while on the Board of Directors for the US Tibet Committee, Plochocki organized awareness-generating events such as films, art shows, and nonviolent political action. As an NGO Development Worker for Peace Corps Jordan, she carried her passions into the Palestinian arena by conducting human rights, activism, and creative writing workshops for Jordanian and Palestinian youth. Tara Plochocki holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Philosophy from Barnard College of Columbia University. She is currently the Program Coordinator and Assistant Professor for Emory University¹s Tibetan Studies Program in Dharamsala, India, and is organizing a creative writing/art program called Arts of Exile.

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Jennifer Warren, Co-Coordinator for The 9-10-3 Project with the Gu Chu Sum Tibetan Ex-Political Prisoners¹ Association in Dharamsala, India, works extensively on international collaborative arts projects as a photographer and arts educator. She has photographed for Amnesty International USA and London, Project Concern International, and Cultural Survival. As a Peace Corps Special Education Volunteer in Jordan, Warren coordinated and taught an art program for adults with mental disabilities, culminating in a gallery exhibition in Amman, in Spring 2003. Jennifer Warren holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from The Art Institute of Boston, and has taught photography courses at Citizen Schools, the Perkins School, and AIB. She is currently working as an assistant for National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry, and is a Co-Producer for The Salon of Living Arts Media, an interdisciplinary arts organization.

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