Staff
Laura Carolina Sala,
Program Director
Graduate of the University of Florida with a liberal arts degree in political science and a fine arts degree in studio art: creative photography with a minor in art history and certification in public affairs. In the past Laura founded Youth in Action, an organization dedicated to motivate, and empower individuals seeking social change in order to improve the communities they live in. Empowering people to strive for social change is one of Laura’s main passions and goals in life. She is bi-lingual in Spanish and English and is currently living in Florida.
Laura can be contacted at lcsala@tomorrowpeople.org
Vladimir
Mladjenovic, Assistant Director
Vladimir Mladjenovic is Director and
co-founder of the Tomorrow People
Organization dedicated to enabling young persons to become future leaders and take crucial positions in their future professions at some point. He's also one of the co-founders of the Intercultural Encounters
program and Academic Director of the Global Education Program,
that took place in Cuba in August 2004. Vladimir can be reached via email at
vmladjenovic@tomorrowpeople.org
Instructors
Roberto
José Herrera. As a graduate from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Roberto holds degrees in Economics
and Political Science. His areas of study
include economic development, micro finance, Latin American
politics, and U.S. foreign policy. In the past, Roberto has been
involved with the Center for the Study of the Presidency, the
Model United Nations, and has worked for the Defense Logistics
Information Service (an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense.)
Part of Roberto’s life objective is to help underprivileged
people in developing countries reexamine the way they think
about politics and social issues, and to reframe the context in
which poverty is studied and proposed solutions are generated.
Roberto works with a NYC based NGO called Dos Pueblos: Sister city
project New York-Tipitapa devoted to the development of
communities in Tipitapa, Nicaragua. Roberto currently resides in
New York City where he works as an analyst for Citigroup.
Roberto may be contacted directly
through herrerasaurus@gmail.com
A
well known art educator, Barbara
Jo Revelle has
taught art making in many places around the country including San
Francisco Art Institute, U.C.L.A., the School of the Art
Institute, Chicago; Arizona State University and N.Y. State
University College in Buffalo. Her photo-related work has been
exhibited in 25 solo and over 100 group exhibitions nationally and
internationally, is owned by 42 public collections in the U.S. and
abroad, and has received much critical attention in many books on
photography and public art and in journals such as Art Forum, Z
Magazine, Ten/8, Art Week, Afterimage, and the New Art Examiner.
Revelle has been the recipient of 28 grants and fellowships
including a major NEA. She is a well known public artist who, in
1991 completed a two city block long photo-based, computer
generated tile mural-" A People's History of Colorado"
on the Denver Convention Center and in 1993 completed a similar
mural on a clock tower in Longmont, Colorado.
Today she describes herself as "a 50 year old woman, a
mother, a feminist and an artist who has worked in photography,
film and related media, and public art." What follows are
some quotes from Revelle's writing about her work in
"Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education", a text
book recently published by The New Museum of Contemporary Art in
New York: "I make art because it is a way of communicating
with other human beings. For me, art-making is the best way to
express the ideas that form in my brain. I like what Buckminster
Fuller said: "You either make money or your make sense."
I think art is a good way to make sense." "...Art is
about creating meaning and I think meaning lies in the
relationships between things. Barbara Jo Revelle can be contacted
through revelle@ufl.edu
Marcos
Eloy Garcia
as a graduate of the University of Florida with degrees in
Political Science, History and International Relations understands
first hand the complex nature of social structures and the
repercussions involved, as history is in the making. After living
in London and Madrid he is culturally well rounded and passionate
about immersing himself in other cultures.
Marcos as an avid traveler enjoys sharing his gained
experience with others and does so often, making his mark as an
unconventional educator. He
is currently living in Miami, where he actively works in the 11th
judicial circuit court system in preparation for Law school with
an interest in potentially being commissioned by the Marine Corps
as a judge advocate general (J.A.G.) officer. Marcos can be
contacted through Meloygarcia@gmail.com
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