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Gidsken Braadlie, Artist and Curator [Norway] JD Marlow, Film Editor [United States] Lowan Stewart, Associate Producer [Norway and United States] Lucian Muntean, Director of Photography for DEAD RECKONING [Norway and Serbia] Ruth Glendenning, [United States] Elyse Schein, Writer, Editor and Filmmaker [United States and France] Lars Sundtgot Slagsvold, Project Manager [Norway] Troels Overgaard, Game Developer and Film Critic [Denmark] Prisca Vilsbøl, Fashion Designer [Denmark] Jørgen Skogmo, Interaction Designer and Cast for DEAD RECKONING [Denmark and Norway] Sue Bell Yank, Writer, Producer, Educator [United States] Jessica Marks, Scientist and Cast for DEAD RECKONING [Norway and United States] Michael Crane [United States] Caroline Hinkley, Photographer and Science Fiction Theorist [United States] Deborah Helt, Development Director [United States] Kelsi Dunn, Development Coordinator [United States] Will Dunn, Still Photographer for DEAD RECKONING [United States] Wencke Hovet, Production Manager for DEAD RECKONING [Norway] Jeff Kiehl, Atmospheric Scientist and Jungian Analyst [United States] Cary Fowler, Father of Svalbard Global Seed Vault [United States and Norway] Chris Knudtson, Programmer [United States] Diana Muina, UX Designer and Strategist [United States and Cuba] Madeleine Robb, Dramaturgist [United States]

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I am still missing a few more. Waiting on others...

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Missing bios from Ashara Ekundayo, Jessica Marks, Kelsi Dunn, Wencke Hovet and Chris Knudtson. Missing headshots from Ashara Ekundayo, Jessica Marks, Michael Crane, Kelsi Dunn, Wencke Hovet, Chris Knudtson.

Missing Cary and Jeff Kiehl too but trying to figure out if they need to be in this area or not.

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BIOS

Rori Knudtson, Writer, Director and Producer [Norway and United States] Rori is an artist, architect and writer working with installation, sound, film and performance. She is the Director of School of Critical Engagement, an action-based art and architecture think tank. She serves as a critic at the Bergen Architecture School (Norway), Otis College of Art and Design Public Practice Department (Los Angeles), Woodbury University Department of Architecture (Burbank) and the Bergen Academy of Art and Design, and is former faculty at the University of Colorado (Boulder/Denver). She is currently a graduate advisor for the School of Fine Arts and Design at the Philippine Women’s University in Manila, and Resident Filmmaker and Research Affiliate at the Consortium for Capacity Building at the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research. Rori has been in residency with Galleri Svalbard (Norwegian Territory), USF Verftet/Bergen (Norway) and RedLine (US). She is the recipient of grants from the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Danish Arts Council, the Jennifer Moulton Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts and was awarded the Alpha Rho Chi Medal for leadership in architecture in 2007. Knudtson has exhibited in the 2010 Biennial of the Americas and was invited into the 55th Venice Biennial.

Gidsken Braadlie, Artist and Curator [Norway] Gidsken is an Oslo-based artist and curator working in the intersections of activism, public space, feminism and politics. She is a lead administrator at Norwegian Association of Visual Artists, the Norwegian national and artists and arts funding organization, as well as being co-founder of the art-based, feminist activist group First Supper Symposium. Gidsken has exhibited her own work in Europe and the United States since 1990. With a background in experimental textiles, she explores the realm of possibilities between craft, philosophy and the ongoing fight for justice for all, including nature. Travels to observe the world, led her to Longyearbyen in Svalbard where she met Rori. They immediately found a common  platform regarding art and politics. 

Eric Miller :) Eric is an inter-disciplinary artist, software engineer, and maker, concerned particularly with the tension between technology and the body. Project media have ranged from music production to performance art, mobile apps, photography, installation, and landscape architecture. His interactive installation work has activated 25,000-person Nike events, the entrance to the Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder, CO, and was granted art for the 2012 Colorado regional burn, Apogaea. Over the years he has worked on web and mobile projects for Feeding America, Facebook, Gulfstream, The Piton Foundation, and many others. Former faculty at the University of Colorado, he holds a BS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University and an M.Arch from The University of Colorado. He is ranked 2nd-degree black belt in Aikido Schools of Ueshiba through Hiroshi Ikeda Shihan and trains in the meditative lineage of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

JD Marlow, Film Editor [United States] JD is a feature film editor with wide ranging experience in the world of post production, including sound design, music editing, and post supervision. Notable credits include "Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You" (opening night film 2016 Sundance Film Festival), "Seeds of Time" (2015 Berlin Film Festival and 2014 SXSW Film Festival), and broadcast versions of "Not My Life" (CNN Int'l, 2011). Other television credits include work on ESPN's 9 for IX film "Branded", UK Ch 4's "Rebuilding the World Trade Center", PBS Makers Series episodes "Women in Comedy" and "Women in War", and "After the Storm: Lessons from the Northern Edge" for PBS Rhode Island.  He has also cut a range of short films, trailers, and promos. He is a B.F.A. graduate of Emerson College (Boston, MA), an avid marathon runner, and (as of this writing) lives in New York City with his wife.

Lowan Stewart, Associate Producer [Norway and United States] Lowan worked as a Producer for Portland based Ground Productions. He served as the Executive Producer of the documentary PLAY AGAIN (2010), which was broadcast on PBS and was the winner of 11 international awards. He was the Associate Producer for the award winning documentary INDEPENDENT INTERVENTION (2006) which was broadcast on Netflix and RT.  Lowan is also a practicing Emergency Physician and currently lives in Oslo, Norway.

Lucian Muntean, Director of Photography for DEAD RECKONING [Norway and Serbia] Lucian graduated from the University of Film and Theatre, Department of Cinematography in Bucharest, Romania, in 2000. In 2005, Muntean and Natasa Urban founded Lunam Docs - an independent documentary film production dedicated to documentary filmmaking on human rights and social justice, around the world, with special attention paid to children rights and child labour. Their two documentary films include PUNAM (2005) and Journey of a Red Fridge (2007). The great support and the feedback of the international public to the film Punam, motivated Muntean and his co-director, Natasa, to establish the Punam Fund (2007). The Punam Fund is dedicated to the elimination of and fight against child labor. For the time being, the activities of the Punam Fund are aimed at the children featured in the films PUNAM and JOURNEY OF A RED FRIDGE, that is to say, about the children that work in the Bhaktapur region in Nepal and the children that work in the Himalayas of Nepal.

Ruth Glendenning, [United States] Ruth is the Founding Principal and Chief Ideationist of Thriving Community Solutions. She has a deep commitment to growing relationships for the purpose of creating accessible, inclusive, engaging, and thriving partnerships in which technology is used to provide pathways to shared wellbeing for all. The core of what she does lies in her talents in creating solutions, mapped to real needs in the market, catalyzed by expanding technology and activated by personal relationships. Ruth was born in London UK, grew up in Texas, and has lived in the Caribbean, California and Oklahoma where she worked with the Choctaw Nation. Her travels and life experiences have given Ruth a telescopic perspective on problem solving and deepened her commitment to inclusion and accessibility, all of which is part of a bigger vision of co-creating sustainable solutions from the grassroots level of wisdom native in all of us.

Elyse Schein, Writer, Editor and Filmmaker [United States and France] Elyse is a writer, filmmaker and story editor. A graduate of Stony Brook University, she studied film at FAMU, Prague’s Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts. Schein’s short films have been featured at cinemas from San Francisco to Prague. Her short 16 mm. film, “I Steal Happiness” was featured in the Filmmakers of Tomorrow program at the Telluride Film Festival. She is the co-author (with Paula Bernstein) of the dual memoir, “Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited,” published by Random House, 2007, and has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, Good Morning America, NPR as well as French TV. Schein recently became a Licensed Professional Counselor and enjoys integrating creative interventions in her work. She has also worked as a photographer, voiceover artist and French translator.

Sue Bell Yank, Writer, Producer, Educator [United States] Sue is a writer, producer, and arts educator. She has run the education department at the Hammer Museum, has headed up Oprah Winfrey's online education platform, and currently is Director of Communications and Outreach at 18th Street Arts Center. She is dedicated to working for access to arts education for all. She has a deep­-seated investment in socially and politically-­engaged art that can be traced to her years as a public school teacher in Lynwood and South Fairfax. She is currently an advisor for the Asian Arts Initiative's Social Practice Lab and the granting organization SPArt, and is on the board of Clockshop. Her writing has been featured in exhibition catalogues, UCSD’s Social Practice journal Field, the Liverpool Biennial journal Stages, n.paradoxa feminist journal, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, the Huffington Post, KCET Artbound, and various arts blogs including her ongoing essay blog entitled Social Practice: Writings about the social in contemporary art (www.suebellyank.com). She has been a lecturer at California College of the Arts, Otis College of Art and Design, UCLA, and USC.

Michael Crane [United States] Mike Crane is a product executive with over 20 years experience in product management and strategy in the software, internet and mobile space. He is most impassioned for new changes in the intersection of business development, technology, and environmental and social justice. He has led product efforts in the restaurant, hotel, travel and financial industries and has also been through a number of acquisitions, including the original MapQuest product team acquisition by AOL during the first dot com wave. Most recently, Mike led Innovation & Strategy for AAA where he managed their venture team and launched an internal design strategy team. Mike is currently launching The Prefer Company which uses crowdsourcing to simplify the strategic planning process for start-ups and small project teams. When not working, Mike is a mentor to MBA in Design Strategy students at California Academy of the Arts, loves staying in Airbnbs and has a slight obsession with pizza and sour beer, which in turn requires running and hiking whenever possible. Mike has a MBA in Sustainable Management and undergraduate degrees in Biology and Business.

Caroline Hinkley, Photographer and Science Fiction Theorist [United States] Caroline is a photographer and Professor of Practice in the Cinematic Arts Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. She is a transdisciplinary academic and artist who holds two MFAs (the first from Claremont Graduate University and the second from the California Institute of the Arts). Over a period of fifteen years, Caroline made multiple treks (pilgrimages) to Tibet, Zanskar, and Ladakh to photograph the remote and sacred landscapes of the Buddhist Himalaya. Her latest work has emerged from recent trips to Iceland where ideas of ephemerality,loss and impermanence arise in “searching the subject” of massive glacial movements and colossal forces of ice. She has written, “these elements of landscape scorch the mind of the artist, and the image makes a mark in the indefinite space of a visual/textual archive. "Landscape becomes a kind of text and the photographer inhabits the text as an internal wanderer, marking and mapping a visual allegory.” Caroline was resident artist in Denver’s Redline and has held residencies in Iceland, Ireland, and most recently Kronstadt, Russia 2016. She is the recipient of a NEA/WESTAF award in photography, the San Francisco Phelan Award for excellence in Photography, a Neo-Data fellowship, and several grants and fellowships to support creative work from University of Colorado, Naropa University, and most recently University of New Mexico.

Diana Muira, UX Designer and Strategist [United States and Cuba] Diana is a UX Designer with a background in product marketing and content strategy. Prior to pivoting into user experience design, Diana spent over a decade working in digital and product marketing in a variety of industries including non-profit, higher education and software as a service. She is inspired to create amazing user experiences for both the web and mobile. Her UX skills focus on providing clients with user research,wireframes,usability testing,product strategy/design iterations, mockups and prototypes.

Deborah Helt, Director of Development and Community Engagement [United States] Deborah is a Los Angeles-based grant writer, therapist and community organizer with over 10 years of experience in fundraising and program development. As a grant writer she has raised millions of dollars in funded proposals across a variety of topic areas including: K-14 public education programs, environmental justice advocacy, workforce development, park redevelopment, public art and mental health. She holds Masters Degrees in Urban Planning from UCLA and in Clinical Psychology from Phillips Graduate Institute. She currently splits her time between work as a fundraiser for high need cities, school districts and non-profits and work as a Marriage and Family therapy intern at a community health clinic in Los Angeles called the Relational Center (TRC). She is interested in the role that therapists can play to support social movements and promote culture shifts towards interdependence, sustainability and biodiversity. Her clinical interests include postmodern narrative therapy, relational gestalt, interpersonal neurobiology, mindfulness and meditation. Originally from Des Moines, Iowa, Deb enjoys documentary film and playing guitar. 

May edit this in... (Deb is the former Director of the South Valley BusinessSource Center, an agency that provides technical assistance and consulting to small businesses and entrepreneurs, and the former manager of an ARRA-funded youth employment program based in Los Angeles that serves low-income youth between the ages of 14-24. As a graduate student at UCLA, I completed a two-year long research project on global logistics and labor issues studying warehousing and distribution facilities in Southern California. I presented on this research as a planning fellow at the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design and co-wrote a report presented to the City of Los Angeles Workforce Investment Board (WIB). I interned at the Community Redevelopment Agency for the City of Los Angeles (CRA/LA), at the Mayor’s Los Angeles Economy and Jobs Committee (LAEJC) and with OIKOS Solidaridad, an NGO working on sustainable development and community organizing projects in rural El Salvador.)

Lars Sundgot Slagsvold, Project Manager [Norway] Lars is a Oslo based screenwriter, copy writer, director, producer, actor, casting agent, networker and fixer. During his final year of film studies at Westerdals Oslo ACT, he got an internship at Flimmer Film in Oslo to join forces on the anticipated release of DRONE in 2015. Lars is all about connecting people and their crafts. With his background as Drama teacher from Oslo Prison, to working with refugees in an asylum camp, and now 5 years as a mental-health worker, makes Lars a top communicator, who`s determined to make everyone achieve their goals. Currently, Lars is working as a screenwriter for ATLAS (Nor-Swe, production company) and as a production manager for an sci-fi social media campaign supported by the Norwegian Council of Culture, produced by Flimmer Film & directed by Tonje Hessen Schei (DRONE).

Will Dunn, Still Photographer for DEAD RECKONING [United States] A childhood spent wandering the woods of Colorado and the peaks of the Rocky Mountains, the photographic work of Will Dunn explores the relationships made where nature, culture, and spirituality converge. As a conceptual artist he employs various forms of image making to create and preserve the narratives he has encountered. Driven by the curious ways humans make sense of space, Will’s work has taken him from the mountains in Colorado to Central and South America, his current home in Seattle, and now to the Far North.,Will received his BFA in photography in 2011 from the University of Colorado Denver. His work can be viewed on his website, williamcdunn.com.

Madeleine Robb, Dramaturgist [United States] Madeleine enters stage left with a degree in Drama from the University of Dallas and a proclivity for collaborative performance and design. Born into a bizarre family of artists and intellectuals, she has always found herself drawn to what is basic, beautiful, and true. That being said, Madeleine is also taken with the complexities of poverty and justice and has spent the last five years caring for those who are often swept beyond the bounds of social consciousness: the old and dying, orphaned children diagnosed with HIV, and teenaged girls living in intensive foster care suffering from trauma and mental illness. Her love of playfulness and humor combined with her belief in the dignity of living beings, have contributed mightily to her style of collaboration and to her concepts in performance and design. Her work calls for action, participation, and, above all, wonder. Within that framework, she invites her audience to engage not only with the surrounding space, but with their own reality as they explore the many nuances of their reactions in the midst of something that is both familiar yet new. Madeleine is constantly working to fulfill her dream of redefining museum culture and experience by designing and building a museum her own. As she continues to refine this concept, she hopes to create memorable, site-specific events for organizations and causes she believes will have an impact on the world.

Chris Knudtson, Web Developer and Marketing [United States] Chris Knudtson grew up in Oconomowoc, WI and attended college at Ball State University in Muncie, IN. In 1999 Chris was hired by CBS Sports (then called CBS SportsLine) to help produce the CBS SportsLine section of America Online. Shortly thereafter, he was moved into the role of Motorsports Producer and managed the auto racing section of the site - most notably producing a 10-day NASCAR Speedweeks piece featuring daily bloggings of then rookie Dale Earnhardt, Jr. In 2001 Chris moved "back home" to the Milwaukee area where he was hired by Cumulus Media as a Web Producer to help launch a series of employment-related web sites. Unfortunately, with the burst of the internet bubble the project was cancelled. In January of 2002 Chris founded Moxi Communications - a niche web site production company - which he sold 3 years later. In 2006, Chris founded Zorigo, LLC as a full-service web site design, development and online marketing company. Since it's inception, Zorigo, LLC has produced hundreds of online initiatives for clients across the country.

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Eric, do you want me to place all the hyperlinks in?