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Valarie
Kaur, Project Director, is a third generation Sikh in Clovis, California where her family
has lived and farmed since 1913. She
received her Bachelors from Stanford
University in International Relations and Religious Studies with honors
and distinction in June 2003.
Blending academic work with activism, she has addressed social
injustice through projects that raise up marginalized voices. In summer 2000, she developed and taught a
six-week junior-high school philosophy course the Quest for Truth.
She has taught with Stanford's Philosophy
Discovery Institute for high school students for three years. In
2000-01, she co-led Living
History: Voices Crossing Borders, an academic-service project
exploring the impact of political division on people around the world through
oral history; it culminated in a two-week multi-media exhibit and conference
at Stanford. In the spring of 2001
and 2002, as the president of Satrang (Stanford’s Sikh Student
Association), Valarie co-initiated and led Sikhism in America,
Stanford’s first course on Sikhism.
Valarie’s honors include the Howard M. Garfield Award in Religious
Studies, the Haas Center Public Service Scholar, the Asian American Student
Award for Special Achievement, and the Golden Medal in the Humanities for her
Honors Thesis. Valarie was chosen as
the student speaker at Stanford’s Baccalaureate Ceremony 2003. Since
September 11, 2001, she has documented hate crimes and prejudice against Sikh
Americans and other targeted communities.
She is currently developing this work into a documentary film,
monograph, and digital material. With
a national Beinecke Scholarship and Harvard Presidential Scholarship, she
will begin the Masters in Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School in
Fall 2004. You can contact Valarie at valarie@stanfordalumni.org Andrew Chung, Documentary Line-Producer,
has worked as a video producer, an enterprise development advisor, and
communication consultant since 1981.
In projects with Dartmouth College, Coaltrain Group, ChinaReport.com,
and Amerasia Investments, he has developed and produced enterprise resource
programs, communication and outreach strategy, market viability studies, data
acquisition and research, and television commercials. From 1995 to 1997, Mr. Chung worked with
ChinaReport.com in Hong Kong and Forster City, California to develop an
online polysynchronous multi-user object, orient community, and deploy
communication strategies addressing U.S.- China trade relations and
confidence issues arising from Hong Kong’s reunification with China. Mr. Chung produced a documentary video and
compiled a position document on these issues. Through his work, he brought support for a complex and often
tenuous multilateral and multifaceted relationship. He helped a relationship develop from contention to cooperation
to collaboration to alliance. From
1992 to 2001, Mr. Chung worked with Coaltrain Group in Bellingham, Washington
to conduct market viability studies and investment analysis in Guangdong and
Xinjiang. He deployed outreach
programs, including online multi-user domains, for investors and general
strategic relations. Beginning in
2003, Mr. Chung has worked closely with Dartmouth College to develop a
bias-related incident protocol website.
Amandeep Singh Gill, Research
Assistant, studies
and works in Berkeley, California, where he plans to pursue an undergraduate
degree in Film Studies and Computer Science. Amandeep was born and
raised in Patiala in Punjab India, and came to study in the United States at
age thirteen, when he chose to keep his turban and uncut hair in observance
of Sikh faith. His understanding of both Punjabi and American cultures
has inspired him to support cultural events and activism projects in the Sikh
community like improving the representation of Sikhs in the media. He has
also assisted in organizing Stanford's Sikhism in America course
and Bhangra by the Bay (2002). His interests include playing dhol and
tabla, drawing with charcoal, and producing and mixing music. Amandeep's
artistic talents drew him to studies in cinematography. From September 2001 to January 2002, Amandeep joined the project as a research partner,
filming all interviews. You can contact Amandeep at snghamun@yahoo.com. |
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For more information contact Valarie Kaur - valarie@stanford.edu |
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