Esther IveremEsther Iverem is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, producer and curator. In addition to hosting a show on Pacifica Radio, she is founder of the pioneering Black website SeeingBlack.com, a founding member of Split This Rock: Poems of Provocation an Witness and a member of the Association of Women Film Journalists. She is a recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a National Arts Journalism Fellowship at Columbia University. She is the author of We Gotta Have It: Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies (Hachette Book Group) and the author of two books of poems, The Time: Portrait of a Journey Home and Living in Babylon (Africa World Press). Her fiber and multi-media works have been featured in three solo shows, several group shows and acquired for personal collections. In 2013, she curated the show "Emancipation: Meditations of Freedom," at the DCAC-the District of Columbia Arts Center, to mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Before working as an independent writer and artist, she was a staff writer for The Washington Post, New York Newsday and the New York Times. She is a native of Philadelphia, a graduate of the University of Southern California and Columbia University, and lives in Washington, DC. www.estheriverem.net Read More Read Less