Aleta Hayes - Aleta Hayes is a contemporary dancer, choreographer, performer, and teacher. Before her appointment at Stanford, Ms. Hayes taught for eight years at Princeton University, in the Program in Theater and Dance and the Program in African-American Studies.
While at Princeton, Ms. Hayes developed pedagogically innovative courses that combined cultural and performance history, theory, and performance. She has also taught at Wesleyan University, Swarthmore College, and Rutgers University.
Ms. Hayes holds an M.F.A. in Dance and Choreography from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and a B.A., with Departmental Honors, in Drama, Dance and the Visual Arts from Stanford University (1991).
Jessica Hough - Jessica Hough is the director of the art museum at Mills College in Oakland, CA.
Lynn Hershman Leeson - Lynn Hershman Leeson is an American artist and filmmaker. She was Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, and an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She is Chair of the Film Department at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Masum Momaya - As a women's rights activist for over 15 years, Masum Momaya is excited to be bringing together her skills and experience as a researcher, educator, and social justice advocate as curator of the Women, Power and Politics exhibition at the International Museum of Women.
A daughter of South Asian immigrants to the United States, she has long been a student of how people in different cultural contexts share similarities and differences in their world views. Dedicated to bringing together the best of theory and practice in accessible and effective ways, Masum has an honors bachelor's degree in Public Policy and Feminist Studies from Stanford University, and a master's in Education and a doctorate in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University.
She is a graduate of the Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs and currently serves on the board of the Third Wave Foundation.
Favianna Rodriguez - Favianna Rodriguez is a founding member of the EastSide Arts Alliance (ESAA), an Oakland-based collective of third world artist and community organizers who use the arts as a tool in the freedom struggle. She is the director of Visual Element a graffiti arts organization that trains young graffiti writers to produce political murals in communities of color.
She is also the co-owner of Tumi's Design, a multi-service technology and design firm. Implementing advanced graphic & web technologies with a social consciousness, Tumi's seeks to use multimedia to engender global communication between oppressed communities and to promote political art and open forums of expression.
Elizabeth Stephens - Multimedia artist Elizabeth Stephens works in performance, sculpture, web based media and photography. She lives between the Love Art Lab in San Francisco and the Love Art Shack in Boulder Creek, California. She is currently the chair of the UCSC Art Department where she teaches in the intermedia and sculpture areas.
Most recently she has been performing Exposed: Experiments in Love, Sex, Death and Art with her partner Annie Sprinkle. Together they are doing a seven-year performance art piece about love.
Stephanie Syjuco - Stephanie Syjuco was born in the Philippines in 1974. She received her MFA from Stanford University and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has shown nationally and internationally: at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; SFMOMA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF), The San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, and New Langton Arts, among others. She was included in the 2002 California Biennial, and is the recipient of a Eureka Fleishhacker Fellowship Grant for 2001, and a 1999 ArtCouncil Grant.
Her work is in numerous collections, most notable the Whitney Museum, SFMOMA, The New Museum, and the Contemporary Arts Museum Honolulu. Residencies include the Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito, CA), Skowhegan (ME), and the Center for Metamedia, Czech Republic. She currently teaches at Stanford University and the California College of the Arts, San Francisco.
