Anathea Chartrand Simpkins holds a B.F.A in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College and an M.Ed in English Education from the University of Massachusetts. For six years, she worked as an English teacher in various school districts throughout Massachusetts. For the past ten years, Anathea has worked in educational publishing as both a writer and editor. Currently, she holds a position as the Director of Content Services for Core K12 Educational and Consulting Solutions, a company that works to empower the worldwide educational community through curriculum and assessment solutions. In addition to her work in the field of education, Anathea is a life-long vegetarian, who grew up in a family of wine importers and chefs, and has been known to dip her toe in the food writing waters. She is the cowriter of two cookbooks, Thrown Out of an Italian Kitchen: Recipes from Sweet Basil and Well-Seasoned: Recipes from the Williamsburg-Greenpoint CSA. Anathea also shares vegetarian recipes, restaurant reviews, and musings on her blog, Greenpointdish. Anathea resides in the Guernsey Garden of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, with her husband Wes, a storyboard artist, her dog, Swizzle, and cat, Coyote.

For Aleim Magazine Anathea interviewed Coby Brown.

Film director, Jerry D!gby was Born in North Dakota, graduated high school in Germany and lived everywhere in between. He has seen and experienced many things, which translates into an unique eye and perspective on life that he feels is an asset for his creative vision as a director. As a teenager, D!gby illustrated the first internet home page for Sony Music Germany and later in his career, produced a graphic novel that was made into a feature film by 20th Century Fox. Currently, he lives in Los Angeles where he directs commercials and films such as the recently completed short, SAUCE, which is about to begin its run in the film festival circuit.

For Aleim Magazine D!gby directed the video on Juvencio-Jimenez Valdes.

Andrew Dosunmu is currently based between New York, and Lagos, Nigeria. Raised and educated in Nigeria, Dosunmu began his career as a design assistant at the fashion house of Yves Saint Laurent. He has subsequently worked as a Creative Director and fashion photographer, whose images have appeared in a variety of international magazines. Besides a flourishing career in photography, Dosunmu is also active in film and television. His award-winning documentary Hot Irons (1999) won best documentary at FESPACO and Reel Award at Toronto. In South Africa, Dosunmu has directed episodes of the widely acclaimed television series “Yizo, Yizo” which dramatizes the policy debates around education in post apartheid South Africa. Dosunmu has also served as creative director for album covers (for such artists as Erykah Badu and Public Enemy), and directed music videos, including his first for Isaac Hayes, and others for Angie Stone, Common, Wyclef Jean, Kelis, Aaron Neville, Maxwell, Tracy Chapman and Talib Kweli. Most recently, Dosunmu finished production on his first feature film, RESTLESS CITY which will premiere in the festival circuit in late 2010.

For Aleim Magazine Andrew photographed Hasan Foster.

Gideon Evans has written and produced many acclaimed comedic television shows including the Emmy award-winning “TV Nation with Michael Moore” and the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” He also Produced and Developed shows at CNN during the historic 2008 Presidential Election. He was the head writer and on-air talent on Public Radio International’s “Fair Game with Faith Salie.” He is most proud of being arrested in Disney World wearing an eight foot tall chicken costume and being banned for life. He currently resides in the great borough of Brooklyn, New York.

For Aleim Magazine Gideon interviewed Theo Rosenblum.

Victoria Foster holds an M.F.A. in film directing from the U.S.C. School of Cinema-Television and a B.A. in History from Stanford University, where she got her first taste of journalism by writing for the Stanford Daily. She taught and lectured undergraduates in the Gender Studies and History programs at U.S.C. and has worked for the past five years in feature film development. Foster was most recently involved in the development and casting of the indie feature SHRINK, starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Williams, which debuted at Sundance in 2009. In addition to serving as Senior Editor of AM, she writes and directs commercials and films in L.A.

For Aleim Magazine Victoria interviewed Jason Momoa and Julia Stiles.

Sara Harris is an audio artist and radio journalist with more than a decade of experience reporting from Los Angeles and Mexico. Her work focuses on immigrant communities, urban geography, and environmental justice. Sara’s radio stories have been featured on Marketplace, All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Studio 360, The Next Big Thing, Living on Earth, BBC’s The World, and Mexico’s IMER national network.
Sara is co-founder of the urban sound-mapping project: RadioSonideros whose works include Earth, Water, Air for The FM Ferry Experiment and The Roots of the Park for the Not a Cornfield project. Her most recent sound art collaboration with Christina Ulke: A history behind the fence; The ex-appropriation of Chavez Ravine was featured in Soundscapes at g727 in Los Angeles.
Sara Harris started the Los Angeles Bureau at Youth Radio and founded the AudioPostales cross-border radio project with youth in the U.S. and Mexico. Sara is part of the 2010 M.A. class in Specialized Journalism at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication.

For Aleim Magazine Sara conducted audio interview on Juvencio Jimenez-Valdes.

Born in New York City, Austin Irving graduated with a BFA from the Department of Photography and Imaging at NYU. In addition to being selected for various group shows, her work has been published in Paper Magazine, Brides Magazine, Women’s Wear Daily, Hamptons Cottages & Gardens. Her photography was exclusively featured in the book, Gardens of Remembrance: A Garden Guide published for The Battery Conservancy in New York City. She lives and works in Manhattan and travels the world with her large format camera.

For Aleim Magazine Austin photographed Theo Rosenblum.

Rozano Johnson was born in New York City and spends his time between New York, Los Angeles and Panama. He is currently the subject of a documentary about September 11th which will be released in 2011 to commemorate the 10th anniversary.

For Aleim Magazine Rozano photographed Milvia Martinez.

Dana Lixenberg (born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands,1964) lives and works in New York and Amsterdam. She studied Photography at the London College of Printing in London and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.
In 1993 she was awarded a project grant by the Fonds BKVB (The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture) for a series of portraits at the Imperial Courts Housing Project in Los Angeles, California. She was soon getting commissions from a wide variety of magazines such as the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Vrij Nederland and Vibe, amongst many others. Many of these collaborations continue to this date. All the while Lixenberg continued working on long-term personal projects, mostly focused on individuals and communities on the margins of society. Several of these projects have been published in book form and have been exhibited at museums and galleries in Europe and the United States.
She was the subject of a documentary titled: Dana Lixenberg, thru dutch eyes in 1999 and in 2005 she was featured in an episode of the documentary series Hollands Zicht (Dutch Vision) both for Dutch television.

For Aleim Magazine Dana photographed Julia Stiles and Coby Brown.

George Osodi, born in Lagos 1974, is a Nigerian photographer from Lagos, Nigeria. He studied Business Administration at the Yaba College of Technology in Lagos, before working as a photojournalist for the Comet Newspaper in Lagos from 1999-2001. He joined the Associated Press News Agency in Lagos in 2001.

Osodi has covered many assignments for both local and international media, with his photographs published in many international and local media such as the “New York Times,” “Time Magazine,” the “Guardian of London,” “The Telegraph,” “USA Today,” the “International Herald Tribune,” CNN, BBC Focus on Africa Magazine and many more.

George Osodi works in the collections of: Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, Neue Galerie Martin Marguiles Collection- Miami A number of private collections.

He is represented by Z-Photograhic Ltd.

For Aleim Magazine George photographed Tarrel Alvin McCraney.

Carla Williams is a writer, editor, and photographer born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She received her MFA from the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque and her BA from Princeton University and is the author of numerous essays and articles about photography and co-author of two histories of photography, including The Black Female Body: A Photographic History with Deborah Willis. Her photographic work has been widely published and exhibited. Williams is editor of exposure, the journal of the Society for Photographic Education, and is an Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology. Her websites are www.carlagirl.net and www.81press.net.

For Aleim Magazine Carla interviewed Milvia Martinez, Tarell Alvin McCraney and Jan Sharp.