 Linda Coleman
Linda Coleman has been writing memoir for the past 12 years and currently facilitates an ongoing Herstory workshop in Southampton, as well as those with Herstory Inside. Her own memoir, Radical Descent, tells of her transit through idealism and dogma amidst the violent revolutionary underground of the early 1970s. Other memoir pieces were published in the Fall 2007 issue of North Atlantic Review and the Summer 2008 issue of Memoir (and)... Along with her ongoing training with Herstory, she brings her many years of nursing and deep study and practice of Buddhism into her work as facilitator. She is the mother of two sons, and lives in Springs.
 Sandra Dunn
Sandra Dunn is the Immigration Program Officer at the Hagedorn Foundation. She holds a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from Cornell University and spent many years in higher education before starting her own business providing translation and writing services to clients throughout Suffolk County. A community advocate who has worked closely with immigrants through her business and her leadership roles in non-profit organizations based on the South Fork, Sandra currently serves on the Ethics Board of Southampton Town. She lives in Hampton Bays with her family. She has been a workshop facilitator for Talleres de Herstory en españolsince 2004.
Sandra Dunn es la Oficial de Programas de Inmigración de la Fundación Hagedorn. Obtuvo su doctorado en literatura en español de la Universidad de Cornell y adquirió muchos años de experiencia de enseñanza en escuelas superiores antes de empezar su propio negocio de servicios de traducción y escritura para clientes a través del Condado de Suffolk. Una abogada para la comunidad y alguien quien ha trabajado con inmigrantes a través de su negocio y sus roles de líder en organizaciones no lucrativas basadas en South Fork, Sandra actualmente sirve en la Junta de Etica del Pueblo de Southampton. Vive en Hampton Bays con su familia. Ha sido una facilitadora de Talleres de Herstory en españoldesde el 2004.
 Silvia Heredia
Silvia Heredia joined Herstory Writers Workshop a year ago and was immediately taken by its community of women writers, philosophy and grassroots base. Silvia initially contacted Herstory when looking for alternative healing channels for those suffering with lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease, as part of her work as community outreach director for the Lupus Alliance of America, Long Island/Queens Affiliate. Since she was diagnosed with lupus 10 years ago, Silvia has been on a healing journey and quest to understand her illness and finish her doctoral dissertation on the power and healing elements of story, and narrative medicine. Finding Herstory Writers Workshop has been a true dream as what once seemed impossible – fusing reading and writing with healing – and has today become a life project.
Silvia P. Heredia se unió a los Talleres de Escritura Herstory en enero de este año e inmediatemente le impactaron su comunidad de escritoras, filosofía y base social. Silvia inicialmente contactó a Herstory cuando buscaba canales alternativos de sanación para pacientes con lupus, una enfermedad autoimmune crónica, como parte de su trabajo como directora de alcance a la comunidad para La Alianza de Lupus, Afiliado de Long Island/Queens. Desde su diagnóstico con lupus hace casi diez años, Silvia ha emprendido un camino y búsqueda de sanación para entender su enfermedad y terminar su tésis doctoral, la cual se enfoca en el poder y los elementos curativos de la historia y en la narrativa medicinal. Encontrar el Taller de escritura Herstory ha sido un sueño verdadero, ya que lo que antes parecía imposible—fusar la lectura y la escritura con la sanación— es hoy día, un projecto de vida.
 Lonnie Mathis
Lonnie Mathis has been writing with Herstory for 10 years. Her first book, Childhood is a Relative Experience, which she is now rewriting, opens with a walk and a peek into a window that changed her life – the moment her lost childhood memories began to resurface – and takes the reader back into the world, the heart, the body, mind and soul of the little girl living in trauma. Her second book, From the Shores of the River Denial (in progress), opens only days later, locked away in a psychiatric ward and locked inside her own silence – “My journey into, through and up out of crazy…” – offering the reader an intimate look into the breakdown and rebuilding of a life. Lonnie has been a workshop facilitator with Herstory since 2004, and teaches up to six workshops a week, including three that she co-teaches for women in prison, two Bridge workshops and special shorter term series in schools and other venues. She frequently co-facilitates with artistic director, Erika Duncan, as she continues to attend hands-on workshops to develop the approach. |
