Michaela Leslie-Rule

Writer, Performer, Researcher

<style>@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }a:link, span.MsoHyperlink { color: blue; text-decoration: underline; }a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { color: purple; text-decoration: underline; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style> <b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">Michaela Leslie-Rule </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">is the producer and director of 8 Women/Wanawake 8, a short documentary film dealing with Tanzanian women’s experiences of and beliefs about gender-based violence. Her film premiered at the 2010 Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) <a href="http://www.ziff.or.tz/films/8-women">http://www.ziff.or.tz/films/8-women</a>, and is one output of her thesis research, exploring intimacy, sexuality and violence in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This research and the film methodology she created for it were honored at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna (2010), where she was awarded the IAS/ANRS Young Investigator Award for the Behavioral Sciences. Over the past ten years Michaela has worked as a performing artist and activist in the United States, South Africa, Tanzania and Switzerland.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>She is particularly passionate about empowering citizens to engage in advocacy and activism through the use of narrative and storytelling. She has investigated the intersection between advocacy and narrative using various mediums (theatre, dance, text and film) and is specifically committed to working with diverse and often marginalized populations – including commercial sex workers, incarcerated individuals, HIV-positive individuals, intravenous drug users and women. Michaela holds a bachelor’s of fine arts in theater, a master’s of public health in global health, and a master’s in public affairs.<br><br>She is currently directing the Keeping the Faith (a program of the Pat Graney Company) artists-in-residency program at Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women (MCCCW) in Belfair, Washington. Performances – open to the general public with clearance – will take place May 2011.<br><br></span>&nbsp;<style>@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }a:link, span.MsoHyperlink { color: blue; text-decoration: underline; }a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { color: purple; text-decoration: underline; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style>Watch a clip from 8 Women/Wanawake 8 here: <a href="http://vimeo.com/12688620">http://vimeo.com/12688620</a>

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