Dorka keehn biography books

Dorka Keehn is a journalist and activist. A leader in thewomen's movement, she is a founder of Emerge America(), a premier training program forDemocratic women planning to run for political office,and is a Commissioner on the San Francisco Commissionon the Status of Women where she chairs the Justice &Courage Domestic Violence Project. Keehn also hoststhe arts and culture Internet/radio program, Keehn on Art(), and has produced several programsfor television including the two-time Emmy-award-winningdocumentary, Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The FredKorematsu Story. Colin Finlay's photographs have been featured in VanityFair, TIME, U.S. News and World Report, American Photo,and Photographic Magazine. He has published four previousphotography books including Testify (Zuma Press, )and Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan(powerHouse, ).

Dorka Keehn is an award winning conceptual artist and social entrepreneur. As the Chief Muse of KEEHN ON ART, she works in diverse mediums including radio, film, and sculpture. Her recent projects include ECO AMAZONS: 20 Women Who Are Transforming the World, the first illustrated book on American women environmentalists and Language of the Birds, the first solar powered sculpture, voted one of the best public artworks in the U.S. by Americans for the Arts. A leader in the women’s movement, she is a founder of EMERGE AMERICA, the premier training program for Democratic women who plan to run for political office, and a founding board member of IGNITE, which provides political and civic education for high school and college women. Dorka is currently a Commissioner on the San Francisco Arts Commission; and from to , she served as a Commissioner on the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women and chaired the Justice & Courage Domestic Violence project.