Biographies

• Samara Hutman
  

  
  

  Samara Hutman is Director of Remember Us: The Holocaust Bnai Mitzvah Project and The Righteous Conversations Project. Her work in Holocaust remembrance and education began when her daughter Rebecca participated in the Remember Us Bnai Mitzvah Project, honoring the memory of Victoria Farhi, z”l, a young girl from Paris who was killed in Auschwitz at the age of 13. This experience led to Samara’s leadership role as the Executive Director of Remember Us, which eventually led to the creation of the Righteous Conversations Project, a collaborative venture of educators, scholars, artists and filmmakers working with teens and Survivors. In the last seven years, Samara has pioneered projects, partnerships and programs that have influenced and shaped the landscape of Holocaust Remembrance and Education in Los Angeles and in communities national and international. These programs have all grown from the core understanding that all work during this precious time in Holocaust History must emanate from dialogue with Survivors and conversations with teens, artists, community leaders and educators, inspired to hear and retell the narratives shared by Survivors.

  Sam invites all who feel connected to the work of Holocaust remembrance and wish to help support teens in speaking up about injustice to join us in this work.

• Cheri Gaulke, Righteous Conversations Artistic Director
  

  
  

  Artistic Director Cheri Gaulke has mentored hundreds of successful video/film projects at Harvard-Westlake in her roles as a Video Art teacher and Visual Arts Department Head. Her socially-conscious work has shown at the MOMA (NY), MOCA (LA), and was recently featured in Getty-sponsored Pacific Standard Time exhibitions. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, and a mid-career COLA (City of Los Angeles) fellowship. Cheri holds a BFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design and an MA in Feminist Art/Education from Goddard College. For her, The Righteous Conversations Project is an opportunity to empower young people to use art to change the world.