30 October - 2011
Autor: Conversation.org | Publicado: 2011-10-03T02:12:00-07:00

                                                                                     At that point we were playing 'Broken phone' :P                                                  We've decided to do outside this time. :P                                                                                                             <!--[endif]--><!---->                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <!--[endif]--><!---->   /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable  {mso-style-name:"Tabela normal";  mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;  mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;  mso-style-noshow:yes;  mso-style-priority:99;  mso-style-qformat:yes;  mso-style-parent:"";  mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;  mso-para-margin-top:0cm;  mso-para-margin-right:0cm;  mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;  mso-para-margin-left:0cm;  line-height:115%;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:11.0pt;  font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";  mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;  mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;  mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;  mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;  mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}  <!--[endif]-->  Here we are again with a guest from the State whose surname apparently makes us think she is Brazilian but she descends from a Brazilian father<!---->                                                                                                             <!--[endif]--><!---->                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <!--[endif]--><!---->   /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable  {mso-style-name:"Tabela normal";  mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;  mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;  mso-style-noshow:yes;  mso-style-priority:99;  mso-style-qformat:yes;  mso-style-parent:"";  mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;  mso-para-margin-top:0cm;  mso-para-margin-right:0cm;  mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;  mso-para-margin-left:0cm;  line-height:115%;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:11.0pt;  font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";  mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;  mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;  mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;  mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;  mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}  <!--[endif]-->Claudia Seixas graduated from Swarthmore College in May 2010 with aBachelors of Arts degree in History, Art, and Environmental Studies.She concentrated in the fields of Photography, Environmental Justice,and Food History. At Swarthmore, she was a founding member of The GoodFood Project, a student-run organization that manages an organicstudent garden and advocates local, organic, and sustainable foodsystems. After graduating she worked as an Americorps member with theSilicon Valley Health Corps at Full Circle Farm in Sunnyvale, CA,where she farmed and helped run a Community Supported Agriculture(CSA) program on 11 acres of urban school property. Since February2011 she has been in Brazil on a Fulbright Scholarship. She iscurrently an English Teaching Assistant with the Fulbright program inSantarém, Pará, Brazil, where she is working at UFOPA, a UniversidadeFederal do Oeste do Pará.                                                                                                           <!--[endif]--><!---->                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <!--[endif]--><!---->   /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable  {mso-style-name:"Tabela normal";  mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;  mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;  mso-style-noshow:yes;  mso-style-priority:99;  mso-style-qformat:yes;  mso-style-parent:"";  mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;  mso-para-margin-top:0cm;  mso-para-margin-right:0cm;  mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;  mso-para-margin-left:0cm;  line-height:115%;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:11.0pt;  font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";  mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;  mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;  mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;  mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;  mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}  <!--[endif]-->She has already begun her fellowship and is serving asan English literature teaching assistant at a university in Santarém,Pará, Brazil and teaching English language courses to grade schoolteachers. She is volunteering with a local organization, Projeto Saúdee Alegria (the Health and Happiness Project), which works in the areasof ecotourism, agroecology, sustainable artisan craft production,participatory mapping, community organization and development,renewable energy, and health and sanitation. Seixas majored in art andminored in history and environmental studies, after graduation fromSwarthmore she joined an Americorps program that develops communityand school gardens and farm-to-school programs to increase awarenessof healthy lifestyles and increase the consumption of fruits andvegetables. She is documenting her time in Brazil's Amazon region.