Sally Hindman, Executive Director
Sally Hindman has twenty years of management and other experience working with non-profit organizations serving homeless people. She previously directed Berkeley California’s interfaith Chaplaincy to the Homeless. Sally is the co-founder of Street Spirit, the San Francisco East Bay homeless newspaper. Sally received her M.A. in Theology and Art and her M. Div. from Pacific School of Religion. She holds an undergraduate degree from Cornell University. Sally is an adjunct faculty member at the Graduate Theological Union Center for Art, Religion, and Education and Starr King School for the Ministry teaching “Liberation Art.” In 1998 she received KPFA radio’s Alice Hamburg Community Service Award for her outstanding leadership in serving homeless people in the East Bay. Sally has been a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) since 1984.
Khara Scott-Bey
Khara considers herself a healer, an artist, and an activist. An implant from Dayton, Ohio, Khara has been in the Bay Area for four years in pursuit of personal growth and is ending her second year at California Institute of Integrated Studies and on her way to earning her master in marriage and family therapy. She is part of CIIS's Expressive Arts Therapy program and has been vigorously studying the connection between psychotherapy and the arts. When she is not at school or lost in a pile of books she is painting, quilting, or in general, creating something out of nothing. Her theoretical roots are in sociology, womanist, Jungian, and psychoanalytic theory. Her vision for the future is to create a multi-modal holistic expressive arts healing center targeted at marginalized populations… which she hopes will ultimately bring about the revolution.
Ana Hernandez, Artist Coordinator
Ana Hernandez spent her early years in life amidst nature in rural Southern Oregon. It was then and there where she discovered the endless treasures the countryside could bestow. One of her main areas of interest was and to this day continues to be the process of creation, mainly the action involved and the consequence of that particular action. Her early interest in cause and effect led her to her studies in Psychology, Philosophy and Art History as well as her background in Ceramics at Chico State University. While attending the University, she was involved and committed to Community Active Volunteers in Education. Ana predominantly enjoyed her volunteer work with the Napa State Facilities Program where she served as a positive companion for mentally ill adults who were committed to the psychiatric hospital. Her association with Community Active Volunteers in Education presented her with the privilege and opportunity to interact artistically and socially with special population artists. This acquaintance stirred and sustained Ana’s innate passion for the natural arts, mainly that of sculpture derived from the natural physical world.
Lani Lee, Intern
Lani is a fourth year student at the University of California, Berkeley studying Comparative Literature and Conservation Resource Studies. Her interest in these fields sparks from her love of poetry and mother earth. As an activist, Lani has experience in grassroots organizing for environmental justice, gender equality and gay rights. In 2007, she worked as a program coordinator for the 26th Annual Western Regional Summer Institute for Union Women, which celebrates the solidarity of union and community-based leaders, and crosses the boundaries of age, race, occupation, and nation. She currently serves as the California National Organization for Women Eco-Feminist Committee Chair. Lani also enjoys traveling and has recently returned from Global Exchange Reality Tour: Free Trade vs. Fair Trade in Guatemala. She is excited to be a part of the Youth Spirit Artworks team and hopes to create a sustainable partnership between University staff, students and the city of Berkeley for years to come!