Speaker: Jules Shell

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From Foundation Rwanda’s web site:

Jules is a co-founder and the executive director of Foundation Rwanda (www.foundationrwanda.org). She worked as creative director at the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies and Reboot, a non-profit looking at generational shifts in identity and community before leaving to help start Foundation Rwanda in 2007. She is the co-author of Bar Mitzvah Disco (Crown, November 2005), a collection of photographs and essays on the evolution of meaning, style, ritual, and music as told through bar and bat mitzvah photographs of the 70′s & 80′s and Camp Camp (Crown, June, 2008) a collection of photographs and essays about coming of age at summer camp in America. Jules shot the video for Foundation Rwanda’s short Emmy nominated  Intended Consequences film. In her spare time, she collects old family business logos and stories at www.projectbrandnew.com.

Agathe and her daughter Elisabeth. Photo Credit: Foundation Rwanda/ Jakob Daschek