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Olga Burkhardt is a German journalist and scholar with a profound interest in the long-term impact of the Holocaust and other mass crimes on those individuals and groups who lived through them. Olga holds a bachelors degree in English and Sociology from Stuttgart University and a Masters degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of St Andrews. Currently, she is working on her Ph.D., also at the University of St Andrews, on healing and reconciliation in the aftermath of mass atrocity and genocide.
/ Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Rennie Svirnovskiy is a senior journalism and international relations student at USC, and a writing intern at USC Shoah Foundation.
/ Monday, February 6, 2017
Allison Vandal is a ninth grader at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, New Jersey. Allison along with her classmates Caroline Waters and Maya Montell won the 2016 IWitness Video Challenge for their video project “Community of Poetry.”  
/ Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Maya Montell is a ninth grader at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, New Jersey. Maya along with her classmates Caroline Waters and Allison Vandal won the 2016 IWitness Video Challenge for their video project “Community of Poetry.”
/ Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Caroline Waters is a ninth grader at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, New Jersey. Caroline along with her classmates Allison Vandal and Maya Montell won the 2016 IWitness Video Challenge for their video project “Community of Poetry.”
/ Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Peg LeVine, Ph.D., E.D., is currently an Associate Professor in Global and Population Health at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
/ Friday, February 10, 2017
Svetlana Ushakova currently works in the collections department at USC Shoah Foundation as a content specialist. She received her doctoral degree in Russian history at the Novosibirsk State University, Russia. She is the author and co-author of several publications on the history of Soviet ideological campaigns, social mobilization, and adaptation methods used by peasant families to survive Soviet deportation and exile.
/ Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Shael Rosenbaum works in real estate development and management and is the President of Fremont Street Holdings. Shael served as the National Chair of the Canadian Young Adult March of the Living and is currently the Chair of the UJA Federation Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre in Toronto. Shael was also the Master of Ceremonies at the largest rally against antisemitism in Canadian history. Most recently, he graduated from the Joshua Institute. Shael obtained a degree in Biological and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Western Ontario.
/ Monday, May 1, 2017
Marisa Fox has written for the New York Times, Haaretz, Elle, InStyle, O, New York, Newsday, the Los Angeles Times and many other publications. She travels the globe for survivors who bear witness to her mother's unspeakable past and vows to break the silence and shame woven through generations.
/ Friday, May 5, 2017
Megan Arizmendi is a recent USC graduate, with a Bachelor's degree in business administration and film. With a passion for the intersection of film and education, she was introduced to USC Shoah Foundation, and is an intern in the communications department. She is committed to helping educate future generations on genocide through the power of film, in hopes of preventing violence and discrimination in years to come.
/ Thursday, June 29, 2017
Martha Stroud, PhD, is the Associate Director and Senior Research Officer of the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research. She manages the day-to-day operations of the Center, which advances innovative interdisciplinary research on the Holocaust and other genocides and promotes use of the Visual History Archive in research and teaching. She joined the Center in 2015 after earning her PhD in Medical Anthropology at UC Berkeley.
/ Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Blake Humphrey is the Student Body President at West Virginia University and a member of USC Shoah Foundation’s Intercollegiate Diversity Congress. He will be participating in the upcoming Intercollegiate Diversity Congress Summit at USC Shoah Foundation in Los Angeles this October.
/ Thursday, August 17, 2017