Amy Blondell

Working collaboratively to surface new social histories, Amy Blondell focuses on material survival, community efflorescence, political activism and desire. As a cultural anthropologist (PhD New School for Social Research), she was research faculty at UCSF after completing postdoctoral training in public health (UCB). There, she worked with homeless and migrating youth to create travelogues and photo essays expressing their philosophical perspectives. Her current turn-of-the-21st-century playwriting project, takes her to living rooms, theaters, bookstores, and archives where she gathers snatches of conversation and photos of ephemera to reassemble a community story about persistent passions and political acts.