June 26th, 2010

I am the first intern here at the Urban Craft Center. I am currently a senior studying textile design and art history at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, PA. I grew up in Idaho and while I love living on the east coast, felt like I needed to return to some open space. I decided that the perfect place for me to spend a summer would be in sunny California. Luckily I stumbled across the U.C.C and what can I say, it was love at first sight! I feel so very lucky to be chosen as the intern and was ecstatic when I got the call. I love the wonderful ladies who work here, the beautiful and inspiring space and the feeling of community that the combination of these two elements create. Look forward to a weekly update of projects I am working on for the U.C.C.

Along with interning at the U.C.C this summer, I also had the opportunity to travel to Nepal. While there I worked with a woman’s empowerment group called the Chetana Women’s Skill Development Project. This project in Pokhara, Nepal provides underprivileged women with an opportunity to learn design, weaving and sewing skills. With these skills the women are able to find work and therefore provide their children with better education and health care. I spent a month working on the project with the founder Tara Tilminshina. I worked to help them develop their product designs, improve the working conditions for the women and develop a marketing strategy. I will be launching a website for the project in August. It hasn’t even been a week yet since I have been back in the US. While my body is here, my mind still seems to be with the women and children of the CWSDP.

If you are interested in reading more about this project and my travels to Nepal and Africa to empower women through textiles, check out my blog: http://loveoneanothertoday.blogspot.com/

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