Born in Tel Aviv, Isreal, Dorit Cypis, artist, educator, mediator and social activator has long explored the question “who are we to one another”. Her artwork across performance, photography, and immersive media installation has been presented at cultural sites internationally. Dorit has developed civic programs building social change including Kulture Klub Collaborative, artists and home-less youth bridging survival and inspiration, North East Youth Council, Latinx youth responding to local social justice needs, and PeoplesLab, building peoples’ capacity to transform conflict into possibility. Dorit has published texts and designed college curriculum since 1983. Among her many awards are the Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rauschenberg Foundation award in 2014. She earned post-graduate degrees from California Institute for the Arts and Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University. Cypis was born in Israel, raised in Montreal, Canada, and lives in Los Angeles, CA.