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Salem Mekuria
Salem Mekuria, an Ethiopian-American, is an award-winning writer, director, videographer and producer of independent films and video art installations. Retired professor or professor emerita from the Art Department, Wellesley College. She has received many prestigious fellowships and honors. Her body of work to date includes four documentary films and five video installations dealing with Ethiopian history and contemporary subjects of African American history. Her work has received wide recognition and enthusiastic critical responses. Her films have garnered numerous awards and been shown all over the world, from Japan to India to Africa to Europe and North and South America. Many of these films have long shelf lives and are currently being used in schools and libraries, and across many platforms. Mekuria sees her work as an avenue to get her audiences to actively perform their thinking throughthe issues in new and exciting ways.