Correspondent Profile
Rebecca Sommer
Correspondent In the field since June 2008Orato Dispatches
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Rebecca Sommer is a New-York-based and German-born human rights advocate, journalist, artist and filmmaker, founder of Earth Peoples (www.earthpeoples.org) and the representative for the Society for Threatened Peoples International, a human rights NGO in consultative status to the United Nations. (www.gfbv.de).
Rebecca Sommer has earned a reputation in many fields. She was editor at large for Madison magazine (NYC), Spirit and Scene magazine (London), photographer, set designer, SFX make up artist and art director. While she earns her living as an artist, she devotes most of her time to advocate for the protection of human and environmental rights.
Rebecca Sommer grew up in the Harz forest, northern moors and on the island of Langeoog, in Germany. She lived and worked in India, South Africa, Peru, Brazil, England and the United States. Focused on environmental and human rights issues, Rebecca visits remote places.
Rebecca Sommer's independent “no-budget” documentaries are simple, straightforward and unadorned. Created specifically to raise awareness on pressing issues faced by indigenous peoples around the world, they are used by human and environmental rights advocates and the affected peoples themselves.
To contact Rebecca Sommer: E-mail: sommerfilms@gmail.com
Visit her website: rebeccasommer.org