Titles reflect positions at time of Bellagio stay.
Berry Bickle
Artist
Creative Arts Fellow
Berry Bickle often explores the long and difficult legacy of colonialism in Southern Africa. Conflicting emotions are illuminated in many of the pieces of this artist, who was born in Zimbabwe and lives in Mozambique.
Marian Wright Edelman
President, the Children's Defense Fund
Resident and Conference Participant
“Developing solutions to complex problems affecting people of color, the poor, and vulnerable women and children across the world requires a haven for safe debate, incubation of ideas, [and] planning of strategic actions . . . . This is what the Bellagio Center has provided . . . .”
Forum for African Women Educationalists
Conference
A Bellagio meeting sparked the creation of the Forum for African Women Educationalists. Some 12 million women and girls have benefited from this organization’s efforts to fortify education across the continent.
Isheeta Ganguly
Founder and Executive Director, Neerupama
Resident
Isheeta Ganguly used her four weeks at the Bellagio Center to develop an e-learning tool for the HealthNet program of Neerupama, an organization that works with more than 200 street children in Kolkata and Mumbai, India.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
Resident
"I enjoyed the quiet time needed to compose my commentary, which was published some months after my stay. . . . The conferences that convened each weekend brought new people to the dinner table, and new ideas to consider and discuss."
Paul Kelemba
Political Cartoonist
Resident
Politicians have sued him and sent aides to intimidate him. But Kenyan political cartoonist Paul Kelemba (“Maddo”) presses on.
His residency at the Bellagio Center enabled him to share his work and exchange new perspectives with other international professionals.
Robert O. Keohane
Professor of International Affairs, Princeton University
Resident and Conference Participant
“Participants came from Europe and the United States…and from law and political science. . . . The result was a set of vigorous discussions…that one would not have had in the United States—or probably in most European institutions of higher learning.”
R. K. Pachauri
Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Director-General, the Energy and Resources Institute
Conference Participant
"My brief encounter with a poet in Bellagio was an extremely productive and heartening experience."
