Human Rights Center, UCBerkeley Law School, 20th Anniversary

Founder 
Mimi Chakarova, FIlm Director,
A Moment in Time Productions 
 
Prof Buxbaum talking with BAM curator 
Curator, Pamela Blotner 
Attended the UCBerkeley Law School 20th anniversary reception and photography exhibitions, on the 28th.   Met Mary Steiner, who is UNA-East Bay chair of committee on celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the UN in SF.

Prof Richard Buxbaum delivering address, and Mary Steiner, UNA.
 
 
 

 

 
The Lady, Burma(Mynamar) 1996


Sebastian Salgado (Brazil)



Salgado (Angola 1975) 


 

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