Erin Kamler

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rdf:langString Erin Kamler (born 1975) is an American writer, composer, and academic researcher who works at the intersection of feminist social justice and the arts. Dr. Erin Kamler is an American writer, composer, musician and academic researcher who works at the intersection of feminist social justice and the arts. Over the past eleven years, Erin has worked as a researcher and gender equality consultant with numerous international development agencies, NGOs and civil society organizations in Burma, Thailand, and throughout Southeast Asia. Source A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Erin earned her Ph.D. from USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, where her research focused on the trafficking and migration of women in Thailand and Burma, and using the arts as a tool for political communication and human rights witnessing. Conversationally fluent in the Thai language, Erin holds a Masters in Public Diplomacy from USC's School of International Relations, a Masters in Communication Arts from USC's Annenberg School and a Bachelors in music composition from Sarah Lawrence College. Recent projects as a composer and playwright include Foreign, Andaman, Land of Smiles, Divorce! The Musical, and Runway 69. Her work has been staged at New Dramatists, Berkeley Rep, The Public Theater, Playwright's Horizons, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and she is a three-time winner of Stephen Sondheim's Young Playwright's Festival and University of Michigan's Hopwood Award. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild. Erin divides her time between Thailand and the United States, where she serves as an Affiliated Researcher at Chiang Mai University and Academic Program Director at Minerva Project and Visiting Professor of Arts and Humanities at Minerva University.She is currently working on a series of musicals, THE MONSOON TRILOGY, about human rights issues in Southeast Asia. Source