Team Members - Tanzania

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Shay Spaniola

Shay Spaniola is an Art and Design major with a concentration in painting and photography. She loves oil paints and medium format cameras. She uses her photography as a tool to help give communities around the world a voice. She hopes to make a difference in the world through her creative works!

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Brian Ford

  • Hometown: Ann Arbor, MI
  • School: University of Michigan
  • Age: 21
  • Email: briford@umich.edu

Brian Ford is fond of humanity and would like to use film as a medium for advocating its survival. As a Screen Arts and Cultures major he’s interested in exploring global issues through film. He works toward global consciousness and cooperation.

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Erica Wedes

  • Hometown: Huntington Woods, MI
  • School: University of Michigan
  • Age: 22
  • Email: ewedes@umich.edu

Erica is a Movement Science major who loves to move. She especially enjoys dancing, traveling and running far distances. In the future she wants to enter the health field with special interests in becoming a physician's assistant, physical therapist or attending public health school. In her free time she performs improv comedy and makes plans to save the world.

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Rob Migrin

Rob Migrin is a Screen Arts and Cultures student at the University of Michigan who works with film, video, and photography. In addition to his university education, Rob is an assistant photo editor at _The Michigan Daily_, a daily college newspaper with a circulation of 18,000. He plans to pursue a career in non-fiction film or television, and believes that his passion for media can be used in a constructive and meaningful way.

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Sophie Kruz

  • Hometown: Ann Arbor, MI
  • School: University of Michigan
  • Age: 21
  • Email: skruz@umich.edu

Sophie Kruz is majoring in Screen Arts and Cultures with a focus in creative writing. Last summer she interned in production at E! Entertainment, and is excited to gain more production experience through See Change. She is interested in going into both documentary and narrative filmmaking when she graduates, and is really happy to be working with such a great SOW team this summer.

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Zach Meisner

  • Hometown: Bloomfield Township, MI
  • School: University of Michigan
  • Age: 21
  • Email: zmeisner@gmail.com

Zachary Meisner is a junior majoring in English Language and Literature. He works as the Managing Photo Editor at _The Michigan Daily_, where he has spent three years as a photo and multimedia journalist. He has dedicated his time at the University to tell relevant stories as aesthetically and thoroughly as possible. He plans to do the same after his studies are complete.