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Larry Grimes
Class Year: 2014Area of Focus: Holocaust Education
Location: Florida, Tampa
ln being a teacher of history, Larry Grimes became interested in the Holocaust about seven years ago while he traveled in Eastern Europe. He attended several workshops and seminars during the next several years. This is where his education began. He met Carl Wilkens and traveled to Rwanda twice with him. Grimes was an Alfred Lerner Fellow through the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous
Michael Pertnoy
Class Year: 2009Area of Focus: Congo, Darfur, film, Holocaust, Rwanda
Location: Florida, Miami, New York, New York
As founder of Righteous Pictures, a film and new media production company, Michael Pertnoy is dedicated to developing creative and innovative community-based projects to educate, engage, cultivate and foster social change. His film, The Last Survivor, which helped to launch the first ever Genocide Prevention and Awareness Month in April 2009, tells the story of survivors of four different genocides who have become active
Pam Smith
Class Year: 2010Area of Focus: education, Holocaust Education, media
Location: Florida, Niceville
Pam Smith has been a public school teacher over twenty years with instructional assignments as a secondary language arts teacher, graduate teaching assistant at the University of Alabama, middle school gifted education language arts and social studies teacher, and community college instructor. Currently, Smith is an online instructor for Okaloosa Online, Blue Ridge Learning Academy, and Troy University as well as an English instructor