THE PROJECT TEAM Hali Breindel, Project Leader & Interviewer Hali Breindel has been a resident of Lower Manhattan for over 25 years. She experienced the attack on the WTC from her childrenís school yard, two blocks north of 1 WTC. She is a photographer with a degree in Filmmaking from SUNY Binghamton, and is also a psychotherapist who attended the NYU Graduate School of Social Work. She is an advocate of progressive social policy and participated in ActUp from its inception and was a founding member of WAC (Womenís Action Coalition). Liz Margolies, Project Leader & Interviewer Liz Margolies is a psychotherapist in private practice. She also teaches social justice at Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service and directs a bereavement program at two animal hospitals on the Upper West Side. Liz lives in Greenwich Village with her partner and their 11 year-old son, Wolfe. He went to school at Ground Zero and had to be evacuated on September 11th, 2001. In the days following the attacks on the World Trade Center, Liz and her family helped organize the rescue operation for pets trapped inside homes evacuated on 9/11. Liz has worked with the archive project as an interviewer since the beginning. Linnae Hamilton, Project Leader & Interviewer Linnae Hamilton is a photographer and television editor and has been a resident of Lower Manhattan since moving to New York over 15 years ago. 9/11/2001 was her forty-fifth birthday and she was at home when she heard the first plane crash into the North Tower. She and her husband evacuated their son from his Ground Zero elementary school before the first tower fell. After 9/11 she left her work in television in order to spend more time with her family and to focus on writing and producing documentaries. She is currently self-distributing her latest feature titled ëOur Schoolí, and working to improve public awareness about school safety and preparedness. Nisi Jacobs, Editor Nisi Jacobs has been a resident of Lower Manhattan for over thirty years and watched the WTC being built from her home. She is an internationally exhibited video artist with a BFA in painting from Cooper Union, and works as an editor for socially oriented film projects. Jack Saul, Executive Director, DCRC, lives in Lower Manhattan and is a P.S. 234 parent who worked with Ground Zero Community Initiative, a school, family and community collaboration project set up in response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001. He is the director of the International Trauma Studies Program at NYU which offers training and services to populations worldwide that have endured disaster and political violence. Carol Prendergast, Managing Director, DCRC, has been a resident of the West Village for the past 20 years. She has worked for human rights and humanitarian organizations, providing management, advocacy, and public education expertise. The focus of her work is promoting the empowerment and resilience of individuals and communities impacted by political violence.