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Helene Hagan is a North African Anthropologist
whose work focuses on the Amazigh (Berber) cultures of her native land of Morocco.
After obtaining a Licence-es-Lettres in American Civilisation
from the University of Bordeaux, France, she also was awarded a Master's Degree
in Linguistics and Education in 1971, and a Master's Degree in cultural and
Psychological Anthropology in 1983, both from Stanford University, California.
Helene Hagan directed a Photo Visual and Identification Project on Pine Ridge
Indian Reservation, South Dakota, from 1983 to 1985, with the collaboration
of scores of Indian Elders, and she created a traveling exhibit which has been
shown in several National Parks and at the Rotunda in Congress, Washington,
D.C. As a Public Access Television Producer, she produced the Award nominated
series of eleven programs, "Circles: American Indians in Marin," a four-hour
series entitled "North Marin Baylands," and a documentary on the Berber culture
of Morocco presented as a series of thirteen programs aired in Northern and
Southern California in 1998 and 1999.
In 2001, she published a book entitled, "The Shining Ones: an Etymological Essay
on the Amazigh Roots of Egyptian Civilization", which she wrote with the collaboration
of Dr. Hassan Ouzzate of the University of Agadir, Morocco who is a Modern Amazigh
Linguist. She has worked as the Executive Director of the Tazzla Institute for
Cultural Diversity for the past five years.
Helene Hagan is currently serving on the Board of Directors of A.C.A.A., Amazigh Cultural Association in America. (2002-Present.) She is also an Advisory Director for The Timbuktu Heritage Institute of US and Mali, and an Advisory Director for P.I.P.E, Partnership of Indigenous Peoples for the Environment, an NGO with eco-soc status at the United Nations.
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Helene Hagan, click here.
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