COMMUNITY SERVICES
Explore community connections for editing, translation, and art. Please contact BGHRA to confirm current services and availability. BGHRA does not charge for referrals; arrangements are made directly with the provider.
EDITING & TRANSLATION
Emily Frazier-Rath is an educator and researcher rooted in the fields of German Studies, Migration Studies, and Feminist Studies. In addition to her work for the BGHRA, she has also served as Visiting Assistant Professor of German Studies at Davidson College in Davidson, NC. She earned her PhD in German Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder in May 2019, and her MA in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies from the University of Cincinnati in 2013. Emily’s publication entitled To Be Seen and to Be Whole: Black German FLINTA* on Community, Identity, and Connection appeared in The German Quarterly in fall 2022.
Emily taught the inaugural Beginning German I class for Black German adoptees and their families in May 2022, which was made possible through the generous support of the Anderson Language and Technology Center (ALTEC) at the University of Colorado Boulder. Emily’s current research centers on the pedagogical effects of engaging in transnational and transcultural dialog to build mutual understanding through deep, community-based learning in the humanities classroom. This work is informed by her collaboration with Dr. Rosemarie Peña in two courses they have introduced to the Davidson College curriculum: Black German Art & Resistance and Race, Gender, Migration.
ART CLASSES
Zari Harat is a visual artist who has studied art, spirituality and teaching which she generously shares with others. She is a cultural merge of being born in the US, South Asian family and living in Germany most of her life. This was her choice and she worked with the women’s movement in Berlin, was as a student of Audre Lorde’s and a single mother who wanted to give her daughter a world of freedom which she believed was easier to accomplish and be an artist in Germany.
She is a traveller, she is a teacher, she is a friend, she is an artist, she is a healer, she is a bridge person who embraces life beyond Europe, Africa, Asia, South America and the US. She cares about her friends and many of her pieces tell stories and speak to dialogue, tolerance, the pandemic lockdown, accidents, healing accidents and brutal encounters and looking for forgiveness to make this earth hers to share with her fellow sentient beings.
Zari is currently residing in Hamburg and was a long-time resident in Berlin having first come there in 1981 so she was at the heart of that young emergence of the hyphenated person that Audre Lorde discussed. Her work is available to purchase and you can find it on Facebook, Instagram, and other social media outlets as well as her website, www.zariharat.com that her daughter Moira maintains and assists her with. Her daughter Moira Nanina is married to a man from Malawi and they have two daughters so Zari is truly an advocate in the world of choice and love.