by Kathie MM
Celebrate with us! Engaging Peace has a new feature—cartoons for peace and social justice.
Our cartoonist is Christine Barie (see bio below). She is already hard at work, welcoming everyone to join us on the engaging peace pathway From Study to Action: Choosing Peace for Good.
Her first set of cartoons focuses on the corrupting and deadly disease of moral disengagement and its antidote, moral engagement, as they play themselves out in the U.S. today. She also has some fine political cartoons in the works. Please check them out and send us your comments and reactions.
Thanks from the Engaging Peace team–Kathie Malley-Morrison, Patricia Daniel, Doe West, Daniel Goodwin, and…… Christine Barie! Ta da!
Here is her bio:
Christine Barie hails originally from Upstate New York and began her arts education at a young age under the guidance of her mother, Tamiko Barie, who formally studied kimono dying in her native Japan. Christine graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a BFA in printmaking and graphic arts. After graduation in the mid-90’s she left the cows of Upstate behind and accepted a position as a graphic designer for an educational software company in Watertown, MA. Like many digital refugees of the dot.com bust of the late ’90s, Christine reconsidered her line of work and headed to the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts, earning a culinary degree and the ability to turn food into edible art. Over the next 15 years, she would work as a baker in Cambridge, MA and the head pastry chef for a catering company in midtown Manhattan. Christine, never one to fear change, shifted gears again recently and spends her time as a lead cheesemaker for an artisanal company in the Flatiron district of Manhattan. She lives in New York City with her family and one nervous and nippy Chihuahua-mix. Chris is happy to be using her artistic skills and training to promote peace and social justice through Engaging Peace.