Friday, August 8, 2008

Courtney and Kathy Sheetz


Nationality: U.S.


Kathy, 61, is mother of a lawyer, a doctor and fellow passenger on the Free Gaza, 25-year-old videographer Courtney. Grandmother to four girls and another on the way, Kathy spent the last 12 years on grassroots and human rights organizing in Haiti. A retired nurse, Kathy brought her justice-activist daughter Courtney with her to World Social Forums in Mumbai and Port Alegre. Courtney has gone to Haiti with her since age 8, and now is completing her bachelor’s degree in New York City and has made videos in Haiti and with the MST landless movement in Brazil.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Is this the Kathy I knew in New Zealand many years ago? If so, I will make contact some how - back in the home town again Andrea H