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Ruth Rachel Yvonne<br>Anderson-Avraham

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Ruth Rachel Yvonne
Anderson-Avraham
BornYvonne Michele Anderson
(1970-10-04) October 4, 1970 (age 55)
Washington, DC
🏫 EducationNorfolk Academy
The University of Virginia (BA, '93)
HEC Paris (MBA, '97)
New York University (Cert. in Film, '98)
Harvard Law School (JD, '02)
💼 Occupation
  • Writer
  • Filmmaker/Fine Artist
  • Advocate

  • Financial Lawyer
  • Businessperson
👴 👵 Parent(s)Dr. Abraham S. Anderson
Dr. Gloria Anderson
🌐 Websiteandersonavraham.wixsite.com/ruthrachelaa

Ruth Rachel Yvonne Anderson-Avraham (née Yvonne Michele Anderson, 4 October 1970, Washington, DC) is an Caribbean-American filmmaker, writer, fine artist, entrepreneur, and advocate. She is the creator of the film and television production company Bold World / ReelNATION.[1]

Family

Daughter and first child of three to a prominent Obstetrician-Gynecologist and defender of reproductive rights for women, Dr. Abraham St. Aubyn Anderson, and a Doctor of Psychology, Dr. Gloria Dianne Anderson, both Musta'arabi, Misrahi, and Sephardic crypto-Jews of diverse African (North and Sub-Saharan), Middle Eastern, and European heritage who were raised as Christians, her father in the West Indies and her mother in the American South, Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham fully embraced her Jewish identity in adulthood, becoming Ba'alat Teshuba (one who returns to Judaism and Jewish observance).[2][3] In December 2008, she legally changed her name from Yvonne Michele Anderson to Ruth Rachel Yvonne Anderson-Avraham in order to fully embrace her family history and Jewish identity.[citation needed]

She is a descendant, by adoption, of Captain Paul Cuffee and Hillary ("Hilry") J.D. Cuffee, a Corporal/Sergeant in Company C, 38th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry during the Civil War, and a niece, by marriage, of filmmaker Haile Gerima.[citation needed] Her uncle by birth, Dr. Bernard Bradley Anderson, was a Surgeon and Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Gondar in Gondar, Ethiopia, who dedicated his life to improving health and access to medical care for people in Ethiopia, in Africa and the Middle East, and in the Caribbean. Her uncle by birth, Dr. Winston A. Anderson, is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute scientist and Professor Emeritus of Biology at Howard University in Washington, DC, and is founder of the Sandy Spring Slave Museum in Sandy Spring, Maryland.

Her heritage tells of the story of Europeans who came to the New World to found sugar plantations; Africans who were brought to the New World by force as slaves, some of whom later regained their freedom; Native Americans who married into these communities rapidly changing their way of life and the New World which had always been their home; and Musta'arabi, Misrahi, and Sephardic Jews who came to the New World fleeing persecution in their countries of origin.[citation needed]

Although she has had several important serious relationships with men during the course of her life, Ms. Anderson-Avraham never formally married and has no biological children, although she has always personally sought and expressed the desire for both.[citation needed]

Education

Ms. Anderson-Avraham is a graduate of the Norfolk Academy in Norfolk, Virginia, The University of Virginia, HEC Paris, New York University, and Harvard Law School.

Taking one year off prior to her Fourth Year as a undergraduate at the University of Virginia, where she was an Echols Scholar, a Walter N. Ridley Scholar, and a member of the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society as an English Language and Literature and Religious Studies double major and French Language and Literature minor, she completed a year of independent study at the Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3 (Université Grenoble Alpes) in Grenoble, France, studying French Language and Literature, French Cinema, and La Francophonie.[citation needed]

During the course of her interdisciplinary graduate study, Ms. Anderson-Avraham took time off from her study at Harvard Law School to complete a year of advanced graduate and quantitative study in International Law and International Economic Theory and Policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Medford, Massachusetts, which she had initially entered as a MALD degree candidate; to complete an MBA at HEC Paris; and to work in the independent film production industry in New York City.[4]

While at Harvard Law School, Ms. Anderson-Avraham served as President of the Harvard International Law Society[4], having the honor of working directly with Detlev F. Vagts who served as advisor to the Society; worked directly with Philip A. Wellons as his research assistant in the Harvard Program on International Financial Systems (PIFS); studied International Law and Torah with Joseph H. H. Weiler; and further served as a Member of the Board of the Harvard Law School Fine Arts Panel. She also edited for the Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal, the Harvard International Law Journal[5], and the Harvard International Human Rights Journal.

During her time in New York City, she completed a Certificate in Film Production at the School of Professional Studies and the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, studying on nights and weekends as a student of well-loved instructor Thierry Pathé (grandson of Charles Pathé) while working full time.[4]

Career

As an attorney specializing in international finance and corporate law, Ms. Anderson-Avraham has worked in Geneva, Frankfurt, Paris, and Milan, her most significant experience being in Paris, where she passed the Article 100 exam providing for admission of foreign lawyers to the Paris Bar in 2005 as a member of the New York Bar qualified in 2004.[6][7]

While a young lawyer at Bredin Prat in Paris, France, Ms. Anderson-Avraham had the honor of working directly several times with distinguished French attorney and author Jean-Denis Bredin, a member of the Académie Francaise.[citation needed]

Ms. Anderson-Avraham began her filmmaking career in New York City as a film researcher at Getty Images; an intern at Asset Pictures working for filmmaker Tessa Blake; an intern at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival working for festival director and filmmaker Bruni Burres; and as an intern in the Media Division at United Nations Headquarters working for filmmaker Lily Chau.[citation needed] She was later hired by New York Times Bestselling author Michael Drosnin to work on the first screenplay adaptation of The Bible Code (Simon & Schuster, 1997), acquired by Warner Bros. Pictures, before becoming office manager, production manager, and associate producer for Liz Garbus and Rory Kennedy at Moxie Firecraker Films.[citation needed] After leaving Moxie Firecracker in early 2000, she worked as an intern for filmmakers Stanley Nelson and Marcia Smith at Firelight Media on the film Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind before moving on to her own projects full-time as a freelance producer and writer, then under the name "Abeng Media".

During the late summer of 2001, Ms. Anderson-Avraham interned for the Festival du film contre l'exclusion et pour la tolérance (FIFET) at UNESCO Headquaters in Paris, France under the direction of festival founder and historian Claudine Drame, with whom she would continue to work in furture years.[citation needed]

In 2006, she founded the independent production companies Bold World Cinéma SARL (then EURL) in Paris, France and ReelNATION Ltd in London, United Kingdom, which were later unified to form the surviving company Bold World / ReelNATION. During this time in France in the mid-2000's, she was a neighbor, and later tenant, of Franco-American author Catherine David.[citation needed]

Advocacy

Support for the State of Israel, Peace Between Israelis and Palestinians, and Peace in the Middle East
Ms. Anderson-Avraham is not only a dedicated supporter of the State of Israel, but is also a dedicated supporter of peace between Jews and Arabs, Jews and Muslims, Israelis and Palestinians, and a dedicated supported of peace across the Middle East.[8][9][10] In 2006, she began advocating for these causes after having previously traveled to Tunisia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Israel, her efforts in this domain eventually crystallizing into ISRAELrealNATION.[11]

ISRAELrealNATION focuses upon Israel advocacy from a Musta'arabi, Misrahi, Sephardic perspective, and is dedicated to the preservation of Musta'arabi, Misrahi, Sephardic culture and tradition via its Misrahi Media initiative.[12] Misrahi Media is also further committed to educating the public about the history, culture, and tradition of the African Jewish Diaspora.[11]

Ms. Anderson-Avraham crafts visual media — primarily short documentary and educational films about issues affecting the State of Israel, the Jewish Community, and the larger Middle East and Middle Eastern communities — in support of this work.[11]

Support for the Fights Against Racism, Anti-Semitism, and All Forms of Hatred
In August and September 2001, Ms. Anderson-Avraham attended the first World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) in Durban, South Africa after having worked with Claudine Drame as an intern at UNESCO to organize the participation of the Festival du film contre l'exclusion et pour la tolérance (FIFET) in the Film Festival Against Racism concurrently being held in Durban. In addition to several other films, FIFET sponsored the screening of the film Sankofa, directed by Haile Gerima, which brought the audience to tears.

During her time in Durban, Ms. Anderson-Avraham also attended several plenary sessions, and protested both the anti-semitism which surfaced during the course of the Conference, as well as the withdrawal of the US Delegation from the Conference. Although Ms. Anderson-Avraham deeply understood the position of the State of Israel in respect of its decision to withdraw from the Conference, she supported that position that making one's voice heard on the record during the course of the plenary sessions is preferable to being silenced.

In 1999, Ms. Anderson-Avraham was introduced to award-winning filmmaker and photographer Bart Everly in New York City by her friend and former high school prom date Perry Moore. This meeting led to her collaboration with Everly and author and Vogue editor Jonathan Van Meter on the film Let's Get Frank (2003), about fellow Harvard Law School graduate former U.S. Representative Barney Frank — one of the first openly gay politicians in the United States and co-architect of the historic Dodd-Frank financial law — and the fight against discrimination and for equality. Set against the backdrop of the Clinton Impeachment Trial, this film has now been memorialized by both the US Library of Congress and the British Film Institute.[13]

Support for the Underprivileged and Social, Economic, and Financial Justice
In respect of social, economic, and financial justice, Ms. Anderson-Avraham's advocacy has largely focused upon support for people of color; immigrants, migrants, and refugees; women; children; and the elderly. She has contributed to various projects sponsored by organizations such as the United Nations, UNESCO, Human Rights Watch, Madison House at the University of Virginia, and the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic at Greater Boston Legal Services.

As a filmmaker living in Paris, France, Ms. Anderson-Avraham founded Cité-Cinergie / Bold World Arts, uplifting young people at risk living in the Parisian Banlieues, ages 11-18, through the visual arts.

In 2020, Ms. Anderson-Avraham worked as a Contractor / Case Manager for the U.S. Small Business Administration on the Coronavirus Relief Project, Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program, established under the CARES Act and providing low-cost loans for small businesses suffering negative impacts as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Support for Women and a Woman's Right to Choose
As a young person growing up in Southeastern Coastal Virginia ("Tidewater"), Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham and her family lived the heated debate over abortion as the children of an Obstetrician-Gynecologist who humanely defended a woman's right to choose, Abraham S. Anderson, MD.[2][3][14]

As a result of her father's position on abortion, her entire family was continually subject to violence and imminent threat of violence throughout the 1980's and early-mid 1990's, including three sniper attempts being made on her father's life over the course of a number of years.[2][15][16] Having been directly targeted in "not Wanted" posters published and circulated by pro-life political activists[14][17], Dr. Anderson later testified as an expert witness in several cases concerning reproductive rights, including the landmark case Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette v. American Coalition of Life Activists (ACLA) ((41 F.Supp. 2d 1130)[18][19][20][21][22], and ultimately chose to stop performing abortions due to concern for the safety and security of himself and his family.[14][3]

As an adult, and as a religious Jew, Ms. Anderson-Avraham continues to publicly defend a woman's right to choose.[citation needed]

Support for the Fight Against Illiteracy
Throughout the course of her life, Ms. Anderson-Avraham has worked with children, young people, and adults in various capacities, including personally as a volunteer tutor, in order to combat illiteracy and encourage a life-long love for learning and education.[citation needed]

Support for a Green Environment and Environmental Health

In the mid-1980's, before the recent water crisis in Flint, Michigan had been uncovered, Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham worked and raised money for Clean Water Action as a high school student.[citation needed]

While living in New York City as a young professional, she volunteered for the Brooklyn Bridge Park Coalition advocating for the creation of what is now known as the Brooklyn Bridge Park. From 1999-2000, she served as a Committee Member for the inaugural Brooklyn Bridge Park Coalition Summer Film Series (now Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy "Movies with a View"[23]), for which she produced a 3-minute film entitled A Park Grows in Brooklyn (2000)[24] with fellow Committee Member and filmmaker, Lisa Cortés. This short film served as the opening for the outdoor summer evening film screenings.

The defense of access to clean water; clean water sources, shorelines, and oceans; and healthy, green living spaces are causes which she continues to support today.

In the above efforts, and politically, generally, Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham identifies as an independent, centre-right conservative. [citation needed]

Selected Filmography[25]

  • A Park Grows in Brooklyn (2000) - Producer, Writer, Director, Editor (with Lisa Cortés)[24]
  • The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus (2000) - Producer
  • Let's Get Frank (2003) - Co-Producer
  • Henna Splash (2006) - Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
  • Ysasu: La Mode dans la rue André del Sarte (2007) - Producer, Writer, Director (still photographs by Ananias Leki Dago)
  • Témoignages pour Mémoire (2007) - Producer, Translator (French to English)
  • We Have A Dream (2016) - Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
  • 1919 / COVID-19: Honor the Struggles (2020) - Producer, Writer, Director, Editor

Selected Screenplays[25]

Selected Photographs

  • Main Street, Norfolk, Virginia, 16-17 August 2017: A Photo Essay (photographs, 2017; short film, 2018)[26]


References

  1. ↑ Anderson, Yvonne-Michele. "AVIS DE CONSTITUTION, BOLD WORLD CINEMA, SARL au capital de 20.000 EUR", Les Echos, Paris, France, Iss. 19 699, 1 July 2006, pg. 22.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Anderson, Abraham S. Dr.", The Virginian-Pilot (print), Norfolk, Virginia, Obituaries, Friday, 25 January 2019, page 10, Legacy.com (online), Chicago, Illinois, 25 January 2019.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Martin, Saleen."Norfolk Doctor Helped Low-Income Communities and Women of Color", The Virginian-Pilot (print), Norfolk, Virginia, 11 February 2019, Front Page, PilotOnline.com (online), Norfolk, Virginia, 6 February 2019.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Anderson, Yvonne Michele. "Why I Left Harvard Law School...and Why I Came Back Again", Harvard Law Bulletin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, v. 54, no. 1, 24 September 2002 (Fall 2002).
  5. ↑ Anderson, Yvonne Michele. "Critique, Books Received", Harvard International Law Journal, Cambridge, Massachusetts, v. 36, no. 1, Fall 1995.
  6. ↑ "Nombreux cabinets sur la cession des actifs d'Editis" (mention, Yvonne Anderson), La Lettre des Juristes d'Affaires, Paris, France, Nº 696, 7 juin 2004, p. 3.
  7. ↑ "Bredin Prat et Sullivan sur l'entrée de Silver Lake au capital de Thomson" (mention, Yvonne Anderson), La Lettre des Juristes d'Affaires, Paris, France, Nº 704, 2 août 2004, p. 3.
  8. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Al Rayah 28 April 2006
  9. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Al Shar2 2 May 2006
  10. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Al Rayah 4 May 2006
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 ISRAELrealNATION - Official Website, reference cited on 13 May 2020.
  12. ↑ See, for example, Anderson-Avraham, Ruth Rachel.Letter to The Honorable John F. Kerry, U.S. Secretary of State, Re: The Iraqi Jewish Archive, dated 18 November 2013, ISRAELrealNATION Blog, 19 November 2013, reference cited on 13 May 2020.
  13. ↑ "Let's Get Frank (2003) - LOC", U.S. Library of Congress (LOC), Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS), LCCN 2007310500
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 "It's absurd," said Anderson after ['not Wanted' posters targeting him were mailed by pro-life activists who believe that the murder of doctors providing abortions is 'justifiable homicide']. "Abortion is not my primary aim in life. I do perform them on people who need them because I consider myself a public servant. I'm not an advocate of abortion to solve the world's problems, but I feel it's necessary in certain cases." "Abortion Doctor Ends Practice: Harassment Efforts by Fanatics Cited", The Free Lance-Star (print), Fredericksburg, Virginia, 9 July 1993, Section C2.
  15. ↑ LaFay, Laura."Anti-Abortion Leader Fined for Threat: He Told a Doctor in a Letter to Stop Doing Abortions or Face Ruin", The Virginian-Pilot Ledger Star (print), Norfolk, Virginia, Local Section, 11 December 1992, page D1.
  16. ↑ LaFay, Laura."Operation Rescue Target to Stop Doing Abortions", The Virginian-Pilot Ledger Star (print), Norfolk, Virginia, Front Section, 9 July 1993, page A1.
  17. ↑ LaFay, Laura."Abortion Foes Mail Posters Targeting Local Doctors", The Virginian-Pilot Ledger Star (print), Norfolk, Virginia, Local Section, 12 June 1993, page D1.
  18. ↑ Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette v. American Coalition of Life Activists (ACLA), 41 F. Supp. 2d 1130 (D. Or. 1999).
  19. ↑ Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette v. American Coalition of Life Activists (ACLA)[permanent dead link], 290 F.3d 1058 (9th Cir. 2002).
  20. ↑ Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette v. American Coalition of Life Activists (ACLA), Digital Media Law Project (DMLP), Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School, 2007 - 2014, dmlp.org.
  21. ↑ "Hit List or Free Speech? A key decision on what constitutes a 'true threat' is revisited in the wake of the September terror attacks.", The Intelligence Report, Southern Poverty Law Center, Spring Issue, 5 March 2002, splcenter.org.
  22. ↑ "Constitutional Law. Free Speech. Ninth Circuit Denies First Amendment Challenge to Civil Verdict against Anti-Abortion Activists' Intimidating Posters and Website. Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette, Inc. v. American Coalition of Life Activists, 290 F.3d 1058 (9th Cir. 2002) (En banc), Petition for Cert. Filed, 71 U. S. L. W. 3292 (U. S. Oct. 8, 2002) (No. 02-563", 116 Harv. L. Rev. 977 (Harvard Law Review) (2003), published online at JSTOR.
  23. ↑ Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, Movies With a View - Official Website, reference cited on 13 May 2020.
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 A Park Grows in Brooklyn (2000) - IMDb / IMDb Pro, reference cited on 16 Dec 2021.
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham, IMDb / IMDbPro
  26. ↑ Main Street, Norfolk, Virginia, 16-17 August 2017: A Photo Essay (2018) - IMDb / IMDb Pro, reference cited on 16 Dec 2021.

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