Our Team
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Jennifer Kanter
Staff Artist
Jennifer is an artist and filmmaker whose work focuses on climate change awareness.
Jennifer studied Film Production at San Francisco State University, and Marine Conservation and Policy at Stony Brook University.
Jennifer’s experience includes 20 years of videography and editing work in NYC, LA, San Francisco.
Jennifer's passion for the environment has taken her to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to document social habits of bonobos in the Congo Basin rainforest, and to Australia, to film the Great Barrier Reef.
Professional credits include Bloomberg News, the Charlie Rose Show, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum, African Wildlife Foundation, the National Park Service, Nona Hendryx.
Instagram: @jenniferkanter
Email: jskgreen@gmail.com
Laura Laurence
Brand Manager, Staff Artist
Laura is a artist, co-founder of Insect Talent, and a college student.
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IG: @lauralaurencenyc
Email: laura@insecttalent.org
Amir Elivert
Staff Artist
Trained in architectural design and political science, Amir is a self-taught artist and community organizer best known for painting socially engaged murals with youth groups throughout NYC, under the Instagram moniker @amirdread.
Amir’s art, while using a variety of media, centers on issues of human struggle.
As a job developer at Fifth Avenue Committee, Amir facilitated employment for several hundred young adults over a 6-year period.
As a technology instructor, in collaboration with New America Foundation and NYC Mesh, Amir and 18 paid young people designed, built, and maintain Gowanus Community Wi-Fi, a wireless mesh network based on Resilient Communities' (RC) Teaching Community Technology model.
The network keeps the coastal community connected during frequent storms that typically take out electricity, internet, and phone services. The network also provides free around the clock WiFi access to local residents.
Instagram: @amirdread
Email: amir@insecttalent.org
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We guide insects - our cocreators - to EAT parts of large leaves and avoid other parts, in a process that sees ordinary leaves transformed into meaningful works of Art.
Insect Talent, its artworks, and the processes used to produce them, are protected by the US Patent and Trademark Office #63/257,059.