Gloria Simoneaux
Gloria Simoneaux is founding director of Harambee Arts (www.harambeearts.org), an expressive arts organization and training program based in sub-Saharan Africa, Nepal, Dominica and Haiti. Harambee Arts is designed to serve children and women globally who have been traumatized by illness, poverty, violence, trafficking, incarceration, autistic spectrum disorder and other crises. Gloria taught Expressive Arts to counselors in Nairobi as a Fulbright scholar in 2008, affiliated with the Kenya Association of Professional Counselors. She is the Founder of DrawBridge: An Arts Program for Homeless Children, now in its 33rd year, and has worked extensively with pediatric oncology patients in San Francisco hospitals. She is a consultant with Save the Children, Railway International and other NGO’s and has taught locally at CIIS and JFK Universities. She also teaches at the University of Nairobi, and Connect, a family therapy institute in Zimbabwe. Gloria is currently working on her second Fulbright fellowship with the Ministry of Social Welfare in Dominica, a tiny island in the Eastern Caribbean that was 90% destroyed by Hurricane Maria in 2017.
