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Sherry Bates |
Sherry attended Columbia College. In 1993 she
produced her first feature documentary. What Is Liberty? The Haitian Refugee
Crisis. The film (What Is Liberty? The
Haitian Refugee Crisis) won the Independent Project Award for
Independent film makers and the Sony Innovators Award. In 1996 she followed
up with a second documentary Whatever Happened To The Dream. She
toured with the film speaking on college campuses across the Midwest. In 1997 she
entered into a partnership with Street Level Youth Media and Gallery 37 to
teach inner city youth how to create documentaries about their communities.
In 1999 Sherry and Gallery 37 teamed up to create a media lab. The media
center focused on graphic and animation projects for the City of Chicago. In
2000 she was asked to take a position at West Wood College teaching graphic
design. In 2001 she started her own design firm SB Design. Some of her
clients are Batteast Construction, Tuffhouse Multi Media Group, and
DMV Properties. In 2005 Sherry teamed up with Santana Peck and Serena
Peralta to begin the journey of working with low-income communities to
bring technology to these areas. "Every child should have
the ability to have a computer within their grasp seeing how this is a
technological world that we live in." |
