Official Website | butterfly-effect-project.org
IG | @the__butterflyeffect_project
The Butterfly Effect Project (BEP) celebrates the unity of immigration and migration stories. In a time where communities are pulled towards division, BEP aims to unearth the roots that connect us all. Creating an interdisciplinary experience will weave together a series of unique personal histories and stories to create a tapestry showcasing the shared way humans move and adapt all over the world, recognizing and respecting that our work exists on indigenous land.
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Our Team!
Maria Requena
The Glue
Maria is a singer-songwriter, community organizer, educator, and volunteer. Led by the idea that everyone has a unique voice and purpose in our community, Maria seeks ways to connect people to each other and bring out more empathy and compassion for one another. Maria’s idea for The Butterfly Effect Project is one of the ways Maria does this.
Alvaro Ojeda
Filmmaker & Multimedia Editor
Hey! I’m a nomad at heart, obsessed with the power of the mind and the nature/source from which we come from and which resides at our core. I’m fascinated by various types of art, especially creative and physical ones.
Pamela Trejo
Curator and Editorial Designer
Mexican graphic designer and printed arts specialist. I’m an immigrant who settled in Chicago when I was an adult after living back and forth between the US and MX throughout my childhood. The United States provided an opportunity to trade and learn about other cultures and lifestyles, broaden perspectives, and enhance a second language. I enjoy participating in creative projects that have an influence on the community.
Sofia Brunwin
Ground Support
Sofia Brunwin @fiasunn is a teaching artist born and raised in San Francisco. Dedicated to the power of spreading public art in the name of transformation. By method of curating, painting, printing, pasting and mosaic bricollage Sofia works to spread personal and collective empowerment of changing our surroundings and lives through visual art.
Maribel Cruz
Social Media Promoter
I’m a Mexican-American bilingual writer that works in a variety of mediums such as music, digital art, hybrid writing, and artisanry. Although born and raised in Chicago, I hold plenty of childhood memories in Mexico when my parents would take me every year for vacation. I’m grateful that I’m still able to visit often as it keeps me connected to my roots. Being proud of my heritage inspires me to uplift voices with stories about migration, its hardships and triumphs.
Allison Hill
Website Designer
Allison Hill (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago, born in Texas. Her primary mediums are songwriting, website design, and photography. As Website Designer, they design and maintain the Butterfly Effect Project website. In all artistic work, she strives to create an invitation for connection and reverence of the connections that tether our inner experience to the world we exist in together.
Tracy Kostenbader
Administration & Mentoring
Tracy Kostenbader is a visual and social artist who co-founded AnySquared to develop art projects in rejection of elitist views of art. Functioning on concepts mutual aid, Tracy has built a unique organization in Chicago where people come from all over the city to participate and build arts projects together. Tracy nurtures emerging artists to expand their ideas about how to create their work. Working together and mentorship through action is the philosophical underpinning of AnySquared.