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Victoria
Mares Hershey |
Ms. Hershey is
the Director Of Development for
Portlandwest, Portland, Maine. She is also a founder
& director of the Institute for Practical
Democracy, a
Youth Leadership Development Program. Now in its
eighth
year. A graduate in Political Science from
Michigan State University,
Ms. Hershey has studied
electronic journalism in a Columbia University
Graduate School of
Journalism Program, Vietnamese
Culture and Language at the Foreign Service Institute
and
Intercultural Communication at the Institute for
Cross-Culture Communication in Portland, Oregon.
She is a former Dean of Students at Colby College,
and continues working today as a Fine Arts Artist
&
Writer. She has been appointed to the Maine Arts Commission
as a Commissioner and is on its committee for Community
Arts. Her daughter Rebecca grew up in Maine, graduated
from Cornell University and works for the American Civil
Liberties Union in New York City.
Victoria at the opening of
an I.P.D. project,
the "Toro Vaun,
Photography Exhibit"
below, held in
October 24-28,2000
in
Portland, Maine at VIA.
