STAFF

Kieran Minor is a co-founder of Project Hózhó. He is a recent Oberlin grad, double-majoring in Economics and Environmental Studies with a minor in Creative Writing. Project Hózhó unifies two of Kieran's main interests: environmental education and the arts. At Oberlin, Kieran was very involved with the college’s arts community, appearing in mainstage theater productions, leading a student a capella group, and playing in a student band, while continuing to be a tutor and programmer for local youth through the Ninde Program. For five years, Kieran served as a musical director for Summer at Wooster, a youth arts program in his hometown. During the summer of 2016, he worked as a counselor and TA for Sitka Fine Arts Camp in Sitka, Alaska. Kieran has lived in Chinle as well, spending the fall of 2014 teaching photography and songwriting classes at CJHS/Chinle Catholic Church, returning in January 2017 as an intern at IHS, and summer in 2018 for Project Hózhó’s first summer.

RASHAD SALEH

Rashad Saleh is a co-founder of Project Hózhó. He is a recent Oberlin grad, where he studied film and Middle East studies, brings an extensive background in teaching and filmmaking to Project Hózhó. Born in Portland, Oregon and raised in Connecticut, Rashad developed a passion for film in high school by making spoofs of novels he read in English classes. Since then, his work has screened at several festivals in the United States, and in the fall of 2017, he studied narrative filmmaking at the Prague Film School in the Czech Republic. Much of his recent work has explored issues related to Palestine and the struggle of the Palestinian people. Rashad hopes to use his background in indigenous Middle Eastern art to empower students in Chinle.