Sushmita Mazumdar, project director, outside the Rinker Community Center at the Gates of Ballston apartment community where Studio Pause is located. Feb 2021.
Photo: Mary Louise MarinoSusan Sterner, humanities scholar, and Studio Pause artist-in-residence, 2020-2022.
Photo: Tyrone Turner

Photo, Yuri Long.

Ruben Villalta was born in San Salvador, El Salvador. He was artist-in-residence at Studio PAUSE during the year of 2018 and been a member ever since. He is part of a team of translators, making We PAUSED! the first multilingual book of the Studio. Soheir Ghali moved from Egypt to the US in 2013, and after a 25 year career with USAID there she now works to help open a market in the US for Egyptian artisans and their products. She is the Arabic translator for We PAUSED!