Our Team
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Jennifer Kanter
Staff Artist
Jennifer is an artist and filmmaker whose work focuses on climate change awareness.
Jennifer studied Film Production at San Francisco State University, and Marine Conservation and Policy at Stony Brook University.
Jennifer’s experience includes over 20 years of videography and editing work in NYC, LA, San Francisco.
Her passion for the environment has taken her to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to document social habits of bonobos in the Congo Basin rainforest, and to Australia to film the Great Barrier Reef.
Professional credits include Bloomberg News, the Charlie Rose Show, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum, African Wildlife Foundation, the National Park Service, Nona Hendryx.
Along with Stanley Amir Elivert, Jennifer founded InsectTalent.org in 2018.
Instagram: @jenniferkanter
Email: jskgreen@gmail.com
Stanley Amir Elivert
Staff Artist
"The first time I walked into an art classroom, I was the art teacher."
Trained as an architect, Amir is a self-taught artist and Youth Organizer best known for painting socially engaged murals with youth groups throughout NYC, under the moniker @amirdread.
Amir’s art, while using a variety of media, centers on issues of human struggle and activism.
As a job developer at Fifth Avenue Committee, Amir facilitated employment for several hundred young adults over a 6-year period.
As a technology instructor, in collaboration with New America Foundation and NYC Mesh, Amir and 18 paid young people designed, built, and maintain Gowanus Community Wi-Fi, a wireless mesh network based on Resilient Communities' Teaching Community Technology model that provides free WiFi access around the clock to Gowanus residents.
Along with Jennifer Kanter, Amir founded InsectTalent.org in 2018.
Instagram: @amirdread
Email: amir@insecttalent.org
The Lala
Brand Manager, Staff Artist
Laura is an artist and a High School student in NYC, and co-founder of insecttalent.org.
Website: lauralaurence.com
Email: laura@insecttalent.org
InsecT TalenT.org
We guide insects - our cocreators - to EAT parts of large leaves and avoid other parts, in a process that sees ordinary leaves transformed into meaningful works of Art.
Insect Talent, its artworks, and the processes used to produce them, are protected by the US Patent and Trademark Office #63/257,059.