CivicActions

Joanne Pasila joined CivicActions as a Project Manager and Visual Designer in September 2007. She has worked with us on the Consensus Building Institute, CBuilding.org and with Better World Advertising on MeNotMeth.org. She recently took over project management on the WITNESS Video Hub project and redesigned the ACLU.tv website. Upcoming projects include visual design for Rare Conservation.

Before joining the CivicActions team, Joanne worked as a freelance art director focusing on clients in the fields of culture, education, healthcare as well as non-profits. She consults for a number of LGBTQ organizations in NYC and is an active volunteer with Develop-Don't Destroy Brooklyn and The Center for Urban Pedagogy.

Joanne graduated from the visual arts studio program of the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and earned her MFA in the Department of Architecture and Department of Video at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, Germany. Her work is shown nationally as well as in Europe, and she is a fellow of the Macdowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. After living in Amsterdam, NL and the woods of Western Mass, she is happy to call Brooklyn home.