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Margaret Sullivan, Coordinator for the United States Indonesia Society's Aceh School Project, has made six trips to Aceh since February 2006 to work with Syiah Kuala University, the Sampoerna Foundation, the provincial and city Departments of Education, the BRR and individual and corporate sponsors to establish a Lab School that will open in the summer of 2007 under the auspices of the University's College of Education and Teaching.
She first lived in Indonesia from 1967 to 1971, when she was a member of the parent committee that helped found the Jakarta International School and taught English at the University of Indonesia. In Cebu, Philippines, she then served on the committee that modernized the Cebu International School.
For the past 10 years, she has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Kodai Woodstock International Foundation that supported two international schools in India. As a coordinator for public education projects she was the first Associate Director of the Asia Society's Washington Center, and the Executive Director of the Philippine Centennial Foundation which coordinated a wide range of cultural events throughout the United States to acknowledge the centennial of Philippine independence in 1998.
Over the past 40 years, she has used the things people make as a means of exploring their lives and cultures. She conducted a major research project in Sierra Leone to document hand made products, which resulted in an exhibition in New York and a collection now housed at the Smithsonian Institution. Her award winning book "Can Survive, La!" Cottage Industries in Highrise Singapore chronicles the range of daily items that help define that changing society. In her spare time in Aceh, she pays close attention to the handcrafts that are now being produced there.
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