Laura Doggett is a community artist, educator and filmmaker who has spent the past 25 years collaborating and creating spaces with girls and young women to express themselves artistically and tell their stories in their own voices. She’s used video, audio, photography, writing, theater and the visual arts in her work with young people from communities in the Appalachian mountains of KY and WV, native and immigrant communities of NYC and DC, Jordan’s Syrian refugee communities in camps and urban areas, Peru’s Indigenous Shipibo-Konibo community in Cantagallo, Lima, Peru, and New Orlean’s Central American migrant and refugee communities. In 2014 she co-founded with a group of young Syrian women Another Kind of Girl Collective, a space for and by girls and young women living in displaced, transitory communities around the world where they can connect, collaborate, and co-create multimedia artworks that reflect and express their own experiences, inner lives, artistic visions and communities’ stories. She has received Felsman and Hine Documentary Fellowships, the Daniel S. Prager Award for Opening the Human Spirit and a Creative Capital award.