Art: Angela Agnes-Agapé Louise Sedun, M.F.A.
Angela Sedun is a visual artist and musician, focusing in both realism and abstraction with subjects primarily devoted to social justice and/or spirituality. Raised in the midwest, Angela collaborated with educators on Scholastic Art Magazine, a publication inspiring middle and high school learners. She attended the School of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and received a BFA in Fine Arts in Art History. Seeking new scenery eastward, Angela completed an MFA from Marywood University, Scranton. Professional endeavors have included working in the Des Moines Art Center, mural painting, teaching art history, and leading chant as the head cantor and choir director at St. Ann Byzantine Catholic Church, Harrisburg. She has been an avid participant and promoter of Wild Onions. Orchestrating the beauties of a family of 9, Angela weaves artfulness into the everyday to make this one life better.
Creative Writing: Cheryl Dellasega, R.N., Ph.D., M.F.A.
Cheryl Dellasega is a professor, nurse practitioner, commercial author, and swimmer. She also is a community activist whose life work has focused on the well-being of women. An upstate New York native, she has been a Penn State faculty for the last 30 years, working with medical and nursing students. Her degrees are from Millersville University, Lancaster, the University of Delaware, Newark, Del., and Temple University, Philadelphia. Although she was already the award-winning author of seven books of fiction and Creative Nonfiction as well as a published poet and essayist, in 2015 she added a “bucket list” MFA degree. Her thesis, “Amtrak Lullaby” from Rosemont College, Bryn Mawr, will be published next year by Legacy Books Press. Active in the creative writing community, Dr. D. has conducted numerous workshops, coaching, and classes to students that range from middle schoolers to incarcerated women.
Photography: Rick Guidotti
Rick Guidotti, an award-winning photographer, has spent the past 25 years collaborating internationally with nonprofit organizations, hospitals, medical schools, educational institutions, museums, galleries, advocacy groups and communities to effect a sea-change in societal attitudes towards individuals living with genetic, physical, behavioral or intellectual difference; his work has been published in newspapers, magazines and journals as diverse as Elle, GQ, People, The American Journal of Medical Genetics, The Lancet, The Washington Post, Atlantic Monthly and LIFE magazine.
Rick is the founder and director of POSITIVE EXPOSURE, New York, a non-profit organization that promotes a more inclusive world through award-winning photography, film, and educational programs. POSITIVE EXPOSURE provides new opportunities to see beyond diagnosis to the beauty and richness of our shared humanity.
Theme: Alexandra Flamm, MD
Alexandra Flamm, MD, serves as a board-certified dermatologist and dermatopathologist and is an assistant professor of Dermatology and Pathology at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Her clinical focus is contact dermatitis and education in dermatology. She serves as program director of the Dermatology Residency and previously served as the Dermatology clerkship director.
Alexandra graduated cum laude from Duke University, Durham, N.C., with a BA in literature. She received her medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, and during this time also completed a Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. She completed her dermatology residency at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, and served as chief resident during her final year. She then completed a dermatopathology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. She has authored numerous publications and textbook chapters and won institutional and national awards for teaching and advocacy work.