Contributors
Tassouman
Donald Morcone
Jessica Winterstern
Born in the Ivory Coast in the 80s, I
Donald Morcone is a native New Yorker
Jessica Winterstern, received her B.Sc.
am the son of French aid workers, I
had little merit to travel extensively.
and resides on the Upper West Side of
Manhattan. His 35-year career in
in Applied Psychology at NYU, her
M.Ed., in Human Development and
Permeated by the "African
sensibilities" in which I grew up, and
pharmaceutical marketing and healthcare
communications includes stints at NYC-
Psychology from Harvard and is
currently getting her M.A. in Spiritual
bound to the west by the origins of
based ad agencies, communications
Psychology at University of Santa
Eastern Europe, I hope to share with
you both my pictures and the look
companies and a prestigious academic
research institution. Donald has devoted
Monica. This is a woman who stands
for Truth. She has been on an intense
that an African can have on the
modern Western world. “Tassouman”
many hours as a literacy volunteer
through various organizations and
journey herself, breaking free from an
upbringing that placed heavy
Dioula is the name I was given in
provided program and event support to
emphasis on the external, and rooting
Bouaké, the central city and northern
capital of Ivory Coast during the
Reach Out and Read of Greater New
York. A novice miniature enthusiast, he
herself firmly in the knowing, feeling,
and living of her Truth. Creating a safe
rebellion, which paralyzed the
country for more than 10 years.
is completing his first room box this
summer and can often be found behind
space for women and men to step
into, she invites her clients to “stand
his computer in the workshop at D.
in the center of the fire” with her and
Thomas Fine Miniatures exploring the
world of fine, scale miniatures.
not turn away, burning away all that
stands between them and their Truth,
so they can emerge as the
breathtaking expressions of Love they
are meant to be and, in fact, have been
all along.
Contact Jessica via her website, on
Instagram, Facebook or email.
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