Stephen Stern

Stephen R. Stern is Co-Founder of Friends of Taghyeer Movement, supporting, advising and developing programs on the ground with the Taghyeer (Change) Palestinian National Nonviolence Movement. He is a Founding Board member of Mosaic Theater and chair of its Public Programming effort. Stephen has for the past twenty years created public conversations and programs with communities and cultures in conflict, many focused on Israel and Palestine in the DC area and internationally. Stephen was the director, co-creator and co-author of Waziristan to Washington: A Muslim at the Crossroads – a one-person play performed by Akbar Ahmed – about Ambassador Ahmed’s life and times.

Previously Stephen spent 11 years at the World Bank, working on community participation and social development in its Asia Regions, and served as a core team member for Bank President James Wolfensohn’s global culture and sustainable development initiative. Stephen was a founding partner and actor with the internationally acclaimed Otrabanda Theater Company with which he performed original and adapted theater works in Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, and in 35 states in the US.