J. Pasila

J Pasila joined CivicActions as a Project Manager and Visual Designer in September 2007. She has worked with us on the Consensus Building Institute, CBuilding.org and with Better World Advertising on MeNotMeth.org. She has managed the WITNESS video hub project since January 2008. Current projects include Education Trust, ProVention and Artists Trust.

Before joining the CivicActions team, J worked as a freelance art director focusing on clients in the fields of culture, education, healthcare as well as non-profits. She consults for a number of LGBTQ organizations in NYC and is an active volunteer with Develop-Don't Destroy Brooklyn and The Center for Urban Pedagogy.

J Pasila is a visual artist working in the mediums of photography/installation, and drawing. She graduated from the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and earned her MFA in the Department of Architecture and Department of Video at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, Germany. Her work is shown nationally and in Europe, and she is a fellow of the Macdowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. After living in Amsterdam, NL for seven years and the woods of Western Mass, she is happy to call Brooklyn home.