Mikayla Lev, Creative Director
Mikayla Lev is a peace builder, artist, filmmaker and creative visionary. She is the founder of the ICU. She co-directed and produced Living in Conflict (livinginconflict.com) a feature length documentary about the lives of five Israeli and Palestinian individuals, which premiered at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival and the Montreal World Film Festival in 2002. In 2003, She returned to Israel and Palestine as the videographer for “Music for Little People” to help them create a children’s CD with Israeli and Palestinian kids and famous musicians around the country. Mikayla has filmed in many locations around the world including Japan, Mongolia, China and Brazil. In 2002 she was sponsored as a cinematographer to film at the World Social Forum in Brazil, which aired on Worldlink TV. In 2000, She traveled to China as the sound person on "Beginning Anew," award winning filmmaker Thomas Luchinger’s documentary about Vietnamese Buddhist Thich Nhat Hahn’s journey to China.

In addition, She worked for 2 years as a videographer for Urban Arts, an organization for at risk youth in Oakland, California. In 1998, She raised the funds and was the co-coordinator for a large public art Peace Wall project with 20 Palestinian and Israeli youth in Jerusalem.

She is a graduate of the California College of Arts and Crafts where she studied Film and Video and holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Vermont and the Tel Aviv University in English Literature and Political Science.

Sara T. Schwartz, Executive Director
Sara T. Schwartz holds an Honors Bachelor of Journalism from Carleton University in Canada, where she majored in film documentary. For the past six years, she has been working as a Development professional in the non-profit community, and specializes in business development. In this period Sara has raised over $6 million for various non-profit organizations and provided strategic planning, financial analysis and strategy implementation that has been critical to the recovery of organizations on the brink of closure. Currently, she is the Executive Director of A Traveling Jewish Theatre. She moved to San Francisco from Toronto where she worked as Director of Marketing for Artsmarketing Services Inc., a direct marketing firm. Prior to that position, she worked at Canada's National Arts Centre where she raised and oversaw the $1.2 million Annual Fund.
Her producing credits include five large-scale theatre productions in Ottawa, Canada and several short journalistic documentaries. She is also the founder and former Executive Director of Creative Juices, an arts camp and after-school program. Sara produced and directed The Calling, a film documentary on the topic of religion in a secular society.