ABOUT EMMA BEE BERNSTEIN

Emma Bee Bernstein, 23, grew up on the upper west side of Manhattan. She graduated June 2007 from the University of Chicago with degrees in Visual Arts & Art History, focusing her studies on art theory and media studies. She wrote her thesis on manifestations of feminism in contemporary photography, and her senior photo exhibit followed suit. She showed and sold her photographs at A.I.R. Gallery in NYC, the Smart Museum in Chicago, and in numerous student exhibitions at the University of Chicago. She was featured in the NY Times for her work in "Vita Excolatur," a University of Chicago erotica magazine. She wrote articles on her experiences with feminism, including in M/E/A/N/I/N/G online. She is the star of the film "Emma's Dilemma," directed by Henry Hills, in which she interviews dozens of artists from the downtown NYC scene. She has worked as a curatorial assistant in the Photography, Contemporary Art, and Prints & Drawings departments at the Art Institute of Chicago, at the Renaissance Society, and has has been a docent at the Smart Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. She worked as a Teaching Artist at the Museum of Contemporary Art, and was an involved mentor and teacher for Step Up Women's Network. She was very influenced by her wonderful and talented parents, Susan Bee and Charles Bernstein.

She died in Venice, Italy, in December 2008.

ABOUT NONA WILLIS ARONOWITZ

Nona Willis Aronowitz is a 25-year-old journalist and cultural critic and a born-and-bred New Yorker. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 2006, with a degree in American Studies and a concentration in Film. She wrote her undergraduate thesis on 1970s pornographic movies and their influence on—and reflection of—the sexual revolution and feminism. Nona is the child of feminist cultural and political writer Ellen Willis and sociology scholar and veteran political activist Stanley Aronowitz, both of whom have greatly influenced her writing and thought.

Nona’s features, essays, reviews, and interviews have appeared in The Chicago Tribune, The Village Voice, The Nation, The New York Observer, Salon, BUST, Popmatters.com, Tango Magazine, Skirt!, VenusZine, and The Brooklyn Rail. She has held internships and fellowships at The Village Voice, Salon, Legal Momentum (formerly the NOW Legal Defense Fund), and Tango Magazine. She recently worked as a consultant for the NYC Department of Education and as a photojournalism teacher for Step Up Women's Network. She just finished participating in an online think tank for the Institute for the Future of the Book (funded by the MacArthur Foundation) on Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook.

She is currently a reporter and editor for Triblocal, the Chicago Tribune's hyperlocal venture. She is also working on an anthology of her mother Ellen Willis's rock criticism, called Out of the Vinyl Deeps (University of Minnesota Press).

Contact Nona at nona200@gmail.com. Click here to read more of her writing.