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    gwendolyn albert

Gwendolyn Albert is from Oakland, California. She first came to Prague in autumn 1989 on a Fulbright and witnessed the Velvet Revolution first-hand, volunteering her time as a translator of Civic Forum's daily public announcements. She co-founded and edited the magazine JEJUNE: america eats its young, and her own prose and poetry have appeared in journals such as Exquisite Corpse and Skanky Possum. In 2020, she became a volunteer civil society member of the Czech Government Council for Romani Minority Affairs, serving on various working groups, including the Council's Committee for the Education of the Roma. That same year she received the Award for Humanity by the Committee for the Redress of the Roma Holocaust in the Czech Republic for her advocacy for compensation for forced sterilization victims, and in 2021 the Alice G. Masaryk Human Rights Award from the Embassy of the United States of America to the Czech Republic. Albert lives in Prague.

   

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