Karen Ann Widess served as Head of Program Development and Compliance for the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) from 2006 through 2010, where she coordinated the activities of the internal committee for the selection of projects and oversaw the staff of the Program Development and Compliance Unit in developing program and projects involving numerous counties and rule of law development issues and diverse donor agencies and organizations. She has over 25 years of experience in the rule of law technical assistance field, working for both donors and implementing organizations. In that regard, she has designed as well as fundraised for...

Lois Wilcken (PhD, Columbia University), a native New Yorker, has had the pleasure of researching Afro-Haitian music in Port-au-Prince and New York City's Haitian neighborhoods. She shares her experiences with academic and general audiences. In addition to developing and producing theatrical and educational programs with La Troupe Makandal, she has authored The Drums of Vodou (1992) and co-edited Island Sounds in the Global City (1998). One may visit French and English versions of Dr. Wilcken's Vodou Music in Haiti exhibit at www.lameca.org. She is currently annotating a collection from her own field recordings for publication on the web-based Ethnographic Video...