Joni Binder

Joni Binder is a native Californian, born in Los Angeles and currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Trained as a photographer, she began writing in her twenties and took both of those interests and pursued a career in the arts. She has worked as a gallerist and as an arts education advocate. Binder has provided volunteer leadership for various organizations in the areas of art as well as social and political causes, including SFMOMA, The Diplomatic Reception Rooms at the U.S. Department of State, CREATE-CA, California Institute of the Arts, and Futures Without Violence. Her book, "Mile 46: Face to Face in Maasailand," is her first book and takes journals and photographs she created at twenty-one while living with a Maasai family in Kenya and creates a conversation between that young woman and the woman she eventually became. The intersection of art and social action is where her career and her personal life reside.