About ZSun-nee ...

    ZSun-nee Matema is a cultural artist and spiritual entrepreneur.  Her ancestors were Buffalo Ridge Cherokee, Choctaw, African, English, French, Scottish, Irish, West Indian, Spanish and Asian.

    In 1991, her vision of intercultural communities developing with the mandate of cultural equity manifested with the creation of AFRIASIA: The Intercultural Education Exchange founded in Washington, DC.

     ZSun-nee became passionate to create a unifying opportunity for people living in changing cultural communities.   She knew the effect emerging ethnic groups  had on established cultural neighborhoods and she wanted to lessen their anxieties.

    She also hoped that the "native populations" would see the beauty in learning about their links with their new American neighbors.

    AFRIASIA dialogues were created among African, Native, Asian and Euro-Americans.  Programs were introduced, living histories were performed and a flood of understanding spilled into the hearts and minds of the intercultural families of man... ZSun-nee's vision opened the conscience of all who participated in the AFRIASIA programs.

    Her vision had become reality!  

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ZSun-nee Matema
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    ZSun-nee is the President and Founding Director of AFRIASIA: The Intercultural Educational Exchange.  She holds a B.A. in Psychology, a Bsc and Msc.  She is a certified history teacher, lecturer, First Person Interpreter, Civil War & Colonial Reenactor and Founding Artistic Director of ZSunlight Theater in Alexandria, VA.  She was one of the orginal hosts of the WOL Radio Talk Show,"Talking Feather," producer and host of "Vital Signs" airing on XM Satelitte and past writer, producer and director of Kellie's Korner at NBC/WRC in Washington, DC.

    She is an award winning writer, producer and director of Maryland Cable Televsion and is the recepient of the  National Hometown Video Award for he outstanding short, "Prejudice Picks on Children."

    She credits her love of theater to her mother and grandmother who were avid readers and long time devotees to Arena Stage in Washington, DC where in 1989-1993, ZSun-nee became the Community Outreach/Multicultural Audience Development Associate.

    ZSun-nee has proven that focusing on the best in people brings about a change of attitudes and improved attitudes change everything for the better.