by Pilar Brown, LUMOS! Editor and Graphic Designer Luminari‘s strength and longevity can be directly attributed to the collection of people, experts in their professions, who have shared their time, creativity and talent to help our organization grow and flourish. …
by Gina Catanzarite, Director, Teen Writer! Words Matter. As the director of Luminari’s Teen Writer! camp, and a writer by both profession and personal definition, that is the lesson I teach, and it is the ideology I live by. For days now, …
by Gina DeMarco Wall, former Director of the I Want to be an Ambassador! Camp (2010) and current camp instructor In my role as a supervisor for English as a Second Language (ESL) at the Allegheny Intermediate Unit, I give …
by Jeremy Zimmer, Sous Chef, 2018 Camp Delicious! It all started with a phone call and ended in a great adventure. A few months have passed since our cooking camp journey came to a close, and Sarah Huffman and I …
A comment by Louis B. Schwartz “We should welcome the Communist Party of China to the cacophonous marketplace of ideas that defines American democracy and wish them luck competing. It may strengthen China, as it has strengthened us. Tolerating the …
Sheila likes to say she caught the “Luminari bug.” Once you catch it, she says you can’t let go! Sheila offered her expertise at the Speak & Tell! camp in 2016, then returned as co-director of the camp in 2017. …
Luminari Welcomes Sheila Hyland as Operations Manager Read More »
by Beth Dolinar, Contributing Writer There’s a saying that suggests too much of a good thing is not so good. I’ve found this to be true when it comes to my evening television habit. Some nights I settle into the …
So often, people think of creative writing as a sedentary and solitary pursuit. Not so! Ben Franklin once said, “Write something worth reading, or do something worth writing about.” I’ve defined myself as a writer and storyteller for my entire life, from …
Owen Chaffin: I have learned so many new things about diplomacy this week. From seeing first hand how Embassies and Ambassadors operate, learning from simulations about conflicts and situations that others face and getting to know and understand people with …
Enjoy some of the speeches from our 2018 Speak & Tell! teens: Gaiatri Potdar on Painting Good afternoon, my name is Gaiatri, and I would like to talk to you about my passion, painting. I love painting because it …
