Liberty's Promise is pleased to call upon the artistic energies of young immigrants to help design and create all our outreach materials. As you can see from viewing our site, a number of talented young people have contributed to the look and design of Liberty's Promise. It is our privilege to introduce them here:

Photography

Design

Web Development

Photography

All of the non-historical photos on this site are provided courtesy of the CHWTPP (Columbia Heights West Teen Photo Project). CHWTPP is an after school program that meets weekly at the Arlington Mill Community Center. Here, young people learn photography skills, communication skills, and interact with other youth in a safe and caring environment. In addition to these meetings, the youth meet independently with volunteers in the community to work on personal photography projects, freelance projects, or to assist a local organization with a photographic need. During the 2003-04 academic year, CHWTPP has carried out 28 photo assignments and client use of participants' images; nine displays, exhibits, and formal exhibitions; and numerous publications of members' images in newsletters, websites, a magazine, and other print materials. Many of these clients were from outside of Arlington and even from across the country. Portraits from the Pike, an art-quality book featuring portraits of community members and their stories, was published in November 2003. The youth also collaborated with the Arlington Career Center in the production of a feature length youth-created drama video, providing pictures for the promotional material, instructional guide, and video credits.

Design

We consider ourselves very fortunate to have had the services of Diana Flores. Ms. Flores did Liberty's Promise a great service by taking the nebulous descriptions of the executive director and transforming them into a stylish and meaningful logo, a service all the more advantageous to the organization because it was rendered pro bono. Next, Diana transformed our ideas for a brochure into a coherent and logical whole. You may see this for yourself by going clicking on "brochure" on the page "Who we are."

"My name is Diana Flores, and I am 28 years old. I was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala. I am the eldest of four children; I have one sister and two brothers. I lived in both the United States and Guatemala while my father finished his Masters at LSU and PHD at UCLA. In 1998, I moved to the United States and settled in Maryland."

"I enrolled in the Corcoran College of Art + Design to get my Bachelors Degree in Graphic Design. Through scholarships, work-study, grants, government and private loans, I managed to pay my way through college. In May of 2004, I graduated from the Corcoran College of Art + Design with Honors."

"I currently work at an international non-profit organization that helps underdeveloped countries. I have recently started up my own design firm, D-design, where I do design for several clients that bring diversity to my design creations."

Diana Flores
Creative Director
D-design
dpflores@gmail.com

Web Development

For our work on the Internet, Liberty's Promise has sought to employ young immigrants or the children of immigrants. We could not have been presented with a better web development person than Mr. Eldar Omuraliev. Eldar, a native of Kyrgyzstan and currently a senior at Chantilly High School, has been a tireless collaborator in creating this site, and its functionality and the crispness of design are to his credit.