Saki Mafundikwa Founder and Director of ZIVA. MFA (Graphic Design) Yale University, and BA (Telecommunications and Fine Arts) Indiana University, USA. Twelve years Art Director experience, New York City: advertising, graphic design, publishing and New Media. Three years teaching experience: The Cooper Union, New York City.

Has lectured widely about design:
February 2002 : Intuit Lab, Paris, France. One week workshop on Kinetic Typography
October 2001 : Lecture, California College of Arts and Crafts
September 2001 : Speaker, ICOGRADA (International Congress of Graphic Design Associations) Annual International Design Conference, Johannesburg, SA
September 2001 : AIGA National (American Institute of Graphic Design Arts) National Design Conference, Washington DC, USA (Cancelled due to September 11)
September 2001 : ICOGRADA Conference, South Africa
December 2000 : International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Paris, France
November 2000 : "Graphic Artists from Around the World" show in Echirolles, France
August 2000 : Two Global Types with Erik Spiekerman,San Francisco, USA
January 2000 : Universidad ICESI, Cali, Colombia, South America
April 1999 : UNESCO Workshop in Graphic Design and Textiles, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
May 1996 : London College of Printing, UK
September 1995 : AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Design Arts) Bi-annual National Conference, Seattle WA, USA
April 1995 : Indiana University, Bloomington IN, USA
September 1994 : OBD (Organization of Black Designers) 1st National Conference, Chicago IL, USA

Jane Shepherd Joined ZIVA in 2000. Born in Portsmouth, UK. Combined degree in Art and Environmental Studies, Roehampton University, London. Worked as an illustrator in both UK and Zimbabwe. Has lectured full time in graphic design at Harare Polytechnic and worked as a designer/ illustrator for the last 8 years. Founder member of the Graphics Association of Zimbabwe, GRAZI, and is actively involved in promoting art and design through education and exhibitions. Jane teaches GD1. Leaving end of first term 2002 to pursue her Masters degree in the UK.

Dudzai Saburi Has a degree in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dudzai was the chief architect of the Africa Online website. He helped put The Nation, Kenya's leading daily, onto the web as one of the first Africa online newspapers. Responsible for creating websites for the Nairobi stock exchange, the Zimbabwe stock exchange and the Ghana stock exchange. He is a Vice President at Cyberplex Africa, the country's top web development company. Was our first Web Design instructor for two terms, a service which he generously donated.

Joe Byrne (R.I.P) Joined ZIVA in 1999. Born in the UK. Has a High National Diploma in Graphic Design from Croydon, London. Worked for a number of studios and agencies in London before coming to Zimbabwe in 1996 where he has set up a successful design, Joe Byrne Design. Joe sadly passed away in February 2002 following an asthma attack and was buried in Brighton England where he grew up.This news sent shockwaves into the design community and here at ZIVA where he was well liked. We will miss you Joe and may your soul rest in peace. He was the resident Digital Imaging class teacher.

Wesley Anderson Joined ZIVA in 2000. Is Zimbabwe's youngest professional Web Developer and has nearly three years experience in the industry. Currently runs the schools.co.zw projekt. Taught Web Design with Dreamweaver and Fireworks. He is now in the UK expanding his horizons.

Ian Murphy CEO of the Corporate Brochure Company and award winning photographer, Ian ran a term long photograhy workshop for the full time students in 2000. He continues to support ZIVA activities.

Jacob Ngandu Joined ZIVA 2000. Graduated from the Polytechnic with a diploma in Design. Has received various awards from the Graphic Association of Zimbabwe (GRAZI). Currently head of the Internet Business Solutions Department (IBS) at Africaonline. Jacob taught the web design class and is now teaching Graphic Design to the second years.

Bester Zambuko Joined ZIVA in 2001. A graduate of the Polytechnic, he runs his own advertising agency, Ad'renalin. He teaches advertising to the second year students.

Heeten Bhagat Joined ZIVA in 2001. A graduate of design and merchandising, with six years plus of experience in both local and international film. Founder of Masala Media, a production company working in experimental digital video. He teaches the Digital Video class. Has left to work on his own projects.

James Matthews Joined ZIVA 2001. Studied at the Center for Multimedia Education, California State University in the USA. Currently also works as freelance Web designer. Teaches Flash, HTML and JavaScript.

Marguirite "Buzzy" Impey Joined ZIVA in 2002. MFA/Public Art degree, Dundee University, BA, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland. Fine Artist who teaches the foundation course in drawing and color theory. Buzzy teaches at various other colleges in town. Leaving end of first term 2002 to take up a teaching post in Zambia.

Robert Chifamba Joined ZIVA in 2001. Earned a Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Zimbabwe faculty of Engineering Computer Aided Learning project. Webmaster / Applications developer for Africa Online Zimbabwe. Robert has experience working with various web tools such as Frontpage 2000, Dreamweaver and Fireworks. Also has experience with scripting languages such as Javascript, VBScript and ASP. He is the current Web Design teacher.

Andrew Curling Joined ZIVA in 2001. Graduated with a B.A with Honours in graphic design from Bath Spa University College in Great Britain Has worked as a product designer and taught graphic design at the Polytechnic. Teaches 3D design and photography. Leaving end of first term 2002 to pursue personal projects.

DV Garage, San Francisco (Collaboration) April 2000. Alex and I had a dream, a similar dream. We were both convinced that we could change the way news is gathered, stories are told and important archived through the use of digital video and a simple editing program like imovie. He arrived at ZIVA with two compatriots, the wild man from the left Coast, filmaker and herbalist Alfonso Alvaro and the cool man from the mountains of Colorado, architect Mark Brunner! It was immediately clear that Alex loves his toys, they were totting bagfuls of equipment and software and for three weeks ZIVA was like a toy store and we were like kids in a candy store! We travelled around the country in my Landcruiser working with the students but more so, having loads of fun! These are the three most most memorable weeks of my life at ZIVA. They donated an imac, two dv cameras, one digita lstill camera and a host of other peripherals making ZIVA quite wired up indeed. The promise of a more solid collaboration between us, however, still remains that due to a failure at fundraising.

Sherry Blankenship (Visiting Faculty) July 2000. Professor of Design at Notre Dame University, Beirut, Lebanon. Sherry is a real trooper, the FIRST ever visiting artist to teach at ZIVA for a whole month! Way to go Sherry, we are looking forward to your return trip, soon!

Jennifer Sonderby (Visiting Faculty) June 2001. Principal of Jennifer Sonderby Design in San Fransisco, California. She currently teaches at California College of Arts and Crafts. Jen was the second in the visiting artists series and we think the visited created a lifelong bond between her and Zimbabwe, but more so, ZIVA! We know you are coming back!