Staff

LIFESIGNS is lead by art educators, Angie Eng and Simon Ransom. The project would not be possible without the dedication and hard work of its volunteer youth and community leaders. In addition LIFESIGNS' staff partner VisualAIDS acts as a representative on behalf of LIFESIGNS in America.

Director of the Project is Angie Eng, a professional artist and art educator with 7 years experience in social work. She graduated from University of California at Santa Barbara with a Fine Arts degree. She relocated to New York City in 1993 to pursue her career in the arts. She is an acknowledged experimental video performer and installation artist in the New York community. She has received numerous grants and commissions for artists working in technology and is represented by Post Media Network. As an art educator, Angie Eng has developed arts programs for the disabled, initiated a greeting card program with the mentally ill in conjunction with God's Love We Deliver, received commissions for murals with the public schools of New York and taught children's art classes at PS40 and the Asian American Art Center in downtown New York.

Co-director, Simon Ransom is a trained painter with extensive experience working with youth in both his former home, England and his current home in Ethiopia. In England he received numerous commissions to paint murals in elementary schools. He relocated to Ethiopia 4 years ago, speaks the local dialect and has a close relationship with the communities of Ethiopia. His family has a history of assisting the African community with development projects and has established the Desta Foundation to develop water-filtering systems in Ethiopia.