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  1. Rose Mapendo Responds to Tragedy in Tuscon

    February 7, 2011

    CONGO SURVIVOR FEATURED IN UPCOMING INDEPENDENT LENS FILM Rose Mapendo lost her husband and home to the ethnic violence that engulfed the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the 1990s, yet she emerged from the suffering advocating for forgiveness and reconciliation. Now, in this interview with Ted Simons of KAET 8 in Arizona, Ms. Mapendo shares her…

  2. Pushing the Elephant Goes to DC

    September 21, 2010

    This past Wednesday and Thursday, September 15th and 16th, the filmmakers of Pushing the Elephant (PTE), Beth Davenport and Elizabeth Mandel, and their main subject, Rose Mapendo, traveled to Washington DC  — in cooperation with ITVS — to raise awareness around violence against women and girls internationally. Also along were Rose's brother,…

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