Cecilia Lucas – bus manager
Cecilia Lucas, 31, has spent most of her life doing popular theater and popular education work. She is currently a graduate student in education at UC Berkeley, studying how people come to learn a sense of their own and others’ “proper places” in the world. Prior to graduate school, Cecilia worked for five years with Albany Park Theater Project, creating plays based on true stories of Chicago’s immigrant Albany Park neighborhood with an ensemble of teen and adult artists. She has also done Theater of the Oppressed workshops and taught creative writing and current events in a Boston prison.
Cecilia grew up in Germany as a result of her father working for the U.S. military. It was there that she was first exposed to critiques of U.S. involvement in the Middle East and participated in her first demonstration: against the 1991 Gulf war. Cecilia’s awareness of Palestine and the U.S. role in Palestinians’ oppression grew in more recent years. Since 2006, she has been an active member of the San Francisco based group Break the Siege, and in May/June she had the opportunity to visit Palestine and Israel with AFSC and IFPB (American Friends Service Committee and Interfaith Peace-Builders) to get a glimpse of the situation on the ground and talk with Palestinian and Israeli activists about the occupation and right of return campaigns.