California
Francesca Cipponeri
Francesca Cipponeri is a dancer and choreographer in and around the San Francisco Bay Area. She currently holds an MFA in Choreography from Mills College in Oakland, CA and currently works as a performing artist with A Pulso Dance Project. As a dancer and choreographer, Francesca is consistently inspired by the beauty and struggle of humanity. She is passionate about telling the human story and capturing seemingly insignificant moments of life and revealing their artistry. She believes that, as a community of artists, we have a responsibility to contribute to the conversations happening in our world and shed light into confusing and difficult situations. She is a part of the artistic development team and is Transform’s social media manager.
Amy Petersen
Amy earned her Bacholars of Dance and a minor in business from San Jose State University in California. She is passionate about pursuing excellence in the arts while actively engaging artists in the gospel. While residing in New York City she danced with the Hillsong Dance Company, Emma Elliot Dance Company and taught in Harlem at Greenhouse Arts Center. She currently resides in sunny California dancing with Sacramento Contemporary Dance Theater and teaching. She also has a passion for international dance missions and has been to Cuba, and Mexico on dance missions.
Hope Lundblad
My name is Hope and my life is messy…. I want to learn the language of light, the DNA of heaven held in my heart-- trying to find home amongst the many. Hope is defined as the feeling of expectation and the dream for something to happen. My name has inspired a lifelong creative search for joy, beauty, adventure, color, community, and connection. To hope is to not yet have, yet hold close. I’ve been in Paris for three years after graduating from UC Santa Barbara working alongside Transform and Agapé Arts and pursuing a Masters in Art at La Sorbonne. A multidisciplinary approach allows me to work on the themes of memory, relational aesthetics and light through photography, poetry, performance and installation. These are my prayers and promises written in ink, portraits of light. Messy like me, full of mistakes and typos, caught in between heaven and home. Hope is a part of the civic development pillar and is the Northwest liaison for Transform.
Bonnie Sanders
“I am a chaser of light, a lover of people and a seeker of whimsy. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and much of my work in photography centers around challenging issues we face in the world (human trafficking, clean water, education). No matter what project I am working on, I believe that beauty matters and I seek to be a voice of hope in the world. Whimsy and play are central to all that that I do. Even in the hardest situations, play can bring rest and healing. I want to help make the world a more playful place by bringing beauty and joy to our ordinary lives. I do this through creating meaningful experiences for people through visual art, storytelling and creative projects. We are all on a journey through life. Together, we can inspire each other to create a little magic along the way.”
Bonnie is Transform’s liaison to Cru Arts and Culture.