Eric Sirotkin, the founder and Director of Ubuntuworks,  LLC mixes his experience as a human rights lawyer, film producer, author and peacemaker, to contribute to the movement from the age of separation toward the era of ubuntu.  

    Over the years his peacemaking activities have taken him around the world, including India, Peru, Cuba, South Africa, Japan, North and South Korea, France,  Netherlands, Canada and China.  He contributed to dialogue on the new Constitution in South Africa, was a UN sponsored election observer at President Mandela’s election and coordinated an international monitoring Project of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It was through this experience that he learned about the wisdom of ubuntu.

    In the United States he has defended protesters arrested for their political expression, sanctuary workers helping families flee US sponsored violence in Central America,  DJ’s struggling to keep community radio free,  and workers who have lost their jobs or been harassed due to discrimination and retaliation for race, age, sex, disability or whistleblowing.  

    He helped found the New Mexico Human Rights Coalition, the National lawyers Guild  Korean Peace Project and now Ubuntuworks and is the Executive Producer of the award winning film Committing Poetry in Times of War.      

   Eric was raised in Michigan, USA, and received his Bachelor of Arts, Phi Beta Kappa,   from Michigan State James Madison College in Justice, Morality and Constitutional Democracy in 1978.  His Juris Doctorate came from the University of Detroit School of Law in 1981.

   He is married to Shaye Sirotkin, a teacher in the Healing Arts, and his children and step children are Sasha, Khlari, Peter and Sam. After living in New Mexico for 25 years,  Eric now divides his time between Ashland, Oregon and San Pancho, Nayarit Mexico.