Others Are Us connects students from around the word with students in the United States. The curriculum uses art as a means of sharing ideas, concepts and questions. Technology is the vehicle that powers the project, connecting students around the world via the Others Are Us secure website forums where they meet other project participants and respond to guided questions. Teachers work with teaching artists from Others Are Us to integrate the project into their own particular curriculum, be it social studies, literacy, or conflict resolution. Children are encouraged to write and create artwork about their feelings, their home life, their culture, their understandings of other cultures and whatever questions they might have for the other children.

Annette Swierzbinski is the program designer and founding director of Others Are Us. Swierzbinski, trained as both an artist and lawyer, has served as a consultant for the New York City Board of Education, numerous community-based organizations and cultural institutions. She has designed projects for over fifteen years, both in this country and overseas. OAU's Board of Directors and Advisors includes a doctor, human rights lawyer and writer, child advocate, education specialist, non-profit administrator, rabbi, minister, and storyteller.

Information about out mission, history and projects can be found at http://www.othersareus.org/archive.

Others Are Us is incorporated under New York State Law as a nonprofit corporation and is certified by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization.