Your donation has a significant impact in supporting programs, place and people at the Whidbey Institute. These times call upon us to embrace wild ideas, to seek profound and enduring changes within ourselves, our relationships, and our institutions.

Donate

Faculty

Abie Ekenezar

Ekenezar is an award winning producer and director living in Seattle, WA and has been in the entertainment industry since September 2013. They formed BabsEk Productions in 2017 and had their producing and directorial debut was November 2020 for the film short, Prefer-Racial Treatment and has gone on to produce Outlawz, a western set in Tacoma. Most recent is their Feature Documentary that has won seven awards is Bad As Women Doing Kick Ass Shit that follows the lives of 8 BIPOC women of varying ages on their political journey which will be streamed on November 5, Election Day. Ekenezar just produced a virtual production short called Sticky Buns, Ravioli and White Cake along with another short film called Experiments and is currently producing Dorkness Rising, which will film in 2025.