Conversation with Catherine Murphy

  Catherine Murphy wrote, produced and directed the important documentary, Maestra, about young women’s participation in the Literacy Brigades that took place one year after the Cuban revolution. “The small percentage of people who knew how to read and write in Cuba at the time went out teach the rest of the country,” said Ms. Murphy who recently earned a Masters degree in Social Development at the University of Havana where she lives when she is not on the road ...