She has worked as a community organizer, an organizer of national and international peace conferences, and has served as head of the United Nations Office for Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. She has run as an independent candidate for state office.
In South Africa she danced in the streets on the day Nelson Mandela was elected president. In Cyprus, a meeting of women of the Middle East. In Bolivia, with indigenous women of the Americas. In Sri Lanka, women of South Asia. In Palestine, a work camp to repair streets. In Libya, a roundtable on women. In Guatemala, a Maya ceremony. In Iraq, survivors of the US bombing. She was an international observer to first-time elections in Nicaragua, South Africa and Mozambique.
She has travelled to many other places but never as a tourist.
In between she had a textile studio where she created hand dyed hand woven ikat fabric, which was sold and exhibited nationally, in Canada and in France. Along the way, she taught children to make beautiful things with their hands and hearts. Later on, with other children, college students and older adults, together they transformed a neglected city space into a beautiful teaching garden.
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Pamella Saffer is an Assyrian woman whose ancestors are the indigenous people of Mesopotamia in northern Iraq. Her work explores her indigenous roots through re-envisioning ancient values and relationships between humans and the earth.
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"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth." Rumi
