Co-Founder, Secretary & Treasurer, Social Media Point of Contact, Events Planner, Volunteer since 2008.

Valida runs BWF’s social media (Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and YouTube).  She edits short videos featuring adoptions, special needs buns, and investigations.  She’s an active Rabbit Advocate. Originally from Sarajevo, Valida fled a heavily conflicted Bosnia to pursue higher education in the US. She received a BA in World Arts and Cultures from UCLA, and then a master’s degree in Dance and Video Production, also from UCLA. In 1998, while still in the undergraduate program, Valida won the prestigious President’s Fellow Grant that funded her debut documentary short, Youth of Sarajevo, After the Aftermath. The 23-minute documentary offers a glimpse into the lives of six young Bosnians, all struggling to make sense of the new post-war reality. The making of the film further solidified her love of documentary film and set the course for the next few years. Winning a coveted nationwide Pew Charitable Trusts Fellowship in 2000 followed with the release of her feature-length documentary, Concentric Beats. The film was featured at the Miami Winter Music Conference and at the Sarajevo Film Festival in 2001. Valida spent time working on various shorts, including Come Come, a film about Sufi practice in Bosnia; Shakespeare in Baghdad, a personal account of Valida’s childhood in Baghdad and the US-led Iraq invasion; and Saving The World, One Bunny At a Time, about a Los Angeles based animal rights advocacy group (BWF). Valida is also one of Los Angeles’ premier music voices, having been a DJ for over 15 years, she can be heard on air on KCRW (89.9 FM) in Los Angeles on Mondays from 12 to 3 am as part of their program The Lab.