Harriet Taub is the Executive Director of

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, one of the largest reuse centers in the U.S. In 1998 she joined MFTA, a reuse center that redirects used materials to arts organizations in

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, and which ''

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'' described as "like a Kmart reimagined as ''Pee-wee's Big Adventure''." MFTA is a program of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and Taub also co-founded and helms its affiliated

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, Friends of Materials for the Arts, which provides teacher training, arts and environmental education, and arts programming like artist residencies. In an interview with the

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, Taub asserted that "without question, the thing I am most proud of and they can put it on my tombstone, is that I helped start the Education Program" at Friends of Materials for the Arts Taub graduated from

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and spent her early career in education, then fashion (starting her own clothing line, Bumblewear). In 1979 Taub and her husband, filmmaker Harry Kafka, also produced a documentary film called ''Sosúa'' about a community of Jewish refugees who found refuge from Hitler in the Dominican Republic.

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External links

"New Yorker of the Week" profile of Taub
on NY1
New York Times profile of Taub and MFTA

Taub interviewed
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