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Community
Media Cultural and Global Issues Kaylynn TwoTrees Kaylynn TwoTrees is a consultant, educator and lecturer who continually seeks to stretch the boundaries to include multiple perspectives, ideologies and worldview. Her work with Seven Directions Practice(TM) has become a model for organizational culture change as well as a practice for respectful communication across boundaries of difference. She previously held positions at Miami University of Ohio as Academic Challenge Scholar in Interdisciplinary Studies, Scholar in Residence in the schools of Business and Fine Arts and Scholar in Residence at the Cleveland Institute of Art. She is currently a member of the International Indigenous Grandmothers Council, Founder of the Center for Seven Directions Practice and President of We Becoming, Inc, a consulting company. Fred Johnson Fred Johnson is a media educator, documentary maker, writer, and communication policy analyst. Johnson, who is a member of the University of Massachusetts Faculty in their Community Media Program, consults in telecommunications policy and community development with government, non-profits, educational and community groups. He is a former telecommunications policy associate for the National Telecommunications Consumer Coalition. As a recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship for the Television and Film Arts he produced and directed documentaries for the British Broadcasting Corporation in London. Recently he directed the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture's Digital Directions project, a national planning process, funded by the Ford Foundation, that focused on the impact of digitization on the media arts. Johnson is a co-founder of Media Working Group, a media arts production, education and research organization. His latest documentary, Coal Black Voices, featuring the Affrilachian Poets recently aired on regional Public Television. David Keyes David Keyes is the Community Technology Program Manager for the City of Seattle Department of Information Technology and is Policy Chair on the Board of Directors of CTCNet, the national community technology center organization (www.ctcnet.org). David was the first community technology planner in the country and developed the city's citizens' literacy and access programs starting in 1997. (See www.seattle.gov/tech) These programs include the Information Technology Indicators Project, a Community Technology Site Directory, Technology Matching Fund grant program, Info Age education curriculum, AT&T/City of Seattle community access broadband Internet connectivity project and other community technology research and development projects. David has been working in the field of community and civic applications of technology for 24 years. His prior experience includes community access television development, legal services and community legal education, teen media literacy projects, online course authoring, community organizing and educational television production. He has worked for non-profits, schools, industry and government. David Shulman, For the past 3 years David Shulman has been a BBC staff producer in the 'Factual & Learning' Department. During this period he has produced and directed the acclaimed science series called 'Rough Science' which also aired on PBS nationally and Discovery Canada. Recently recommissioned for the 4th series, 'RS' was originally produced in 2000 before the international craze for 'reality TV' and might be regarded as 'reality TV' with a progressive twist in cooperation NOT competition is the key to success for an interdisciplinary team of scientists who are challenged to reinvent science from first principles on a remote location with minimal resources. While at the BBC David has also produced 'Attack On The Wires' which was a post 9/11 investigation into the impact of the WTC attack on global communication networks. It was nominated by the BBC for a Prix Italia and aired internationally on BBC Worldwide. Originally based in NYC and working as an independent producer in the US, David relocated to the UK after receiving a US/UK Fulbright Fellowship for TV production in 1996. Other documentaries produced by David Shulman include: (UK)Channel Four WITNESS: THE PEACEMAKER 1998 Director/Producer Going beyond the traditional observational documentqry, in thisinnovative format, an internationally acclaimed peacemaker is challenged to apply peacemaking skills to a very local conflict in the UK. The intervention takes place as vicious gang warfare in the West London districts of Slough and Southall threatens to escalate. An international peacemaker based in Washington DC arrives in Britain to try his hand at initiating a peace process between warring factions of Sikh and Muslim youths. Rt 52' BBC The Late Show: COUNTERFEIT COVERAGE 1992 Producer, Director. Investigating the role of PR firm Hill & Knowlton and their multi-million dollar campaign on behalf of Kuwait to influence American TV news and shape public opinion during the Gulf crisis. Broadcast on IKON, Dutch TV Broadcast on TV2, Denmark Excerpts broadcast on CBS 'Sixty Minutes' Channel Four: EVERYONE'S CHANNEL 1990 Producer/Director EC was part 1 of a 2 part 'mini-series' for the Made in the USA series. Shot in over 15 cities across the U.S., EC traces the origins of public access television in America. It introduces the people, ideas, and technological developments which made community TV a reality. It's a story about freedom of expression entering the electronic age. Contemporary controversies such as the use of access channels by the Ku Klux Klan are also investigated. Screened on PBS, U.S. Screened at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC Represented the U.S. at INPUT Channel Four: TURN IT ON, TUNE IT IN, TAKE IT OVER! 1990 Producer/Director/Writer -- In collaboration with poet Allen Ginsberg, TTT is part 2 of the 2 part 'mini-series' about the history of community television in the U.S. TTT is an homage to the birth of the video revolution which followed the marketing of the first portable video format in the 1960's. It assembles some of the earliest and most inspiring examples of public access and locally originated TV in America. PBS/Channel Four: RACE AGAINST PRIME TIME 1985 Producer/ Director/ Writer -- RAPT is an internationally acclaimed 1hr documentary examining the impact of television news on race relations in America via a case study of TV news coverage of racial conflict in Miami, Fla. RAPT has also been broadcast nationally in Spain, Australia, and Canada. Screenings at the Whitney Museum and the American Film Institute Integrated into journalism classes at over 300 Universities within the U.S. Jean Donohue Jean Donohue is an organizational development professional who has extensive experience working with rural and traditional communities, regional organizations, and local government bodies providing organizational development, community media planning and technical assistance. She is also a media arts educator and works with her MWG colleagues to develop and implement teacher professional development, in-service, media residencies and media literacy institutes.Donohue is currently working with UNESCO's International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa in Ethiopia to provide video production training and the integration of HIV-AIDS education across the curriculum for teacher educators and educational television producers. She is also the Program Development officer for Media Working Group and is co-director of their Digital Literacy programs. Donohue is an award-winning documentary producer whose films have appeared on public television regionally and nationally; The Learning/Discovery Channel and British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC 2). She is currently living in Boston, MA and is a founding member of Media Working Group Emy Tseng Emy Tseng is currently a Program Associate in Media, Arts and Culture at the Ford Foundation where she works on issues of information and communications policy. Prior to Ford, she consulted on policy and strategy for community networking projects including NYCwireless, Fiber to Woods Hole (FTWH) and LINCOS (Little Intelligent Communities). Emy received her Master of Science degree from MIT's Technology and Policy Program (TPP) where she conducted research in broadband Internet policy and community networking for the Program on Internet & Telecoms Convergence (ITC). Her previous employment included twelve years in the software industry as an engineer, project manager and architect in the areas of computer networking, database systems and supercomputing. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Math/Physics from Brown University. Sheri Herndon Dirk Koning Dirk Koning has been Executive Director of the Community Media Center (dba Grand Rapids Cable Access Center, GRTV, WYCE, GrandNet, Pulse 98) since 1981. In no small amount the success of the Community Media Center can be attributed to the dedication and hard work put forth by Mr. Koning. With his guidance, the organization has grown from a US $50,000 a year public access cable television station, to a US $2 million per year operation including two television stations, a radio station, a computer center, civic network, media archive center and research institute. Mr. Koning recently guided the Community Media Center in a 3 million dollar relocation project to a rehabilitated building in the heart of the WestSide, the oldest neighborhood in Grand Rapids. Mr. Koning lectures extensively on community media issues, serves on several national boards and edits Community Media Review magazine. Ruud de Bruin Marina Treichel John Higgins John W. Higgins has been associated with community-based radio and television since the mid 1970s. His experience includes work in production, management, performance and research; he has served on governing boards for cable television and community radio. An associate professor in Mass Communication at Menlo College in Atherton, California, Dr. Higgins teaches in the areas of media production, media studies, new media technologies, and international communication. His research focuses on grassroots alternative media, critical pedagogies, and development communication, including traditional and new media technologies. Higgins is an international consultant on communication issues and the appropriate "packaging" of information' and has taught and developed media facilities and programs of study at colleges and universities in the U.S. and overseas. The author of several articles exploring public access cable television, Higgins is a member of the editorial board of the Community Media Review, the journal of the Alliance for Community Media. The Alliance is a national organization promoting the use of community media, including community access channels. He currently serves as Vice President of the board of directors of the non-profit San Francisco Community Television Corporation, which oversees the operations and management of the city's public access channel and facilities. Another of Higgins's long-standing interests is puppetry. As the creator and director of "Night Vision Puppets" he has performed internationally since 1974, primarily utilizing a one-man "street theater" approach to performance. DeeDee Halleck
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