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Board Members Alfred Jean-Baptiste Born in St. Lucia, Alfred came to Canada in 1985 after serving as a Senator in the country’s Parliament and acting as Minister of Youth, Community Development and Social Services. Prior to joining the Toronto-based Center for Community Learning & Development, he worked for the Centre for Caribbean Dialogue, facilitating workshops for Oxfam-Canada and CUSO, and coordinated the activities of the Participatory Research Group, exploring ways to incorporate community participation into social research and organizational development. Alfred has a BS in Political Science, is a strong advocate for human rights promotion, and has authored numerous publications, including Peoples As Partners in Health Promotion and A Community Empowerment Approach to Reclaiming Cultural Traditions.
Amy Hill Amy’s twelve-year history of involvement with women’s health and violence prevention programs led her in 2000 to partner with the Center on the development of Silence Speaks, which employs digital storytelling as a tool for individual healing, community education, and policy advocacy related to the promotion of gender equality, health rights, and social justice in the U.S. and internationally. She currently manages this and other projects related to health and social services. Prior to joining the Center, Amy co-produced a series of educational documentaries about HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia. She has a BA in Literature from Scripps College and an MA in Gender Studies from Stanford University. Andrew
DeVigal Andrew has worked in the news industry in varying capacities since 1993, as a staff artist, graphic journalist, web designer, product developer, researcher, and journalism professor. His observation of and practice in the emerging field of multimedia journalism led him to co-found DeVigal Design. In 2006, Andrew assumed his current position, multimedia editor of The New York Times at nytimes.com, where he works daily with dedicated and talented journalists, designers, artists and technologists to push the multimedia envelope in our industry.
Deborah
Simmons Dr. Deborah Simmons is an Assistant Professor in Native Studies at the University of Manitoba, and a Senior Social Scientist with SENES Consultants (Yellowknife, NT), and she brings extensive experience working with First Nation communities. Working for the Sahtu Land Use Planning Board and Déline Uranium Team, she trained community researchers and facilitated participatory research processes with communities. She is the Principal Investigator on the four year Caribou TK Study with each of the five Sahtu communities, as well as the Yamózha Kúé Society, and the Cumulative Environmental Management Association of the oilsands area in northern Alberta. She is now Principal Investigator on the Déline Knowledge Project’s one year program Health Risk and Climate Change in Sahtúot’ine Stories: Envisioning Adaptions with Elders and Youth in Déline, NT. Although born in Arizona, Dr. Simmons has lived half of her life in the North. Her interest in land based peoples and resource management originally stems from family expeditions with her father (wildlife biologist Dr. Norman Simmons) and Dene research collaborators and guides in the Mackenzie Mountains during field research seasons.
Emily Paulos Emily is a practicing visual artist who grew up in a large family in Iowa. She received a BFA in painting and printmaking and completed a Ed.M in Art Education at the University of Iowa, with an emphasis on narrative and technology. Her thesis took the form of a website entitled The Mom Project, which examines issues of family narrative and the use of technology in the art classroom. In addition to her experience assisting University of Iowa faculty and student teachers with the development of multimedia and Electronic Portfolio Projects, Emily taught high school art for five years, specializing in web design, video production, and photography before joining the Center in 2002.
Erin Egan After a seven-year career in the aerospace industry and stints living in Toulouse, France, Munich, Germany, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Erin landed in Boston, where she obtained an MBA at Harvard University and an MA in International Affairs at Tufts University. Erin’s youthful days growing up in Honolulu gave her a deep appreciation for sunny skies, and she is an avid fan of documentaries and good storytelling. She currently resides in Seattle and works for Microsoft, implementing strategic programs for customer service.
Joe Lambert Born and raised in Texas, Joe has been active in the Bay Area arts community for the last twenty-five years as an arts activist, producer, administrator, teacher, writer, and director. He founded the Center for Digital Storytelling (formerly the San Francisco Digital Media Center) in 1994, with wife Nina Mullen and colleague Dana Atchley. Together they developed a unique computer training and arts program that today is known as the Standard Digital Storytelling Workshop. Prior to his career in the arts, Joe was trained as a community organizer and assisted in numerous local, statewide, and national public policy campaigns on issues of social justice and economic equity. He has a BA in Theater and Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Stuart Gannes Stuart brings a lifelong focus on innovation, entrepreneurship, and social values to his work. His career spans journalism, publishing, software development, corporate research, education, and the nonprofit sector. Stuart is currently involved with projects relating to publishing and innovation for Make magazine and MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms. From 2002-08 he served as Director of the Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship Program at Stanford University. Stuart was the founder and CEO of Books That Work, an innovative and award-winning software publisher. As a journalist in New York City, he was a reporter, writer, and editor at Time-Life Books, Discover magazine, and Fortune magazine. He has a BA in History from the University of Michigan and an Ed.M from Harvard University. |
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