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Our
Staff: Field
Representatives / Instructors:
Staff Bios
Joe
Lambert Joe Lambert is the Founding Director of the Center for Digital Storytelling. Joe founded CDS (formerly the San Francisco Digital Media Center) in 1994, with wife Nina Mullen and colleague Dana Atchley, as a community arts center for new media. Together they developed a unique computer training and arts program known as the Digital Storytelling Workshop. This process grew out of Joe's long running collaboration on Dana's solo theatrical multimedia work, Next Exit. Since 1994, when the first Digital Storytelling Workshop was presented at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, Joe has been the lead in offering the process in 45 U.S. states and 20 countries, assisting in the completion of more than 10,000 video works. In addition to adapting Digital Storytelling for use in web sites, CD-ROMs, mural projects, and social issue campaigns, Joe has authored and produced curricula in many contexts, including the Digital Storytelling Cookbook, the principle manual for the workshop process, and the text entitled Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community. Joe has been active in the Bay Area arts community for the last twenty-one years as an arts activist, producer, administrator, teacher, writer, and director. He was the Executive Director of the People's Theater Coalition from 1984-86. In 1986, he co-founded Life On The Water, a successful non-profit production company that offered a broad array of programs serving San Francisco's diverse communities. Joe has produced over 500 shows, ranging from theatrical runs, single performances, special events, citywide festivals, subscription series, and conferences. 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 and earned a B.A. in Theater and Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Emily
Paulos
Amy
Hill
Daniel
Weinshenker Daniel
Weinshenker has been telling stories and teaching others to tell stories
for more than ten years professionally. He taught creative writing for
three years while working on his MA at CU Boulder and then spent the next
few years in marketing and advertising, helping companies deliver their
messages. Though he's not a therapist, his mother is. Doesn't that count
for something? Watch some of his stories: falsies
Andrea
Spagat Andrea Spagat was raised in both Argentina and the United States by her bicultural family. She has worked as an educator for 12 years in a variety of settings, including adult literacy programs, a jail GED project in Wisconsin, a training program for rural schoolteachers in Bolivia, and, most recently, a substance abuse prevention initiative for youth in San Francisco.From 1999 to 2001, she was a Violence Prevention Academic Fellow with the California Wellness Foundation, focusing on aftercare services for youth exiting detention facilities. Since 2003, Andrea has facilitated digital storytelling workshops in English and Spanish, working primarily with youth and members of immigrant communities. Andrea has a Masters in Adult Education and specializes in curriculum development, in addition to her teaching.
Stefani
Sese
Gayle
Nicholls-Ali Gayle Nicholls-Ali is an award winning fine arts photographer, a documentarian, and a digital storytelling facilitator. Born in Barbados and raised there and in Brooklyn, she attended Mt. Holyoke College and was Poet Laureate at Hunter College, where she produced a series of poetry magazines and coordinated multimedia poetry readings. More recently, Gayle has worked as a multimedia assistant teacher and web designer at Pasadena City College. The L.A. Host Committee of the Democratic National Convention 2000 selected her photos for the Faces of L.A. Exhibit. Gayle is currently working on her Masters of Arts degree in Human Development, with a focus on Storytelling as Art Therapy, at Pacific Oaks College. She lives in Altadena with her two teenage sons and her husband, musician Rasheed Ali.
Robert
Kershaw Rob Kershaw is our Canadian connection. A graduate of the University of Calgary with a degree in Environmental Sciences and Communications, his work experience is eclectic. After working on an oil rig, as a ranch hand, and as owner of a small newspaper, Rob became involved in storytelling projects in Canada, working directly with First Nations communities in the Northwest Territories. He recently co-produced Sáhtu Atlas: Maps and Stories from the Sáhtu Settlement Area in Canada’s Northwest Territories, which has been nominated for a polar region, non-fiction award. He also designed and co-edited If Only We Had Known: The History of Port Radium as Told by the Sahtúot’ine. While in the arctic, he learned DS and has since then been working to bring digital storytelling to northern communities. Rob is married to CDS co-director Emily Paulos.
Laura
Hadden Laura Hadden is a recent graduate of The Evergreen State College where she studied documentary media and gender studies, culminating in the creation of A Problem Like Maria, a documentary film featuring the stories of religious sisters (nuns) and their struggles for gender equality within the Catholic Church. She also coordinated a documentary photography and audio exhibit on the lives of families facing welfare cuts in Washington state and spent a summer doing human rights documentation work in Guatemala. After spending the last year in Seattle working on community outreach for the documentary film Inlaws & Outlaws, Laura is thrilled to continue combining her passions for media and social change. In her spare time, Laura can be found writing about politics, taking photographs of gentrifying neighborhoods, and/or making mix CDs for every imaginable situation.
Carrie
Cook Carrie Cook ...
Field Representative / Instructor Bios:
Erica Cooperrider lives in Ukiah, California and dove headfirst into digital storytelling after taking her first CDS workshop in 2003. Her educational background includes the bizarre combination of theatre and business information systems, so digital storytelling has presented her with an interesting opportunity to utilize both skills by incorporating projected stories into live theatrical productions at the local community theatre. In addition to working with CDS, Erica teaches digital storytelling classes at local college, middle, and high schools, as well as privately. She uses her day-job as a graphic designer to support this digital storytelling habit and is especially interested in the role of story in creating a more connected and compassionate community and managing encroaching urban sprawl.
Lina Hoshino is a filmmaker and new media designer whose films, including the award winning Caught in Between: What to Call Home in Times of War (www.caughtinbetween.org), have screened in England, Finland, Japan, Portugal, Sweden, and beyond. As a co-founder of IEEHA (Institute for Equity, Ecology, Humor and Art) and Tactile Pictures, Lina has led creative and design efforts in a wide range of new media projects. She was also an active member of Nosei Network (www.nosei.org), a San Francisco Bay Area-based Japanese American and Japanese National community group. A self-described JABC (Japanese American Born Chinese from Taiwan), Lina grew up living in the U.S., Japan, and France. She studied painting and sculpture at Carnegie Mellon University.
Her dreams of using media as a means of bringing people closer together led her first to journalism school and now, happily, to CDS. While earning her journalism degree at Ithaca College Jessica conducted research in Russia, the Czech Republic and Peru on topics ranging from unemployment to film aesthetics. She hopes to someday combine her interests in multimedia production, crosscultural understanding and youth development into a really awesome teaching position. When she's not working on digital stories or daydreaming about how to change the world, you can probably find Jessica reading, cooking, or creating some sort of craft project.
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