AMC2010 Presenters

We present below all presenter bios for the 12th annual Allied Media Conference. We have a massive number of presenters for this year's conference. You'll find all these presenter bios in the online PDF version of the AMC2010 program, but for our print edition, we unfortunately could not fit all of these.

2009 Indigenous Youth Delegation to Palestine

PALESTINE IS TURTLE ISLAND: INDIGENOUS MEDIA ORGANIZING TO END OCCUPATION / WE HEAR YOU! A LIVE VIDEO CONFERENCE WITH YOUTH IN PALESTINE
In August of 2009, SNAG Magazine, 7th Generation Indigenous Visionaries, Huaxtec, Palestine Education Project, and MECA joined a network of youth organizations in Palestine for the first Indigenous Youth Delegation to Palestine. We recognize the connections between the indigenous communities in the United States and the Palestinian community: both the corporations and governments that have oppressed us and the strategies of resistance that we've used to fight back. Committed to creating solidarity networks across the borders/walls that divide us, we have been connecting Native and immigrant youth in the U.S with youth in Palestine through different media-based forums for us to reflect together and bridge our experiences. Basic introduction to the history of indigenous struggle in the U.S./Turtle Island and looking at what it looks like now – including solidarity with other indigenous struggles such as Palestine.

Adrienne Maree Brown

OCTAVIA BUTLER STRATEGY SYMPOSIUM
AMC 2010 OPENING CEREMONY Adrienne Maree Brown is the Executive Director of the Ruckus Society, a national coordinator of the US Social Forum, and a board member of Allied Media Projects and Common Fire. She's into transformation and science fiction.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

MAKE/SHIFT RECLAMATION
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a queer black trouble maker. She is the founder of Broken Beautiful Press, instigator of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind Educational Movement, and co-creator of the Queer Black Mobile Home Coming Project. In other words, Alexis is an itinerant Black Feminist Evangelist praising the name of the (Audre) Lorde far and wide.

Alice Aguilar, the Progressive Technology Project

COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES AND MOVEMENT-BUILDING: A CASE STUDY OF THE DIGNITY NOT DETENTION CAMPAIGN
Alice is a program director with the Progressive Technology Project in Brooklyn, NY. For over 12 years, Alice has been committed to providing capacity-building support to advocacy and community organizing groups that focused on issues such as environmental justice, Indigenous subsistence and sovereignty rights, at-risk youth, immigrant rights, and low-income communities access to health care.

Althea Baird

EMBODYING RESISTANCE DANCE WORKSHOP
Althea Baird lives in Philadelphia. She believes that the first step in resistance is the telling of true history. She works at this through education, community radio, and mixed-media dance/performance. She works currently doing community arts and media work with young people.

amalia deloney, Center for Media Justice

RIGHTS, ACCESS, POWER: BROADBAND FOR THE PEOPLE
amalia deloney is a Guatemala-born activist, cultural worker and Coordinator for the Media Action Grassroots Network. Amalia has over 15 years of experience in community and cultural organizing and community education. Her specific focus includes human rights and anti-racism education, cultural rights, the production of knowledge, and movement building. Additionally, she serves as a field representative for the American Indian Treaty Council and has participated in UN meetings such as the Working Group on Indigenous Populations and the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Amelia Kirby, Summit City Lounge

COMMON GROUND: HOW COMMUNITY MEDIA AND COMMUNITY BUSINESSES CAN WORK TOGETHER TO FOSTER TRANSFORMATIVE PUBLIC DIALOGUE / COMMUNITY RADIO AGAINST RURAL POVERTY AND PRISON EXPANSION
Amelia Kirby is an activist, media artist and small business owner. She worked for eight years as a media producer at community media center Appalshop, where she co-founded and co-directed the Thousand Kites project. Since 2008, Kirby has co-owned and managed Summit City, a coffeeshop, bar, gallery and live music venue in the rural coalfields community of Whitesburg, KY.

Anasa Troutman, Movement Strategy Center

RIGHTS, ACCESS, POWER: BROADBAND FOR THE PEOPLE
As an artist, producer, facilitator, strategist and activist-organizer Anasa Troutman continues to developing her personal mission to use intellect and art to create personal, community and global transformation. Currently a Senior Fellow at the Movement Strategy Center, her current work is organizational cultural transformation and alignment and community building as a path to global transformation.

Andalusia Knoll, Prometheus Radio Project

RADIO AS A TOOL TO TRANSFORM, ORGANIZE AND BUILD COMMUNITY
Andalusia Knoll loves all things radio, including teaching people how to do radio journalism, helping run participatory radio stations and djaying global resistance hip hop over the airwaves. For the past 2 years she has worked as a Community Station Coordinator with the Prometheus Radio Project and also reports for the internationally syndicated program, Free Speech Radio News and and the Latin American TV network TeleSUR. When she’s not doing anything related to radio, Andalusia enjoys riding her bicycle, eating popcorn and making people rock it on the dance floor.

Anderson Walworth, Allied Media Projects

SUPER COMPUTER BUILD
Anderson Walworth lives in Southwest Detroit. He is a local musician (I, Crime) and volunteers his time with the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition and Allied Media Projects. Practicing IT magic and teaching others along the way, he is also a member of the new Detroit based hacker space "Omni Corp Detroit."

Andrew Stelzer, Making Contact

CUT & COPY: CREATE A 1-MINUTE RADIO STORY
Andrew Stelzer is a Producer with Making Contact. He's been filing stories for Free Speech Radio News since 2001, and has worked at community stations KBOO, WMNF, and KPFA. He has conducted radio training workshops all over the world, from Algeria to Bolivia to New Orleans. His reporting has appeared on Latino USA, Marketplace, NPR News, Living on Earth and many other programs. He has also written for In These Times, E! Magazine, and others magazines and newspapers.

Anne Jonas, the Participatory Culture Foundation

OPEN SOURCE FOR OPEN COMMUNITIES: HOW PARTICIPATORY TECHNOLOGY CAN EMPOWER EVERYONE / END TO END MEDIA PRODUCTION WITH OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
Anne is originally from Chicago, IL and has a BA in English Lit from Brown University. She worked at several nonprofits before joining the Participatory Culture Foundation through Americorps, as part of the Digital Arts Service Corps. Anne works on Miro Community (http://mirocommunity.org/) and other capacity-building projects while dreaming of a thriving grassroots media landscape. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, and volunteers for the NYC Grassroots Media Coalition and the Organization for Transformative Works.

Armando Sotelo

ONLINE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR MEDIA-BASED ORGANIZING AGAINST THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Aunt Fancy

HOMOROBICS
Aunt Fancy (aka Nickey Robare) is a goddess of thrift shopping, elegant designer of pastries, and femme bike jock. She is a fierce filmmaker and advocate for youth media. She is the Social Networking & Outreach Manager at Reel Grrls.

Autumn Chacon

TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR COMMUNITY DIALOGUE: LEARNING FROM THE SOUTHWEST INDIGENOUS LISTENING FORUM
I was born in Albuquerque NM and live here today, although my home is on the Navajo reservation. I am from the Bitterwater Clan and born for Chicano of northern NM. I am a videographer by trade yet study and practice many forms of media for purposes of strengthening communication amongst my desert community. The health of my people is my motivation to ensure this communication and conversations.

Barbara Fair, People Against Injustice

FROM MY STORY TO OUR STORY: COLLECTIVE NARRATIVE CAMPAIGNS TO END THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Barbara is a part of People Against Injustice, a grassroots organization in New Haven that works for reforms in the criminal justice system. Its members are a mixture of people directly affected by the unjust penal system and other citizens outraged by what is happening.

Bec Young, Justseeds Artists' Cooperative

SILKSCREEN PRINTING FOR EVERYONE! / MOBILE SILKSCREEN LAB
Bec Young is a Detroit-rooted, Pittsburgh-based artist who seeks to inspire – and draw inspiration from – movements for social justice.

Beehive Design Collective

TELL STORIES WITH PICTURES: COLLABORATIVE MURAL DESIGN / LET'S DRAW WITH THE BEEHIVE!
Our mission is to cross-pollinate the grassroots by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images that can be used as education and organizing tools. In the process of this effort we seek to take the "who made that!?" and "how much does it cost!?" out of our creative endeavors by anonymously functioning as word-to-image translators of the information we convey. We build and disseminate these visual tools with the hope that they will self-replicate and take on life of their own in the service of social and ecological justice.

Ben Chodoroff, Allied Media Projects

COLLABORATIVE MAPPING AS COMMUNITY MEDIA PART 2 / HOT MESH! WIRELESS MESH NETWORK BUILD
Benjamin Chodoroff lives in Detroit, MI. He programs the web for Detroit organizations. He is 25 years old, and has been a participant in various open-source/free-software projects since he was 16. He learned PHP and MySQL programming to help build an activist news website in 2002, and hasn't stopped experimenting and hacking since then. Two years ago, he founded Thermitic, a web development consulting company in Detroit.

Beyond Media, Chicago

CHAIN OF CHANGE
Beyondmedia Education's mission is to collaborate with under-served and under-represented women, youth and communities to tell their stories, connect their stories to the world around us, and organize for social justice through the creation and distribution of media arts. We envision a compassionate and just society where universal access to media tools and information equip women and youth to document and communicate their stories, serve as educators and role models for others, influence public policy, and generate social transformation.

Bob Liabel, Grassroots Leadership Texas

COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES AND MOVEMENT-BUILDING: A CASE STUDY OF THE DIGNITY NOT DETENTION CAMPAIGN
Bob Liabel is an organizer and researcher with Grassroots Leadership Texas. Grassroots Leadership is a multi-racial team of organizers who help Southern community, labor, faith, and campus organizations think critically, work strategically and take direct action to end social and economic oppression, gain power, and achieve justice and equity. Grassroots Leadership's goal is to put an end to abuses of justice and the public trust by working to abolish for-profit private prisons.

Bobbie Harris, aka Y Streetz

BUILDING BLOCKS FOR MUSIC PRODUCTION AND BEATMAKING
First began rhyming when he was 14 years old and recorded his first underground record at Street-Level Youth Media at age 17. He graduated from Clemente High School in Chicago and continued studies in broadcast communications at Kennedy King College before dropping out to dedicate himself fully to his music career. Y Streetz has performed in widely in Chicago and Memphis, among other cities, and he has worked with the independent label Smilez Down E.N.T. and collaborated with artists Chris Lee and Baby T.

Bruce Reilly, Direct Action for Rights and Equality

FROM PAGE TO STAGE: TURNING PRISON WRITINGS INTO DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE & ORGANIZING TOOLS
Bruce Reilly was released from prison in 2005 with little more than a collection of writings and a connection to the grassroots Direct Action for Rights and Equality. He has become a leading activist on criminal justice reforms in RI, while also winning arts-based grants for his creative work. In addition to Voiceless, he produced his own play, House of Death, and directed The Exonerated. Bruce is a lighting designer and DJ frequently working in NYC, and created his own website at www.bruha.me. In April, he completed parole and is driving to Detroit specifically to exercise his new freedom.

Candace Clement, Free Press

WHAT'S YOUR INTERNET STORY: LEARNING LAB
Candace Clement is a Program Coordinator for Free Press where she conducts strategic communications, organizing, outreach and occasional research activities to advance campaigns and policies to strengthen public and community media. She also co-hosts the weekly Media Minutes radio show and prior to joining Free Press, worked extensively with her local community radio station, Valley Free Radio. Candace has a B.A. in American Studies from Smith College and spends her "off" time playing in a loud, indie-rock band that values and loves independent media.

Carlos Pareja, People's Production House, Community News Production Institute

POWER IN NARRATIVES: CONTENT CREATION FOR COMMUNITY RADIO
Carlos Pareja is a media activist, educator and filmmaker who has worked with both adult and youth populations teaching video production and media literacy and organizing around media access. Currently, Carlos is the Training and Policy Director for People's Production House. In the past, Carlos has worked with Paper Tiger Television, the Educational Video Center, Indymedia and Brooklyn Community Access Television.

Casa de Salud

HEALTH IS DIGNITY AND DIGNITY IS RESISTANCE: ONLINE AND OFFLINE ORGANIZING FOR HEALING JUSTICE
Casa de Salud (http://www.casadesalud.net), an innovative clinic in New Mexico that interweaves traditional and conventional medicine to meet the physical and spiritual health needs of patients in a welcoming, just, creative, and inclusive environment. The work of the clinic also includes advocacy work around medical debt and leadership development.

César Maxit

STREET ART BUMPS YOUR CAMPAIGN
César Maxit is an Argentine-American artist-architect working in Washington, DC. He has been a nonviolent direct actions trainer for Ruckus since 2003 and works with many local and national environmental and human rights organizations to develop the visual and action components of their campaigns.

China Martens

MAMAZ AND COMMUNITY CARE-GIVERS UNITE THROUGH STORYTELLING!
China Martens is the author of "The Future Generation: The Zine-Book For Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends & Others‚" and a long time zinester (her zine the Future Generation started in 1990). As a 44 year-old empty nester proud single-mother of a 22-year-old daughter, she is now most interested in radical childcare and support for parents and children as a form of political activism. Along with Vikki Law, she is editing Don't Leave Your Friends Behind, a Radical Parents and Allies Handbook.

Christina Jenkins

COLLABORATIVE MAPPING AS COMMUNITY MEDIA PART 1
Christina Jenkins works in New York City public schools to design strategies for improving teaching and learning through technology. She is the co-coordinator of Dot-to-Dot, a digital celebration of K-12 projects that aim to change communities (http://www.dottodotproject.org). She is studying for an MFA in Design and Technology at Parsons, with an interest in youth media and education.

Christopher Lee

BUILDING BLOCKS FOR MUSIC PRODUCTION AND BEATMAKING
Chris has been playing and performing on musical instruments since the age of 8. In 1995, Chris entered the world of electronic music using computers and beat machines. His musical pursuits and experiences grew and took him to Columbia College Chicago where he studied audio arts, as well as music theory, and became a music composition major. After finishing Columbia College Chicago, Chris joined the staff of Street-Level Youth Media, where he currently teaches digital music production, mentors young musicians, and contributes to the growth of the Chicago music scene. Additionally, Chris remains active in the artist community as a producer and bassist.

Clara Ibarra, Democracy Now! en Español

RETHINKING COMMUNICATION
Clara Ibarra earned her degrees in Political Science and Economics in her hometown, Bogotá, Colombia. She came to NYC in 2006 to pursue a MA in Media Studies, since then she has been working in the production of multimedia endeavors that involve education and the telling of stories. Currently she is coordinating the Spanish Outreach programming at Democracy Now! where she works with the Radio Stations, TV Channels and Web Radio that broadcast Democracy Now! en Español around the world.

Climate Confluence Network

CAUCUS: YOUTH SPEAK OUT ON AVATAR / TOUR: ECO-MEDIA IN MOTION: MESSAGES FROM DETROIT / OPEN LENS: YOUTH ECO-MEDIA JAM
Climate Confluence Network encourages information and resource sharing among activists, artists, educators, media-makers, parents, grandparents, and young people across the Northeast through an annual gathering which inspires and supports visions for an eco-conscious and just world.

Climbing PoeTree

HURRICANE SEASON: UNEARTHING SOLUTIONS IN AN ERA OF UNNATURAL DISASTER / THE STRATEGY OF ART: CULTURAL PRODUCTION & POPULAR EDUCATION / AMC2010 OPENING CEREMONY
Climbing PoeTree is the combined force of two queer, mixed-race and immigrant women of color who have sharpened their art as a tool for popular education, community organizing, and personal transformation. With roots in Haiti and Colombia, Alixa and Naima track footprints across the country and globe on a mission to overcome destruction with creativity. Alixa and Naima's soul-stirring performance channels hope into vision, shatters assumptions that bind the status quo, and makes a better future visible, immediate, and irresistible!

Communities United Against Violence (CUAV)

TELLING A STORY THAT'S STILL BEING WRITTEN: COMMUNITY ACCOUNTABILITY IN REAL LIFE
Founded in 1979, CUAV (http://www.cuav.org) is the nation's first LGBTQQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning) anti-violence organization. Our mission is to prevent and respond to violence against and within our diverse LGBTQQ communities. We accomplish this through peer-based counseling, direct assistance, education and outreach, grassroots organizing, and policy advocacy.

Cure This

HEALTH IS DIGNITY AND DIGNITY IS RESISTANCE: ONLINE AND OFFLINE ORGANIZING FOR HEALING JUSTICE
CureThis (http://www.curethis.org), an online space for storytelling, discussion, & radical transformation around health justice, healing and liberation, and healthcare.

Da Town Researchers

STEPPIN UP STUDENT VOICE
Da Town Researchers is a team of Oakland students who use participatory action research to elevate student voice in education systems for concrete changes and to shift power, dynamics and stagnation in our public schools. www.datownresearchers.org / townresearchers@gmail.com

Danielle Chynoweth, Prometheus Radio Project

CULTIVATING OUR DIGITAL ECOLOGY: FROM COMMUNITY VISION TO A BROADBAND PLAN
Danielle Chynoweth currently works with the Prometheus Radio Project. She has been building community media and social justice organizations for 20 years, co-founding the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center and CU Citizens for Peace and Justice, a grassroots, multi-racial civil rights organization. She was a City Council Member and then Mayor Pro Tem in Urbana, Illinois from 2001-2008, serving on the Telecommunications and Public Access TV commissions and instigating public wireless, broadband, and arts programs.

Denise Wellons-Glover, the Family Place

CULTIVATING OUR DIGITAL ECOLOGY: FROM COMMUNITY VISION TO A BROADBAND PLAN
Denise Wellons-Glover is the program manager of the Family Place, a children and family collaborative project of the Child Care Coordinating Council (4C). She has worked for the Child Care Coordinating Council of Detroit/Wayne County since 1995 and oversees the agency's Family-to-Family contract. Ms. Wellons-Glover is the secretary of the Wayne County Community College Board of Trustees and active in the Association of Community College Trustees, Alpha Kappa Alpha, and a number of other organizations. In addition, she provides grief counseling through her local church and has worked as a parish social worker.

Detroit Community Acupuncture

HEALTH IS DIGNITY AND DIGNITY IS RESISTANCE: ONLINE AND OFFLINE ORGANIZING FOR HEALING JUSTICE
Detroit Community Acupuncture (http://www.detroitcommunityacupuncture.com/), a local community acupuncture social business and healing space, part of the growing Community Acupuncture Network movement (http://www.communityacupuncturenetwork.org/).

Detroit Summer's Live Arts Media Project (LAMP)

TELL STORIES WITH PICTURES: COLLABORATIVE MURAL DESIGN
Detroit Summer's Live Arts Media Project (LAMP) is a youth-led popular education arts and media model, which produced the Hiphop audio documentary "Rising Up From The Ashes...Chronicles of a Dropout." Through LAMP, youth in Detroit develop their ideas for long-lasting creative solutions to problems in the school system, the city, and their lives, and then use art and media to express those ideas and incite dialogue and action throughout the city and beyond.

Diana Nucera, Allied Media Projects

THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR SOUND: EXPLORATIONS IN MUSIC COMPOSITION
Diana Nucera, teaching artist, accomplished cellist, and Media Maven has been teaching and working in the media arts for the past eleven years. Her expertise encompasses education, video installation, science and technology, and many other fields. Diana builds multi-media creative centers wherever she goes. She has been organizing the AMC Media Lab for the past 4 years. She is currently Program Director of Allied Media Projects' Allied365 Training and Exchange Bureau.

Dunya 'Alwan, Birthright Unplugged, The Bay Area Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid, Don't Buy Into Apartheid and the United States Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel

CULTURE JAMMING AND ACTION PLANNING FOR BDS TO END ISRAELI APARTHEID
Dunya 'Alwan has worked part-time in Palestine since 2002, first in human rights and currently as the director Birthright Unplugged. Birthright Unplugged offers travel, education and movement building programs in Palestine and North America including a BDS Institute in Palestine and programming with young people living in Palestinian refugee camps. (www.birthrightunplugged.org) (www.baceia.org) (www.usacbi.wordpress.com).

Durham Harm Free Zone

MEDIA TOOLS FOR CREATING SAFE COMMUNITIES: A SCIENCE FAIR / SAFE IN OUR SKIN: A PARADIGM SHIFT

Emily Kuehn

GAME ON! GAME DESIGN FOR KIDS / HOW TO CREATE A GENDER INCLUSIVE ONLINE GAME
Emily Kuehn is an artist and educator living in Chicago. She teaches at Columbia College and in the Chicago Public Schools with Street Level Youth Media. She has taught several Game Design workshops including Games for Change with Mindy Faber as part of Columbia College High School Summer Institute. She is very excited to explore the radical potential of games with both kids and adults at this year's Allied Media Conference!

Felix Ortiz, People's Production House, Community News Production Institute

POWER IN NARRATIVES: CONTENT CREATION FOR COMMUNITY RADIO
Originally from Mexico City, Felix now works in New York in construction but his true love is in photography and graffiti. As a community reporter, Felix has worked to bringing the voices of the region's day laborers to the airwaves. As an organizer, Felix works to bring equality and justice for New York's latin@ day laborers and street vendors with Jornaledos Unidos.

FIERCE!

FOR US, BY US: USING MEDIA AS A TOOL FOR LGBTQ YOUTH ORGANIZING
Founded in 2000, FIERCE is a membership-based organization building the leadership and power of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth of color in New York City. We develop politically conscious leaders who are invested in improving ourselves and our communities through youth-led campaigns, leadership development programs, and cultural expression through arts and media. FIERCE is dedicated to cultivating the next generation of social justice movement leaders who are dedicated to ending all forms of oppression. Workshop will be facilitated by FIERCE Youth Members Ash Hammond, Tatiana Hernandez, and Rudy "Elegost" Rosado, with FIERCE Staff Ellen "Manny" Vaz.

Flujos-Migrate

OPEN SOURCE INTERNET RADIO WITH FLUJOS-VIVOS LIVE CD
Flujos-Migrate, media without fear, without borders, is a collective based out of Mexico and the U.S. We dedicate ourselves to developing educational materials and sharing technical skills to grassroots movements interested in creating independent media.

freetobea (Bea Sullivan)

THIS IS HOW WE MOVE: EMOBODYING RESISTANCE DANCE WORKSHOP
freetobea (Bea Sullivan) is a dancer and writer living in Oakland, CA. She reps the Bay Area Chapter of Incite!, Bay Area Free the NJ4 Committee, and youth empowerment orgs and media/performance groups around the country. She facilitated "Re-imagining Blackness in a Post-Race World" at the 2009 Allied Media Conference.

Generation Five

MEDIA TOOLS FOR CREATING SAFE COMMUNITIES: A SCIENCE FAIR / SAFE IN OUR SKIN: A PARADIGM SHIFT
Generation FIVE's mission is to end the sexual abuse of children within five generations. Through survivor leadership, community organizing, and public action, generation FIVE works to interrupt and mend the intergenerational impact of child sexual abuse on individuals, families, and communities. http://www.generationfive.org

Gia M. Hamilton, Gris Gris Lab, Inc.

MAMAZ AND COMMUNITY CARE-GIVERS UNITE THROUGH STORYTELLING!
Gia M. Hamilton, a native of New Orleans, LA, is the founder of Gris Gris Lab,Inc., an International Healing Arts Space that addresses and explores women's issues and sustainability in urban setting. Hamilton's commitment to her vision has afforded her the opportunity to utilize her skills and expertise as a researcher, curator, lecturer, ethnographer, facilitator, writer and as a training curricula designer and project and program developer with non-profits in the U.S. and internationally.

Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech Collective

CAUCUS: YOUTH SPEAK OUT ON AVATAR / TOUR: ECO-MEDIA IN MOTION: MESSAGES FROM DETROIT / OPEN LENS: YOUTH ECO-MEDIA JAM / GREEN GREASE GUZZLERS
Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech Collective, based in Ithaca, New York, makes media from posters to movies, gets their "hands dirty" with renewable energy, and organizes in their community around social, political, economic, and environmental issues which affect their lives as low-income youth of color.

Hannah Sassaman

CULTIVATING OUR DIGITAL ECOLOGY: FROM COMMUNITY VISION TO A BROADBAND PLAN
Hannah Sassaman is an organizer living and working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For over 6 years, Hannah built radio stations and coalitions with the Prometheus Radio Project. She now organizes communications and strategy with home care attendants and people with disabilities as part of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania. Hannah is a member of the Board of Directors for the Allied Media Projects, which hosts the Allied Media Conference every year.

Heather White, The Andy Warhol Museum

SILKSCREEN PRINTING FOR EVERYONE! / MOBILE SILKSCREEN LAB
Heather White is an artist and educator who works for The Andy Warhol Museum, The Carnegie Museum of Art and CAPA, Pittsburgh's Creative and Preforming Arts High School. She received her MA and MFA from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 2009. Heather currently makes art in the woods of Warren PA and her studio in Braddock PA. Heather has taught printmaking, art history, drawing, installation, art as activism, and design to many ages and abilities.

Helia Rasti, Critical Resistance

COMMUNITY RADIO AGAINST RURAL POVERTY AND PRISON EXPANSION

Helia Rasti, Critical Resistance

FROM MY STORY TO OUR STORY: COLLECTIVE NARRATIVE CAMPAIGNS TO END THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Hilary Goldberg

MAKE/SHIFT RECLAMATION
(co-organizer/performer) is a filmmaker, poet, writer, and spoken-word performer. Her films and music videos‚ including in the Spotlight, Beyond Lovely, Transliminal Criminal, and Katastrophe "Big Deal" have been screened in venues ranging from the American Cinematheque in Hollywood to the Women Make Waves Festival in Taiwan. Her work has been screened at numerous festivals, including Outfest, Frameline, Reel Women International, and LGBT film festivals around the world.

Ilana Invincible, Emergence Media

IT'S OUR MUSIC THE WORLD LIVES AND DIES TO: CREATING A MUSIC-BASED ECONOMY FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE

INCITE! Media and Communications Working Group

INCITE! BUILDS A DRUPAL SITE / INCITE! MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS CAUCUS
The INCITE media task force is building infrastructure for internal and external INCITE! communication. We are responding to the call from chapters and affiliates for greater transparency and decentralized communication in the INCITE! network. We are deepening relationships with the radical women/gender queer and trans people of color blogging community, envisioning an online convergence space where we can: develop analysis, share organizing strategies and mobilize for collective action to end violence against our communities.

Jackson Cofer

BLESS THEIR HEARTS
Jackson (Jack) Cofer: Is a queer, trans, musician, activist and organizer from Lexington Kentucky. When he isn't working in a lab making sure that your drinking water is safe, he's speaking to university classrooms about what it is to be queer, booking queer shows in the middle of Kentucky, touring with his band the Spooky Qs, and learning how complicated it can be to transition when you live in the South and have no cash. You can check in on what he's working on at his website www.jackcofer.com.

Jacob Brancasi

COLLABORATIVE MAPPING AS COMMUNITY MEDIA PART 1
Jacob Brancasi is co-director of the community media project Open Sound New Orleans (OSNO). The public face of OSNO is a collaborative soundmap available online at http://opensoundneworleans.com. Jacob was previously co-director of Listen Up, New Orleans, a youth radio workshop housed in New Orleans public schools. In addition to his efforts with OSNO, he is currently working at the Detroit Institute of Arts on interpretive and participatory media prototypes and community collaborations.

Jackie Kook, Peoples Production House

CUT & COPY: CREATE A 1-MINUTE RADIO STORY
Jackie Kook is a media educator and one of the directors for the youth development and journalism program, Radio Rootz. Jacqueline hosted radio shows in high school and college, but studied Public Policy and Dance at Hamilton College. In the classroom she borrows from popular education, her experiences teaching early childhood literacy, teaching English in Korea, leading health and fitness programs, and her love for dance.

Jake Elliot

GAME ON! GAME DESIGN FOR KIDS / HOW TO CREATE A GENDER INCLUSIVE ONLINE GAME
Jake Elliott makes games, software art and noise music. In 2006-2007 he operated the free community computer lab Dai5ychain Local Network in Chicago.

Janice Fialka

MEDIA STRATEGIES TO EXPAND ACCESS FOR DISABLED PEOPLE
Janice Fialka is a national trainer, presenter, and advocate on disability issues. She is the author of three books, numerous articles, poems, and the newly produced CD of three of her poems. She is the mom of a National Youth Leadership Network (NYLN) member and disability leader Micah Fialka-Feldman. NYLN loves her because she is a great ally and takes a social justice approach to building support systems.

Jeanette Foreman

RADIO: A TOOL FOR ORGANIZING AND TRANSFORMATION
A Chicago and Atlanta based attorney, is a long time media and social justice advocate, community organizers, and "edu-actionist." As a Board member of Prometheus Radio Project, WRFG Community Radio and Atlanta Public Access TV and as a media department faculty at Clark Atlanta University, she has helped build strong coalitions between progressive media, media and social justice organizations, and activist students and faculty. She has organized and led effective public education forums, workshops, media information programs, and college based curriculum that led to civic actions and advocacy.

Jeff Sturges

INTRO TO ELECTRONICS AND NOISE MUSIC
Jeff Sturges enjoys connecting people and making things. Inspired by his experience at the MIT Fab Lab program at Sustainable South Bronx, he moved to Detroit to develop Fab Lab-esque shared community workspaces. As venues for collaborative problem solving and creation, the hope is to transform local challenges into learning experiences for participatory design, hands-on fabrication, and social entrepreneurship.

Jenka Soderberg

Jenka Soderberg helped build the Indymedia network (http://www.indymedia.org), which, in 1999 and 2000 when it began, was the predecessor to the blogosphere and other open-publishing news and multimedia sites, and quickly expanded to a network of over 250 open-publishing media websites worldwide, with tens of thousands of regular contributors. Since that time, she has helped train hundreds of media producers in newsrooms around the world, including Washington DC, New York, New Orleans, Montreal, Mexico, Guatemala, England, the Palestinian Territories and France.

Jesse Graves

MUD STENCILS FOR TACTICAL CAMPAIGNS
Jesse Graves is an environmental street artist, maker and UW Milwaukee student. With nearly completed degrees in Jewelry Metalsmithing and Art Education, Graves has experience working in a wide array of artistic mediums. Much of his work address environmental and material issues. Graves has been published nationally and internationally for his invention of mud stencils for street art. Graves believes in finding alternatives to the toxic products and questions ingrained American beliefs such as the notion of land ownership. jessegraves@gmail.com, www.mudstencils.com

Jessica Hoffmann

MAKE/SHIFT RECLAMATION
(co-organizer/performer) is a coeditor/copublisher of make/shift, a freelance writer and editor, and an activist. Her writing has appeared in publications including ColorLines, Alternet, Bitch, and the anthologies We Don't Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists and Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Genderand Conformity.

Jewish Voice for Peace

HOW SOCIAL MEDIA CAN AMPLIFY PALESTINIAN VOICES AND SUPPORT THE GLOBAL MOVEMENT FOR BDS
Jewish Voice for Peace is a national organization with over 90,000 members dedicated to promoting a US foreign policy in the Middle East based on peace, democracy, human rights and respect for international law.

Joaquin Uy

THE ELEMENTS OF BROADCAST
Philippine-born Wakx (Joaquin) Uy has been involved in queer/radical art, politics, and organizing since college. His most recent politically artistic endeavor has been the 3-part QPOC Liberation Project in Seattle. In the past, he has led a Seattle team on a human rights fact finding mission in the Philippines and has worked with the youth-led advocacy group Seattle Young People's Project. Currently, he is the News and Public Affairs Director at Community Radio KBCS-FM in the Seattle area.

John Jairo Lugo, Unidad Latina En Acción

MEDIOS CAMINANTES FORUM TO SHARE EXPERIENCES AND BUILD NETWORKS
John Jairo Lugo, Coordinator of the immigrant organization, Unidad Latina En Acción in New Haven, CT. And facilitator of communication projects in Colombia and Latino immigrant communities in the U.S.

Josué Guillén, the Progressive Technology Project

COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES AND MOVEMENT-BUILDING: A CASE STUDY OF THE DIGNITY NOT DETENTION CAMPAIGN
Josué started doing social justice work when he participated in the Center for Third World Organizing's organizer training program. That led to jobs with SEIU, PUEBLO and the Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union. Josué is currently co-director of May First/People Link, a membership based Internet company striving to build a technology infrastructure to support the creation of real social change.

Juliet Fink, Philadelphia FIGHT

CULTIVATING OUR DIGITAL ECOLOGY: FROM COMMUNITY VISION TO A BROADBAND PLAN
Juliet Fink, Ed.M, is the Director of Education at Philadelphia FIGHT, a comprehensive HIV organization that has worked to provide low-income people with access to life-saving information on the Internet since 1995 through its Critical Path Project. Her work at FIGHT enables her to connect seemingly disparate issues such as HIV and other health related topics, housing and homelessness, sex work, addiction, and youth prevention, with the fight for internet freedom and access to information.

Karin T. Mak

FILM SCREENING: RED DUST
Karin T. Mak (Director/Producer) was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. Her parents are originally from Hong Kong. She fell in love with filmmaking while in the Media Studies program at Pomona College. For several years, Karin worked at the non-profit organization Sweatshop Watch. In 2008, she earned an M.A. in Social Documentation from the University of California Santa Cruz. Karin's films have screened in Hong Kong, New York, Los Angeles, and other cities.

Kat Aaron

INTRO TO INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Kat Aaron is a reporter and project manager at the Investigative Reporting Workshop, based in Washington, DC. She writes about economic and financial issues in the United States. Until July 2008, she was the co-director of People's Production House, a nonprofit journalism and media policy organization headquartered in New York City. Kat is a fellow at the Media Policy Initiative of the New America Foundation, and an avid knitter, cook, and maker of crafty things.

Katie R.

GRAFFITI TOUR
Katie R., Detroit street art historian, and Art Director of the Northend Studios, on a tour of the city's urban landscape. Katie is the lead artist on the 2009 Community + Public Arts project in the Northend and creator of the Illuminated Mural, the largest painting in the city. She also holds a B.F.A. from College for Creative Studies. Katie started as an artist on the streets spray painting and photo documenting graffiti art. She will take us on a tour of Detroit's graffiti, premier street gallery, murals, and give a perspective of the artists that tag places like Eastern Market yard, Rosa Parks yard and St. Ann's wall.

Katina Parker, New Orleans Labor of Love

MAMAZ AND COMMUNITY CARE-GIVERS UNITE THROUGH STORYTELLING!
Katina Parker is a communications consultant and social justice advocate who teaches social media, video and audio at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

Keith DeBlaisio, AdvoCare

ONLINE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR MEDIA-BASED ORGANIZING AGAINST THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Keith is an advocate for prison reform and serves as the Executive Director of AdvoCare, a non-profit organization in West Virginia. Mr. DeBlasio has spoken out against sexual abuse behind bars to corrections officials, on government panels, at conferences, and to the media. Mr. DeBlasio currently resides in West Virginia.

Keleketla! Library

STREET THESIS
Keleketla! Library coordinates arts, culture and heritage programmes at the Drill Hall, Johannesburg, South Africa using traditional and new media such as print, sound, web, video and performance for social action and popular education. The library, established in 2008, houses a range of books for children and adults and the media lab includes an internet cafe, and facilities for developing a range of media; digital (web), print (silkscreen) and sound (music, radio, etc.). www.thefanpalproject.wordpress.com.

Kim Lyons, Co Founder, Virgin Island Prison Project (VIPP)

PHONE JUSTICE: EXPLORING ACCESS FOR PRISONERS, DETAINEES AND CALLING CARD USERS
VIPP helps those in prison and their families to stay in contact by providing information on things such as how to set up a phone to receive collect calls from the prisons. VIPP seeks to change the lives of incarcerated people and the prison environment, shift public opinion toward a more humane view of prisoners and spur public motivation to examine the core-system issues that create crime and poverty. We seek creative approaches to justice that actively involve all who are impacted by crime.

Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collaborative

HEALTH IS DIGNITY AND DIGNITY IS RESISTANCE: ONLINE AND OFFLINE ORGANIZING FOR HEALING JUSTICE
Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collaborative (http://kindredhealingjustice.org/), a collective of healers and organizers seeking to honor and resource healing traditions as tools for liberation and transformation within southern US movements.

Kinga Osz-Kemp

THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR SOUND: EXPLORATIONS IN MUSIC COMPOSITION
I started playing the piano four years ago (I prefer to call it "listening" to it) and was captivated by the power of a melody. I would play a few notes and if I liked it, I tried to remember it so I could play it again. Then I started stringing those pieces together, and singing with them. They turned into songs. Then I felt compelled to record them. Then I wanted to layer them with more melodies and sounds from other instruments too. I can't seem to want to stop going on and on and on....

Kirk Kimmel

OPEN SOURCE FOR OPEN COMMUNITIES: HOW PARTICIPATORY TECHNOLOGY CAN EMPOWER EVERYONE / END TO END MEDIA PRODUCTION WITH OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
Kirk Kimmel is a software engineer who began using Linux in 1995. He previously did volunteer work at the Open Video Conference and taught workshops at the Allied Media Conference, OneWebDay, and OhioLinux Fest in previous years.

Kristal Graham, Peoples Production House

CUT & COPY: CREATE A 1-MINUTE RADIO STORY
Kristal Graham works with Radio Rootz in New York City, where she currently attends Long Island University. Through Radio Rootz her interest changed from majoring in Economics to Radio Journalism. She now majors in Broadcast Journalism. Ever since she was 12 she has set goals and as she matured she realized it was important to achieve the goals she set. For example, she maintained honor roll throughout her high school career. One of her life goals is to own her own radio station.

Kristofer Ríos, People's Production House

PHONE JUSTICE: EXPLORING ACCESS FOR PRISONERS, DETAINEES AND CALLING CARD USERS / DIGITAL JUSTICE COALITION EXCHANGE
Kristofer Ríos is a community radio trainer and the Policy Program Associate at People's Production House. As a journalist, Kristofer reports on communication policies and social justice issues that affect low-income and immigrant communities in New York City. Kristofer also hosts a weekly radio show on East Village Radio and has written articles about the difficulties and costs experienced by those trying to stay in touch with family and loved ones.

Kristin Szremski, American Muslims for Palestine

HOW SOCIAL MEDIA CAN AMPLIFY PALESTINIAN VOICES AND SUPPORT THE GLOBAL MOVEMENT FOR BDS
Kristin Szremski is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in print or online versions of the Chicago Tribune, the Dallas Morning News, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and Electronic Intifada. She is currently the media director for the American Muslims for Palestine (AMP).

Krystal “Sonia” Muhammad, Critical Resistance

COMMUNITY RADIO AGAINST RURAL POVERTY AND PRISON EXPANSION
Krystal “Sonia” Muhammad was born in New Orleans, La and was raised between Houston, Texas and New Orleans. She is a Mother and the oldest of nine. She is a Revolutionary, Abolitionist, Humanitarian, Community Activist, Artist, Film Maker, Writer and Entrepreneur. Krystal has been involved in grassroots movements for social justice in the South since she was a teenager. She is an active member of several progressive organizations including, the Nation of Islam, the National Black United Front, NCOBRA, the New Black Panther Party and Critical Resistance.

La Chica Boom

REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN OF COLOR IN NEO-BURLESQUE
La Chica Boom or Xandra Ibarra is a performance artist, ecdysiast and a community organizer that explores Chican@ iconography and issues of race, gender and sexuality. She weaves her cultural, political, and sexual identities through the practice of ethnic drag, alternative dance, theatre, performance art, neo-burlesque, clowning and street performance. Her provocative posturing provides biting satire that points to contemporary and historical escandalos and issues.

Laura Deutch, Messages in Motion

TOUR: ECO-MEDIA IN MOTION: MESSAGES FROM DETROIT
Laura Deutch is a multi-media artist and educator. Most recently, her work has engaged new technologies, media education, and community stories to explore the relationship between individuals and their environment. She has been involved with media projects in Ithaca, Berkeley, Honduras, Peru, and currently works closely with the Latino community in South Philadelphia. Most recently she has joined the Termite TV Collective, where she has developed her most recent project, Messages in Motion.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

THE AZOLLA STORY: QUEER/TRANS PEOPLE OF COLOR WITH DISABILITIES MEET-UP AND ZINE-MAKING SESSION / TELLING A STORY THAT'S STILL BEING WRITTEN: COMMUNITY ACCOUNTABILITY IN REAL LIFE SAFE IN OUR SKIN: A PARADIGM SHIFT
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer femme Sri Lankan by way of the northeastern U.S. rust belt writer, performer, and fierce fibro femme shark. She is the 2010 Artist in Residence at June Jordan's Poetry for the People program at UC Berkeley, a 2009-2010 Sins Invalid performer and the co-founder and co-director of Mangos With Chili. The author of Consensual Genocide, her work has been widely anthologized. The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Partner Abuse in Activist Communities, which she co-edited with Ching-In Chen and Jai Dulani, will be published by South End Press in spring 2011.

Leroy Franklin Moore Jr., Sins Invalid

RADICALIZING THE MESSAGE: PERFORMANCE, DISABILITY & THE REVOLUTIONARY BODY
Leroy Franklin Moore Jr. is a Co-Founder and Community Relations Director of Sins Invalid. As a Black writer, poet, hip-hop/music lover, community activist, feminist and consultant on race and disability with a physical disability, he has been sharing his perspectives on identity, race, and disability for the last 13 years. He is producer and columnist of Illin-N-Chillin at Poor Magazine and creator of Krip-Hop Mixtape Project.

Lillie Branch Kennedy, Resource Information Help for the Disadvantaged

FROM MY STORY TO OUR STORY: COLLECTIVE NARRATIVE CAMPAIGNS TO END THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Lillie Branch Kennedy known as Ms. K heads RIHD in Vrigina. RIHD is a nonprofit, all volunteer, statewide organization dedicated to reducing crime & recidivism through activities that promote education for at-risk youth, prisoner rehabilitation restoration of former-felon voting rights; the overall mission is to assist disadvantaged and disenfranchised people, regardless of race, color, creed and ethnic background overcome desolate odds; to make a difference in their lives.

Lisa Lust

BUILDING BLOCKS FOR MUSIC PRODUCTION AND BEATMAKING
Born and raised on Chicago's west side, started her writing ventures with poetry at the age of 10. While watching older MCs, she figured she could do the same and better, thus the quest to be the ultimate MC began. Joining Street-Level Youth Media helped her further her dreams. She attended workshops where she learned the lingo of audio production and created her own CD at age 13. Working with their outstanding staff and artist mentors, Lisa's thirst for knowledge of the world grew, and her mind became steered towards the life of an activist. Now at age 20, Lisa is active in numerous organizations that fight for human rights.

Lottie Spady, East Michigan Environmental Action Council (EMEAC)

CULTIVATING OUR DIGITAL ECOLOGY: FROM COMMUNITY VISION TO A BROADBAND PLAN
Lottie Spady is the Associate Director of the East Michigan Environmental Action Council. EMEAC began as a response in the 1960's to environmental concerns in southeast Michigan. Its mission is "to protect and restore land, air, water, and diversity of life through informed personal and public action." EMEAC is a member of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition.

Luisa Dantas

MEDIA INTERVENTIONS IN THE FUTURE OF OUR CITIES
Luisa Dantas has worked in film in the U.S. and her native Brazil for two decades. She pursues documentary filmmaking to meld compelling storytelling with social justice. She co-produced Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005), and she also directed and produced Voices From the Gulf for Color of Change.org. Luisa's experimental short film St. Joe, about the demolition of public housing in New Orleans, won Best Short at PATOIS: the New Orleans Human Rights Film Festival in 2009.

Maegan "Mamita Mala" Ortiz

MAMAZ AND COMMUNITY CARE-GIVERS UNITE THROUGH STORYTELLING!
Maegan "Mamita Mala" Ortiz is a Queens. NYC born and bred Nuyorican poeta, freelance writer, blogger, activista, single mami, and the original twitterputa She currently publishes the daily Latino blog VivirLatino.com as one half of Dos Mujeres Media. She has lent her perspective to publications including Make/shift and Latina Magazine.

Maka Muñoz Palabra Radio

TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR COMMUNITY RADIO STATIONS
Maka Muñoz, a community and radio promoter, and the project coordinator of Palabra Radio, a network of people offering technical and management support to free community radios in Latin America, Africa and immigrant communities in the United States. www.palabraradio.org.

Make/Shift RecLAmation

MAKE/SHIFT RECLAMATION: PERFORMING NEW FEMINISMS
"Makeshift Reclamation" is a collaboration between Hilary Goldberg, Jessica Hoffmann, and a rotating cast of contributing artists. Hilary Goldberg's films and music videos have been screened in venues from the American Cinematheque in Hollywood to the Women Make Waves Festival in Taiwan. Goldberg is also a poet, writer, and spoken-word performer. Jessica Hoffmann is a coeditor/copublisher of make/shift magazine and a freelance writer/editor. She is active with community-organizing projects focusing on issues including economic justice, housing, and food.

Malkia Amala Cyril, Center for Media Justice

RIGHTS, ACCESS, POWER: BROADBAND FOR THE PEOPLE
Malkia Amala Cyril is a queer black writer, organizer and media strategist. As director of the Center for Media Justice and co-founder of the Media Justice Network, Malkia's goals are to build the strategic communications capacity of the progressive movement to move a racial/economic justice agenda, and to build the power of youth and other marginalized communities to hold corporate media accountable for biased content and policy.

Marcie Crim, Appalshop and WMMT-FM Mountain Community Radio

COMMON GROUND: HOW COMMUNITY MEDIA AND COMMUNITY BUSINESSES CAN WORK TOGETHER TO FOSTER TRANSFORMATIVE PUBLIC DIALOGUE / COMMUNITY RADIO AGAINST RURAL POVERTY AND PRISON EXPANSION
Marcie Crim is the General Manager of WMMT-FM in Whitesburg, Kentucky. WMMT-FM is part of the larger Appalachian Media Arts center, Appalshop. Marcie was the creator of The Lexicon Project and a former Community Columnist for the Lexington Herald-Leader. Marcie was a consultant for the Ford Foundation's Southern Strategy Initiative and has worked as a teacher of writing and photography. She was named the Bluegrass Model Citizen of the Year in 2005 by Ace Weekly Magazine.

Marcus "Quese IMC" Frejo Little Eagle & Brian "Shock B" Frejo Little Eagle

PERFORMANCE ARTS FOR SELF DETERMINATION

Mary Tremonte, Justseeds Artists' Cooperative

SILKSCREEN PRINTING FOR EVERYONE! / MOBILE SILKSCREEN LAB
Mary Tremonte is an artist, educator, activist and DJ. She is a member of Justseeds Artists' Cooperative. Mary is a Youth Programs Coordinator at the Andy Warhol Museum and volunteers at Artists Image Resource and the Braddock Neighborhood Silkscreen Studio. She is consumed with printmaking, totally teens, collaboration, communication and the politics of social space, especially the danceparty.

Matrix Theatre Company

COLLABORATIVE MAPPING AS COMMUNITY MEDIA PART 1
Matrix Theatre Company uses the transformative power of original theatre to change lives, build community, and foster social justice. It creates opportunities for children, youth, adults and elders, especially those in isolated or challenged communities, to become creators, producers and audience of original theatre. We're now working on "ghostwaters" a community eco-arts project focused on buried streams around detroit as a way to share story and recreate water consciousness in our ecosystem through place-based learning, theatre, and art-making www.matrixtheatre.org.

Media Make Change

SOCIAL MEDIA FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE 101
Media Make Change is a media justice organization that works to support and empower under-served communities through SNEW (SOCIAL + NEW) media technology, literacy, and advocacy. MMC operates using partnerships, collaborations, mentorships, project promotion, and digital media training workshops based on a holistic curriculum comprised of Concept & Design, Community Development, and Creative Expression.

Mel Lesch

BLESS THEIR HEARTS
Mel Lesch: A Lexington native, Mel was one of the few students who pushed for the creation of a GLBTIQ resource center on the University of Kentucky campus. She has done a considerable amount of work in student affairs, focusing primarily on GLBTIQ college students where she wrote her masters thesis on transgendered college students. She is completing her second masters (yep, you read that right) on teaching high school English. She is also the creator of "Gendered Lexington," a blog that focuses on gender and sexuality in the bluegrass.

Mia Mingus

THIS IS HOW WE DO IT: AN INTRODUCTION TO DISABILITY JUSTICE / THE AZOLLA STORY: QUEER/TRANS PEOPLE OF COLOR WITH DISABILITIES MEET-UP AND ZINE-MAKING SESSION
Mia Mingus is a queer disabled woman of color korean american transracial and transnational adoptee working, creating and loving towards wholeness and connection, love and liberation. I politically identify as a queer disabled woman of color, working in many movements and currently getting paid to work in the reproductive justice movement. I crave and ache for fellow queer disabled people of color to build political family, community and home with, here on "this thin edge of barbwire" (g. anzaldua).

Miss Nancy

HOMOROBICS
Miss Nancy (aka Spkie Horwitz) is a lover of Richard Simmons, bad pop music, bicycles, and photography. When not teaching Homorobics he is a Teaching Artist and Program Deputy at Youth in Focus.

Misty Perez Truedson, Free Press

WHAT'S YOUR INTERNET STORY: LEARNING LAB
Misty Perez Truedson is a Program Manager for Free Press where she works with a wide range of organizations and allies to advance shared goals related to the future of the Internet, with a particular focus on the SavetheInternet.com effort. Misty was the former statewide grassroots organizing coordinator for Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts. She holds a Master's degree in Community Development and Planning from Clark University. There may or may not be video of her rapping about broadband access on the Internet.

Monica Blaire, Silent Riot Ent., PurpleGreenGold LLC, HomegrownCollab

IT'S OUR MUSIC THE WORLD LIVES AND DIES TO: CREATING A MUSIC-BASED ECONOMY FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE

Myron Dewey, Digital Smoke Signals

RIGHTS, ACCESS, POWER: BROADBAND FOR THE PEOPLE
Myron Dewey (Paiute/Shoshone) is the founder and President of Digital Smoke Signals, a Native owned Business/Computer/Internet consulting Co. since 2003. DSS is focused on digital media that specializes in digital photography, digital audio/video/editing, and the technical equipment used to develop media-based preservation tools for Native languages.

Nathaniel James, Mozilla Foundation - Drumbeat

OPEN SOURCE FOR OPEN COMMUNITIES: HOW PARTICIPATORY TECHNOLOGY CAN EMPOWER EVERYONE
Nathaniel James is currently consulting the Mozilla Foundation on their new Drumbeat initiative, focusing on developing and implementing local-to-global community engagement strategies. Nathan's career spans 10 years of nonprofit administration, advocacy, community organizing, outreach and recruitment, field operations, and social research. Nathan works with a wide range of innovative organizations and individuals who share a vision of a 21st century communications system that facilitates vibrant democratic participation, equitable access, and the fullest development of human creative potential.

Nick Szuberla, Thousand Kites

PHONE JUSTICE: EXPLORING ACCESS FOR PRISONERS, DETAINEES AND CALLING CARD USERS
Nick Szuberla is a media artist who has broadcast his performances and media projects throughout America. His grants include a Rockefeller MAP grant and an award from the Paul Robeson Fund, and he has been an artist-in-residence at the Kellogg Foundation's Mid-South Delta Initiative, at Carpetbag Theater in Knoxville, TN and at the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center in San Antonio, Texas. Szuberla is a community media initiative artist at Appalshop in Whitesburg, KY, and is a co-founder of Holler to the Hood.

Nicolas Lampert, Justseeds Radical Artist's Cooperative

MUD STENCILS FOR TACTICAL CAMPAIGNS
Nicolas Lampert is a Milwaukee/Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and author whose work focuses on themes of social justice and ecology. He works collectively with the Justseeds Radical Artists' Cooperative (www.justseeds.org)

Noemi Martinez

MAMAZ AND COMMUNITY CARE-GIVERS UNITE THROUGH STORYTELLING!
Noemi Martinez "Hermana, Resist" is a Chicana/Bori single mami poet, writer, & alternative media activist spiller of truths and secrets living in the militarized borderland of deep South Texas. She is the founder of http://www.hermanaresist.com, "a personal, political zine with literary tendencies which manifest in forms of poetry, free verse, haiku, short stories, journal entries, rants, raves, critiques, commentaries, photos, recipes and dreamy manifestos," and a zine-maker.

Ondine Miranda Quinn

BLESS THIER HEARTS
Ondine is a queer, latina, feminist, vegan, artist, activist and organizer. She has worked as a grassroots community organizer in Lexington Kentucky since 2005, where she has worked on local campaigns dealing with environmental, social,and economic justice concerns. She also writes for the Lexington KY based blog "Gendered Lexington" and she organizes a local book club called "Lexington Reads Radically." She attended the Ohio State University where she received her B.A. in International Studies and Political Science, with a minor in Women's Studies. You can keep up with Ondine through her website at www.ondinequinn.net.

Outta Your Backpack Media

CAUCUS: YOUTH SPEAK OUT ON AVATAR / TOUR: ECO-MEDIA IN MOTION: MESSAGES FROM DETROIT / OPEN LENS: YOUTH ECO-MEDIA JAM
Outta Your Backpack Media empowers Indigenous youth by holding free workshops, providing mentorship projects, coordinating community film screenings and festivals, distributing fully-equipped decentralized media centers in backpacks, and maintaining a media arts center in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Parul Desai, Media Access Project

RIGHTS, ACCESS, POWER: BROADBAND FOR THE PEOPLE
Parul is the Vice President at the Media Access Project. Prior to joining MAP, Ms. Desai served as in-house counsel to Microstrategy, Inc., McLean, VA. From 2001-2004, she was as associate in the Telecommunication, Media, and Technology and Litigation Groups of the Crowell & Moring, LLP. Ms. Desai is a magna cum laude graduate of New York Law School, where she participated in that institution's Media Center program, and was the recipient of a summer Telecommunications Fellowship.

Patty Berne, Sins Invalid

RADICALIZING THE MESSAGE: PERFORMANCE, DISABILITY & THE REVOLUTIONARY BODY
Patty Berne is Co-Founder and Director of Sins Invalid. Berne's background includes advocacy for immigrants seeking asylum, advocating for LGBTQI community and disability rights perspectives within the field of reproductive and genetic technologies, and cultural activism centralizing marginalized voices, particularly those of people with disabilities. She chairs the Board of Directors at San Francisco Women Against Rape and is the 2009 recipient of the Empress I Jose Sarria Award for Uncommon Leadership in the field of LGBTQI and disability rights.

Paul Wright, Prison Legal News

ONLINE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR MEDIA-BASED ORGANIZING AGAINST THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX / RIGHTS, ACCESS, POWER: BROADBAND FOR THE PEOPLE
Paul Wright is the editor and co-founder of Prison Legal News, the longest publishing independent prisoner rights magazine in US history. He is the author of numerous books and his writings have appeared in over 80 publications ranging from Counterpunch to USA Today. A former prisoner, Paul was imprisoned for 17 years in Washington State until his release from prison in 2003. He is the recipient of the James Madison Award from the Washington Coalition for Open Government and the 2008 inaugural recipient of the National Lawyers Guild's Arthur Kinoy award.

The Palestine Education Project

STRATEGY OF ART, ART OF STRATEGY / OUR HEARTS ARE BIGGER THAN THEIR MAPS
The Palestine Education Project (PEP) is a multi-racial, multi-ethnic collective of educators, activists and artists based in New York City, Beirut and Ramallah. PEP is committed to popular education about colonization and resistance in Palestine and examining the connections between the struggle for justice in Palestine and that of oppressed people in the U.S./Turtle Island. We believe that popular education can in itself be a tool for resisting oppression, and that the classroom can and should be a place where walls are dismantled and solidarity fostered.

Pittsburgh IMC

INDYMEDIA INNOVATIONS: TOOLS, TECHNOLOGY AND TIPS FOR PROTEST COVERAGE
Pittsburgh IMC's local grassroots news program Rustbelt Radio, on the air since 2004. Their varied interests and skills include: bicycle mechanics, botany, computer science, new media, and homelessness issues. http://radio.indypgh.org/

Pixelpowrrr

OPEN SOURCE FOR OPEN COMMUNITIES: HOW PARTICIPATORY TECHNOLOGY CAN EMPOWER EVERYONE / BUILD YOUR OWN WEBSITE: AN OPEN SOURCE ADVENTURE
Pixelpowrrr is the freshly hatched project of Alicia (a fledgling disability activist/blogger) and Melissa (a social justice activist), radical queer mixie nrrrd sisters from Toronto, Canada. Realizing that website design can be a costly, alienating and discouraging experience, they created Pixelpowrrr to facilitate fun, fearless technological empowerment for radical means. Pixelpowrrr offers instructional resources, technical support, and hosting for DIY website-makers to play with open-source software.

POOR Magazine/PoorNewsNetwork

POVERTY SCHOLARSHIP 101: REDEFINING MEDIA, EDUCATION & SCHOLARSHIP FROM OUR LIVED EXPERIENCES
POOR is a grassroots, non-profit, arts organization dedicated to providing extreme access to media, education and arts for youth, adults and elders struggling with poverty, racism, disability and border fascism locally and globally. We produce an online magazine, a monthly radio show on KPFA, and several cultural projects including the Po' Poets Project, Youth in Media and the welfareQUEENs.

Puck Lo

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING / COLLABORATIVE MAPPING AS COMMUNITY MEDIA PART 2
Puck Lo is a journalist and social movement organizer fascinated by diaspora, economics, intersections of race, gender, class, and all things hidden in plain sight. She worked as Technical Producer of a nationally syndicated daily news show, Free Speech Radio News, and Associate Producer for a weekly public affairs show, Making Contact. Now she attends UC Berkeley's Graduate Journalism School, where she is organizing against cuts to public education while learning investigative reporting and multimedia skills.

Queers for Economic Justice

MEDIA STRATEGIES FOR SURVIVING POVERTY-RELATED VIOLENCE AND CREATING SELF-DETERMINED COMMUNITIES
Queers for Economic Justice is a progressive non-profit organization committed to promoting economic justice in a context of sexual and gender liberation. We are committed to the principle that access to social and economic resources is a fundamental right, and we work to create social and economic equity through grassroots organizing, public education, advocacy and research. We do this work because, although poor queers have always been a part of both the gay rights and economic justice movements, they have been, and continue to be, largely invisible in both movements.

Rachel Caballero, La Semilla Collective

MAMAZ AND COMMUNITY CARE-GIVERS UNITE THROUGH STORYTELLING!
Rachel Caballero was born and raised on the U.S./Mexico Border. As a Chicana and childcare worker, she is a founding member of La Semilla Childcare Collective of Austin, Texas, a group of individuals who believes childcare is a right and works in solidarity with groups such as Mamas of Color Rising, including children in radical movement building. As a radio pirateer and kid at heart Rachel currently resides in El Paso, Texas.

Radio Rootz

CUT & COPY: CREATE A 1-MINUTE RADIO STORY

Raven Chacon

THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR SOUND: EXPLORATIONS IN MUSIC COMPOSITION / INTRO TO ELECTRONICS AND NOISE MUSIC
A longtime player in the music scenes of the desert Southwest, Raven Chacon is composer of chamber music as well as being a solo performer of experimental noise music. He performs and records with the groups KILT (with Bob Bellerue), Mesa Ritual (with William Fowler Collins) as well as the large noise ensemble Death Convention Singers. Chacon has recorded many works for classical and electronic instruments and ensembles and with performances and exhibits of his work across the U.S. as well as Europe, Canada and New Zealand. He is based anywhere between Albuquerque, NM and Los Angeles, with stations at Phoenix and the Navajo Reservation. http://www.spiderwebsinthesky.com http://www.sicksicksickdistro.com

Reel GrrrlS

THE NEXT GENERATION OF TRANS & QUEER YOUTH NARRATIVE / MEDIA MADLIBS / HOMOAROBICS
Reel Grrls: The workshop will be presented by Reel Grrls graduates Monica Olsson, Sahar Shakeri and Mariana Urban, alongside Reel Grrls staff Lila Kitaeff and Nickey Robare. Reel Grrls, based in Seattle and founded in 2001, empowers young women from diverse communities to realize their power, talent and influence through media production. Our mission is to cultivate voice and leadership in girls at a vulnerable age in their development.

Relatives for Justice

DRAWING SOLIDARITY: PUBLIC ART AND TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN NORTHERN IRELAND
Relatives for Justice is a Belfast-based NGO working with and providing support to relatives of people bereaved and injured by the conflict across the North of Ireland. We assist and support families coping with the effects of bereavement through violence and the resulting trauma. Our mission is to provide appropriate therapeutic and developmental based support for the bereaved and injured of the conflict within a safe environment, to examine and develop transitional justice and truth recovery mechanisms, to assist with individual healing and contribute to positive societal change.

ReMedia

CAUCUS: YOUTH SPEAK OUT ON AVATAR / TOUR: ECO-MEDIA IN MOTION: MESSAGES FROM DETROIT / OPEN LENS: YOUTH ECO-MEDIA JAM
Remedia empowers youth in Detroit to craft their own solutions to systemic environmental justice issues through environmental justice education, multi-media production, media literacy, green technologies, popular culture, social networking, civic engagement, and social consciousness.

Robert Robinson, Picture the Homeless

RADIO AS A TOOL TO TRANSFORM ORGANIZE AND BUILD COMMUNITY
Rob Robinson is a former Board Member and housing campaign leader with the grassroots organization Picture the Homeless. Rob joined Picture the Homeless in the fall of 2006 after spending two years, homeless in Miami and ten months in a New York City homeless shelter. He eventually escaped his cycle of homelessness and has been in the housing movement in NYC since 2007. As a member of Picture the Homeless he works with several coalitions, the Campaign to Restore National Housing Rights, Right to the City Alliance, US Human Rights Network and the Coalition to Save Harlem.

Rockdove Collective

HEALTH IS DIGNITY AND DIGNITY IS RESISTANCE: ONLINE AND OFFLINE ORGANIZING FOR HEALING JUSTICE
Rockdove Collective (http://www.rockdovecollective.org), a radical community health exchange working to address the need for accessible and anti-oppressive health care in the New York City area.

Ron Scott, The Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality

AMC 2010 OPENING CEREMONY
With more than 35 years of experience in radio, television, and video production, Ron Scott is a true community voice, telling stories from the heart of Detroit. Ron serves as spokesperson for the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality which, in the past year, has been at the heart of organizing efforts against the increased militarization of police forces. This militarization was brought to the point of crisis first with the murder of Imam Luqman at the hands of the FBI in October 2009, and again with the murder of Aiyanna Jones at the hands of the Detroit Police Department in May, 2010. Ron has also been active in the Detroiters for Dignity and Democracy Movement, which emerged in response to the proposed "down-sizing" of the city and the closure of over 40 Detroit Public Schools. Through projects such as the Peace Zones for Life campaign, which seeks community-based strategies for resolving conflict without the involvement of police, Ron Scott advances vision-based community-transformation and healing in Detroit.

Ryan Dennison

TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR COMMUNITY DIALOGUE: LEARNING FROM THE SOUTHWEST INDIGENOUS LISTENING FORUM
Ryan Dennison is of the Navajo Nation Tribe. He is born for the Many Hogans Clan and is of the Tangled Peoples Clan. Ryan is a musician and community organizer. Started in 2007, to make a community radio station (KNIZ) for the indigenous communities in New Mexico. He is an advisory board member of KNIZ. Ryan works to create dialogue amoung friends and family to build a stronger community, through creativity and music.

Safe Outside the System

MEDIA TOOLS FOR CREATING SAFE COMMUNITIES: A SCIENCE FAIR / TELLING A STORY THAT'S STILL BEING WRITTEN: COMMUNITY ACCOUNTABILITY IN REAL LIFE
The Safe OUTSide the System (SOS) Collective (http://alp.org/community/sos) works to challenge violence that affects LGBTSTGNC people of color. We are guided by the belief that strategies that increase the police presence and the criminalization of our communities do not create safety. Therefore we utilize strategies of community accountability to challenge violence.

Sakura Saunders

FROM YOUR MIND TO THE MIC TO THE WORLD: BASICS OF TRANSMISSION FROM OLD-FASHIONED RADIO TO HIGH TECH STREAMING
Sakura Saunders has been a media activist for over a decade, working in radio management and journalism, as well as advocacy and radio station building. She currently sits on the board of the Prometheus Radio Project and is a founder and editor for the website protestbarrick.net. Also active in the environmental justice movement, Sakura looks forward to combining her two passions and building radio stations for mining-impacted communities.

Shanickey Kirkwood, National Youth Leadership Network

MEDIA STRATEGIES TO EXPAND ACCESS FOR DISABLED PEOPLE
Shanickey Kirkwood is the project coordinator for The Arc of Mississippi's My Voice My Choice of Mississippi project. My Voice My Choice is a self-advocacy project that focuses on self-determination, leadership, and disability awareness. Nickey is a NYLN leader and used to serve on our Governing Board. NYLN loves her because she is a great community leader in the South and has a lot to bring to the world.

Sharon Lungo, Ruckus Society

CULTURE JAMMING AND ACTION PLANNING FOR BDS TO END ISRAELI APARTHEID

Shereena Baker, American Indian/Alaska Native Climate Change Working Group

INDIGENOUS MEDIA-ORGANIZING TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE
Shereena Baker is the Project Coordinator for the American Indian/Alaska Native Climate Change Working Group. The Working Group recognizes that the lifeways of Indigenous people hold tremendous lessons for all of humankind to consider as we collectively think about our future, and is taking immediate steps to apply those lessons in the areas of education, research, planning and assessment.

Shoddy Puppet Company

PUPPET UPRISING
Founded in 1999, Shoddy Puppet Company has toured dozens of shows around North America and Brazil via bus, train and bicycle. Current company members Morgan FitzPatrick Andrews, Zac Palladino, Kestrel Plump and Leslie Rogers, all work in Philadelphia where they run Puppet Uprising, a network for local and touring radical puppet and theater artists. This year Shoddy's tour hits Chicago's Banners & Cranks Festival, New York's International Toy Theater Festival, and Vermont's Bread & Puppet Theater. See more at www.puppetuprising.org.

Silkey Shah, The Detention Watch Network

COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES AND MOVEMENT-BUILDING: A CASE STUDY OF THE DIGNITY NOT DETENTION CAMPAIGN / ONLINE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR MEDIA-BASED ORGANIZING AGAINST THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Silkey Shah is a member of The Detention Watch Network. (DWN) is a national coalition of organizations and individuals working to educate the public and policy makers about the U.S. immigration detention and deportation system and advocate for humane reform so that all who come to our shores receive fair and humane treatment.

Skim

STRATEGY OF ART, ART OF STRATEGY
Skim is an independent artist and aspiring community organizer who uses music as a tool for social change.

Stacey Milbern

THIS IS HOW WE DO IT: AN INTRODUCTION TO DISABILITY JUSTICE / THE AZOLLA STORY: QUEER/TRANS PEOPLE OF COLOR WITH DISABILITIES MEET-UP AND ZINE-MAKING SESSION
Stacey Milbern is a queer disabled corean-american living and loving in North Carolina. She is a 22 year old youth organizer who has been working in the youth arm of the Disability Rights Movement since high school. She is most interested in using poetry, community organizing and media as a way to cut through isolation that marginalized people often face. Stacey is a radical woman of color feminist and believes in the power of people coming together.

Sterling Toles

THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR SOUND: EXPLORATIONS IN MUSIC COMPOSITION
AMC 2010 OPENING CEREMONY I use visual and audio expression as a process of transcending identity to cultivate the ubiquity of love. My work is a means to undo conditioning to allow the purest reception of the intuitive voice. I am Detroit born and bred.

Steven Renderos, Main Street Project

DIGITAL JUSTICE COALITION EXCHANGE
Steven Renderos leads Main Street Project's media justice and community building efforts, including the Justice 2.0 training project and our collaborative work with the nationwide Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net). He brings more than five years of community organizing and training experience, and more than eight years of film making and media production experience.

Streetwise and Safe

SHOW SOME SAS: A KNOW YOUR RIGHTS VIDEO BY AND FOR QUEER YOUTH OF COLOR
Streetwise & Safe (SAS) is a multi-pronged youth leadership development and organizing initiative involving LGBTQQ youth of color who have experienced policing and criminalization in the context of "quality of life" policing and policing of sex work in New York City. In this workshop, we will share This is My Truth, our unique "know your rights" video and curriculum which looks at gender and sexuality specific forms and contexts of police misconduct and abuse. Building on the video and discussion, workshop participants will collectively brainstorm possibilities for nationally coordinated locally-based advocacy around policing policies and practices which target and adversely impact queer youth of color!

Sylvia Hubbard, Motown Writers Network

ELECTRONIC BOOKS: UNDERSTANDING & PARTICIPATING IN THE COMING (ALMOST) PAPERLESS SOCIETY
Native Detroiter, Sylvia Hubbard, has been involved in selling and producing e-books for almost ten years. As a fiction writer, she started selling e-books before they became popular and had an early education on the technology and has had the benefit of watching the tremendous growth. She is founder of Motown Writers Network and The AA Electronic Literary Network, plus the author of over 14 books, including The Internet Marketing Guide for Writers & Businesses. Her website is: http://sylviahubbard.com.

Sylvia Ryerson, Appalshop and WMMT-FM Mountain Community Radio

COMMON GROUND: HOW COMMUNITY MEDIA AND COMMUNITY BUSINESSES CAN WORK TOGETHER TO FOSTER TRANSFORMATIVE PUBLIC DIALOGUE / COMMUNITY RADIO AGAINST RURAL POVERTY AND PRISON EXPANSION
Sylvia Ryerson is the director of the Community Correspondents Corps (CCC) of WMMT 88.7 Mountain Community Radio, a project of Appalshop in Whitesburg, Kentucky. The CCC trains and supports community members in producing their own radio work for public broadcast, based on the principle that people have the right to control the development of their own communities through public dialogue. In 2008 Ryerson co-produced The Economies of Incarceration, a two-part radio documentary series focused on prison expansion in Central Appalachia.

Talia Boyd

TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR COMMUNITY DIALOGUE: LEARNING FROM THE SOUTHWEST INDIGENOUS LISTENING FORUM
I am from Tuba City, AZ, born and raised on the Navajo rez. I am from the Bitterwater Clan, born for the Two Rivers Coming Together Clan. My maternal grandfather is Many Goats Clan and my paternal grandfather is Edge Water Clan. This is what makes me a Dine woman. I'm currently going to school to attain my Nursing degree and for the past two years I've been volunteering in my communities on and off the rez focusing on Indigenous issues.

The Data Center

POWER OF STORYTELLING
For over 30 years, DataCenter (http://www.datacenter.org) has delivered the power of information and knowledge into the hands of people working to make a more equitable and sustainable world.

The DIVAS (Disabled, Independent, Victorious, Advocating Sisters)

FILM SCREENING: THE DIVAS
The DIVAS is a new women-led social support and advocacy group for women with disabilities ages 25 to 40 years old. The mission of the DIVAS is to serve as mentors to their sister group the Empowered Fe Fes, serve as a dominant voice in communities where injustices against disabled women exists and participate in community service projects with other women support group fighting against oppression. The DIVAS are educated through educational workshops, social outings, and leadership trainings.

The Empowered Fe Fes

LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX: DISABILITY PERSPECTIVE
The Empowered Fe Fes is a girl-led support group for girls with disabilities ages 16-24 years old. The focus of the girls group is safe space, sisterhood, confidence building, and promoting leadership among girls. The Fe Fes are educated and empowered through various educational workshops, girl centered events, and cultural outings.

The Esperanza Peace & Justice Center

CULTURAL ORGANIZING FOR LAND RIGHTS AND PUBLIC SPACE
The people of Esperanza dream of a world where everyone has civil rights and economic justice, where the environment is cared for and communities are safe. The Esperanza advocates for those wounded by domination and inequality – women, people of color, queer and transgendered people, the working class and poor. We believe in creating bridges between people by exchanging ideas and empowering each other. We believe it is vital to share our visions of hope – We are esperanza/tod@s somos esperanza.

The Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net)

WHAT'S YOUR INTERNET STORY: LEARNING LAB
The Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net) is a local-to-local advocacy network of grassroots social justice, media, and cultural organizations working together to shift power relations for social change through the critical use and transformation of media and communications systems. Representing 10 regions and over 100 organizations, MAG-Net's mission is to build a transformative movement for media justice that is effective, integrated, and sustainable and which advances racial and economic justice, gender equity, and human rights.

The Penny Godboldo Institute

AMC 2010 OPENING CEREMONY
The Penny Godboldo Institute is an umbrella organization that uses the arts as a means of "Preserving the Spirit and Essence of Our Humanity" by educating, communicating, entertaining, serving and healing through the arts. It has been in existence since 2005 and currently offers several programs to the larger Detroit community offering dance, music and other related arts: COMPAS for Music and Performing Arts (Southwest Detroit), Considine Family Recreation Center Woodward Avenue (Northend) Discovery GAP: June 21-July 2 "Girls Arts Program" mentoring for adolescent girls and the Detroit Legacy Project Conference: July 10 Northwest Activity Center.

The Prison Poster Project

THE PRISON POSTER PROJECT: UNDERSTANDING THE BIG PICTURE
The Prison Poster Project is made up of people on the inside and outside of prison. It originally included five outside activists (Andalusia Knoll, Alixa Garcia, Naima Pennimen, Erik Ruin and etta cetera), who all have done art geared towards raising political consciousness and effecting social change. Also, there were 64 people in prison who answered the questionnaire – 18 illustrators on the inside, 6 illustrators on the outside, 47 more people corresponded from the inside but didn't end up in the final presentation – 14 transcribers. Lizzie Anderson is today's presenter. She is a collaborator, transcriber, and presenter of this project.

The Revolution Starts at Home

TELLING A STORY THAT'S STILL BEING WRITTEN: COMMUNITY ACCOUNTABILITY IN REAL LIFE / MEDIA TOOLS FOR CREATING SAFE COMMUNITIES: A SCIENCE FAIR / SAFE IN OUR SKIN: A PARADIGM SHIFT

The Storytelling and Organizing Project

MEDIA TOOLS FOR CREATING SAFE COMMUNITIES: A SCIENCE FAIR / POWER OF STORYTELLING
The StoryTelling & Organizing Project (STOP) (http://www.stopviolenceeveryday.org) is a community project collecting and sharing stories about everyday people taking action to end interpersonal violence.

Thousand Kites

FROM MY STORY TO OUR STORY: COLLECTIVE NARRATIVE CAMPAIGNS TO END THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX / COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES AND MOVEMENT-BUILDING: A CASE STUDY OF THE DIGNITY NOT DETENTION CAMPAIGN / ONLINE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR MEDIA-BASED ORGANIZING AGAINST THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Thousand Kites is a community-based performance, web, video, and radio project centered on the United States prison system.

Three Wings

THE NEXT GENERATION OF TRANS & QUEER YOUTH NARRATIVE
Three Wings is the presenter of PUT THIS ON THE MAP, a documentary about 26 queer/trans youth defining gender and sexuality in Seattle's suburbs. Reel Grrls is an award-winning after school program teaching media literacy and filmmaking to grrls, and an open space for youth of all genders in their Reel Queer program. Kalil Cohen's film Trans Youth Speak Out: Experiences in School documents the public school experiences of 16 gender variant teens in Los Angeles.

Tiny (aka Lisa Gray-Garcia), POOR Magazine/PoorNewsNetwork

MAMAZ AND COMMUNITY CARE-GIVERS UNITE THROUGH STORYTELLING! / MAKE/SHIFT RECLAMATION
Tiny (aka Lisa Gray-Garcia) is a poverty scholar, revolutionary journalist, PO' Poet, spoken word artist, welfareQUEEN, lecturer, INdigenous Boriken-Taina/Irish, mama of Tiburcio and daughter of Dee and the co-founder/ co-madre of POOR Magazine/PoorNewsNetwork and author of Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America.

tk (tanya karakashian) tunchez, To tell you the Truth/The New Mythos Project

MAMAZ AND COMMUNITY CARE-GIVERS UNITE THROUGH STORYTELLING!
Tk is the founder of To tell you the Truth blog and of The New Mythos Project committed to using multi-media (testimonio, performance, video making, image production and sound) that supports healing through truth-telling for liberation. tk has been focusing her current work on border-dwellers/crossers, intersectional movement builders, queerfemmedivas, welfare queens, radical m/others (self-identified single, teen and welfare mamaz), mamaz and community caregiver. She is the m/other of two fierce young people who teach her and grow with her daily.

Toxic Soil Busters Co-op

CAUCUS: YOUTH SPEAK OUT ON AVATAR / TOUR: ECO-MEDIA IN MOTION: MESSAGES FROM DETROIT / OPEN LENS: YOUTH ECO-MEDIA JAM
Toxic Soil Busters Co-op organizes for eco-justice in Worcester, Massachusetts, by creating safe yards and gardens, performance art, documentary film, and a video training series demonstrating the nuts and bolts of running a youth-led worker co-operative.

Tristan Tucker

BUILDING BLOCKS FOR MUSIC PRODUCTION AND BEATMAKING
Raised in Chicago, Tristan Tucker became interested in music at age 14 through the influence of his family members. After learning FL Studios at Street-Level Youth Media, he was even more hooked to producing music. While developing his own skills over the past six years, Tristan has also become involved as a teen mentor and workshop facilitator at Street-Level. Currently, Tristan is working on producing music for various artists in Chicago.

Truc Nguyen, Sins Invalid

RADICALIZING THE MESSAGE: PERFORMANCE, DISABILITY & THE REVOLUTIONARY BODY
Truc Nguyen is the newest staff addition at Sins Invalid. As an outspoken Queer Vietnamese community activist, Truc brings with her years of experience as a trainer in presenting about oppression (racism, homophobia, etc.), domestic violence, personal safety, and physical self-defense training. Truc is a jack-of-all-trades having worked in various capacities in non-profits, loves volunteer work, and is an aspiring artist.

Truth and Healing Project/New Mythos Tour

HEALTH IS DIGNITY AND DIGNITY IS RESISTANCE: ONLINE AND OFFLINE ORGANIZING FOR HEALING JUSTICE
Truth and Healing Project/New Mythos Tour (http://truthandhealingproject.wordpress.com), a project combining media literacy, multi-media production and truth telling in practice as individuals and communities work together toward healing and liberation through beauty.

Una Aya Osato, Palestine Education Project, Brown Girls Burlesque

LAND OF THE FREE: PERFORMING THE WORLD WE WANT TO SEE
Una Aya Osato is a performer, educator and babysitter from NYC. For the past three years she has been performing her second one woman show RECESS nationally and internationally. Winner of "Best Female Solo Show 2009" at the SF Fringe Festival and nominated by the NY Innovative Theater Awards for "Outstanding Solo Performance" find out more at: www.recesstheplay.com. Additionally, her love for fully embodying her politics and art has also taken her Brown Girls Burlesque where she is one of the core performers.

Undesireable Elements: Secret Survivors

MEDIA TOOLS FOR CREATING SAFE COMMUNITIES: A SCIENCE FAIR / POWER OF STORYTELLING
Secret Survivors is a new work in the Undesirable Elements series, a project of Ping Chong & Company. The project was conceived for the Undesirable Elements series by Amita Swadhin, an educator, anti-violence activist, and incest survivor.

Vancouver Media Co-op

INDYMEDIA INNOVATIONS: TOOLS, TECHNOLOGY AND TIPS FOR PROTEST COVERAGE
The VMC is the work of a vibrant collective of journalists, video ninjas, radio denizens, and graphic designers. We cover events around the city, and investigate issues important to social movements and ignored by corporate media. As a collective, we put out a bi-weekly broadsheet called Balaclava! and use our wide range of skills and experience to produce videos that tell the stories of our city. http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca

Vee Bravo, Maysles Institute

BUILDING AN INTERGENERATIONAL FILMMAKING COMMUNITY
Vee Bravo is a New York-bred filmmaker and activist that has documented youth culture and politics over the past fifteen years. He completed his first feature length documentary, ESTILO HIP HOP, which aired nationally on PBS in 2009. Bravo also created the Cell Block Project, a community media initiative that produced live hip hop events and film screenings at the Rikers Island Correctional Facility. Bravo is presently working at the Maysles Institute for Documentary Filmmaking as the Director of Educational Programming.

Visions to Peace Project

MEDIA TOOLS FOR CREATING SAFE COMMUNITIES: A SCIENCE FAIR / POWER OF STORYTELLING
The Visions to Peace Project (http://visionispower.org) is a youth leadership development and movement-building project based in Washington, D.C. Our mission is to support youth, communities and organizations in working toward safety and peace through creative community action, rather than dependence on policing, prisons, and punitive policies.

Vocalo.org

YOUR PHONE IS YOUR MICROPHONE
An initiative of Chicago Public Radio, Vocalo.org aims to make public radio truly public. Vocalo.org is radio made by you. We take the material you submit (audio, text, video) and turn it into an entertaining and informative broadcast that plays on 89.5 FM in Northwest Indiana and Chicago, and streams live on Vocalo.org. Stories called in to our free hotline are an integral part of our broadcast so if you can leave a message, you can be on the radio.

Voces Móviles (VozMob)

USING OUR CELL PHONES TO CREATE OUR OWN MEDIA BY SHARING OUR WORLDS AND DOCUMENTING INJUSTICES / MEDIOS CAMINANTES FORUM TO SHARE EXPERIENCES AND BUILD NETWORKS
VozMob was created through a collaboration between the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California (ASC) and the Institute of Popular Education of Southern California (IDEPSCA), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to create a more humane and democratic society by responding to the needs and problems of disenfranchised people through leadership development and educational programs based on Popular Education methodology.

World War 3 Illustrated

HOW TO MAKE RADICAL COMICS AND WHY
World War 3 Illustrated is an activist comics magazine put together by a volunteer editorial collective largely based in New York City since 1979. It has just published its 40th issue, "What We Want." Started by Seth Tobocman and Peter Kuper, the magazine has published pieces tackling a wide variety of urban, environmental, social justice and political issues, including work by Sue Coe, Eric Drooker, Art Spiegelman, Joe Sacco, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Sabrina Jones, Rebecca Migdal, Mac McGill, Sandy Jimenez, Ethan Heitner and many others. WW3 isn't about a war that may happen, it is about the ongoing wars our so-called leaders have been waging all our lives around the world and on our very own doorsteps. WW3 also illuminates the war we wage on each other and sometimes the one taking place in our own brains.

Young Women's Empowerment Project

GETTING TO KNOW THE GAME: HOW TO TURN PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH INTO ANIMATED COMPUTER GAMES AND MORE! / MEDIA TOOLS FOR CREATING SAFE COMMUNITIES: A SCIENCE FAIR / POWER OF STORYTELLING
Young Women's Empowerment Project is a social justice based harm reduction organization working with girls and transgender girls involved in the sex trade and street economy. We have been making zines since our very first day together. We emphasize self care and social justice and our zines always have a theme or a message about a topic we care about.

Yousef Arman, American Muslims for Palestine

HOW SOCIAL MEDIA CAN AMPLIFY PALESTINIAN VOICES AND SUPPORT THE GLOBAL MOVEMENT FOR BDS
Yousef Arman is a Palestinian American, who is the president of the Northeastern Illinois University's chapter of the Students for Justice in Palestine. He is also an active volunteer with American Muslims for Palestine.

Yusef Shakur and Kwasi Akwamu, The Urban Network Bookstore

GUERRILLA PUBLISHING AND MEDIA-BASED ECONOMIES FOR EX-OFFENDERS
The Urban Network Bookstore is a multi-purpose community resource shop run by Yusef Shakur and Kwasi Akwamu, both ex-offenders. It offers guerilla publishing opportunities, skills-building opportunities, annual back-to-school supplies giveaways, and much more. In addition to providing books and art from a local source – one of few local bookstores left in the city – there are four more books Urban Network is going to be releasing by the end of the year. It is a prime example of creating an economy from the bottom up.

Zena Addae

THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR SOUND: EXPLORATIONS IN MUSIC COMPOSITION
I am an 8th grade student at the Detroit Waldorf School in downtown Detroit. I was born in Detroit and have lived here all my life. At age six I started playing piano and the lyre, a small lap harp. I started playing the lever harp in 6th grade and am hoping to move to the pedal harp soon. I have always wanted to make music that was my own. I have always played other people's compositions and I wanted to move into creating my own songs. So for an 8th grade project I decided to make a CD of my own songs. I have two mentors, Kinga Kemp and Diana Nucera, who help me understand various ways of making and recording music.

Zoilo Blas, People's Production House, Community News Production Institute

vPOWER IN NARRATIVES: CONTENT CREATION FOR COMMUNITY RADIO
As member of Se Hace Camino/Make the Road, New York, Zoilo works on social justice issues that affect latin@ workers in New York City.