AMC 2008

Kat Aaron

People’s Production House
YOUTH MEDIA TO WHAT END?
Kat Aaron is the Co-Director of People’s Production House, a media education group in New York City.

Habibah Ahmad

Manhattan Neighborhood Network's Youth Channel
DOING RESEARCH TOGETHER: PARTNERSHIPS AND ALLIANCES FOR YOUTH MEDIA
Habibah Ahmad was born and raised in New york City. Habibah has been involved with youth media since the age of 15. She is now attending Hunter College in New York, majoring in Film Studies.

Heavyn-Leigh American

Manhattan Neighborhood Network's Youth Channel
DOING RESEARCH TOGETHER: PARTNERSHIPS AND ALLIANCES FOR YOUTH MEDIA
Heavyn-Leigh American is currently a junior earning her BA in Political Science at Fordham University in Bronx New York. A Youth Researcher for the Manhattan Neighborhood Network’s Youth Channel as well as an active member of New York University Wagner’s Women of Color Policy Network, where she teaches at a summer program for college bound youth. Heavyn-Leigh has also held the title of Vice President of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Club Inc. New York Youth division for two years.

Abayomi Azikiwe

Pan-African News Wire
MORE THAN NEWS: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING THROUGH COMMUNITY RADIO
Is the editor of the Pan-African News Wire, a long-time broadcast journalist and community organizer.

Amy Bach

Manhattan Neighborhood Network's Youth Channel
DOING RESEARCH TOGETHER: PARTNERSHIPS AND ALLIANCES FOR YOUTH MEDIA

Moya Bailey

Be Bold, Be Brave, Be Red
MEDIA COVERAGE AND GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING: THE JENA 6 AND NEW JERSEY 4 FROM THE INSIDE
Moya Bailey is a fourth year Fellow in Women's Studies at Emory University. She received her undergraduate degree from Spelman College where she was active in many campus organizations including AUC Peace, Sisterfire, Afrekete, and served as President of the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance (FMLA) during the Nelly Protest. Her organizational activities with the FMLA and the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Rights Conference led her to a life of activism centered on health issues and social constructs affecting women of color.

Kazembe Balagun

KEYNOTE: REGRESS, PLATEAU OR EVOLVE
Kazembe Balagun is a writer based out of New York City. A cultural critic, Balagun's work has appeared in the NYC Indypendent, Monthly Review and Left Turn. He conducted one of the last interviews with Octavia Butler before her death in 2006.

Bay Area Video Coalition

YOUTH SOCIAL JUSTICE VIDEOS FROM THE FACTORY
BAVC (pronounced "bay-vac") is a nonprofit media arts center that was founded in 1976 with the mission of bringing increased cultural and economic participation to underserved communities through media. Over the last 30 years, BAVC has developed an entrepreneurial web of programs and services that brings together a multi-generational mix of artists, experienced media professionals, educators, low-income youth and adults, non-profit organizations and industry partners in this pursuit.

Marisol Becerra

Little Village Environmental Justice Organization
USING GOOGLE MAPS FOR YOUTH COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
Marisol, 18, began volunteering with Little Village Environmental Justice Organization when she was 14. She co-founded the youth group at LVEJO, Young Activists Organizing as Today's Leaders. (YAOTL) She now serves on the Board of LVEJO. In 2007, she participated in Open Youth Network's YouthLAB workshop and learned how to use participatory media tools for social change. Marisol is the recipient of a Millenium Gates Scholarship and attends Depaul University where she majors in Public Policy and GIS.

The Beehive Collective

GRAPHICS FOR THE COMMONS
Since 2000, the Bees have been making anti-copyright, political graphics
for education and organizing. They are developing a widely accessible, art-based communication strategy. Volunteer Bees give 'picture-lecture' presentations and workshops at approximately 150 locations internationally each year. Over the last six years the Bees have distributed more than 60,000 posters through grassroots, by-hand distribution. The all-volunteer Beehive has grown to include a core swarm
of eleven Bees, plus autonomous worker Bees in the U.S., Canada, Mexico,
Colombia and Europe.

Alisa Bierria

INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
CONVERSATION BETWEEN INCITE! AND SPEAK WOC MEDIA COLLECTIVE
Alisa Bierria is a Black feminist with experience in grassroots organizing and popular education addressing domestic and sexual violence, reproductive justice, and racial and gender justice. Alisa is currently a member of the national collective of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, and a member of Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA) in Seattle. She currently goes to school in California where she is developing a philosophical framework to describe agency as it exists in the context of oppression.

Jon Blount

Detroit Summer LAMP
PEOPLES STATISTICS: PART II - PUTTING PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH TO WORK!
Youth leader of Detroit Summer for over 12 years. the Unofficial Official Head of Public Relations for Detroit Summer and LAMP. Head youth producer of Rising Up From The Ashes: Chronicles of A Dropout. Dashing, aspiring independent media maker.

Joshua Breitbart

People’s Production House / Allied Media Projects
THE INTERNET, PART I: THE WAY IT IS
THE POWERS OF RURAL AND URBAN UNITE!
Joshua Breitbart is the Policy Director for People's Production House and a member of the Allied Media Projects board of directors.

Adrienne Maree Brown

The Ruckus Society / Allied Media Projects
KEYNOTE: REGRESS, PLATEAU OR EVOLVE
THE ART OF AWESOME FACILITATION
Adrienne Maree Brown is the executive director of The Ruckus Society, which brings nonviolent direct action training and action support to communities impacted by economic, environmental and social oppression. She sits on the board of Allied Media Projects and Wiretap Magazine, and facilitates the development of organizations throughout the movement (most recently ColorofChange.org and Detroit Summer). Adrienne is obsessed with learning and developing models for action, community strength and movement building.

Brownfemipower

Speak Women of Color Media Collective
SPEAK MEDIA SKILLS TRAINING FOR WOMEN AND TRANS PEOPLE OF COLOR
MEDIA COVERAGE AND GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING: THE JENA SIX AND NEW JERSEY FOUR FROM THE INSIDE
THE INTERNET, PART I: WHAT IT IS

BUMP Records

BEATMAKING IN THE MEDIA LAB
BUMP Records is a comprehensive youth-run record label that gives participants hands-on experience in producing, packaging, and promoting records. Learn the skills of professional recording techniques using the latest in computer-based recording technology. Gain entrepreneurial experience through the marketing and distribution of BUMP products.

Desi Burnette

Prometheus Radio Project
MORE THAN NEWS: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING THROUGH COMMUNITY RADIO

cap D

All Natural, Inc.
FROM INDEPENDENCE TO INTERDEPENDENCE: BUILDING ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIES FOR ALTERNATIVE MEDIA MAKERS
cap D (David Kelly) is a co-founder of the Chicago-based recording company, All Natural, Inc. (established 1997), and the MC/producer of the hip-hop music group All Natural. He has dropped 3 solo albums, 4 albums with All Natural and written one short book of essays about hip-hop culture. He is also an attorney at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP in Chicago and practices in the corporate and sports law groups.

Precious Cantrell-Jones

The Empowered Fe Fes
"DOIN IT: SEX, DISABILITY AND VIDEOTAPE" & "WHY THEY GOTTA DO ME LIKE THAT? THE FE FES TAKE ON BULLYING
Precious Cantrell- Jones is 18 years old and has been with the Fe Fes for 7 months. Her friendliness and dedication has made her fit right in. She is always willing to help and she showed an amazing work ethic at the Fe Fes Spa Day fundraiser. She is working to build her confidence in speaking out and to inspire others to be the best they can be no matter what.

Edyael Casaperalta

The Center for Rural Strategies
THE POWERS OF RURAL AND URBAN UNITE!
Edyael Casaperalta was born and raised in Mexico, but now considers Elsa, Texas, a small rural border town, one of her homes. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Occidental College, and a M.A. on Latin American Studies from Ohio University. She is a Program and Research Associate at The Center for Rural Strategies, and is currently organizing a campaign around the opportunities that White Space Devices present for rural communities' access to broadband.

Mariana Castañeda

Detroit Summer LAMP
KEYNOTE: REGRESS, PLATEAU OR EVOLVE
Mariana Castañeda is a native southwest Detroiter. Since high school, she has been involved in Detroit Summer. In the summer of 2007, she travelled to the West Bank, Palestine as a part of the Youth Solidarity Network. She facilitated a 10-day version of the Live Arts Media Project, with youth at the Ibdaa Cultural Center in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp. The project produced an audio documentary titled, Dreams Between Graves.

Centro Obrero de Detroit

TRANSMITTER BUILD WITH PROMETHEUS RADIO PROJECT
CREATING THE TOOLS FOR AN IMMIGRANT SAFETY NET
Centro Obrero in Southwest Detroit is a center that provides ESL classes for free, organizes community dialogues and workshops, helps people who have problems at the job such as not getting paid and is now currently working on establishing an extremely low-wattage radio transmitter for education and translation purposes (through the AMC).

Jazmine Coates

The Empowered Fe Fes
"DOIN IT: SEX, DISABILITY AND VIDEOTAPE" & "WHY THEY GOTTA DO ME LIKE THAT? THE FE FES TAKE ON BULLYING”
Jazmine Coates, 21, has been a Fe Fes member since 2005. She is a Black woman with a plan to get independent and she is making it happen. She has taken the initiative to get herself job training, tutoring, counseling, and friends along the way. She also somehow finds the time to be a member of AYLP, youth with disabilities organizing to improve the systems that affect them.

Kellee Coleman

Mamis of Color Rising Radio
MORE THAN NEWS: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING THROUGH COMMUNITY RADIO
Kellee Coleman was born and raised in Austin, TX. She's a single mother of two children, and currently works and goes to school. She is a collective member of Mamis of Color Rising and worked on the original radio show in 2006 and 2007. She works at the City of Austin Department of Family and Youth Services on a needs and strengths assessment of the socio-economically marginalized community of Austin.

Ileana Cortez

Centro Obrero
TRANSMITTER BUILD WITH PROMETHEUS RADIO PROJECT
CREATING THE TOOLS FOR AN IMMIGRANT SAFETY NET

DeAnne Cuellar

Texas Media Empowerment Project
FROM SOCIAL NETWORKING TO DIGITAL SECURITY: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE WEB 2.0 FUTURE
DeAnne Cuellar is an independent media maker, and the San Antonio Project Director of the Texas Media Empowerment Project. DeAnne works with many social justice organizations, individuals, and media reform groups to establish a coherent vision for media justice through media monitoring; educating around media justice and the interconnections of issues such as race, gender, class and sexuality; and sustaining a community media environment that strives for media justice and media advocacy for underrepresented communities.

Felix Cruz

People’s Production House, Digital Expansion Initiative
THIE INTERNET, PART I: WHAT IT IS
Felix Cruz is an organizer with New Immigrant Community Empowerment and a member of the Digital Expansion Initiative of People's Production House.

Malkia Cyril

The Center for Media Justice
THE POWERS OF RURAL AND URBAN UNITE!
Malkia A. Cyril is a writer, veteran organizer, and the Executive Director of the Center for Media Justice. From winning poetry slams at the Neuyorican Poet's Café as a teenager to 10 years of publishing, community organizing, and media strategy for justice- Malkia hopes h/er leadership and commitment to struggle speaks beautifully for itself.

Ingrid Hu Dahl

Youth Media Reporter
YOUTH MEDIA EDUCATORS CAUCUS
Ingrid Hu Dahl is the editor of Youth Media Reporter and a founding member of the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls in Brooklyn, New York. She has an M.A. in Women's & Gender Studies and is the guitarist in the band Boyskout. In her spare time, Dahl cuts hipster hair cuts and makes frequent visits to stoop sales, flea markets and thrift stores

Aliza Dichter

Center for International Media Action
MAPPING THE NEXT TEN YEARS
Aliza Dichter is co-director of CIMA: Center for International Media Action where she helps groups build their alliances & strategies for transforming the media & communications environment to serve social justice and human rights. She writes and organizes conversations about media policy, corporate power and how to support movements that can win. Liza is a board member of Women In Media & News and is helping to organize a community radio station at home in rural Greene County, New York.

Tim Dorsey

Youth Media Learning Network
GROWING THE FIELD OF YOUTH MEDIA EDUCATORS
Timothy Dorsey is Director of the Youth Media Learning Network. For four years he served as Managing Director of the Educational Video Center (EVC), a New York City-based youth media organization dedicated to teaching documentary video production to young people and educators. He has served on advisory boards for the Youth Media Reporter; Girls Incorporated’s national media literacy initiative; the Urban Visionaries Youth Film Festival; the International YMCA’s Program for Teens; and the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN).

Ricardo Dominguez

The Electronic Disturbance Theater
KEYNOTE: REGRESS, PLATEAU OR EVOLVE
CREATING THE TOOLS FOR AN IMMIGRANT SAFETY NET
Ricardo Dominguez is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), a group who developed Virtual-Sit-In technologies in 1998 in solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. His recent Electronic Disturbance Theater project with Brett Stabaum and Micha Cárdenas, the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a GPS cellphone safety net tool for crossing the Mexico/U.S border, was the winner of "Transnational Communities Award." (http://bang.calit2.net)

Dulani

Global Action Project
STRATEGIC FRAMING AND MESSAGING
Dulani, Media Educator, is a graduate of Oberlin College, where he studied video and filmmaking as part of his concentration in Art for Social Change. He is a fierce anti-violence activist, having worked with Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) and South Asian Youth Action (SAYA!). He is Artist-in-Residence for Brooklyn Community Access Television, where he is working on a documentary about Audre Lorde Project’s Safe OUTside the System Collective highlighting community responses to hate violence and police violence.

Gabriel Duncan

SNAG Magazine
SNAG MAGAZINE: NATIVE CULTURE, GENOCIDE AND RESISTANCE IN CALIFORNIA
I'm coming with SNAG Magazine to host SNAG Magazine: Native Culture, Genocide and Resistance in California. I'm a Native Californian/Mexican from the Utu-Utu Gwaitu Paiute Tribe in Benton California. I'll be co-hosting the workshop with my friend Ras K'Dee.

Mona Eldahry

Arab Women Active in the Arts and Media (AWAAM)
THE FUTURE OF CENSORSHIP
Mona Eldahry is Founding Director of AWAAM: Arab Women Active in the Arts and Media. Her background is in video production, live sound and popular education. She works to empower community members with the technical and community organizing skills necessary to affect social change.

Nada Elia

INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
THE FUTURE OF CENSORSHIP
Nada Elia is Palestinian, she was born in Iraq to refugee parents, and grew up in Beirut, where she worked as a war journalist during the Lebanese (un)Civil War and the Israeli invasion. Nada's interests focus on the various fronts ("armed conflict," social and domestic) where violence against women takes place as a result of a society's hypermilitarization. Nada is a member of the INCITE! National Collective and a founding member of The Radical Arab Women's Activist Network (RAWAN).

Jordan Flaherty

Left Turn Magazine
MEDIA COVERAGE AND GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING: JENA SIX AND NEW JERSEY FOUR FROM THE INSIDE
NEW GRASSROOTS VIDEO FROM NEW ORLEANS
Jordan Flaherty is a writer, community organizer, and an editor of Left Turn Magazine. He was the first journalist with a national audience to write about the Jena Six case, and played an important role in bringing the story to national attention. His writing from New Orleans in ColorLines Magazine shared a journalism award from New America Media for best Katrina-related coverage in the Ethnic press.

Krista Franklin

KEYNOTE: REGRESS, PLATEAU OR EVOLVE
Krista Franklin is a poet and visual artist whose work has been published in Clam, Callaloo, MiPOesias.com, and the anthology Gathering Ground. Her collages have appeared on the covers of award-winning books, and exhibited nationally in solo and group exhibitions. She is a Cave Canem Fellow, and the co-founder of 2nd Sun Salon, a community meeting space for writers, visual and performance artists, musicians and scholars.

Adrianna Gallardo

Real Media
BUILDING SOLIDARITY, INCITING CHANGE: ACCESSIBLE MEDIA PRODUCTION THROUGH DIGITAL STORYTELLING
Adrianna Gallardo is an 11th grade honors student at Western International High School in SW Detroit. Adrianna has volunteered with the Real Media program for two years and serves on the Youth Advisory Council. Adrianna is interested in pursuing a career in education.

Tracy Gallardo

Real Media
BUILDING SOLIDARITY, INCITING CHANGE: ACCESSIBLE MEDIA PRODUCTION THROUGH DIGITAL STORYTELLING
Tracy Gallardo is a 10th grade honors student at Western International High School in SW Detroit. Tracy has volunteered with the Real Media program for two years and serves on the Youth Advisory Council. She aspires to be a professional photographer.

Isabel Gonzalez

Sista II Sista
PEOPLES STATISTICS: PART II - PUTTING PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH TO WORK!
Isabel was born and raised in New York City. She has 10 years experience in community organizing in a variety of settings focusing on a range of economic and social justice issues. Her most recent organizing experiences have been around community accountability and work around violence against women of color. Isabel has incorporated popular education in her organizing and political work. Isabel is a proud aunt to seven nieces and nephews.

Alan Greig

Generation 5
UNDOING "CRIME": MEDIA TO DE-CRIMINALIZE AND DECOLONIZE
Alan has worked for the past 12 years as an independent consultant, focusing on designing and supporting programs to address issues of gender, violence and HIV/AIDS, in countries of both the economic North and South. As a former Board President of Men Overcoming Violence in San Francisco and as a current member of Generation Five's Men's Collaborative, Alan continues to develop tools and strategies for engaging men in work to end male supremacy.

Denise Guadiana

Real Media
BUILDING SOLIDARITY, INCITING CHANGE: ACCESSIBLE MEDIA PRODUCTION THROUGH DIGITAL STORYTELLING
Denise Guadiana is an 11th grade honors student at Western International High School in SW Detroit. Denise has volunteered with Real Media for two years and serves on the Youth Advisory Council. She is active in her community as a Building with Books volunteer. Denise would like to pursue a college degree in pre-med and apply to dental school.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Broken Beautiful Press / UBUNTU
KEYNOTE: REGRESS, PLATEAU OR EVOLVE
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a queer black trouble-maker. She is the founder of BrokenBeautiful Press and a doctoral candidate in English, Africana Studies and Women's Studies at Duke University. Alexis represents SpiritHouse, Southerners on New Ground, Firewalkers, UBUNTU, Critical Resistance, Left Turn, Make/Shift and Durham, North Carolina Massive.

Josué Guillén

The Praxis Project
THE INTERNET, PART II: WHAT IT CAN BE
Josué Guillén is the Technology Manager at The Praxis Project, a national intermediary that supports organizing groups. He is a member of the National Planning Committee of the USSF. He is a board member of the Progressive Technology Project and May First/People Link. He has been doing movement work for almost 20 years.

Laura Hadden

The Center for Digital Storytelling
BUILDING SOLIDARITY, INCITING CHANGE: ACCESSIBLE MEDIA PRODUCTION THROUGH DIGITAL STORYTELLING
Laura Hadden is an Americorps CTC VISTA member at The Center for Digital Storytelling where she manages the Stories for Change (http://storiesforchange.net) website, assists in workshops, and works as a community organizer. Laura is thrilled to continue combining her passions for media and social change. In her spare time, Laura can be found at KPFA Free Speech Radio, where she is a member of the First Voice Apprenticeship program, and working on various photography projects.

Kyle Hall

KEYNOTE: REGRESS, PLATEAU OR EVOLVE
Kyle Hall is a 16 year old dj/producer who plays an eclectic blend of house, techno, hip hop, jazz and pretty much everything else. In 2007 he released his first record on FXHD Records. He pushes the boundaries of electronic music with an avant-garde aesthetic that's still deeply rooted in Detroit music.

Hardcore Detroit

KEYNOTE: REGRESS PLATEAU OR EVOLVE
A legendary Detroit breaking crew established in 2001 by Haleem Rasul. Hardcore Detroit is also a clothing line, visit http://hardcoredetroit.biz/ for more information.

Idris Hassan

MANIFESTING SPIRIT THROUGH THE ARTS
Idris Hassan, is a multimedia artist using creative expression to promote positive social transformation. Ms. Hassan has participated in the field of Mass Communications for over 8 years and has worked as an entertainment journalist, an editorial assistant, and a radio segment editor in addition to contributing writings to various publications. She is a graduate of the First Voice Radio Apprenticeship program and has worked with various programs on Pacifica Radio Station KPFA in Berkeley, CA.

Elena Herrada

Centro Obrero
TRANSMITTER BUILD WITH PROMETHEUS RADIO PROJECT
CREATING THE TOOLS FOR AN IMMIGRANT SAFETY NET

Rachel Herzing

Creative Interventions / Left Turn Magazine / The Abolitionist
UNDOING "CRIME": MEDIA TO DE-CRIMINALIZE AND DECOLONIZE
Rachel Herzing is the Director of Research and Organizing at Creative Interventions, an organization dedicated to re/envisioning solutions to intimate and interpersonal violence. Rachel organizes with Critical Resistance, a national grassroots organization dedicated to abolishing the prison industrial complex and also works with Left Turn Magazine, the Center for Political Education and the Freedom Archives.

Geoff Hing

BE THE WEB: USING WEB 2.0 INNOVATIONS TO ORGANIZE AND CONNECT
Geoffrey Hing studied computer science and engineering as a college student which means that both distant family members and community groups like the Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project come to him with their technology questions. This has left him wondering, "How does technology find a place in community media and organizing where the energy goes into the community and not the technology?"

Sandra Hines

Fighting For Justice
MORE THAN NEWS: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING THROUGH COMMUNITY RADIO
Sandra Hines is a member of the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality, a former independent candidate for Detroit School Board, co-host of "Fighting for Justice" radio program and theater worker.

Devorah Hill

Arab Women Active in the Arts and Media (AWAAM)
SPEAK: MEDIA SKILLS TRAINING FOR WOMEN AND TRANS PEOPLE OF COLOR
Media activist/educator and AWAAM’s lead video mentor Devorah Hill has been
bringing community stories to the public for almost three decades. A staff
member of Manhattan Neighborhood Network, her work allows her to empower
people with the skills to effectively tell their own stories.

Dannette Hoarde

Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance
MEDIA ACCESS FOR PRISONERS
Dannette Hoarde is the Program Manager for Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance. She has worked with Lutheran Social Services of Illinois and Family Support America, where she worked to coordinate a national conference about the children of incarcerated parents. She currently works for Beyondmedia Education.

Hotep

HustleUniversity.Org
UNBOUGHT AND UNBOSSED: TOOLS FOR INDEPENDENCE
Hotep is the founder of HustleUniversity.Org. The mission of Hustle University is to promote entrepreneurialism and leadership through personal development, empowerment and the teachings of proven success strategies. Hotep is an entertainment media mogul widely recognized for his out-the-box thinking, guerilla marketing tactics and his unique “common sense” approach to teaching complex business, spiritual and intellectual concepts. His motto is, “Don’t wait for opportunity, CREATE IT”!

The Howling Mob Society

(Robin Hewlett, Mary Tremonte, Shaun Slifer)
HISTORY, MEMORY AND PUBLIC SPACE: TAKING BACK THE PLAQUE
The Howling Mob Society (HMS) was formed in Pittsburgh in the late Fall 2006 and consists of a core group of six anonymous artists-activists. For their inaugural project the HMS set out to create a historical sign project that would draw attention to the Railroad Strike of 1877, one of the most significant and violent labor strike’s in US history.

Hurricane Season: The Hidden Messages in Water (Climbing Poetree)

KEYNOTE: REGRESS, PLATEAU OR EVOLVE
Hurricane Season is a multi-media show, popular education tour, and national organizing strategy that connects the issues that surfaced in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to the "unnatural disasters" disenfranchised communities are experiencing nationwide and worldwide on a daily basis. Clips featured in the AMC keynote are excerpts from the environmental justice chapter of Hurricane Season. Visit www.HURRICANESEASONTOUR.com for more information about the tour, the project and the incredible spoken word duo, Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman (Climbing Poetree).

Sandra Husic

The Empowered Fe Fes
"DOIN IT: SEX, DISABILITY AND VIDEOTAPE" & "WHY THEY GOTTA DO ME LIKE THAT? THE FE FES TAKE ON BULLYING"
Sandra Husic, 21, came to the US from Bosnia when she was 12. She has been a member of the Fe Fes since fall of 2005. She lives on her own now and is learning how to get around town. She is a poet and a fierce defender of her rights. She likes it when the fe fes take on more responsibility and has started to help facilitate parts of the fe fe meetings.

Ilana Invincible

Detroit Summer LAMP
FROM INDEPENDENCE TO INTERDEPENDENCE: BUILDING ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIES FOR ALTERNATIVE MEDIA MAKERS
Invincible’s spitfire wordplay has gotten her acclaim from Hip Hop fans across the world, while her active involvement in social change has taken her music beyond entertainment, towards actualizing the change she wishes to see. Repping Detroit, many are familiar with her work with Waajeed and Platinum Pied Pipers, Finale, the ANOMOLIES crew, Black Star, and many others. Dubbed by XXL Magazine as "every A&Rs worst nightmare" for rejecting major label deals, Invincible started her record label, EMERGENCE, self-releasing her full length LP, ShapeShifters, June, 2008.

Dan Jones

Philadelphia Student Union
MORE THAN NEWS: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING THROUGH COMMUNITY RADIO
Dan Jones is a member of the Philadelphia Student Union and a high school sophomore.

Dean Jansen

The Participatory Culture Foundation
ZERO DOLLARS: SETTING UP A MEDIA PUBLISHING NERVE CENTER USING FREE AND OPEN SOURCE MEDIA TOOLS
Dean does outreach for the Participatory Culture Foundation. His work with Miro spans a wide range of activities; from project management and interface design to blogging and traveling. Spreading free culture and internet fun rank high on his list of hobbies. Recent projects include: YouTomb.mit.edu, ROFLCon, and a Zuneral.

Ras K'dee

SNAG Magazine
SNAG MAGAZINE: NATIVE CULTURE, GENOCIDE AND RESISTANCE IN CALIFORNIA
Ras K'dee is co-founder/design editor of SNAG Magazine a native youth zine out of the Bay Area. He co-host's a radio program on local community station KPFA called Bay Native Circle, which airs weekly. You can catch him on the stage performing with One Struggle or Audiopharmacy in San Francisco and beyond.

Remy Kharbanda

Research for Revolution
PEOPLES STATISTICS: PART II - PUTTING PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH TO WORK!
Remy Kharbanda is a South Asian activist researcher and budding documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work focuses on law enforcement interactions with women of color, immigration issues, the war on terror, and displacement in the South Asian diaspora. She is co-owner and production manager at Callejero Films. She is also one half of "Research for Revolution," or RFR, a New York City based research collaborative that supports integration of participatory research into community based organizing.

Sahee Kil

UNDOING "CRIME": MEDIA TO DE-CRIMINALIZE AND DECOLONIZE
I consider myself a scholar-activist. I am currently an assistant professor at San Jose State University in the SF Bay area. I teach about the criminalization of people of color, and the media's affect on social inequality, and social justice. My research currently focuses on the media's coverage of the USA-Mexico border, immigration, and race/ethnicity.

Andalusia Knoll

Free Speech Radio News / Rustbelt Radio / Prometheus Radio Project
GRASSROOTS RADIO PRODUCTION: TELLING AND TO THE POINT
Andalusia Knoll is a radio aficionado who works with Free Speech Radio News, a grassroots worker-run daily newscast and Rustbelt Radio, a weekly community news program in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Through her radio work she aims to dismantle the Prison Industrial Complex, fight gentrification, encourage bicycle riding and broadcast amazing international hip hop. She will soon be freeing the airwaves from corporate control as a Community Station Organizer for the Prometheus Radio Project (prometheusradio.org).

Nicholas Lampert

Just Seeds/Visual Resistance Artists Cooperative
HISTORY, MEMORY AND PUBLIC SPACE: TAKING BACK THE PLAQUE
Nicolas Lampert is a Milwaukee-based interdisciplinary artist and writer. He works collectively with Just Seeds/Visual Resistance Artist Cooperative (www.justseeds.org). Other examples of his work can be viewed at www.machineanimalcollages.com

Victoria Law

MEDIA ACCESS FOR PRISONERS
Victoria Law is a writer, photographer and mother. She is the editor of the zine "Tenacious: Art and Writings from Women in Prison" and is currently writing The Invisibility of Women Prisoners' Resistance, a book about resistance and organizing among incarcerated women (PM Press 2008).

Jenny Lee

Detroit Summer / Allied Media Projects / INCITE!
PEOPLES STATISTICS: PART II - PUTTING PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH TO WORK!
Jenny Lee has been a part of a movement for visionary, youth-led, community transformation in Detroit, known as Detroit Summer, for the past 6 years. She has helped the Allied Media Conference make it's new home in Detroit, as an organizer of the 2007 and 2008 conferences. She recently joined the national collective of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, and is thrilled to be working with some of the fiercest women she's ever met.

Starlet Lee

Detroit Summer LAMP
PEOPLES STATISTICS: PART II - PUTTING PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH TO WORK!
Starlet Lee is a young, talented activist, organizer and singer, who's inspired to be a part of the movement for social change by staying aware of problems and constantly creating solutions.

Stephen Lewis

2-cent Entertainment
USING WHAT YOU GOT TO CREATE AND PROMOTE: GRASSROOTS VIDEO PRODUCTION
Stephen Lewis, 26, is a host, actor and writer for 2-cent Entertainment, and a New Orleans native.

Puck Lo

Critical Resistance-Oakland / INCITE! Bay Area / National Radio Project / Free Speech Radio News
UNDOING "CRIME": MEDIA TO DE-CRIMINALIZE AND DECOLONIZE
Puck Lo is a radio producer, reporter and writer who works for National Radio Project's weekly radio show, "Making Contact," and the world's only worker-run, international daily newscast- "Free Speech Radio News." She'll be going to Japan this summer to report on the G8 Summit in Hokkaido, and to build links between Asian-American and North American anti-authoritarian people of color, and East Asian activists.

Isabel Macdonald

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
MEDIA MONITORING FOR DISABILITY RIGHTS AND BEYOND
Isabel Macdonald is the Communications Director at FAIR. She writes media criticism for FAIR's magazine Extra! and for the Huffington Post, and she is a member of the Paper Tiger TV and video collective. She has been involved in communications work in several grassroots social justice, labor and media activism campaigns, and her writing has been published in Journalism Studies, the Canadian Journal of Communication, Race & Class, Z Net and Upping the Anti.

Yasmin Madadi

Arab Women Active in the Arts and Media (AWAAM)
SPEAK: MEDIA SKILLS TRAINING FOR WOMEN AND TRANS PEOPLE OF COLOR
Yasmin Madadi focuses on LGBT and civil rights issues in the muslim community. She helped develop AWAAM's weekend art collective, a multi-generational group of arab and non-arab women creating poetry, video and radio productions. She is a freelance journalist/radio documentation living in Brooklyn.

Steven Mansour

The Strict Machine Foundation
ZERO DOLLARS: SETTING UP A MEDIA PUBLISHING NERVE CENTER USING FREE AND OPEN SOURCE MEDIA TOOLS
A self-proclaimed "creative generalist", Steven is a social researcher, trainer and advisor to medical groups, researchers, non-profits, academia and community groups in Canada, and in developing countries - helping implement fun things like blogging, citizen journalism, and intelligent information architecture in ways that make sense to human beings.

Mary Dee

5th Element
IF I CAN'T DANCE IN YOUR REVOLUTION: B-GIRLS FOR THE MOVEMENT
Marydee is a global educator that grew up listening to hip hop in L.A. She now lives in Oakland and represents El Salvador all day. Her work has taken her to Cuba, Tanzania, Jamaica and Haiti(2008). Her focus on Pan-Africanism uses hip hop and youthful energy to heal communities.

Jamie McClelland

May First/People Link
THE INTERNET, PART II: WHAT IT CAN BE
Jamie McClelland is Co-Directory of May First/People Link, the progressive Internet organization. He played an anchor role in developing the technology team for the US Social Forum in 2007. He has been active in progressive politics, ranging from alternative media (Paper Tiger Television) to collective labor organizing (with Media Jumpstart/May First Technology Collective) and more for over 20 years.

Ana Mercado

The Empowered Fe Fes
"DOIN IT: SEX, DISABILITY AND VIDEOTAPE" & "WHY THEY GOTTA DO ME LIKE THAT? THE FE FES TAKE ON BULLYING"
Ana Mercado - is a 26 year old Dominican woman who is coordinating the Empowered Fe Fes support and action group of girls with disabilities in Chicago. She facilitated the process of the Fe Fes making the film "Why they Gotta Do Me Like That: The Fe Fes Take On Bullying". She also helps community organizations work on challenging ablism and including youth with disabilities.

Stacey Milbern

MEDIA MONITORING FOR DISABILITY RIGHTS AND BEYOND
Stacey Milbern is a fierce queer, disabled, Korean-American community-builder. She works to include media justice in the Disability Rights Movement. She blogs at crip-power.com and is also involved with youth activism and women of color media making.

Jeanette Monsalve

Mamis of Color Rising Radio Collective
MORE THAN NEWS: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING THROUGH COMMUNITY RADIO
Jeanette Monsalve is a single mother of two daughters based in Austin, Texas. In 2003 she co-founded Mamis of Color Radio Show and since then has served as programmer for the show. She works as a Medical Assistant in a women's reproductive health clinic and at a birthing center. As a doula and a mother, she took on an active role in the fight to keep Midwives accessible to women on Medicaid and patients in the hospitals of Austin.

jessica Care moore

Moore Black Press
FROM INDEPENDENCE TO INTERDEPENDENCE: BUILDING ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIES FOR ALTERNATIVE MEDIA MAKERS
jessica Care moore is an award winning poet, activist, music and theater artist and the CEO of Moore Black Press Publishing. She is an Apollo Legend and a Motown baby. She is the author of the forthcoming book and solo theater show, God is Not an American, and the best selling titles, The Words Don't Fit in My Mouth and The Alphabet Verses The Ghetto. She is the proud mommy of her 21 month year old
King Thomas James Moore Poole.

Jesse Muhammad

The Final Call Newspaper
MEDIA COVERAGE AND GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING: JENA SIX AND NEW JERSEY FOUR FROM THE INSIDE
Jesse Muhammad, a native of Houston, Texas, started contributing to the Final Call Newspaper in 2004. Since that time, he has gained worldwide recognition for his consistent coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the continuing struggle of its survivors. In 2007, he was credited with bringing national and international attention to the case of the "Jena Six", and helped to mobilize the 50,000 plus attendees to the historic "Jena Six" rally in September of that year.

Selina Musuta

Free Speech Radio News
GRASSROOTS RADIO PRODUCTION: TELLING AND TO THE POINT
Selina Musuta aka Mothershiester is a Hoola Hooping, Queer Shaking, Hybrid Kenyan, Roller Skating Gang Member, and Dance Floor Imperialist. You can catch her in the District of Columbia producing radio pieces with youth members of Radio Rootz as well as reporting on the stories that make D.C. unique

Alexis Neider

PS 155 William Paca School (New York City)
GROWING THE FIELD OF YOUTH MEDIA EDUCATORS
Alexis Neider teaches the Spanish component of the second-grade dual language program at P.S. 155 William Paca School in East Harlem, New York. This year she developed and executed an ESL through Technology after-school class with nine of her students. Alexis participated this year in Programa Binacional de Educación Migrante (Bi-national Program on the Education of Immigrant Students), a teacher exchange program through the Mexican consulate.

Una Osato

Palestine Education Project
RECESS: ONE GIRL'S STRUGGLE BETWEEN GETTING AN EDUCATION AND GETTING SCHOOLED
CULTURE & RESISTANCE FROM BROOKLYN TO PALESTINE
Born and raised in NYC, Una Aya Osato is a performer, educator and babysitter. She is currently a teaching artist at five different middle and high schools in NYC. Additionally she is performing Recess and leading workshops on issues it raises at various theaters, classrooms, community organizations and college campuses around the country.

Laimah Osman

Arab Women Active in the Arts and Media (AWAAM)
SPEAK: MEDIA SKILLS TRAINING FOR WOMEN AND TRANS PEOPLE OF COLOR
Laimah Osman is a multi-media artivist (artist + activist) living in Brooklyn, NY. She collaborates with social justice organizations to build visual tools for resistance and hopes to empower people through art-making, media-making and personal expression.

Johanna Pajuelo

People’s Production House Digital Expansion Initiative
THE INTERNET, PART I: WHAT IT IS
I'm from Queens, NY and I go to City-As-School in New York. Through my school, I got an internship with the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) to work on the Digital Expansion Initiative. We learned about the Internet and went around meeting people that were nice enough to take the time out to answer our very rudimentary questions. All five of us took turns working the camera, sound, and editing clips and making stop motion animations.

Steve Pierce

Media Alliance
THE FUTURE OF CENSORSHIP
Steve Pierce is a longtime community media organizer with roots in non-commercial radio stations from New Orleans to New York. Co-founder of Hudson Mohawk Indymedia, he now spends most of his time developing The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, NY.

Ryan Pinion

MEDIA MONITORING FOR DISABILITY RIGHTS AND BEYOND
Ryan Pinion is from Durham, North Carolina. He is a feminist, gender outlaw, and disability activist among other things. Ryan performs with the political performance group the Cuntry Kings under the stage name Rank N' Pinion. Ryan enjoys making crafts, listening to records, hoola hooping, and talking about disability community and culture.

The Philadelphia Student Union

YOUTH MEDIA TO WHAT END?
MORE THAN NEWS: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING THROUGH COMMUNITY RADIO
The Philadelphia Student Union builds the power of young people to demand a high quality education in the Philadelphia public school system. We are youth-led and we make positive changes in the short term by learning how to organize to build power. We see media production as a critical component of our organizing campaigns and an essential tool for educating/mobilizing our communities. We recently launched On Blast!, a youth-produced radio show that focuses on the issues that we are actively organizing around. In addition to creating coverage of our own campaigns, we are creating youth-centered content on larger topics of education and economic justice.

Mayra Puma

The Empowered Fe Fes
"DOIN IT: SEX, DISABILITY AND VIDEOTAPE" & "WHY THEY GOTTA DO ME LIKE THAT? THE FE FES TAKE ON BULLYING
Mayra Puma, 20, is a student at Vaughn High School who's family is from Ecuador. She has been a member of the Fe Fes since 2006. She is a very passionate and her message is that girls with disabilities are important. She is very enthusiastic about the Fe Fes being in control of their own meetings and projects and she regularly helps to create meeting agendas.

Leslie Raymond

FROM MASHUPS TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: COPYRIGHT FROM AN ARTISTS PERSPECTIVE
Leslie Raymond is a Professor of New Media Program, UTSA and Live VJ/Video Artist.

Anthony Rayson

South Chicago ABC Zine Distro
MEDIA ACCESS FOR PRISONERS
Anthony Rayson is a writer, editor and grassroots organizer. He is the curator of South Chicago ABC Zine Distro (www.lib.depaul.edu/speccoll), a political zine distro with 400+ titles and a heavy emphasis on the prisons.

Kameelah Rasheed

MEDIA ACCESS FOR PRISONERS
Kameelah Rasheed is an graduate student, educator, writer and self-taught photographer. She is completing her Ed.M and teaching credential while teaching 12th graders in the Bay Area, CA. Her writing has appeared in the Nation online, Wiretap Magazine, and Pambazuka News.

Andrea Ridges

Detroit Summer LAMP
PEOPLES STATISTICS: PART II - PUTTING PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH TO WORK!

Kristofer Ríos

People’s Production House / Digital Expansion Initiative
THE INTERNET, PART I: WHAT IT IS
Kristofer Ríos is the Program Associate for the Digital Expansion Initiative of People's Production House. Kristofer has been a guest host for FM radio stations in Ghana and Brazil, and he produces and hosts a weekly Internet radio show on East Village Radio. Kristofer is also a freelance journalist who has dedicated the last three years to researching, archiving, and preserving music in Ghana, Brazil, and the Caribbean. He was also a recipient of the Thomas J. Watson Research Fellowship.

Andrea Ritchie

Research for Revolution / INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
PEOPLES STATISTICS: PART II - PUTTING PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH TO WORK!
Andrea Ritchie is a Black progressive lesbian feminist of African Caribbean descent who has worked in the women's movement in the U.S. and Canada over the past 15 years as an advocate and researcher. She is a member of the National Collective of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence. She graduated from Howard University School of Law in 2002 and is a partner in RFR, a research collaborative that supports integration of participatory research into community-based organizing.

Chuck Robinson

Texas Media Empowerment Project
FROM SOCIAL NETWORKING TO DIGITAL SECURITY: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE WEB 2.0 FUTURE
Aside from organizing for media justice/reform, I am a journalist, improv comedian, roller derby emcee and comedy defensive driving instructor—a gonzo improv activist with a day job, if you will. I currently write for the Lone Star Iconoclast and am a member of the 9/11 Truth Movement. I have a degree in Psychology & Journalism from Univ. of the Incarnate Word and have lived in San Antonio for 10 years, with roots in Kansas City and New York.

Paula Rojas

Mamis of Color Rising Radio Collective
KEYNOTE: REGRESS, PLATEAU OR EVOLVE
PEOPLES STATISTICS: PART II - PUTTING PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH TO WORK!
MORE THAN NEWS: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING THROUGH COMMUNITY RADIO
Paula X. Rojas is a community organizer born in Chile, and currently based in Austin, TX. She spent ten years helping to co-build Sista II Sista (an organization for young Black and Latina women) in Brooklyn, NY. She works as the mother of 4yr old Xue-li Dolores and makes a living as a doula/childbirth educator for immigrant women of color. She is a member of the INCITE! National Advisory Collective and the Mamis of Color Rising Collective.

Sandra de la Roza

The Pocho Research Society
HISTORY, MEMORY AND PUBLIC SPACE: TAKING BACK THE PLAQUE
Sandra de la Roza is a member of the Pocho Research Society,“a collective of artists, activists and rasquache historians who reside in Los Angeles. Dedicated to the systematic investigation of space, memory and displacement, the PRS understands history as a battleground of the present, a location where hidden & forgotten selves hijack & disrupt the oppression of our moment.” The PRS is known for installing their own plaques on the surface of monuments, offering a counter perspective and critique.

Jessamyn Sabbag

Future 5000 / Generation Vote
MAPPING THE NEXT 10 YEARS
Jessamyn Sabbag is a 28 year old Leo, born and raised in the Bay Area, currently based out of Oakland. She is the Director of Generation Vote, a coalition of over 20 national youth organizations coming together to collaborate around election work. She also directs Future 5000, a dynamic directory of youth organizations working for justice across all 50 states.

Ivettza Sanchez

Manhattan Neighborhood Network
THE FUTURE OF FILM AND VIDEO ONLINE
Ivettza is a independent videoblogger as well as an educator with Manhattan Neighborhood Network Her videoblogging is based on the idea that this technology allows grassroots producers to send, receive and reinforce knowledge, dialogue and cultural expression at the community level. You can visit her blog at themomentends.typepad.com

Josh Redd Sanchez

STREET ART 101
Josh Redd Sanchez is a stencil artist from Ann Arbor, MI who's been transforming the local media landscape through radical street art projects since the mid 90s.

Leah Sapin

Arts Engine
THE FUTURE OF FILM AND VIDEO ONLINE
Leah has freelanced for various film & television production and post-production companies throughout Manchester, London and New York. Leah currently works for Arts Engine; a New York based non-profit media arts organization, where she is the Festival & Outreach Manager for the Media That Matters Film Festival; an outreach campaign-based festival of international short, social issue films that are used in classrooms and shown in theaters, community halls and broadcast on television around the world to educate and inspire activism.
Www.mediathatmattersfest.org

Zane Scheuerlein

Open Youth Networks
USING GOOGLE MAPS FOR YOUTH COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
Zane Scheuerlein, 17, is a Junior at Evanston Township High School just outside of Chicago, Illinois. Zane began making videos at an early age and is an accomplished graphic designer and animator as well. As a media justice activist, Zane is a member of Open Youth Networks, a non-profit program that helps youth use participatory culture and media to make social change.

Ron Scott

Fighting for Justice Radio Show / Project B.A.I.T.
MORE THAN NEWS: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING THROUGH COMMUNITY RADIO
Ron Scott has more than 35 years of experience in radio, television, and video production. He is an Emmy Award-winning producer who has completed documentary projects on current affairs, cultural icons, entertainment, and politics in North American the Caribbean. He is a Co-Founder of the Detroit Branch of the Black Panther Party; is a member of the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality; the Detroit Council of Elders; and the National Lawyers Guild. Ron is also a long time Public Access television producer.

Amy Sharp

THE INTERNET, PART I: WHAT IT IS
Amy Sharp is a visual artist and documentary video maker originally from Michigan, now based in Brooklyn, New York. Working collaboratively with artist Morgan Schwartz, Sharp and Schwartz create work in response to specific sites and cultural systems.

Aiko Shirakawa

5th Element
IF I CAN'T DANCE IN YOUR REVOLUTION: B-GIRLS FOR THE MOVEMENT
Aiko Shirakawa has been teaching for 15 years and dancing professionally for 24 years. In 1997 she was the first female judge of the international Battle of the Year competition in Germany. She is part of the all-female Hip Hop organizations, 5th Element, supporting women in Hip Hop in northern California, and Collective 7 in the U.S. Aiko advocates Hip Hop programming as an intervening force for underprivileged and disadvantaged youth as well as a way to inspire and empower other women and people in general.

Brittany Shoot

THE FUTURE OF FILM AND VIDEO ONLINE
Brittany Shoot is a writer and media consultant based in Boston, MA, USA and Copenhagen, DK. She is concerned about digital colonialism and loves vegans and radical communication.

Jaggi Singh

No One Is Illegal-Montreal / Solidarity Across Borders
UNDOING "CRIME": MEDIA TO DE-CRIMINALIZE AND DECOLONIZE

Sarah Singh

Global Action Project
STRATEGIC FRAMING AND MESSAGING
Sarah Singh has been a youth producer at Global Action Project (G.A.P.), a social-justice youth media organization, for over 2 years. She is part of Youth Breaking Borders, a program that works specifically with immigrant youth to break down mainstream myths and create media that supports the immigrant rights movement. Sarah is also a senior at The Baccalaureate School of Global Education and will be attending Carnegie Mellon University in the fall.

Lottie V. Spady

Free D Media
KEYNOTE: REGRESS, PLATEAU OR EVOLVE
PLOTTING A MEDIA-BASED ECONOMY FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE
Lottie V. Spady has been working with young people and adults around media creation, activism and literacy for the past 5 years. She utilizes a framework rooted in popular education, social justice, and social entrepreneurship to help develop relevant 21st century skills that community residents can translate into economic development in underserved and underrepresented urban areas.

Leslie G. Stewart

THE FUTURE OF FILM AND VIDEO ONLINE
Leslie runs http://artactivismchange.com/. She is an educator, videomaker, editor, artist, activist, and web designer/developer. Originally from Cambridge, MA, she worked as an educator and advocate in the social services field for 11 years, and has been a web designer/developer in the new media field since 1997, running her own web design/development and computer training consultancy, impermanentmedia, since 1999.

Jamila Toaha

Global Action Project
STRATEGIC FRAMING AND MESSAGING
Jamila Toaha, a youth leader of Arab Women Active in Arts and Media (AWAAM), joined Global Action Project (G.A.P.), a social-justice youth media organization, last year. She is currently involved in Media in Action, a training initiative designed to support youth-led movement-building, organizing and social change efforts using G.A.P.’s youth media methodology. Jamila is a senior at Al-Noor School and is looking forward to attending college in the fall.

Silva Tingle

The Empowered Fe Fes
"DOIN IT: SEX, DISABILITY AND VIDEOTAPE" & "WHY THEY GOTTA DO ME LIKE THAT? THE FE FES TAKE ON BULLYING
Silva Tingle is a 19 year old high school student. She has been a member of the Fe Fes for 3 months and has already taken leadership in helping plan and perform a skit on forced sterilization for a citywide Youth Reproductive Justice Speak Out. She has a daughter named Alisha and she would like to get a job working with children or senior citizens.

Sterling Toles

FROM MASHUPS TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: COPYRIGHT FROM AN ARTIST’S PERSPECTIVE
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.

Nicole Tysvaer

Real Media
BUILDING SOLIDARITY, INCITING CHANGE: ACCESSIBLE MEDIA PRODUCTION THROUGH DIGITAL STORYTELLING
Nicole Tysvaer is the coordinator of Real Media Leadership Literacy Training. Real Media is a weekly after-school program for high school students that involves young people in documenting their communities. Real Media students map the resources in their community using multimedia technology including digital photography and web development. Real Media is a partnership of the University of Michigan School of Education and Western International High School in Southwest Detroit.

Visions to Peace Project

(Johonna McCants, Malcolm Che Gossett, Ngozi Agbara, Leon Baldwin)
VISION IS OUR POWER: CREATING SAFETY IN OUR COMMUNITIES WITHOUT POLICE
The Visions to Peace Project is a youth leadership and movement-building organization that fosters creative community action for safety and peace, rather than dependence on policing, prisons and punitive policies. We are committed to building a broad vision and movement for safety, justice and freedom - the building blocks of peace - through the use of arts, media and popular education. We are located in Washington, D.C. and our web site is http://www.visionispower.org

Mabel R. Williams

KEYNOTE: REGRESS PLATEAU OR EVOLVE
NEGROES WITH GUNS (FILM SCREENING)
Mabel R. Williams is the widow of civil rights leader, Robert F. Williams, who called for armed self-defense in 1961. They were driven out of the country with their two children, lived in exile for eight years in Cuba and China where they continued to fight and gather international support for the struggle.

Fallon Wilson

Be Bold Be Brave Be Red
CYBER QUILTING CAUCUS
Fallon Wilson is a PhD student in the Social Service Administration School, University of Chicago. Her research interests center on the intersectionality of racialized gendered stereotypes of adolescent black girls and how they affect teachers' expectations as well as teachers' understanding of gender violence within schools. She is the Director of Curriculum Development for Dr. Cathy Cohen's Black Youth Project. She was one of the organizers of the Be Bold Be Brave Be Red: End Violence against Women of Color Wear Red on October 31, 2007 Campaign.

Cortina Winfrey

The Empowered Fe Fes
"DOIN IT: SEX, DISABILITY AND VIDEOTAPE" & "WHY THEY GOTTA DO ME LIKE THAT? THE FE FES TAKE ON BULLYING
Cortina Winfrey, 16, is a student at Simeon High School and has been a Fe Fes member since 2005. She is friendly, sociable and brings lots of energy to the group that makes meetings more fun. She is into hip hop, computers, boys and social justice. She has been known to bring in news clippings to start a conversation in the group about race.

Gary Wise

FROM MASHUPS TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: COPYRIGHT FROM AN ARTISTS PERSPECTIVE
Gary Wise is a New Media Artist and Appropriation Connoisseur.

Brenna Wolf

Riseup Networks
FROM SOCIAL NETWORKING TO DIGITAL SECURITY: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE WEB 2.0 FUTURE
Brenna is a collective member of Riseup Networks. She worked on media activism and social justice organizing in Seattle. She co-founded Reclaim The Media and was active in the development of the indymedia network movement. Currently she's finishing her Master's thesis in Windsor, Ontario and is headed back to the Northwest in the fall for more school. She envisions a world where many worlds fit and where communications policies reflect human needs not corporate profits.

Pete Yahnke

Just Seeds/Visual Resistance Artists Cooperative
FROM INDEPENDENCE TO INTERDEPENDENCE: BUILDING ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIES FOR ALTERNATIVE MEDIA MAKERS
Pete Yahnke is a printmaker with a staggering amount of skills and stories residing in Portland, Oregon, where he keeps the cogs of the Justseeds radical art co-operative well-greased and turning.

Eric Yates

Philadelphia Student Union
MORE THAN NEWS: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING THROUGH COMMUNITY RADIO
Eric Yates is a member of the Philadelphia Student Union and a high school junior.

The Young Women's Empowerment Project

(Shira Hassan, Amber Kutka, Ryanna Sandoval, Cindy Ibarra, Isa Villaflor)
SOCIAL JUSTICE & ZINE-MAKING
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.

Bec Young

Just Seeds Visual Resistance Artists Cooperative
FROM INDEPENDENCE TO INTERDEPENDENCE: BUILDING ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIES FOR ALTERNATIVE MEDIA MAKERS
Bec Young is an artist and activist living in Detroit, MI. For her artwork she draws from her daily experiences of creating things including a community bike shop, a neighborhood garden, a meaningful existence and a healthy city with a group of people as equals. She is also part of the decentralized radical art cooperative, Justseeds.

Clinton Young III

2-cent Entertainment
USING WHAT YOU GOT TO CREATE AND PROMOTE: GRASSROOTS VIDEO PRODUCTION
Clinton Young III of 2-cent Entertainment is a 23 year-old New Orleans native, cast crew, writer and graphic designer for 2-cent Entertainment.

Youth Rights Media

YOUTH MEDIA TO WHAT END?
Youth Rights Media is a New Haven-based nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering youth to know, protect and advance their rights. YRM builds youth power and leadership by engaging young people in video media production and community organizing, equipping them with tools, skills, and strategies for affecting change within themselves and their communities

The Youth Solidarity Network

LIVE VIDEO CONFERENCE WITH YOUTH IN PALESTINE
The Youth Solidarity Network (YSN) brings together Palestinian youth with youth from communities of color in the US. The Network's purpose is to build the media arts and leadership development capacities of participating organizations while enabling youth to tell their own stories, share strategies and collaboratively envision creative new ways to work for freedom and justice. Additionally, the Network develops innovative multi-media tools and other educational resources to project the experiences, voices and visions of participating youth to broad international audiences.