Presenters of the 2007 AMC

The alternative media movement will be out in force at the AMC this summer.

Be a part of it and register today for three days of focused discussions, hands-on workshops, film screenings, and bowling (yep, there will be bowling)!

When you register, your organization's name will be added to the AMC's list of participants.

Here is the ever-growing list of presenters who will be leading workshops at the AMC:

Kat Aaron

People's Production House
Panel discussion: Take Charge of Your Internet Future
Kat Aaron is the Co-Director of People's Production House, a media education and organizing group in New York City. PPH works to expand the diversity of voices heard through the media, the issues covered, and to create media that encourages public participation in social change. To that end, we train youth and immigrant reporters in news radio production, and conduct community education and organizing on media policy issues. PPH has two main projects: Radio Rootz, which works in New York City public schools, and the Community News Production Institute, which partners with local immigrant community organizing groups. Kat is also a producer for Wakeup Call, the morning news show at WBAI 99.5 FM, and a regular contributor to Free Speech Radio News. Until 2005, she was the Communications Director at the nationally-renowned economic justice organization, the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project.

In her spare time, Kat knits, cooks, and watches Beauty and the Geek.

Nadia Abou-Karr

The Cultural Connect
Workshop: Zine Making for Women of Color

Habibah Ahmad

Panel discussion: Empowering our Communities through Public Access Television & the Challenges We Face
Film/Video-Based Workshop: "Beyond the Hijab": Using Film to Confront Stereotypes
Habibah Ahmad was born and rasied 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.

Christine Almeida

Global Action Project
Film/Video-Based Workshop: 1+1=3: Intro To Video Montage
I find myself to be a very unique person because of the way I present myself. I have a very unique sense of style and personality. I try to make the best of every situation and am not afraid to say what I really mean. My name is Christine Almeida I am 18 years old and am a senior at Murry Bergtraum High school for Business Careers. I am majoring in Travel and Tourism in my high school. After high school I plan on attending Sullivan Community College for two years and then I plan on transferring into Albany State to major in criminal justice.

I enjoy working with media that is the main reason I got involved with Global Action Project. I am really interested in working with media especially photography. Global Action Project has helped and taught me a lot of skills on how to express myself through different types of media for example through film, photography, parodies, public speaking and acting.

I also enjoy modeling and completed two years at the Barbizon School of Modeling. I keep myself busy by joining a lot of after school programs and having a lot of extra curricular activities. As of right now I am currently involved in the Estee Lauder Mentoring Program and am the C.E.O of Student Government in my school. I also enjoy helping others and teaching them new skills that they did not know before. I volunteer at my mom’s job “Unique People Services” where my mom is assistant manager. I help out with the paper work or sometimes help plan recreational activities for the mentally challenged kids that she works with.

All in all I find myself to be a very fun loving person who loves to help others and have fun as well. This is one of my favorite quotes “Every artist was first an amateur” by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Oyatunde Amakisi

Amakisi Unlimited LLC
Detroit Unleaded
Oyatunde Amakisi is an activist, artist, and the CEO of Amakisi Unlimited LLC, a Detroit based company that utilizes art as a tool of empowerment and healing through enriching cultural programs. Ms. Amakisi envisions Amakisi Unlimited LLC as a multifaceted company that facilitates unique entertaining venues for the community that educate and inspire men, women, and children of all races and economic backgrounds to work cooperatively to create positive change in our community. Amakisi Unlimited LLC has a strong history in Detroit, and has consistently supported and featured the extraordinary talents of national and local artists in its programming.

Oyatunde is currently producing the SACRED WATERS Spirituality Film Festival (Friday, October 19, 2007 and Saturday, October 20, 2007), the Second Annual Detroit Women of Color International Film Festival (Friday, May 9, 2008 and Saturday, May 10, 2008), and the RESTORATION, RESURRECT, AND REVOLUTION Film Festival 2008. She is also designing websites for SAVING OUR CULTURE, HUSH YOUR MOUTH (a progressive newspaper), Mattie Ware Community Fund, and exhibits of Confronting Empire: African Americans in the Struggle for Human Rights and Media Reform: An African American Perspective.

Diane Amdor

Rustbelt Radio
Workshop: Community News Radio Production

Jen Angel

Against the Grain
Caucus meeting: Print Caucus
Jen Angel, former co-editor and publisher of Clamor, is on the board of Allied Media Projects. She is currently a producer for the KPFA program Against the Grain.

Abayomi Azikiwe

Pan-African News Wire
Panel discussion: The Future of Radio
Abayomi Azikiwe is the Editor of the Pan-African News Wire and has been published in a host of periodicals and websites throughout the United States, Canada and the world. Azikiwe has also worked for the last seven years as a broadcast journalist on five different radio stations in Detroit and Toronto. He is a host of "Fighting for Justice", sponsored by the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality and broadcast from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on 1310 AM, WDTW, the Detroit affiliate of Air America Radio.

Abdulai Bah

WBAI Radio
Workshop: Reporting Immigration: Strategies for avoiding myths and broadening debate
As I arrived in the US back in September 2000 fleeing a bloody civil war in my home country Sierra Leone, I was arrested by the then INS and detained at the Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey. Four months later, I was released after being granted asylum. Since 2001, I have been visiting asylum seekers in detention and providing interpretation services to various NYC & NJ law firms and NGOs handling pro-bono asylum cases. I have delivered speeches on child soldiers at the Unicef, on asylum seekers at Columbia university, and on the conditions of detention at the Schomburg center in Harlem. I have participated at the Border Social Forum held in October 2006 in Juarez, Mexico, and provided assistance to victims of hurricane Katrina in Baker, Louisiana. Currently pursuing a Journalism degree at the City University of New York, I have been doing some reports for WBAI's Wake Up Call, a morning show that airs Monday through Friday in New York City.

Kazembe Balagun

The Brecht Forum
Panel: The Way We Tell History
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 is currently Outreach Coordinator at the Brecht Forum.

Peg Ball

ADAPT
Film/Video-Based Workshop: Inclusive Media: Supporting A Movement That Transforms Attitudes About Disability And Challenges Institutions

Rob "Biko" Baker

Campaign Against Violence
Panel: The Way We Tell History
Workshop: Everyday we struggling: a practical guide to fixing your community
Nationally recognized Hip-hop organizer and writer, Rob 'biko' Baker is a young public intellectual and activist. A native of Milwaukee, Biko balances working on a Ph.D. in History form UCLA, community organizing and being the Culture/Politics Correspondent for the nation’s leading hip-hop publication The Source.

In 2004, after spending several weeks in Iowa as the Deputy Press Director for the Brown and Black Presidential Forum, Biko returned to his hip-hop roots and helped organize Los Angeles based young voters to attend the first annual National Hip-Hop Political Convention. He finally returned to his home city as the Milwaukee City Director for the Young Voter Alliance (fiscally sponsored by the Young Dems) and developed a nontraditional voter outreach strategy that mobilized 14,000 young and urban voters to the polls on November 2nd.

In 2006, Biko began institutionalizing many of these best practices by developing the League of Young Voters’ training program. The Training Program, The Tunnel Builder Institute, prepares the next generation of young activists to make long-term commitments to local organizing efforts.

Also an energetic writer and young public intellectual, Biko has published several academic and popular culture articles including the controversial “G-Unot: Is Hip-Hop To Crew Fading Fast,” a critical analysis of violence in hip-hop culture.

Mera Beckford

Radio Rootz
Workshop: Our World, Our Mic: Radio for Social Change
Mera Beckford is an able, unwavering, and self-starting eighteen year old. She enjoys reading, writing, cycling, and doing new things. Mera grew up in Arverne, New York with her single mother and twin brother, Malcolm. Of her family she says, “They’re annoying sometimes but it’s nice to have people I can count on.” 2006-07 being her senior year at Brooklyn Technical High School, Mera looks forward to attending college outside of New York State. When she’s through with school Mera will be a news anchor/reporter.

D. Blair

Workshop: History of Black America as Told through Music
D. BLAIR is a poet / singer-songwriter / performer and spoken word artist whose work, in the words of Metro Times "focuses on the hope that rises from the ashes of despair." Blair is a National Poetry Slam Champion (2002 Team Detroit) and Detroit Grand Slam Champion (2003). He's been named Best Solo Artist by Real Detroit Weekly Readers' Poll and has been written about in periodicals around the country and overseas including Performing Songwriter Magazine, Hour Detroit Magazine and The Bay Area Times. His new one man show Burying the Evidence is new ground for Blair. The new and rewritten material for the theater piece is already receiving great reviews at previews in Detroit and Chicago and being written about in Detroit's Between the Lines Newspaper and Northwest Airlines World Traveler Magazine.

Grace Lee Boggs

James & Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership
Breakfast Keynote: "A Paradigm Shift in our Concept of Education"
Panel: The Way We Tell History
Grace Lee Boggs is an activist, writer and speaker whose more than sixty years of political involvement encompass the major U.S. social movements of this century: Labor, Civil rights, Black Power, Asian American, Women's and Environmental Justice.

Karen Bond

National Black Coalition for Media Justice
Panel discussion: The Future of Radio
Karen J. Bond, a media justice advocate and management consultant, came to Evanston, Illinois from North Carolina to complete a degree in biology at Northwestern University. This started four years of campus activism. She went on to a marketing career in middle and upper management with several multinational corporations, including IBM and Xerox, where she won numerous awards of merit. She is now a business management consultant, with a concentration in the fields of media and anti-racism. She has completed an extensive formal training curriculum on institutional racism, and consults with major institutions on analyzing and designing structures to better serve the needs of their culturally diverse workforce and client population. She also handles media and public relations for a variety of events and personalities. As a member of the "Anti-Racism Commission" (of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago), a board member of "Chicago Media Action", and the Executive Director of the "National Black Coalition for Media Justice", she works as a speaker, trainer and organizer to help the poor and working class public gain a sense of its own power with respect to such issues as government accountability, institutional racism, and the role of public broadcasting.

Trula Breckenridge

Mama Specific Productions
Workshop: Zine Making for Women of Color
I own an indie press and I'm an author and publisher of zines. I also produce music, videos and more. I plan to make a movie and open a bookstore. Topics I like writing about include gentle discipline, veggie interests, cultural issues and fitness. I'm all about DIY!

Joshua Breitbart

People's Production House
In addition to being an organizer of the AMC, Joshua Breitbart is the Policy Director for People’s Production House in New York City and a principal of The Ethos Group, which advises municipalities and civil society on broadband development.

Adrienne Maree Brown

The Ruckus Society
Opening Plenary: Breaking Silence, Building Movements
Workshop: Writing and Movement
Workshop: Non-Violent Direct Action Media
Adrienne Maree Brown is the Executive Director of the Ruckus Society (www.ruckus.org). She also serves on the boards of Wiretapmag.org, the Brower Center, the Allied Media Conference, and National Healthcare-NOW. Also known as a co-founder of the League of Young/Pissed Off Voters, Adrienne was co-editor of the youth organizing collection How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office. As a writer, singer, and organizer, Adrienne has been involved in the growth of many organizations, most recently the New Orleans Network, the Future 5000, and the Arctic Indigenous Alliance. She believes actions speak louder than words, she's trying to live that way.

brownfemipower

Women of Color Blog
Panel discussion: Hijacking the Masters Tools

Jasmine Cabot

UBUNTU!
Panel discussion: Hijacking the Masters Tools
Workshop: Wrong is Not My Name: Poetic Healing as a Response to Sexual Violence

Mariana Castaneda

Detroit Summer
Opening Plenary: "Breaking Silence, Building Movements"
Mariana Castaneda, 19, is a native southwest Detroiter. Since a young age, she has been involved in organizations such as Alternatives For Girls, Matrix Theater Company, and High/Scope Educational Research Foundation working through a variety of means for the development of a just, supportive society. She hopes to one day collaborate with other artists and use her passion for dance to create and run an organization that teaches visual and performing arts to youth free of charge, focusing on how art can be used in social justice movements.

Stefan Christoff

Tadamon!
Panel discussion: Solidarity Journalism
Stefan Christoff is an independent journalist and social activist based in Montreal. As a journalist Christoff has worked extensively in Canada & internationally. As a regular contributor to the Electronic Intifada, the Montreal Mirror, the Dominion Newspaper, Christoff has written on a wide spectrum of social, economic and political issues. As a radio journalist, Christoff is a contributor to Pacifica Radio’s Free Speech Radio News [FSRN] and previously work as the Community News Coordinator of CKUT Radio in Montreal. As a photographer Christoff has contributed numerous images to various independent media outlets.

Christoff is also extensively involved in struggles for social and economic justice in Montreal, throughout Canada & internationally. As a member of Tadamon! [Solidarity in Arabic] Montreal, Christoff is deeply involved in building links between movements for social justice in Montreal & the Middle East. Christoff has also been deeply involved in migrant solidarity campaigns in North America, including extensive work with the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees and No One is Illegal.

Louis Cintron

Texas Media Empowerment Project
Panel discussion: Empowering Our Communities Through Public Access Television & The Challenges We Face

Robert Collins

BUMP Records
Panel discussion: Hip Hop & Cooperative Economics
Robert Collins, Program Director for BUMP Records: Robert oversees all operations of the BUMP Records label, including marketing plans, recording and production timelines, and artist management. He has spent over nine years in marketing, branding and media management experience, including stints as General Manager of Live Up Records and Nu Gruv Alliance, Executive Publisher of Ruckus Magazine and Founder of Ruby Avenue Artist Management. He has a B.A. in political science from Morehouse College.

Will Copeland

Boggs Center to Nuture Community Leadership
Opening Ceremony
William Copeland has presented youth workshops at schools and programs including Detroit, Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor, Romulus, numerous middle and high schools in Minnesota, and Michigan’s Prison Creative Arts Program. He is a board member of the Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership, one of the founders of the Detroit Artist-Activist Community Dialogues, and a consultant for nonprofits on using art to amplify their messages.

William Copeland studied Biology and Philosophy at Stanford University and earned a Master’s in Philosophy from UM-Ann Arbor. He works as a Program Director for University of Michigan's SERVE, advising college students in community service, learning, and social justice projects.

His poetry has been published in Drumvoices Revue, Critical Moment, and MSU Press's The Offbeat. He is a member of Detroit’s emerging poetry collective Write Word, Write Now, an arts facilitator for Detroit Summer's Live Arts Media Project, and has toured nationally as a founding member of the Long Hairz Collective.

Carlin Christy

Rustbelt Radio
Workshop: Community News Radio Production
Carlin is a regular contributor to Pittsburgh Indymedia's weekly news-radio show Rustbelt Radio, which just celebrated its 3rd birthday. She can often be found recording lectures and protests around Pittsburgh to share information about radical and community groups in the area and around the globe. She particularly likes to report on stories relating to Latin America, Homelessness, and Women's Rights. In her spare time she likes to speak Spanish whenever possible, watch political documentaries and listen to cheesy reggaeton music.

Anayansi Diaz-Cortes

Arts Engine
Film/Video-Based Workshop: Media That Matters Locally & Globally
Anayansi is currently the Programs Associate at Arts Engine. She works on putting together the Media That Matters film festival, curates content for MediaRights.org and organizes workshops, panels and conferences around social issue media, independent film, impact and distribution. Anayansi has a background in International Affairs and Latin American Studies and came to New York City because she thought a graduate degree from the global media hub would "really" teach her the extent to which media influences international social policy. She has found that getting good stories to key spaces can have more social impact than eighty dissertations. Apart from working on programs and content for Arts Engine, she has discovered a new found love for the story-telling power of audio. She multi-tasks with some amazing projects at Radio Diaries, a non-profit organization dedicated to documenting people's live for National Public Radio.

Hannah Dobbz

Fault Lines
Panel discussion: Indymedia is Not Dead
Hannah E. Dobbz is an editor for and contributor to Fault Lines. She also recently finished a film documentary about the squatting movement in the Oakland and Berkeley. Her interests lie heavily with squatting as resistance to capitalism. Generally, Hannah considers herself a writer. When asked what she writes, she will probably respond, "Words, mostly." Hannah lives in San Francisco but longs for the East Coast.

Nijmie Dzurinko

Philadelphia Student Union
Workshop: Breaking Down the System: Popular Education for Liberation
Panel discussion: Indymedia is Not Dead
Nijmie Dzurinko is an organizer, youth worker, and movement strategist from Philadelphia. She is a founding member of the Media Mobilizing Project, the media-in-organizing arm of a grassroots network of groups working on housing, worker rights, and education issues.

Johanna Eeva

Workshop: Women of Color Zines
Johanna Eeva writes the zine Sisu, wherein she dissects the many intersections her life straddles--particularly race. She is a queer, poly, mixed-race nerd recently burned out on 501(c)3-style changemaking. She lives in New York City.

Leah Exum

Philadelphia Student Union
Workshop: Breaking Down the System: Popular Education for Liberation

Mindy Faber

Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
Workshop: Technology as a Learning Tool: Possibilities and Challenges

Willow Fagan

Workshop: Sculpting Trauma into Narratives of Change
Willow Aerin Fagan is a queer writer and activist. His writings include essays on personal/political transformation, poetry, fantasy/slipstream fiction, and blogposts. His essays have appeared in M.S.U.'s Q*News and in Critical Moment, and he has read poetry at the Gender Bender Revue and rEVOLUTION: Making Art for Change.

Rich Feldman

Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership
Workshop: Inclusive Media: Supporting A Movement That Transforms Attitudes About Disability And Challenges Institutions
Rich Feldman is a Board member of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership and presently active with the Detroit City of Hope Campaign.

He was raised in Brooklyn, NY and attended University of Michigan in 1967 where he became active with SDS and involved with the Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1970, along with 35 other activists moved to Detroit to continue working for radical and revolutionary change. Rich worked with James and Grace Lee Boggs in the National Organization for An American Revolution and spent 30 years working at the Ford Michigan Truck Plant. In the 1980s, he traveled to Central America and co-edited the book, End of the Line: Auto Workers and the American Dream. In the 1990s, he was elected Union Plant Chairmnan. He was active and continues ot be supportive of Detroit Summer and the Boggs Center Conversations group. He is presently active with his community peace group (The Huntington Peace Education and Citizenship Project) and active in the Disaiblity Rights, Pride and Inclusion Movement. The Disability Pride Parade takes place in Chicago on July 21, 2007. Rich has been married to Janice Fialka since 1979 and has two great children, Micah, 22, and Emma, 19, who is active in diversity and youth leadership programs in the metro-Detroit area.

Micah Fialka-Feldman

Kids as Self Advocates
Workshop: Inclusive Media: Supporting A Movement That Transforms Attitudes About Disability And Challenges Institutions
I'm attending Oakland University and there is a film about me called "Inclusion Includes College." You can find it a www.dancerpartnership.com

Deepa Fernandes

WBAI Radio
Workshop: Reporting Immigration: Strategies for avoiding myths and broadening debate
Panel discussion: Solidarity Journalism
Deepa is the host of Wakeup Call, WBAI's flagship morning program heard Monday thru Friday from 6-9am on 99.5fm. She is an award winning journalist whose work appears regularly on the ABC & BBC world Service and across the Pacifica Network. Deepa's first book is coming out in January, it is called Targeted and is about the Immigration Industrial Complex. She is also the founder and co-director of People's Production House, a media justice training and production institute for youth and immigrant workers.

Danielle Filipiak

University Preparatory Academy
Throw Away the Textbooks: Popular Education in the age of No Child Left Behind

Jordan Flaherty

Left Turn
Film/Video-Based Workshop: New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival
Panel discussion: Solidarity Journalism
Jordan Flaherty is a writer and community organizer based in New Orleans. He is an editor of Left Turn Magazine and has written about politics and culture for the Village Voice, New York Press, Labor Notes, Radical Society, and in several books, including the South End Press anthologies Live From Palestine and What Lies Beneath. He is founder and festival director of the New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival, and has worked in film and photography, editing several feature films, co-producing the award-winning feature Chocolate Babies, and showing his photography at the cutting-edge art gallery PS122 in New York City. His post-Katrina writing in Colorlines Magazine shared a journalism award from New America Media for best Katrina-related coverage in the Ethnic press.

Flaherty’s articles from the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina have appeared in periodicals around the world, including Die Zeit in Germany, Clarin in Argentina, Juventude Rebelde in Cuba, Red Pepper in England, and many more from Lebanon to Paris to New Zealand. In the US, his articles have appeared in a wide range of publications from The Indypendent in New York to The SF Bay View in California to literally hundreds of blogs and web-based journals including ZNet, CommonDreams, AlterNet and Counterpunch. In the first months after the hurricane, his writings were translated into German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic.

Rosemary F. Gibbons

Film/Video-Based Workshop: Using Documentary to Organize Against Violence and Colonization
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Award winning indigenous filmmaker, producer and a lectuer at the University of Washington in American Indian Studies. Currently producer of MESA Reel stories project, a Yakima Native year long youth driven video project. Steering committee member of INCITE, and board member of Long House Media.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

UBUNTU! / BrokenBeautiful Press
Panel discussion: Hijacking the Masters Tools
Workshop: Wrong is Not My Name: Poetic Healing as a Response to Sexual Violence
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a 25 year old queer black trouble-maker. She is currently a doctoral candidate in English, Africana Studies and Women's Studies at Duke University where she will be teaching a class on Outcast Subjectivity and Black Literary Production this fall. Alexis is also a member of UBUNTU (www.iambecauseweare.wordpress.com) and the founder of BrokenBeautiful Press (www.brokenbeautiful.wordpress.com)

Khalid el-Hakim

Iron Fist Records
Panel: Hip Hop & Cooperative Economics
Khalid el-Hakim is dynamic young educator with 10 years experience in Detroit Public Schools, he received his Bachelors of Science in Social Studies and Business Education at Ferris State University. As a music exec(Vice President of Iron Fist Records and President of New Rising Sun Entertainment) he has managed various artists including 2006 Grammy award nominee Umar Bin Hassan, platinum award-winning artist Proof of D12, Taja Sevelle, and Versiz. His passion for education and history led him to start collecting Black memorabilia 15 years ago. He has received numerous awards for his collection of over 1500 artifacts of Black memorabilia. He is in the process of opening the Black History 101 Mobile Museum that is a grassroots based mobile unit that will travel across the nation educating people on the diverse history of African Americans.

Pam Halladay

Luella Hannan Foundation
Workshop: History Of Black America As Told Through Music

Cornelius Harris

Underground Resistance
Panel: Hip Hop & Cooperative Economics

Scott Heinzman

ADAPT
Workshop: Inclusive Media: Supporting A Movement That Transforms Attitudes About Disability And Challenges Institutions

Kristin Henry

Working Films
Film/Video-Based Workshop: Content + Intent = Change: Using Documentary Film To Build And Support Movements
Kristin Henry is the Project Manager and Website Administrator at Working Films. She joined Working Films in 2004 focusing on youth and technology initiatives and she progressively expanded into additional areas. Kristin has played a lead role in the development and implementation of a number of our major film campaigns, including The Appalachians, Beyond Deadline youth initiative, Every Mother’s Son, Mountain Justice Film Festival, Rain in a Dry Land, The Real Dirt on Farmer John, and PBS’s The Way See It.

Kristin has worked for progressive and comprehensive social change, organizing with grassroots groups such as Food Not Bombs, Student Peace Action Network, and People Educating with an Active Commitment to Equality. She is currently a member of the American Sociological Association and Cape Fear Biofuels Co-op.

Elena Herrada

El Centro Obrero de Detroit
Workshop: Community-Based Literacy Campaings: Strategies from the South
Elena Herrada, director, El Centro Obrero de Detroit (Detroit Workers' Center), is a second generation Detroiter, daughter and granddaughter of autoworkers, and a grassroots activist. She is a member of Latinos Unidos and has spent several years negotiating contracts for labor unionsand the AFL-CIO Farm Labor Organizing Committee on various campaigns to bring justice to the fields.

Julie Herrada

Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
Caucus: Zine Librarians Caucus
Anarchist, atheist, archivist. Sister of Elena. Curator of the Labadie Collection, an archive and library of social protest primary and secondary research materials (including zines) that was established in 1911.

Lance Hicks

Affirmations Trans Youth Group
Workshop: Beyond Boys & Girls: Trans Inclusion in Alternative Media
Lance Hicks is a seventeen-year-old high school student from both Detroit and Southfield, Michigan. He is the co-founder and co-facilitator of Affirmations' Trans Youth Group, a member of the National Youth Advocacy Coalition's National Transgender Education Project Youth Review Board, and hopes to become more involved in activism over time. Along with his identity as multi-ethnic and an activist-in-training, Lance identifies as a heteroflexible, transgender, male-to-male, transboy, genderqueer, genderfluid, gender-bending, gender-blending, genderfucking, gender anarchist, gender outlaw, androgenyous, transboi. When not working on his career as an advocate for human (and animal) rights, Lance enjoys spending time with his two dogs and python, and studying pyrotechnics.

Shea Howell

Beloved Communities Initiative
Conversation For Detroit Media-Makers: "What Kind Of Media Community Does Detroit Need?"
I am an activist in Detroit working primarily with community based organizations and in the arts, women and justice communities. I am a write and speak on a variety of issues both in the city and around the country. Over the past three years I have been working with the Beloved Communities Initiative exploring the vision of Dr. King and the restructuring of our values. I also teach at Oakland University.

Ilana Invincible

Detroit Summer
Panel Discussion: Hip Hop & Cooperative Economics

Angela Jones

Palestine/Israel Education Project
Workshop: Slingshot Hip Hop: Culture and Resistance from Brooklyn to Palestine
Angela Jones is a Detroit writer and performance poet. She has worked as a youth advocate and organizer for InsideOut Literary Arts Project, The Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership, The National Coalition for Community and Justice, and Detroit Summer. She is currently working with The Palestine Israel Education Project in New York, which helps to build solidarity between Brooklyn and Palestinian youth.

Kyra Joseph

Radio Rootz
Workshop: Our World, Our Mic: Radio for Social Change

Remy Kharbanda

Research for Revolution
Workshop: People's Statistics: Information Gathering for Organizing
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 has served as researcher and co-author for Amnesty International's 2005 report Stonewalled: Police Abuse and Misconduct Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in the U.S., Education Not Deportation: Impacts of New York City School Safety Policies on Immigrant Youth, published by Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) and Behind the Kitchen Door: Pervasive Inequality in New York's Thriving Restaurant Industry published by the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York. She is co-owner and production manager at Callejero Films, a small independent video production company based in Brooklyn, NY where she recently produced and directed a documentary short that explores issues of displacement and identity through the perspectives of three Punjabi women who migrated to Southall in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s. 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.

Andalusia Knoll

Rustbelt Radio
Panel: Indymedia Is Not Dead
Andalusia Knoll is a Pittsburgh based community radio enthusiast, bicycle tinkerer and DJ of revolutionary global hip hop and punk. She enjoys passing these skills on to teenagers and adults alike at places like the Free Ride Recyled Bike Coop, Rustbelt Radio workshops and the Andy Warhol Museum.

Scott Kurashige

Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership / Detroit Asian Youth Project
Workshop: Popular Education for Radical Teaching and Activism
Workshop: Racism and Media Representation of Asian Americans
Scott Kurashige is a Detroit-based community activist (Detroit Asian Youth Project, Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership) and teaches ethnic studies, urban studies, and US history at the University of Michigan. Check out his book "The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles" from Princeton University Press in December 2007.

Chris Kutalik

Labor Notes
Workshop: Covering Labor
Chris Kutalik joined Labor Notes' staff as editor in 2004. Chris comes to labor activism through his experiences as a bus driver and local union officer in Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1549 in Austin, Texas. He has served as an editor and writer for several alternative and mainstream publications. In his previous life, he helped to found Austin's Indymedia Center.

Nicolas Lampert

Presentation: Building a Continental Empire in the late 1800s: Picturing Expansionism from East to West
Nicolas Lampert is a Milwaukee-based visual artist and author currently working on a forthcoming book about the role of artists as activists in various social movements in US history. He teaches courses on political art history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Emily P. Lawsin

University of Michigan/Filipino American National Historical Society
Workshop: Empowering Our Communities Through Oral History
Emily P. Lawsin is a second-generation Pinay originally from “She-attle”, Washington. Now she “plants rice” in Motown, teaching Oral History Methods, Filipino American History, Asian American Literature, Spoken Word Poetry, and Community Service-Learning courses in the Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program in American Culture and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, and at Paaralang Pilipino Cultural School in Southfield. From 1994-2000, she taught Asian American Studies at UCLA and California State University, Northridge. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) and is a co-founder of the Detroit Asian Youth Project. She is the co-author, with Joseph Galura, of Filipino Women in Detroit, 1945-1955: Oral Histories from the Filipino American Oral History Project of Michigan, which produces the Pin@y Performance Project, an intergenerational multimedia performance based on stories, poems, and memoirs of pioneers. She is also the co-editor, with Joan May T. Cordova, of In Our Aunties' Words: The Filipino Spirit of Hampton Roads (Virginia). Her poetry and essays on women, writers, and pedagogy have been published in numerous journals, newspapers, and anthologies, including Flippin’: Filipinos on America; The FANHS Journal; Teaching Asian America; Words Matter; disOrient 9 journalzine; InvASIAN: Growing up Asian and Female in America; Going Home to a Landscape: Writings By Filipinas, and Teaching About Asian Pacific Americans. An award-winning professor, oral historian, motivational speaker, and spoken word performance poet since 1990, she has performed on radio and stage throughout the United States and Manila.

Anna Lee

Working Films
Film/Video-Based Workshop: Content + Intent = Change: Using Documentary Film To Build And Support Movements
Anna Lee joined Working Films as Project Coordinator in 2005. In addition to her position at Working Films, Anna is the Program Director at Amigos Internacional, a Latino advocacy and education center in Wilmington, NC, and she serves on the board of directors for Southeastern Alliance for Community Change. Anna spent extensive time in Latin America, where she studied Spanish and taught English as a foreign language. As a corps member of nationally recognized Teach for America she taught first grade in a bilingual program in Phoenix, AZ for two years.

Anna earned a Master of Education from Arizona State University and a B.A. in Sociology from Wake Forest University.

Diana Lee

Arts Engine
Film/Video-Based Workshop: Media That Matters Locally & Globally
Diana has over six years of experience in media arts management and non profit administration. Before joining Arts Engine as the Project Manager Diana was the Deputy and Festival Director of Asian CineVision (ACV), Inc., a non profit media arts organization and producer of the annual Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF). She was responsible for the growth and success of the annual AAIFF by implementing new programs and initiatives that further invested in filmmakers, as well as further engaged the community. She has translated scripts for Wayne Wang; line produced for Arthur Dong; sat on panels and screening committees including the IFP Market and Project Involve, POV, Indo American Cultural Council, Taiwan Women’s Film Festival, as well as mentored inner city high school students through NYU’s Asian Pacific American Youth Alliance. Prior to entering the world of media arts Diana worked for major international companies such as Time Warner and Shiseido Cosmetics where she was in charge of market expansion into the Asian American communities. She received her master’s degree in Media Studies from the New School University. Diana was born in Taiwan, raised in New York City and currently resides in Brooklyn.

Jenny Lee

Detroit Summer
Panel: The Way We Tell History
Workshop: Plug into the LAMP post
I am an organizer of this year's Allied Media Conference, focusing on developing the content of the INCITE! track and working with the incredible group of youth who attended last year's conference to develop content for the youth media track. I coordinate the Live Arts Media Project of Detroit Summer. I also teach a web radio class at YouthVille, Detroit. I love Detroit and I love this quote from my friend Angie about Detroit: "They say Detroit is a desert, as if it's a bad thing. I've seen deserts. The strongest living things makes their homes there."

Starlet Lee

Detroit Summer
Symposium workshop: Plug into the LAMP Post
Starlet Lee, 18, is a recent graduate of Catherine Ferguson Academy in Detroit. She is very open-minded to learning new things. She is excited to spread the Live Arts Media Project model of doing workshops to other youth organizations and youth mentors.

Puck Lo

Panel discussion: Solidarity Journalism
Puck Lo is a freelance journalist living in Oakland, California who works with Free Speech Radio News and National Radio Project. She organizes against state violence with the groups Critical Resistance, Estacion Libre, and INCITE! and seeks autonomy and community self-determination for low-income folks of color and queers.

Andrew Lynn

MNN Youth Channel
Workshop: DIY Animation
Andrew Lynn is an artist and educator currently living in Brooklyn, NY. He received an MFA in Electronic Arts from iEAR Studios at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2002 where he began teaching video and multimedia as a teacher’s assistant and instructor. Andrew began working with youth and media in 2000 at The Ark in Troy, NY where he helped to develop a video-making program in an afterschool center. Since then, he has taught video production, digital imaging, stop-motion animation, and media literacy at The Ark Community Charter School, Hudson Valley Community College, Childrens’ Media Project, and Eyebeam. Andrew is also the creator of Whirl-Mart and Troy Bike Rescue, and has co-directed documentaries including Still We Ride and Independent Media in A Time of War, among other short videos and animations. As the Education Coordinator at MNN Youth Channel, he teaches workshops, develops curriculum, coordinates community media trainings, and supervises a wonderful team of peer educators.

RJ Maccani

Workshop: Bridging The Gap: International Solidarity And Alternative Media In Mexico
RJ Maccani does this and that to pay the bills. Most of the time, though, he is, like the rest of you, doing stuff to "build the movement." Right now perhaps he is doing childcare with a radical women of color group or writing something for Left Turn Magazine or The Narco News Bulletin. He formed the Ricardo Flores Magón Brigade that began Narco News' coverage of the Zapatista-initiated "Other Campaign" in Oaxaca during the first months of 2006. Since then, he has returned to NYC where he continues writing on the Zapatistas, the Other Campaign, and related movements while doing local organizing work.

Elizabeth Madera

Global Action Project
Film/Video-Based Workshop: 1+1=3: Intro To Video Montage
My name is Elizabeth Madera. I’m a seventeen year old junior at A. Philip Randolph Campus High School. Youth media has had a great impact on my life, educating me and inspiring me to work with other youth in an attempt to achieve worldwide awareness on international issues. My goal is to work with my peers using medium like photography, film-making and journalism, to create progressive projects that can slowly bring about social change.

Corey Mark

Prometheus Radio Project
Panel: Workers' Radio and Beyond: Self-made Media for Social Change
Corey Mark is the Development and Communications Director at Prometheus Radio Project. After receiving a BA in Psychology from Swarthmore College in 2002, Corey postponed a prospective career in counseling to understand, first hand, the life experiences of those whom he intended to serve. Motivated by a belief that academic learning would not suffice, he began on a path that lead him to the conviction that the well-being of our society must be achieved through fighting for a more accessible and democratic media. Drawing from a diverse background of fundraising and organizing experience, Corey joined Prometheus Radio Project in December of 2006 to advance the organization's modes of communication and broaden the scope of Prometheus' development program.

Shiloh Maloney

Elementz

Terry Marshall

Hip Hop Media Lab
Panel: Hip Hop & Cooperative Economics

Noemi Martinez

Voices Against Violence
Workshop: Zine Making for Women of Color
Noemi Martinez, community activist, poet, writer and single mother. Noemi has created the Voices Against Violence project; MujerFest- a festival for women to come together and celebrate with poetry, music, classes and workshops; Café Revolución - a traveling cafe that sheds light on different topics throughout the community such as domestic violence, GLTB&Q issues, human rights, border violence, sexism, and racism. She writes the zine Hermana, Resist.

Nyziah Miller

Philadelphia Student Union
Workshop: Breaking Down the System: Popular Education for Liberation

Jessica McPherson

Rustbelt Radio
Workshop: Community News Radio Production
Jessica is a frequent contributor to Rustbelt Radio in Pittsburgh, PA. She also works as a bike mechanic and advocate through the Free Ride Community Bike Recycling Collective and Bike Pittburgh advocacy group. She loves botany and works as an ecologist, and loves Rustbelt Radio because it's a forum to put issues around all these interests into community discussion.

'munk (Alvin Hill Jr.)

Youthville Detroit
Saturday Night Music Show

Samhita Mukhopadhyay

Workshop: The Movement Technology Collaborative: How Our Tools Can Support Your Work
Samhita is a editor/blogger at Feministing.com and has been writing on issues affecting the lives of women of color, young women and feminists for the last 2.5 years. She has worked with New American Media, Wiretap Magazine and Colorlines, developing there internet presence using Web 2.0 Technology. She is currently finishing her MA in Women's Studies with a focus on writing as activism, newly emerging social networking technology and the power of feminist words. Samhita's passions are trans-national feminisms, veganism, theories of knowledge production, electronic music and fashion. She lives in the Mission District and is a reformed party girl.

Rola Nashef

OTHER- Detroit Arab Artist Collective
Film/Video-Based Workshop: Detroit Unleaded
Born in South Lebanon and raised in Michigan, Rola Nashef is a Writer, Director and Producer in the Detroit and Arab American community, using her experience in the arts, and utilizing her awareness and involvement of Metro Detroit’s diverse ethnic communities as a catalyst for social change and cultural representation.

Vanessa Nisperos

The 5th Element
Panel Discussion: Hip Hop & Cooperative Economics
Vanessa Nisperos is a founding member of The 5th Element, a collective of women in all elements of hip hop working to empower women and challenge sexism. She is a hip hop aficionado, event producer, and activist who recently relocated to NYC from CA to pursue a Masters in Social Work. For more information on the launch of 5th Element in New York e-mail vanessanisperos(AT)yahoo.com

Diana J Nucera

Street-Level Youth Media / Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE)
Workshop: Technology as a Learning Tool: Possibilities and Challenges
Diana Nucera, Teaching Artist - Diana Nucera, accomplished cellist, artist, and instructor, has been dedicated to teaching and working in the media arts for the past eight years. Diana earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography and film from the San Francisco Art Institute, and her Master of Fine Arts in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has devoted her artistic talents and her educational philosophy to integrating media arts in both Chicago and San Francisco Public School curricula, and has exhibited her own work, multi-media performance and video installations, throughout San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and in Austria, Australia, and Scotland. Diana has supported young people in their self-exploration through media arts at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The San Francisco Art Institute, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art, Southern Exposure Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is currently in residence as a media instructor and summer arts coordinator at Street-Level Youth Media in Chicago, IL.

Eoin Ó Broin

Sinn Féin
Workshop: Political Murals In Ireland
Eoin Ó Broin has worked full time for Sinn Féin for eleven years. From 1997 to 1999 he was the National Organiser for the Irish republican youth organization Ógra Shinn Féin. From 2001 to 2004 he represented the Old Park electoral district on Belfast City Council. Since 2004 Eoin has held the position of Director of European Affairs coordinating Sinn Féin's team in the European Parliament, the party's political relationships with parties across Europe and coordinating Sinn Féin's lobby operation in Britain. Eoin is a member of the party's Ard Comhairle.

Eoin is also a published author. His first book, Matxinada - Basque Nationalism and Radical Basque Youth Movements was published in English in 2004 and in Spanish in 2005. His second book, Sinn Féin and the Politics of Left Republicanism will be published by Pluto Press in 2007. Eoin is also the editor of Left Republican Review.

Christine Peng

Global Action Project
Film/Video-Based Workshop: 1+1=3: Intro To Video Montage
Christine Peng is a multimedia artist/ educator/ student that works towards personal and social transformation through the arts. She is interested in the stitching together of individual stories into a larger group history to build community and social power. She is currently a Media Educator with Global Action Project and co-editing a short video on people’s resistance and alternative models of social/ cultural organizing in Venezuela.

Julia Perkins, Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Panel: Workers' Radio and Beyond: Self-made Media for Social Change

Skylar Pumarada

Affirmations' Trans Youth Group
Workshop: Beyond Boys & Girls: Trans Inclusion in Alternative Media
Skylar Pumarada is a 17-year-old gender activist. S/he is originally from Rincon, Puerto Rico and currently resides in Farmington Hills, MI. S/he is co-founder and co-facilitator of the Trans Youth Group at Affirmations and, when not organizing for social justice with queer youth comrades, s/he can be found concocting magnificent creations in Foods class.

Andrea Ritchie

INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Workshop: People's Statistics: Information Gathering for Organizing
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 currently a member of the National Collective of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, and served as one of the National Coordinators of the Color of Violence III and as a member of the editorial collective for Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology. Her research and organizing focuses on police brutality and misconduct as experienced by women and LGBT people of color. She recently worked as a research consultant and co-author for Amnesty International's Stonewalled: Police Abuse and Misconduct Against LGBT People in the US. She also served as a researcher and co-author for Caught in the Net, a report on women and the "war on drugs" published by the ACLU, the Brennan Center for Justice, and Break the Chains, Education Not Deportation: Impacts of New York City School Safety Policies on Immigrant Youth, published by Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), In the Shadows of the War on Terror: Persistent Police Brutality and Abuse in the United States, a "shadow report" submitted on behalf of over 100 national and local organizations and individuals to the United Nations Committee Against Torture and the United Nations Human Rights Committee, and Behind the Kitchen Door: Pervasive Inequality in New York's Thriving Restaurant Industry published by the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York. Ms. Ritchie has written and spoken extensively on the issue of violence against women and LGBT people of color by law enforcement agents, and testified before the United Nations Committee Against Torture, United Nations Human Rights Committee and the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture in 2006. She graduated from the Howard University School of Law in 2002 and is currently a partner in RFR, a research collaborative that supports integration of participatory research into community based organizing.

Jessamyn Sabbag

Future 5000
Workshop: The Movement Technology Collaborative: How Our Tools Can Support Your Work
Jessamyn Sabbag is a 27 year old Leo, born and raised in the Bay Area, currently based out of Oakland. Starting back in middle school organizing a gum-chewing campaign and then a Student Bill of Rights, Jessamyn has been at it for over 15 years. After graduating from college in 2001 with degrees in the History and Public Policy of Education and also Evolutionary Biology, Jessamyn moved back to Cali and has been thriving through social justice work since then. She’s worked as an Americorps volunteer, school counselor, and co-founder of a performing arts after-school program. She was elected co-chair of the Marin Peace and Justice Coalition and was also co-founder and elected co-chair of the Marin Empowerment Council for police accountability. Jessamyn has also been an elections geek for the past several years, passing out home-made voter guides to friends and on the streets, and then working as the Civic Engagement Coordinator for the Marin Grassroots Leadership Network starting two months before the 2004 elections. She's served on the Statewide Coordinating Committee of the California Partnership, an alliance of over 130 community organizations working to end poverty in California. And now she's extremely proud and humbled to be directing Future 5000. When she's not behind her laptop or on the road meeting dope youth organizers around the country, Jessamyn can be found on the dance floor, in the sauna, chillin with family and friends, and basking in the sun in the great outdoors.

Navi Sandhu

Radio Rootz
Workshop: Our World, Our Mic: Radio for Social Change
Navi Sandhu didn't know anything about media or broadcasting until she was introduced to the Radio Rootz program in the summer of 2004. There, along with other high schoolers, she completed an award winning documentary about the D.R.E.A.M. act. Ever since then she has continued to keep her her interest of media alive and is now once again part of the Radio Rootz program as a peer cooridnator. She attends Fordham University and plans to continue in Business and Law. In addition to enjoying broadcasting, she also keeps her Indian heritage alive by practicing Bhangra, a traditional indian dance form.

Hannah Sassaman

Prometheus Radio Project
The Future of Radio
For five years, Hannah Sassaman has led campaigns against Clear Channel, the National Association of Broadcasters, and for responsible limits on media consolidation in the United States. A key organizer of major FCC localism hearings in San Antonio and Rapid City in 2004, as well as in Nashville in 2006, Hannah is just back from building 3 radio stations across Kenya with independent African journalists, community organizations and educational groups. In 2005, she helped coordinate the successful building of an FCC-licensed emergency radio station used by families displaced by Hurricane Katrina. She has been featured in segments on NPR's On the Media, Democracy Now, CNN, C-Span, and a variety of other TV, radio, and print sources. Fresh to Prometheus from the Philadelphia IMC and the University of Pennsylvania, Hannah is banned from all official National Association of Broadcasters events.

Ivettza Sanchez

Mananttan Neighborhood Network
Workshop: Node 101: Vlogging

Tom Schwallie

Grand Rapids Community Media Center
Panel discussion: Empowering Our Communities Through Public Access Television & The Challenges We Face
Tom Schwallie is a Media Research Specialist at the Grand Rapids Community Media Center. Mr. Schwallie is the producer and on-air voice for Catalyst Radio, a community radio program in the Grand Rapids area. He also maintains the CMC’s Community Media Library, and assists in promotion and programming at the CMC Wealthy Theatre. A graduate of Western Michigan University, Mr. Schwallie has been staff at the Grand Rapids Community Media Center for four years.

Ron Scott

Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality
Panel discussion: Empowering Our Communities Through Public Access Television & The Challenges We Face
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 significant documentary projects on various topics related to current affairs, cultural icons, entertainment, and politics on the North American continent and the Caribbean. He is a Co-Founder of the Detroit Branch of the Black Panther Party; and serves as a member of the Detroit Coalition of Police Brutality; the Detroit Council of Elders; the National Lawyers Guild; and is active in numerous other progressive causes nationally and internationally. Ron is also a long time Public Access television producer.

Simón Sedillo

Proyecto Autogestion
Workshop: Bridging the Gap: International Solidarity and Alternative Media in Mexico
Presenter Simon Sedillo is a co-producer with Austin Indymedia of "El Enemigo Común" and co-founder with Dennis Flores, from Palenque Urbana of Proyecto Autogestion. Sedillo has been working in Oaxaca, back and forth from the US, for the last seven years through the auspices of The Committee Organized in Defense of the People’s Right’s (CODEP), and The Oaxacan Popular Magonista Antineoliberal Coordination (COMPA), both predecessors of APPO. Sedillo continues to work in Oaxaca and now presents Proyecto Autogestion’s debut international solidarity project: "EL Machete: La Lucha Por el Poder Popular". Over the last seven years, Sedillo’s work has contributed to the liberation of 21 political prisoners, worked on several international human rights campaigns in Oaxaca, and shares some knowledge on the complex implications of the Oaxacan People’s struggle for international audiences in the US and Europe.

Aishah Shahidah Simmons

AfroLez® Productions
Opening Plenary: "Breaking Silence, Building Movements"
Film/Video-Based workshop: NO!
Aishah Shahidah Simmons is the producer, writer, and director of the feature length documentary NO!. She is an award-winning African-American feminist lesbian independent documentary filmmaker, television and radio producer, published writer, international lecturer, and activist based in Philadelphia, PA. In 1992, Aishah Shahidah Simmons founded AfroLez® Productions, an AfroLez®femcentric multimedia arts company committed to using the moving image, the written and spoken word to address those issues which have a negative impact on marginalized and disenfranchised people. Coined in 1990 by Ms. Simmons, AfroLez®femcentric defines the culturally conscious role of Black women who identify as Afrocentric, lesbian, and feminist. For three years she co-produced two monthly public television programs for a PBS affiliate in Philadelphia. Her internationally acclaimed short videos Silence…Broken and In My Father’s House, explore the issues of race, gender, homophobia, rape, and misogyny.

Brittany Shoot

Workshop: Node 101: Vlogging
I'm coming to AMC to teach & discuss all things videoblogging. I'm a media maker, writer, and activist currently finishing my MA at Emerson College in Boston, and I work on issues including street harassment and public space, women in new media, and cyberactivism. I have an eighteen pound cat, and I love infiltration, travel, and coffee.

Charles Simmons

Opening Ceremony
Charles Simmons is a professor at Eastern Michigan University and a Trustee at King Solomon Baptist church.

Laura Sorenson

Affirmations Gay and Lesbian Community Center
Workshop: Beyond Boys & Girls: Trans Inclusion in Alternative Media

Street-Level Youth Media

Workshop: Sell Without Selling Out
Street-Level Youth Media educates Chicago's urban youth in media arts and emerging technologies for use in self-expression, communication, and social change. Street-Level's programs build critical thinking skills for young people who have been historically neglected by public policy makers and mass media. Using video and audio production, computer art and the Internet, Street-Level's youth address community issues, access advanced communication technology and gain inclusion in our information-based society.

Swoon

Justseeds
Workshop: Street Art 101
Swoon began working with the streets of New York City about seven years ago, with projects ranging from billboard alterations, and poster campaigns, to street parties and sculptural installations. Her focus has been on creating a lively public realm that relies not on bureaucratic channels of permission, but on the direct action of citizens who wish to be a constant force in the creation of the environment they live in. Her most intensive project has been a series of life sized posters utilizing block printing and cut paper to create portraits of city life which are then pasted back into the environments that inspired them. She started the collective Toyshop about four years ago and has been traveling for the past two years creating exhibitions and workshops in the United States and Europe. Other collaborators include Brooklyn based art collectives, Glowlab, Black Label, Change Agent, the Madagascar Institute and the Barnstormers. Her most recent project involves working with a group of 20 to 30 people on a collective rafting expedition down the mississippi river carrying experiments in home made sustainable technologies, art, and theater. www.missrockaway.org

Anjali Taneja

National Physicians Alliance
Panel discussion: Hijacking the Masters Tools
I'm an east-coast native now living in Los Angeles. I'm a family medicine physician working at a county hospital and clinic and have a background in public health. I love those who are anti-racist, anti-imperialist, pro-queer, pro-peoplepoweredpolitics but will hang out with you if you drive an El Camino. One of my passions lies at the intersection of community building around health justice/empowerment issues and web technology. I'm also currently a member of the Board of Directors of the National Physicians Alliance, a young organization of progressive physicians who are committed to the public's health. One of my other true passions is producing music and DJing, and for four years was a resident DJ at a monthly event in NYC called MUTINY (www.mutinysounds.com).

Tiffany Ten Eyck

Labor Notes
Workshop: Covering Labor

Davin Thompson

BUMP Records
Workshop: The Dot Workshop
Davin Thompson has been an MC for 15 years and currently does artistic development for BUMP Records in Oakland, CA.

Ireece Underwood

Radio Rootz
Workshop: Our World, Our Mic: Radio for Social Change
Aspiring writer and I've been involved with Radio Rootz since 2004.

Versiz

Opening Ceremony

Ken Wachsberger

National Writers Union
Workshop: All About Copyright
Ken Wachsberger is the founder of Azenphony Press www.azenphonypress. He is a long-time author, editor, educator, political organizer, and consultant who has written, edited, and lectured widely on the Holocaust and Jewish resistance during World War II, the First Amendment, the Vietnam era, writing in the electronic age, copyright, teachers' rights, writers' rights, the I-Search paper, writing for healing and self-discovery, and how to keep sane as a support person for a partner who has breast cancer. He is a contract adviser with the National Writers Union and is the creator of the NWU's electronic Authors Network and the upcoming mentorship program. He currently is 2nd Vice President for External Organizing. Ken teaches writing at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti.

Antwuan Wallace

Panel discussion: Take Charge of Your Internet Future
Film/Video-Based Workshop: Media Justice Screenings
antwuan wallace is a Ph.D. Candidate in Policy Analysis at Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy. He holds a BA in Public Affairs from Hampton University-Virginia, a MPA in Policy Analysis from Indiana University-Bloomington and a MA in Survey Methods from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. His research focuses on areas of community and economic development, telecommunications and urban sociology. His dissertation research entitled Towards Digital Inclusion investigates the impact of federal, state and local telecommunication regulatory policy on urban poor youth of color. His most recent publications are “Online Banking and the Poor” (with L. Servon and R. Kasetner) in Credit Markets for the Poor (Russell Sage Press 2005) and “Can We Build a Wireless Communications Infrastructure That Values Everyone's Right to Communicate”(with V. Craven and D. Dailey).

Greg Willerer

University Preparatory Academy
Throw Away the Textbooks: Popular Education in the age of No Child Left Behind
Greg is a middle school teacher at University Preparatory Academy in Detroit and a longtime activist.

Erica Williams

Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Panel discussion: The Future of Radio

Ora Wise

U.S.-Palestine Youth Solidarity Network / Palestine/Israel Education Project
Opening Plenary: "Breaking Silence, Building Movements"
Workshop: How To Develop Curriculum
Workshop: Slingshot Hip Hop: Culture and Resistance from Brooklyn to Palestine
Ora Wise, daughter of a rabbi and born in Jerusalem, is getting her masters in Jewish Education and develops curricula and teaches at a progressive synagogue in Brooklyn. For several years she was a media spokesperson for the national student divestment movement and organized with Jews Against the Occupation in NYC. She then co-founded the Palestine/Israel Education Project, which facilitates multi-media workshops in high schools and youth groups connecting the history of Palestine to struggles against racism and colonialism in the US. PEP is also working with Break the Silence in the Bay Area, Lajee Center in Aida Refugee Camp, and other youth organizations in Palestine and the US on developing a US-Palestine youth institute focusing on art and media skills. She is also on the coordinating committee of an emerging international network of anti-Zionist Jews.

Tehila Wise

Palestine/Israel Education Project
Workshop: Slingshot Hip Hop: Culture and Resistance from Brooklyn to Palestine
Tehila Wise is a student, spoken word artist, and youth activist from Cincinnati, Ohio. Tehila currently attends Howard University in Washington DC with the intent to enter the field of multicultural education, specifically to design curricula to educate white students about white privilege and racism in the context of understanding Black History. In high school, Tehila co-founded the Student Coalition Opposing Racism in Education, a student collective working to pressure administrations to adopt non-Eurocentric curricula and provide students with a space and voice through hip hop and poetry open mics, popular education workshops, and open forum discussions. Tehila is a member of Palestine/Israel Education Project (D.C.).

Toki Wright

YO! The Movement
Workshop: The Movement Technology Collaborative: How Our Tools Can Support Your Work
Saturday Night Music Showcase

Betty Yu

Manhattan Neighborhood Network/Save Access Campaign
Panel discussion: Empowering Our Communities Through Public Access Television & The Challenges We Face
Betty Yu is a community based media maker, educator and organizer. Ms. Yu currently works as a Community Outreach & Media Specialist at Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN), Manhattan's public access organization in New York City. At MNN, she provides media making tools and resources to community based organizations through video production training & a Community Media Grants program. She is committed to helping grassroots organizations use media to advance their organizing and social justice work. Most recently,she has been one of the lead organizers in the Save Public Access TV campaign in New York, organizing individuals & organizations to oppose Congressional bills that can end Community Access TV, a valuable media resource to the social change movement.

Betty is also on the Board of Working Films, a national organization that links independent documentary filmmaking with community education,organizing, and direct action. Betty is also on the Board of Directors & Community Funding Board of the North Star Fund, a progressive foundation that supports organizations doing grassroots social justice movement building work. She currently sits on the Board of Directors of Chinese Staff and Workers’ Association (CSWA), a 27 year old workers' center organizing Chinese immigrant workers to fight sweatshop conditions in New York City's Chinatown.