Troy Anderson has been an international gypsy, seeking adventure, diversity and change throughout her life: skydived, spelunked in jungle caves in Thailand, insulted army boys in Guatemalan bars, hiked up active volcanoes with armed guards, cooked for diamond prospectors in Arctic tent camps in –50 degrees, danced in the midnight sun, flew in helicopters with overtired pilots, dove in coral reefs, helped skin a black bear, ate dog stir-fry in southern China and pork tartar in an opium village controlled by the Kuomintang army, surfed sand dunes in the Taklamaken Desert and made a pilgrimage to the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet.
She is a published writer, currently doing her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. Her short script, Salmon Chanted Evening, won the 2001 CBC/British Columbia Film Signature Shorts screenwriting competition and was produced and broadcast nationally on CBC’s ZeD. She has worked for several years in film and television production as a script supervisor.
Troy is founder of Global Kind Media, a production company with a wholistic mission based upon star power, altruism and the development of fair and just global community.
Ethan Casey is an international reporter, pioneering online editor (Blue Ear, 1999-2005), and author. His most recent book is Alive and Well in Pakistan (Vision, 2004; Penguin India, 2005). He's currently planning a book about the recent history of Haiti, in collaboration with fellow journalist Reed Lindsay. He has written for The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Boston Globe and The Observer News Service. He recently moved to Seattle.
Chris Cheadle is a BC based photographer. His landscape, cultural and wildlife images of BC have were recently featured in a large format book of color photographs entitled “Canada’s West Coast” . The intent of that collection is to inspire the appreciation and preservation of cultural and natural endowments of British Columbia. “People will protect what they love”. He donates his images to various environmental non profit groups including the Raincoast Conservation Society and the
Land Conservancy of BC, to help promote conservation initiatives.
Adam Cormier is a social entrepreneur and change agent from Corner Brook, Newfoundland. While attending business school at Memorial University Adam became concerned about the lack of ethics and responsibility being included in his education. To address this and create space for change he founded a chapter of the Society for Corporate Environmental and Social Responsibility (CESR) at Memorial. These actions introduced Adam to a whole world of sustainable businesses, change agents and evolutionary capitalism. After graduating from Memorial in 2003 with degrees in English and Commerce Adam hitchhiked to British Columbia to learn more about responsible business and apply his education. The idea for his documentary Fixing Capitalism (www.fixingcapitalism.ca) came to him as a super-expanded version of his 15-minute presentations to first-year business students. It is now being designed for all future decision makers. Fixing Capitalism is currently in development with funding from the Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund and NTV.
Katherine Dodds has worked for at least 45 non-for-profit organizations and more than 50 independent film and television productions both mainstream and off the grid — as a graphic designer, writer, organizer, editor, researcher, publicist, advocate, strategist, filmmaker and new media producer.
Katherine got her advertising training through her multiple roles as Adbusters’ marketing manager, associate editor, columnist and director of the anti-ad parodying Calvin Klein (“Obsession Fetish” 30 seconds, 35 mm film).
In 2001 Katherine formed Good Company Communications as a full service company and to develop the HelloCoolWorld.com “idea distribution” network and set of assisted new media distribution tools and services. Most notorious for her ongoing association with Canada’s blockbuster doc “The Corporation,” Katherine’s vision is to deploy web-driven strategies to engage audiences on and offline, and to maximize social outcome for independent media projects.
Recipient of a “Feminist of the Year” award in 1976 from her elementary school, and a 1994 Hometown Video Award for her documentary about women and art, this year Katherine is being awarded a “Women of Vision” award for her work in new media from Women in Film and Video Vancouver.
Katherine’s freelance writing career includes Adbusters, Ms. Magazine, Chatelaine, Fuse, Room of One’s Own, Monday Magazine, The Vancouver Courier, Front Magazine, a stint as associate editor/contributor for POV, Canada’s national documentary magazine and her own self-published book of poetry and drawings “Re-mix For the Unrequited.”
She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Victoria and a Masters in Feminism in the Visual Arts from the department of Fine Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, UK.
Anne Glickman is a freelance radio producer in Austin, Texas. She has worked as a reporter for the NPR affiliate station and is in the process of producing and hosting a radio program with a variety show format. Something really funny. In addition to her audio projects, Ms. Glickman is also a contributing editor at Topic magazine which is dedicated to dynamic first person storytelling and photojournalism. Last but not least, this spitfire is currently co-directing and producing a theatrical re-enactment of an episode of HBO’s “Six Feet Under” with 18 non-actors in her office space in East Austin.
Adrian Harewood is a Toronto-based writer and broadcaster. He has hosted network programs on CBC radio and television including As it Happens, The Current, Sounds Like Canada and Counterspin. He was the host of The Actors, The Directors and Literati as seen on BRAVO and PBS. For three years he was the station manager of CKUT— Radio McGill 90.3FM — a campus community radio station in Montreal and currently contributes to the weekly current affairs program Saturday Morning Live on CKLN- Radio Ryerson 88.1 FM. His work has appeared in newspapers and magazines such as Z Magazine, Canadian Dimension, the Ottawa Citizen, Take One and NOW. Adrian will begin his new job as the host of the CBC Radio Ottawa's drive-home show All In A Day in June 2006.
John L. Hochheimer is Associate Professor in the Departments of Journalism and Television/Radio in the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College since 1988. As of July 1, he will be Professor and Chair of the Department of Radio & Television in the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He has been involved in all facets of community radio in the United States as both a practitioner and a scholar since the mid-1960s. He was also the co-organizer of an international colloquium on Democratizing Communication: An East-West Dialogue held in Piran, Slovenia in 1989, which resulted in a book by the same name which he co-edited. For the past several years he has also been working in the area of Spirituality in Education, focusing primarily on undergraduate students in their search for meaning beyond careerism.
Among his recent publications are: “Communications Media in Emerging Democracies: Towards a Praxis of Intercultural Reconciliation” and “Journalism Education in Africa: From Critical Pedagogical Theory to Meaning-Based Practice.”
Hannu Huuskonen is a multidisciplinary digital and performing artist. Originally from Finland, he studied and graduated from the European Dance Development Center in Arnhem, the Netherlands with the Dutch equivalent of a BFA . He has worked internationally in all aspects of theatrical production. In Fall 2004 he left his career as a sound designer and composer for theatre and dance in Vancouver, BC and moved to Cortes Island, BC where he works as Mr. Mom for his two lovely daughters. He is also currently employed as a Production Assistant at Hollyhock Retreat Center, where he is exposed to an abundance of knowledge in social change, personal and interpersonal growth. Hannu's mission is to help bring more harmony to the world through music and any other medium of non-linear storytelling that tickles his fickle fancy.
Vincent John Vincent is the co-founder, President and creative force behind GestureTek Inc. (formerly JesterTek and Vivid Group), which invented, patented, and has been the world leader for over 20 years in computer vision for gesture based control of information and entertainment systems and displays. Starting as a performer in 1984, who wanted to step into the computer virtual world and lead the audience on an interactive audio visual journey, with the Video Gesture Controlled (VGC) GestureXtreme VR system, Vincent has been instrumental in moving the Company forward into new technological areas; GestPoint (“touchless” point-to-screen), GroundFX (interactive floor displays) and IREX (rehabilitative technology). Over 2500 public installation systems have been installed worldwide to date. The technology and patents have also been licensed into the consumer market, to the Sony Playstation, the Microsoft XBOX, the Hasbro ION (Educational Gaming System), and onto numerous Camera Phones. As the world’s first VR performer, Vincent toured extensively around the world, performing over 200 times from 1986 onward. Vincent is currently focused on the successful use of their immersive VR technology in the Rehabilitation and Disability community.
Vincent has also served as an Advisor on numerous Boards including, The Art Institute of Toronto (2004) and The Design Exchange VR Centre & Content Creators Group (1999). He has also produced many shows highlighting VR Technology, including both the Virtual Visionary Speaker & Performance Series (1993) and the International Digital Media Awards (1994). As well, in 2003 Vincent was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Canadian New Media Awards.
Vincent holds a Bachelor of Psychology/Psychotherapy Degree from the University of Waterloo.
Nate Jolley is an inspired young filmmaker and musician currently living on Haida Gwaii (The Queen Charlotte Islands). While receiving his degree in Social Justice from the University of Victoria, Nate developed an interest in film that has become a driving force in his life. Upon graduating Nate directed and co-edited a short film on First Nations forest management for the Council of the Haida Nation and also began co-creating the "Masset Anti-racism Video Project". His vision for this project was to explore local racial tension while teaching a group of youth from the high school how to create their own documentaries. While these films were in production, day to day island life was shaken up. The longstanding conflict over logging and resource control reached a boiling point as the Haida Nation and a group of Island residents erected a blockade that denied the largest logging company in the world access to the timberlands that they had been logging at an unsustainable rate. These lands were also the territory of the Haida Nation, who's past, present and future culture relies upon the very same trees. Being personally involved in and effected by the major issues Nate and his colleague, Andrew Naysmith, a fellow filmmaker, were fortunate to get special permission to work as a two man film crew documenting the conflict and the perspectives of it's many players. The story continues to unfold and the "Islands Spirit Rising" documentary is currently in production.
Sudha Krishna is Director of Production for the Nimble Company, which develops video-based creative content and delivers it across multiple platforms. As seasoned TV journalist with over 10 years experience, Sudha rose through the ranks of CBC to become the senior producer of the acclaimed CBC TV late night series, ZeD, inspiring The Link newspaper to exclaim "his story is an inspiration not just to budding journalists, but to all people interested in a career in the media." In his senior producer role, Sudha supervised a crew of 45 creative professionals ranging from camera operators, studio engineers, producers, on-air talent, and post -production editors. He was also responsible for managing the logistics of a complex cross-platform production that included delivering daily interactive episodes (100+ a season), a homegrown Java-based content management system/web site and up to 300 user-generated uploads a day, many of which were ported to television.
Previously, Sudha was the Arts and Culture Correspondent for CBC Television in Western Canada. In that role, he produced and filed stories for a variety of network programs including The National, Play, Canada Now and Newsworld.
He also wrote, researched, hosted, directed and produced a special CBC documentary during the 2003 Salt Lake City Olympic games and two live 3-hour election specials during the 2000 Federal Election. Further, Sudha has considerable on-air experience, having filed 2,000+ stories as news and current affairs During the past two years, Sudha was deeply involved in cross-platform initiatives at CBC, particularly ZeD where he oversaw logistics for several new media deployments.
Catrina Longmuir works for the National Film Board of Canada's interactive 'social issues' website, CitizenShift (http://citizen.nfb.ca) in Outreach & Project Development. CitizenShift hosts and encourages grassroots media-making for social change through film/video clips, articles, blogs, podcasts etc. around various social issues.
Having grown up around the world (India, Japan, Thailand, Cambodia) she has always had a keen interest in cross-cultural communication and did her degree in Fine Arts and Anthropology. She is particularly interested in helping to break down the 'digital divide', getting media tools into the hands of anyone with a story to tell, and online community building.
Wayne MacPhail is a former magazine and newspaper editor and the founder and director of Southam InfoLab - an early new media research and development lab for Southam Inc. He has produced online content for most major players in Canada including comedy for AOL Canada and the first piece of Web-specific investigative journalism (Spin Doctors) for Canoe.
He has been the director of content for Sympatico-Lycos, the chief knowledge officer for Cyberplex and has taught online writing at a number of colleges and universities in Toronto. MacPhail is also a published book author and playwright.
Wayne is a partner in w8nc inc. a marketing and communications company focussed on helping post-secondary institutions and non-profits use emerging technologies. He teaches online writing at Mohawk College..
Linda McLean, Executive Director of Little Pearls, has had a strong interest in media as a consciousness-raising tool since she had a vision about its vast potential in the early 1980’s. She has a master’s degree in social work and many years of experience in various settings, mainly in mental health, developmental disabilities and case management. In two decades of volunteer work with Asheville-based Peace Links – North Carolina, she served as President twice and helped put on a wide array of annual Peace Day events. She shepherded The Peace Pledge Project into being and distributed Peace Pledge cards throughout the US and to many other countries. Linda senses deeply that all aspects of life are interconnected and has worked with several groups to link peace, social justice and environmental ideas. She loves to work collaboratively with people who have different skills and perspectives.
Linda is keenly aware that a large number of people, in widely diverse life situations, do not have positive role models in their lives. Since both television and the Internet have such far-reaching impact in mainstream culture, she believes that media could be skillfully and lovingly used to plant seeds of hope and change. She is especially interested in the heart-work of personal, spiritual, relationship and community development and in our deepening connection as humans to each other, animals, nature, the Earth and the Universe – to beauty and wonder in all forms.
Andrew Naysmith has produced, directed, shot and edited a variety of multi-format works locally and internationally. He has worked on promotional and informational videos, sporting and concert events, documentaries, cooking shows, web videos, music videos and short, experimental films. In addition to his independent work, he has worked on larger productions, including movies, commercials and television shows. Andrew is currently working as a DOP for the OLN series, Road Hockey Rumble. He contributes footage to a number of nationally broadcast shows, including CBC's Make Some Noise and APTN/CityTV's The Sharing Circle. He is also working on a 5-year project, independently producing a sports history documentary featuring the James Bay Athletic Association, one of the oldest and most unique amateur clubs in Canada.
For the majority of 2005, Andrew was living on Haida Gwaii (the Queen Charlotte Islands). That March, Andrew and his friend Nate Jolley were given exclusive permission by the CHN to document a non-violent blockade targeted at the multinational corporation Weyerhaeuser and the Provincial Government of BC. For the next seven months, their two-man production crew captured all sides of the events that unfolded and with the footage from Island Spirit Rising the filmmakers are now working to co-produce a feature-length documentary on Aboriginal culture, logging and island sustainability.
Michele Philp and Rachel Boston are founder members of Zydemia media inc., a company formed to create sustainable businesses for internet-based communications. The aim of Zydemia and other projects under the company's banner is to generate user-friendly spaces on the internet that enhance access to information and promote connectivity.
Michele is an artist/designer and news junkie who is fascinated by the processes that inspire people to move into public spaces in ways that they never thought possible. She has been a part of numerous artist collectives, creating, organizing and producing multimedia events, public art installations, performances and parades.
Rachel has a background in legal, academic and market research. She's a journalist who is interested in forging links between information providers online, bringing together the non-profit and profit-making sectors. Part of Rachel's vision is the development of positive and enriching working environments for creative people in internet industries.
Judy Rebick is the founder of rabble.ca, and the author of Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution.
Judy is a long-time activist and journalist in Canada. She is currently the CAW Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy at Ryerson University, Toronto. She is also the volunteer publisher of rabble.ca, an interactive online magazine associated with OneWorld. Judy is the author of Imagine Democracy (Stoddart) and various essays and commentaries in Canadian newspapers and magazines. During most of the 1990s she was the host of two national television shows on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She is also a former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, Canada's largest women's group.
Shivon Robinsong co-founded Hollyhock in 1982, and was centrally involved in its programming and administration through 1990. She continues to serve on Hollyhock's Board of Directors. Together with her husband Bill Weaver, she co-owns and manages Across Borders Media, a television production company specializing in issues of social, artistic and environmental significance.
Now in Victoria, she is the founder and director of the Gettin' Higher' Choir, a socially engaged community choir with more than 300 members. Although the majority of the choir once thought of themselves as "non-singers", their frequent public performances are very popular, and highly acclaimed. Shivon is frequently in demand as a choral workshop leader, and as a musical animator of conferences, in Canada, the US, and Europe.
Shivon firmly believes that we are all singers, and that singing together in harmony is our birthright. She sees singing as a vital source of health and vitality, both for individuals and groups, and views choir as a powerful metaphor for celebrating diversity and creating empowered, harmonious communities.
Rick Searle is the president of Ekos Communications Inc. and executive producer of ekosTV.com, the world's first broadband environmental media channel offering high-quality programming on the environment and sustainability. Prior to launching ekosTV early in 2005, Rick served as co-host of Enviro-Mental! - a half-hour environmental magazine show on CHUM' Television's Victoria affiliate; co-produced a documentary with Across Borders Media; produced and hosted two environmental radio shows; authored a best-selling book on Canada's national parks; and wrote numerous articles for a variety of Canadian, US and European magazines. He has also taught upper level geography courses in resource management at the University of Victoria for the past 16 years
Rinku Sen, the Publisher of ColorLines magazine and Communications Director of the Applied Research Center (ARC), has a rich history of organizing, writing and lecturing on issues of race, gender and activism. She started her organizing career as a student activist at Brown University, fighting race, gender and class discrimination on campuses. She received a B.A. in Women’s Studies from Brown University in 1988 and an M.A. in Journalism at Columbia University. She has written extensively about immigration, community organizing and women’s lives for a wide variety of publications including Third Force, AlterNet, tompaine.com, Race, Poverty & the Environment, Amerasia Journal and Colorlines. She edited We are the Ones We Are Waiting For: Women of Color Organizing for Transformation published by the Urban Rural Missions of the World Council of Churches in 1995. She was the principal investigator on research projects for the Ford and Ms foundations. Her latest book, Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing, a guide for community organizations of all orientations was released in the fall of 2003. The book is a finalist for the 2004 Nautilus Book Award in the social change category.
From 1988-2000, she was on the staff of the Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO), a national network of organizations of color. As a staff member, then Co-Director of CTWO, she trained new organizers of color and crafted public policy campaigns around poverty, education, racial and gender equity, health care and immigration issues. She is a board member of the Center for Third World Organizing, Speak Out Speakers and Artists, and is on the advisory board of the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity. She is formerly a member of the board of Independent Press Association and the Tides Center. She was recognized by Ms. Magazine as one of 21 feminists to watch in the 21st century in 1996, the same year that she received the Ms. Foundation for Women's Gloria Steinem Women of Vision award. She was a Gerbode Fellow in 1999 and was selected as a 2004 Charles H. Revson Fellow on the Future of the City of New York.
Stephen Silha is a freelance writer, communications consultant, facilitator and futurist. A co-facilitator of Media that Matters, Stephen was a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor and The Minneapolis Star before becoming communications director for the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. He co-convened the first symposium on The Media and Philanthropy at the Chicago Tribune, worked on the research project on community communications called Good News/Good Deeds: Citizen Effectiveness in the Age of Electronic Democracy (www.goodnewsgooddeeds.org), and now leads conversations on Journalism That Matters.
Stephen has worked with youth to get their voices in the media, and to facilitate youth-adult dialogues on Vashon Island, near Seattle, where he lives. He is currently president of the Washington News Council.
Josh Silver is the executive director of Free Press, a national, nonpartisan media reform organization that he founded with Robert McChesney and John Nichols in 2002 to engage public involvement in media policy debates in America. Prior to that, he was the campaign manager of the successful ballot initiative for Clean Elections in Arizona, director of development for the cultural arm of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and director of an international youth exchange program. He has published extensively on media policy, campaign finance and other public policy issues.
Dan Spinner is the Executive Director of the Royal Roads University Foundation in Victoria BC. The Univeristy is a unique interdisciplinary on-line and-face-to-face graduate school devoted soley to teaching and research on Sustainablity, Leadership, Socially responsible Entrepreunership and Peace and Confict Resolution. For over 25 years Dan has led and consulted to nonprofits and Socially Responible businesses. He recently finshed a five-year stint in the USA which included assignments as the CEO of the Deepak Chopra Foundation and National Director for the Dennis Kucunich Presidential primary campaign and substantial work in the creation of revenue producing authentic on line communities.
Grace Stahre is a jill of all media trades, from web design and management, to video production, to wedding and travel photography. She has broken every form of electronic equipment, and has learned to buy extended warranties and insurance. She spent 7 years working at Microsoft (gaining a reputation for racking up unusually large equipment repair and replacement charges) while performing voluntary tech consulting for several Northwest non-profits. She said good-bye to Redmond in early 2005 to focus on documentary production. While she continues to perform tech consulting when not in production phases, she hopes to eventually combine these two loves into an effective non-profit voice, as well as broadening the horizon for informative media distribution through the web. She now owns her own video production company, Versant Media, focusing on environmental and human rights issues, both domestic and international. She's only broken a lamp so far this year. Grace is also on the board of the Hazel Wolf Environmental Network.
John Stauber is an American writer and political activist who co-authored five books about propaganda by governments, private interests and the PR industry. They include one book about industry manipulating science (Trust Us, We're Experts), one about the history and current scope of the public relations industry including its birth in a Woodrow Wilson campaign to propagandize Americans to support World War One (Toxic Sludge is Good for You) and one about mad cow disease (Mad Cow USA), which can be credited with accurately predicting the surfacing of the disease within the United States because, as the book points out, the U.S. government and industry handled the issue with PR and deception rather than with science and precautionary measures to protect human and animal health. In 2003 he and Sheldon Rampton wrote Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq, another prescient book released in July of that year that was the first to expose the massive deception behind the Bush push for war. In 2004 he wrote with Sheldon Rampton Banana Republicans which argued even before the November election that the Republican Party is turning the U.S. into a one party state by waging politics as war, under the advisorship of David Horowitz and Grover Norquist and other leading right wing tacticians. The book argues that the far-right and its functionaries in the media, lobbying establishment and electoral system are successfully undermining dissent and squelching pluralistic politics in the United States.
Stauber is the founder and executive director of The Center for Media & Democracy, which sponsors PR Watch and SourceWatch. Since the 1960s, he has worked with public interest, consumer, family farm, environmental and community organizations at the local, state and national level. He edits and writes for the Center's quarterly newsmagazine, PR Watch. He was born in 1953 and raised in Marshfield, Wisconsin, home of Richard Nixon's Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird. Stauber grew up in a conservative Republican household but the War in Vietnam turned him into an anti-war and environmental activist while still in high school.
Matt Thompson is a Montreal and Toronto-based writer, producer, and online strategist. After working as a current affairs and documentary producer for CBC Radio, he served as Internet Director and Online Producer for Independent World Television (www.IWTnews.com), a project to create an international non-profit TV news service. He recently left IWT to develop WatchLog, an online TV news watchdog, and to provide web strategy consulting to progressive clients like the Toronto Centre for Social Justice and Ontario NDP. His most recent project is Ocean Voyager (www.oceanvoyager.org), an initiative for Mother Jones magazine aimed at helping citizens take action on the threats facing the world’s oceans. Matt’s major interests include viral campaigns, the impact of technology on the culture and practice of journalism, and how progressive media can use “web 2.0”- style techniques to reach new audiences and catalyze their best content online. Someday he hopes to finish his book on Marshall McLuhan.
Bill Weaver is the founder of Media that Matters. A 30-year veteran of radio and television in Canada and the U.S., Bill is currently president of Weaver Films, which produces engaging television programs and promotional films on sustainability, social change, personal development, and the arts. Before coming to Canada, Bill worked as a reporter, anchor, producer, and cinematographer, covering events such as the eruption of Mt St Helens in Washington State, the rise and fall of Rashneeshpurham in Oregon, and the final years of the Wallace administration in Alabama.
During his career he has been the recipient of numerous honours and awards. including the George Foster Peabody Award for excellence in television journalism and the Gold Award of the New York International Film and Video Festival.
Bill is currently documenting two innovative sustainable buidling projects in Canada and Mexico and developing a groundbreaking environmentally-oriented series that taps the synergy of conventional and new media.
He also sits on the Canadian Board of Directors of The Power of Hope, and arts-based programs that empowers teens to become creators, rather than consumers, of culture.
Ken Williams has worked as a psychologist and activist since 1968. Eight of his professional years were as a teacher at the university and college level, followed by eight years in clinical settings working primarily with children. Since 1986 he has worked in small rural school districts as a school psychologist and alternative education activist. Participation in the peace and educational reform movements did not bring the satisfaction he sought. Telling the stories, through photos and interviews, of people making a positive contributions has provided greater fulfillment. He has published photo essays in regional magazines in Montana and Wyoming. His photos have been published in alumni and travel magazines.
In September of 2005 Ken retired from his work as a psychologist and began work as a free lance photojournalist. He is committed to documenting the people, places and events of positive change and hope. For the past three years he has worked on a project about creating community at the Oregon Country Fair. Additionally, this past fall he began work on a project documenting family farms and agriculture markets in the Willamette Valley bio-region. Several publishers have expressed interest in his Oregon Country Fair project. He plans to self publish and market the Willamette Valley photo stories without the challenges of working with a publishing house staff.
Jana Lynne White's early career as a copywriter, announcer, actor, and video producer in Vancouver led her to Toronto in 1990 and to twelve years as an on-air music journalist, hosting and producing flagship shows for both MuchMusic and MuchMoreMusic, Canada's national music stations. Producing music stories from around the world and with the world's top pop stars, Jana developed a deep understanding of pop culture and the power of celebrity. While living in New York, inbetween contracts for Canada's Chum Television, Jana developed a media training course for music artists called UpFront Media: How to be real in the unreal world of media promotion. Working for major labels like RCA, ATLANTIC, and ISLAND DEF JAM, Jana worked with diverse music artists ranging from pop diva Christina Aguilera, to punk-pop favourites, Sum 41. Now heading up Jana Creative Inc. (JCI) - Jana is creating original content for television, dvds, and newmedia for the web.Her personal mission is to create both documentary and reality based shows that bridge 'spiritual' perspectives, experience, and values into mainstream media.
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