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People United
States Staff: Canadian
Staff: Field
Representatives / Facilitators: Board
Members: United States Staff:
Joe
Lambert Joe founded the Center for Digital Storytelling (formerly the San Francisco Digital Media Center) in 1994, with wife Nina Mullen and colleague Dana Atchley. Together they developed a unique computer training and arts program that today is known as the Standard Digital Storytelling Workshop. This process grew out of Joe's long running collaboration with Dana on the solo theatrical multimedia work, Next Exit. Since then, Joe has traveled the world to spread the practice of digital storytelling and has authored and produced curricula in many contexts, including the Digital Storytelling Cookbook, the principle manual for the workshop process, and Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community. Born
and raised in Texas, Joe has been active in the Bay Area arts community
for the last twenty-five years as an arts activist, producer, administrator,
teacher, writer, and director. In 1986, he co-founded Life On The
Water, a successful non-profit production company that offered a
broad array of programs serving San Francisco's diverse communities.
Joe has produced over 500 shows, ranging from theatrical runs, single
performances, special events, citywide festivals, subscription series,
conferences, and digital story screenings. Prior to his career in
the arts, Joe was trained as a community organizer and assisted
in numerous local, statewide, and national public policy campaigns
on issues of social justice and economic equity. He has a B.A. in
Theater and Political Science from the University of California
at Berkeley.
Emily
Paulos Emily
is a practicing visual artist who grew up in a large family in Iowa.
She received a BFA in painting and printmaking and completed her
MA in Art Education at the University of Iowa, with an emphasis
on narrative and technology. Her thesis took the form of a website
entitled The Mom
Project, which examines issues of family narrative and the use
of technology in the art classroom. In addition to her experience
assisting University of Iowa faculty and student teachers with the
development of multimedia and Electronic Portfolios, Emily taught
high school art teacher for five years, specializing in web design,
video production, and photography. Before joining the Center in
2002, she also spent time working abroad, volunteering as an art
teacher in Japan and pursuing photography and printmaking in Italy
and Sweden.
Amy
Hill Amy
is a storyteller, documentary filmmaker, and public health consultant
who was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her ten-year
involvement in coordinating community-based public health and community
development projects in California and nationally led her in 1999
to co-found Silence Speaks,
an international digital storytelling initiative offering a safe,
supportive environment for telling and sharing stories that all
too often remain unspoken. She continues to lead this and other
global health and human rights-related projects at the Center. Prior
to coming on board as a full time staff member in 2005, she co-produced
and edited a series of educational documentaries about HIV and AIDS
in Ethiopia. Amy has a BA in British & American Literature from
Scripps College and an MA in Education/Gender Studies from Stanford
University.
Daniel
Weinshenker Daniel
has been telling stories and teaching others to tell stories for
more than ten years. After leaving the San Francisco Bay Area, where
he was born and raised, he taught creative writing for three years
while working on his MA in Creative Writing at the University of
Colorado, Boulder. Daniel then spent the next few years in marketing
and advertising, helping companies deliver their messages. Although
he's not a therapist, his mother is. (Doesn’t that count for
something?) in 2003, Daniel opened the Center’s first Regional
Office, based in Denver, Colorado. He specializes in developing
projects that explore the impact of digital storytelling for youth
and within the health sector, and has also done considerable work
with local museums and radio/television broadcasters. In collaboration
with the University of Colorado, Daniel developed the first accredited
certificate course in digital storytelling facilitation.
Andrea
Spagat Andrea
was raised by her bilingual/bicultural family in both Argentina
and the United States. Before joining the Center’s staff in
2006, she worked for twelve years as an educator in a variety of
settings, including a jail GED project in Wisconsin, a training
program for rural schoolteachers in Bolivia, and, most recently,
a substance abuse prevention initiative for youth in San Francisco.
From 1999 to 2001, she was a Violence Prevention Academic Fellow
with the California Wellness Foundation, focusing on aftercare services
for youth exiting detention facilities. In addition to leading numerous
bilingual (English-Spanish) digital storytelling workshops with
youth and members of immigrant communities, Andrea developed the
Center’s Workshop for Educators,
which tailors digital storytelling for K-12 classroom use. She has
a MS in Adult Education.
Gayle
Nicholls-Ali Gayle
is an award winning fine arts photographer, documentarian, and digital
storytelling facilitator. Born in Barbados and raised there and
in Brooklyn, she attended Mt. Holyoke College and was Poet Laureate
at Hunter College, where she produced a series of poetry magazines
and coordinated multimedia poetry readings. The L.A. Host Committee
of the 2000 Democratic National Convention selected her photos for
an exhibit called Faces of L.A. More recently, Gayle has worked
as a multimedia assistant teacher and web designer at Pasadena City
College. She has been on staff with the Center since 2006, and focuses
primarily on social justice oriented and youth efforts. Gayle is
currently pursuing a MA in Human Development, with a focus on Storytelling
as Art Therapy, at Pacific Oaks College.
Stefani
Sese Stefani
began telling stories professionally in the late 1970’s, as
a founder and member of the Teatro Nuestro Latino theater company,
based in her hometown of Washington, D.C. While attending George
Washington University, Stefani shifted her focus from theater to
television production. She worked as both an editor and a producer
for more than 15 years prior to joining the Center’s staff
in 2007, receiving awards for a Travel Channel documentary about
National Parks along the Colorado River; a Discovery Channel production
profiling youth who have survived hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes;
and several productions created for the Discovery Global Education
Partnership. A product of border crossings, Stefani is Filipina,
Russian, German, English, and Scottish. She feels most comfortable
straddling the boundaries of race, culture, gender, and place. 
Aline
Gubrium
Allison
Meyers Allison’s
undergraduate degrees from Vanderbilt University in Literature and
in Communication, an MA in Humanities/Intercultural Communication,
and her background as an artist, graphic designer, educator, community
builder and a life-long appreciator of story have all served her
in this work. Before working with CDS, Allison most recently taught
ESL and Communication courses in the Maricopa Community College
System, and coordinated study abroad programs in the international
education department. Prior to that, she was part of a team developing
and facilitating an international leadership and service-learning
program for young leaders from over 30 countries.
Theresa
Perez
Jennifer
Nazzal
Patrick
Castrenze Patrick
graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in communication and
a concentration in landscape studies. Fusing these two academic
pursuits, he is interested in using digital media as a means of
capturing the intersections of space and place, social class, landscape,
and narrative, Some of this work can be found on his blog, Experiencing
Place.
Oriana
attended Columbia University where she studied women's and gender
studies and comparative ethnic studies and became intimately involved
in campus politics and media through the Opinion page of the Columbia
Daily Spectator, and through mental health reform work with
the Student Health Advisory Committee and Counseling and Psychological
Services.
Robert
Kershaw Rob
is a photographer, designer and writer who has been facilitating
digital storytelling workshops in Canada since 2004. He began working
on story and photography projects with remote Northern communities
in the NWT in 2001 and is the author and/or co-editor/co-designer
of four books: Exploring the Castle, Discovering the Backbone
of the World in Southwestern Alberta; Sáhtu Atlas:
Maps and Stories from the Sáhtu Settlement Area in Canada’s
Northwest Territories (nominated for The William Mills Prize
for Non-Fiction Polar Books in 2006); If Only We Had Known:
The History of Port Radium as Told by the Sahtúot’ine;
and Field Guide to the Birds of the Mackenzie Delta. Rob
is a graduate of the University of Calgary with a BS in Ecology
and Communication Studies.
Jennifer
Lafontaine Jennifer
joined the Center’s staff in 2008, through a partnership with
the Toronto Centre for Community Learning and Development. She originally
came to digital storytelling via her establishment of a community
media project at Toronto's Central Neighbourhood House. This project
initially assisted women in the community in creating black and
white photography exhibits on themes such as violence against women,
work, and immigration, and progressed five years ago to The
Story Project, a digital story effort supporting women’s
leadership through media and technology. Jennifer was born and grew
up in Kelowna, British Columbia and moved east to Toronto to attend
York University, where she received a BA in Environmental Studies.
She has lived in Toronto ever since. Michelle
Spencer
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