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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.
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.
Canadian Staff:
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. |
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