I
provide a wide range of support and services to public broadcast organizations and non-profit groups,and I am involved with or serve as an informal adviser
to many grassroots and youth media groups as well as other progressive activist
organizations.
AMARC - Association
Mondiale des Radiodiffuseurs Communautaires
World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters
Asociaci�n Mundial de Radios Comunitarias
Based in Montreal, AMARC
is a membership organization of community radio stations and projects on
every continent except Antarctica. It brings together a network of more than 4,000 community
radios, Federations and community media stakeholders in more than 115
countries. Since its creation in 1983, AMARC has supported the
establishment of a world wide community radio sector that has democratized the
media sector. AMARC advocates for the right to communicate at the international,
national, local and neighborhood levels and defends and promotes the interests
of the community radio movement.
Association of Independents in
Radio
National membership organization of
independent producers working in
public radio and other media. An active organization that offers training,
policy representation and a wide set of resources.
Beyond the Pale
A
weekly radio program aired Sundays at noon on WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City, Beyond the Pale highlights
progressive Jewish news and culture. It
is a project of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice. I
contribute program segments and am an occasional host.
The
Brecht Forum
A
unique New
York City
center for non-sectarian progressive political culture and education, the
Brecht Forum organizes a year-round schedule of classes, performances, panels,
speakers, art exhibits and special events focused on social history and
political events.
Center for Media Justice
Based
in Oakland, the Center for Media Justice
coordinates local and national campaigns for political expression and media
justice.
The
Ford Foundation
One
of the largest and most influential foundations in the U.S., Ford launched a Media Policy and
Technology portfolio in 2002 which I assisted setting up.
Jews
for Racial and Economic Justice
A
New York City-based organization involved in bring active Jewish voices to
issues of racial justice and economic equality.
Manhattan
Neighborhood Network
MNN
is the media access center of Manhattan, operating four full-time cable
channels plus a Youth Channel. MNN runs two production centers and provides
on-going video production training and support to Manhattan residents and non-profit
organizations.
Media
Action Grassroots Network (MAGNet)
This
is a national network of activist media organizations dedicated to media
justice and led by people of color.
National
Museum of the American Indian
The National Museum
of the American Indian is the sixteenth museum of the Smithsonian Institution.
It is the first national museum dedicated to the preservation, study, and
exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native
Americans. The museum works in collaboration with the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere
to protect and foster their cultures by reaffirming traditions and beliefs,
encouraging contemporary artistic expression, and empowering the Indian voice.
In addition to the main Museum building on the Mall in Washington, D.C.,
NMAI operates the George Gustave Heye Center
in lower Manhattan. I am a Technology Advisor to the Film &
Video Center located there, and among other projects, coordinated the major
radio series Living Voices.
Native
American Public Telecommunications
NAPT
“Tells Native Stories to the World.” It
funds Native public television productions, distributes them nationally, and
provides training and resources for Native film and video producers.
Pacifica
Foundation
Pacifica operates the oldest network of community-based
radio stations in the United States.
The flagship station, KPFA Radio in Berkeley, has been on the air since 1948 and is
the place where ‘listener-sponsorship’ (direct on-air solicitation for
donations from listeners) was born. Other stations in the network are WBAI Radio in New York; KPFK
Radio in Los
Angeles;
KPFT Radio in Houston; and WPFW
Radio in Washington DC.
Pacifica has a long legacy of airing controversial
programming advocating progressive and leftist political positions, and the
organization maintains the Pacifica
Radio Archives, which preserves decades of this programming in one of the
largest collections of audio recordings dating from the mid-1950s.
Preserving Digital Public Television
From 2003 – 2010, I supervised team of 20 building a model preservation repository for digital public TVprograms. It was
the sole non-academic project funded by the Library of Congress through their Digital Preservation Program.
Project
partners were WNET-TV, WGBH-TV Boston, PBS, and New York University. I coordinated
all aspects of planning repository architecture and design; selection and
appraisal; metadata standards; file formats and wrappers; copyrights and
intellectual property issues; sustainability; and related issues; and
represented the project at a wide range of events and venues.
Our reports are being widely distributed and used.
More background in Media Archives section.
Prometheus Radio Project
The
Prometheus Radio Project builds participatory radio as a tool for social
justice organizing and a voice for community expression. They demystify media
policy and technology, advocate for a more just media system, and help
grassroots organizations build communications infrastructure to strengthen their
communities and movements.
Prometheus is the major advocate for
Low Power Radio, and was instrumental in passing the Local Community Radio Act
at the end of 2010, which will create 1000s of new low power stations around
the country.
Radio Bilingüe
Radio
Bilingüe is a nonprofit, community-based organization founded in 1976 by Latino
artists and farm workers in California’s Central Valley. Radio Bilingüe began with KSJV, a full-power
FM public radio station in Fresno.
Today, RB operates a public radio network with six full-power FM
stations that cover the San Joaquin Valley, the Salinas Valley, the Imperial Valley, and Mendocino County in California and two satellite networks reaching
stations across the country as well as Puerto Rico and Mexico. Combined with more than 100 affiliate
stations, Radio Bilingüe currently reaches a Latino population of more than 1.4
million people and is recognized as “National Latino Public Radio.”
WNET-TV -
New
York
Between
1995 – 2010, I worked at New York’s public television station doing Special
Projects in Technology Planning. This included helping to plan, fund
and implement the station's media asset management system; planning and overseeing
creation of the WNET Tape Archives; successful grants for
tape digitizing and preservation from Federal and private foundations; and
being a member of the Special Team that
restored WNET digital and analog transmitters after
destruction of World Trade Center.
WGBH
– Boston
WGBH-TV
and FM are the principal public radios and television stations serving the
greater Boston area.
I frequently assist them with technology and digital archive projects.
Youth Media Institute
The
Youth Media Institute in Seattle was created to
mitigate the apparent dearth of social services and programs available to
middle school and high school aged youth in the White Center community, one of the
most ethnically diverse in the state of Washington. In 5 years, it has
trained more than 350 young people in media and story-telling skills, while
indirectly touching thousands through youth-led radio and video pieces.