FEATURED GUESTS:
Our first show of 2010, the second season of The Moment, Global Connections features the following guests:
Paula Palmer, Global Response Program Director of Cultural Survival
Paula has directed Global Response campaigns since 1996. She is a sociologist and writer with 30 years’ experience working in collaboration with Indigenous populations in Central America and the United States. In Costa Rica, she published five books of oral history in collaboration with Afro-Caribbean and Bribri Indigenous people, through a community empowerment process known as Participatory Action Research. From 1995 to 2001, Paula served as editor for health and environment of Winds of Change magazine, a publication of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES). She holds an M.A. degree in sociology from Michigan State University and is adjunct faculty in the Environmental Studies Department of the Naropa University. She is recipient of the Elise Boulding Peacemaker of the Year Award (given by the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center) and the Jack Gore Memorial Peace Award (given by the American Friends Service Committee). Contact Paula at paula@cs.org
For nearly 40 years Cultural Survival has partnered with Indigenous Peoples around the world to help them defend their lands, languages, and cultures. They publicize their issues through their award-winning publications, mount letter-writing campaigns and other advocacy efforts to stop environmental destruction and abuses of Native Peoples’ rights, and work on the ground in Indigenous communities, always at their invitation.
The Global Response program helps stop the destruction of fragile habitats and ecosystems and the Indigenous communities that depend on them when those lands are threatened by mines, logging, and other extractive industries.
To learn more about the socially responsible and environmentally sustainable happenings of Cultural Survival and Global Response, and to support their campaign to urge President Obama to sign the United Nations Declaration on the rights of Indigenous Peoples visit their website at www.culturalsurvival.org
Thanks to Global Response for Paula’s bio and their mission statements.
Jo White & Mark Gammon, Connect.Us Labs
Joanne White (MA Mass Communication Research, Grad Diploma Vocational Education and Training) recently completed her Masters thesis on the strength of connections made in social media communities, specifically focusing on mom bloggers and their relationship with Nestle on Twitter. Jo will be starting a Ph.D. program in ATLAS at CU in Fall 2010, focusing on online communities through the ConnectivIT computer science lab. She teaches marketing, journalism and advertising, particularly in the digital realm, at colleges in both the USA and Australia, and is the 60 Weeks Program Director at Boulder Digital Works. As co-founder of the social media analytics tool, Tribevibe, Joanne is focused on equitable methods of measuring quality content in digital media.
Mark Gammon (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) is a sociologist and educator working @ the intersection of people & technology. Mark completed his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Massachusetts in February 2009. His dissertation focused on college students and better understanding the meanings and implications of new technologies in their social interactions and relationships. He’s employed as an academic technology consultant at the University of Colorado and is working on several projects based on his dissertation research, consults on the effective use of technology and social media, and teaches classes on the sociology of media and technology. He’s a bit of an info junkie…
Mark’s Key Terms: Community, Social Presence, Social Extensibility, Sociology, Education, Communication, Young People, Newbies, Geeks, Media Literacy.
Check out what Jo & Mark are up to at www.connectuslabs.com
Thank you Connect.Us Labs for the above bio’s.
Street Moment Guest:
Morgan Haney, Musana Children’s Home www.musana.org
Internal Dialog Guest:
Beth Osnes, Ph.D., Mothers Acting Up, University of Colorado Theatre Department
Beth is a professor of Theatre and co-founder of Mothers Acting Up, a movement to unite a million mothers to advocate on behalf of the world’s children. She has published many books and articles on both theatre and mothering. She is currently touring her program, The (M)other Tour, to cities in North America, Asia, and Africa.
As a scholar and practitioner of theatre, Beth Osnes is passionate about the potential of live performance and theatre to inspire and engage mothers and others to move from concern to action on behalf of our entire global family. Please visit mothersactingup.org to find out more about this amazing and far-reaching organization and the captivating work Beth has created.