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Phuong N. Tseng – Trans-formation
An 18-year-old "queer educator" from San Francisco describes her motivation for, and the importance of, bringing attention within the gay community to the issues of transgender persons, even though she does not identify as transgender.
Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 4:21pm This episode is currently not viewable online.
Loris Ann Taylor – Indians and Media
The Arizona-based executive director of Native Public Media explains how she went from growing up on a reservation that relied on a town crier to give the news to working, as an adult, to proliferate broadband availability and public radio stations throughout Indian country.
Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 4:18pm This episode is currently not viewable online.
Aubree A. Lawrence – Tuning In to Cambridge
A young woman working at Harvard discusses how Cambridge Community Television (CCTV) opened her eyes to the breadth and depth of the Cambridge community, and how community television functions in the information environment of a vibrant city.
Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 4:15pm This episode is currently not viewable online.
Joshua A. Chisholm - Unleashing Power
A faith-based community organizer from Camden, New Jersey explains how he works to help people overcome the sense of powerlessness that arises when they live "in an information vacuum" generated by people and institutions that benefit from the public's "lack of understanding."
Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 2:29pm This episode is currently not viewable online.
Vic Miller – News as Community History
The mayor of Harlem, Montana tells the story that led him to believe that public officials in rural America have to learn to develop trusting and trusted relationships with the press if small communities are not to lose the record of their own history.
Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 2:20pm This episode is currently not viewable online.
Brenda Jo Brueggemann - Why I Mind
A "hard-of-hearing" writer and professor of English explains how she came to understand the struggle of deaf people to be part of the flow of information around them – and the life-and-death stakes of being excluded.
Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 2:17pm This episode is currently not viewable online.
Tuesday Ryan-Hart – Change Through Conversation
A community activist from Columbus, Ohio explains how she helped organize face-to-face community conversations around health issues to help people get the information they need to find solutions to local health problems.
Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 2:14pm This episode is currently not viewable online.
AD Avila – American Immigrant
An artist and community activist from San Jose describes how he came out of the "undocumented closet," and the tools he is using to bring the reality of undocumented immigrants' lives to the attention of the larger community.
Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 2:12pm This episode is currently not viewable online.
Tim Erickson – Connecting During Crisis
A father from St. Paul, Minnesota explains how he turned to an online discussion forum to connect to his community, and how he learned the power of online forums to link people to information and to each other in times of crisis.
Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 2:10pm This episode is currently not viewable online.
Maureen Mann – The Forum
A New Hampshire state legislator tells how her initial move to a media-poor part of her state led her to create an online newspaper that turned her neighbors into journalists.
