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Jean Donohue
Jean Donohue has been consulting with non-profits for over
seventeen years on organizational development and change,
board development, multiple perspectives, fund raising and
community assessment. Donohue is a former regional director
for the Kentucky Arts Council and worked extensively with
rural, urban and ethnic minority communities. In the early
90's she co-developed CyberSchool, a training unit to help
non-profit organizations get ready for the Info Highway and
was co-director of the Northern Kentucky Telecommunications
Planning Initiative, a pre-planning process funded by the
Governor's Office of Policy and Management. Donohue is Director
of MWG's Open Studio: The Arts Online a national mentoring
program initiated by the Benton Foundation and is consulting
with the Kentucky Craft Marketing Program and Kentucky Arts
Council on the web site planning and web-based database retrieval
systems. Donohue is a founding member of Media Working Group.
Samuel Henry
Samuel Henry is an Urban Fellow at Portland State University's
Institute for Metropolitan Studies and associate professor
of education with the departments of Educational Policy, Foundations
and Administrative Studies and Curriculum and Instruction
at Portland State. He holds an Ph.D. from Columbia University's
Teacher College and served as the first executive director
of the Portland Educational Network. Samuel has wide experience
in multicultural education, community building and creating
linkages with schools, community agencies and other social
institutions.
Fred Johnson
Fred Johnson is a communication policy analyst, documentary
maker, media artist and educator. He consults in telecommunication
and community development, and is a founding member of Media
Working Group. He is a former telecommunications policy associate
for the United Church of Christ, National Office of Communication,
and a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship for the Television
and Film Arts. Currently he is directing the National Alliance
for Media Arts and Culture's Digital Directions project, a
national planning project funded by the Ford Foundation. He
also consults with the Buske Group, working with municipalities
on Cable franchising and Broadband development. Fred is serving
his third year as education director for Media Working Group's
Open Studio: the Arts on Line, a joint project of the Benton
Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Tim Kraus
Tim Kraus is a media producer and educator. Since 1993 he
has designed and presented media arts residencies and professional
development for teachers in over five school districts, community
centers, and the AFL-CIO Labor Council. He is faculty for
the Fitton Center for the Creative Arts where he teaches the
media component. He serves as faculty member for the Association
for the Advancement of Art Education and is currently is teaching
History and Media Production at the Hughes Center High School
for the Communications Professions in the Cincinnati Public
Schools. Kraus has done graduate work in History, Religion,
Philosophy and South Asian Studies and is currently finishing
a master's degree in Education at the University of Cincinnati.
Kraus is a founding member of Media Working Group.
Cathy Nostrand
Cathy Nostrand is a media educator and producer. Her work
has involved curriculum development, strategic communications
assessment for non-profit organizations, and hands-on media
workshops and seminars. She was previously the Education and
Training Manager for the Community Media Center of Santa Rosa,
California, where she designed and implemented a media literacy
and production curriculum. Cathy has also produced two community
dialogue projects involving issues fora, documentary and live
television concerning cross cultural communication and the
plight of the working poor, separately funded by the Rockefeller
Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation.
Kaylynn TwoTrees
Kaylynn TwoTrees describes her work as "exploring the
dynamics in ideological/cultural contact zones". As an
Iyeska (mixed blood/interpreter) Kaylynn brings the languages
and cultures of her Native American, African and European
heritages to her work. She has spent 20+ years studying cultural
identity and belief systems through art, philosophy, ritual
and dance. This study has led her to work with elders in many
indigenous cultures in North America, Africa and most recently
New Zealand as a recipient of a Lila Wallace Reader's Digest
fellowship. As an educator she conducts faculty development
workshops to foster more inclusive curricula and pedagogy
at various institutions across the U.S. She has designed and
directed many programs in business and the arts to help foster
greater opportunity and understanding between cultures. She
is currently Scholar-in- Residence and Associate in Academic
Affairs for Faculty Development at Cleveland Institute of
Art where she works with faculty to create sustainable curricula
for the 21st century. She is founding director of Earthtime. |
