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4/1/2009
Resume/CV
FREELANCE WORK
- 2009 - 2010: Time & Space Limited - web design, database design, technical support
- 2007 - 20010: Haitian Community Development Project – website design, website maintenence, logo creation, and PR consulting
- 2009: Hawthorne Valley School - PSA, aired on Mid-Hudson Cable
- 2009: Paladar Restaurant - website design
- 2009: Movies Without Pictures - technical support
- 2009: Children's Media Project - video workshop, Motion Graphics Production
- 2007: Columbia County Historic Society - editing, DVD authoring, cover design for "James Ivory in Conversation"
- 2006: Hudson Development Corporation – videography and editing
- 2006: Mental Health Association of Columbia County – sound recording and CD production
- 2002: Scenic Hudson - videographer
EMPLOYMENT
2003 – 2009
Young, Jewish, and Left
Producer, Director, and Editor
- Shoot and edit footage, design print materials, author DVD, create and manage website
- Create and implement distribution strategy, screens at theaters and festivals across the country
2009
Temple Emanuel
Youth Group Adviser
- Organize logistics for meetings, events, and communication
- Support youth leaders
2004 – 2008
Time & Space Limited
Director of Programming & Publicity
- Curate award-winning independent film and video series
- Promote events using news media, website, email lists, blogs, and grassroots networks
- Create DVD cinema ad reels, design print ads, and manage website
- Implement and oversee technical aspects of screening space, including HD projector, surround-sound system, satellite feed, and remote network connection
2002-2003, 2004
Children’s Media Project
Workshop Facilitator
- Teach media production, literacy, and activism to diverse groups of young people
- Implement and oversee technical aspects of screening space, including HD projector, surround-sound system, satellite feed, and remote network connections
- Write curricula for media literacy and media production classes
1999 - 2001
Bard College Fair Labor Committee
Student Activist and Auditor
- Organize students and develop campaign plan
- Successfully pressure Bard into signing one of the most comprehensive Fair Labor Codes in the country
- Create institutional pressure to hold companies and Bard accountable
1999 - 2000
Student Activists for Voting Equality - Dutchess County, NY
Founder
- Develop and implement successful campaign to overturn the county-wide ban on student voting
- Create comprehensive media relations plan that included front page and editorial board stories in 3 regional newspapers, a live television special, and radio coverage.
2000
International Action Center
Media Coordinator
- Write press releases and call reporters for events covered by CNN, NY Times, and several international television stations.
1998, 1999
US PIRG
Canvass Director
- Hire, train, and manage staff of 10-14 canvassers.
- Facilitate media relations for South East operations
EDUCATION
2008 - 2010
The New School Media Studies Graduate Program
- Dean’s Scholarship awarded to outstanding students
1997-2001
Bard College
- B.A., Gender Studies & Philosophy
- Bard College Alumni/ae Scholar, 2000 for “excellence in scholarship and citizenship.”
- Bard Presidential Scholarship, 1997-2001
INDIVIDUAL ARTIST GRANTS RECEIVED
Puffin Foundation – Artist Grant 2009
Columbia Council on the Arts – Individual Artist Grant (Given to 1 artist per year) - 2008
New York Foundation of the Arts, Special Opportunities Stipend - 2006
Puffin Foundation – Artist Grant 2006
WRITINGS, REVIEWS, AND INTERVIEWS
Feature Story: Independent, "Innocent pastimes: Hudson filmmaker asks why immigrants arouse suspicion," January 23, 2009.
Interview: Jewish Forward, “Left Out? A Talk with filmmaker Konnie Chameides,” November 3, 2006.
Review: Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, “Elliot Watched Young, Jewish, and Left With Me,” Volume 11,
Number 2, Autumn 2006.
Contributing Writer: “Olive on the Seder Plate," A Multi-Media Performance, 2004.
Beat Reporter: Alternative Information Center, Jerusalem, January – February 2002.
"Stick it to the Manarchy", Spring 01, printed in Onward Newspaper, The Defenestrater, The Insurgent,
SEAC.org, illegalvoices.org, a-infos.org, infoshop.org, thoughtriot.com, and starcalliance.org. Cited in Lynn Owens and L. Kendall Palmer. Critical Studies in Media Communication.
"Making the News: Anarchist Counter-Public Relations on the World Wide Web." Vol. 20, No. 4, December 2003, pp. 335–361.
“Sanctions on Iraq,” Onward Newspaper, September 2000.
"Money Talks: The Relationship between Corporations and the Anti-Environmental Movement," Bard
Journal of Social Sciences Fall-Winter 1999, Vol VII, No. 3-4.
TELEVISION SCREENINGS
Hawthorne Valley PSA (Editor); Mid-Hudson Valley Cable; 2009
Young, Jewish, and Left (Producer, Director, Editor); Free Speech TV; 2008
Only 16 (Director, Editor); PBS Affiliates across NY State; 2008
YOUNG, JEWISH, AND LEFT PUBLIC SCREENINGS
Congregation Sha'ar Zahav; San Francisco, CA; May 2009
New York State Council on the Arts; Blue Mountain Lake, NY; April 2009
Chicago Freedom School; Chicago, IL March 2009
FIU Biscayne Bay Campus; North Miami, FL; Feb 2008
Queen's University; Kingston, Ontario; Jan 2009
Wooden Shoe; Philadelphia, PA; May 2008
Yale Hillel - CT; May 2008
University Wyoming - Hillel; WI; April 2008
Arise Bookstore; MN; April 2008
Center for Contemporary Arts; NM; April 2008
Maine Jewish Film Festival; Maine; April 2008
University of New England; Maine; April 2008
Food For Thought Books; Massachusetts; April 2008
Capitol Theater; Washington; February 2008
Trap Door Theatre; Illinois; January 2008
Union Docs; New York; December 2007
The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring; California; December 2007
La Pena Cultural Center; California; November 2007
Roanoke House; Washington; November 2007
Rhizome Café; British Columbia Canada; October 2007
Coalition of Anti-Racist Whites -- October meeting; Cascade People's Center; WA; October 2007
Rio Cinema; London, England; September 2007
Liberty Hall; Oregon; August 2007
Kirkland Teen Union Building; Washington; August 2007
Daila; Jerusalem, Israel; August 2007
Albany Free School; New York; August 2007
University of Washington Ethnic Cultural Theater; Washington; July 2007
Washington Jewish Film Festival; Washington, DC; June 2007
Earthstone; Pennsylvania; May 2007
Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival; Minnesota; May 2007
Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture, University of Wisconsin – Madison; Wisconsin; April 2007
Macalester College; Minnesota; March 2007
Escape Java Joint; Wisconsin; March 2007
University of Wisconsin – Madison Hillel; Wisconsin; March 2007
Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival; Massachusetts; March 2007
National Conference on Organized Resistance, American University; Washington, DC; March 2007
Big Muddy Film Festival, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Illinois; February 2007
Workmen's Circle; Massachusetts; February 2007
Not Quite Kosher Film Festival, University of California at San Diego; California; February 2007
Pangea World Theater; Minnesota; December 2006
Blue Stockings; New York; November 2006
Reform Action Committee; Washington, DC; November 2006
Folkshul; Philadelphia; November 2006
2006 Arpa International Film Festival – Best Documentary; California, October 2006
State University of New York at Purchase; New York; October 2006
Sarah Lawrence College; New York; October 2006
Anthology Film Archives; New York; September 2006
Rosendale Theater; New York; June 2006
The Cinema; Pennsylvania; June 2006
Time & Space Limited; New York; May 2006
Bard College; New York; May 2006
Simon's Rock College; Massachusetts; April 2006
Upstate Films; New York; April 2006
SIGHT UNSEEN SCREENINGS
Spotty Dog International Film Festival, October 2009 (rough cut, v2)
Columbia County Council on the Arts - ArtsWalk, October 2009 (rough cut, v2)
New York State Council on the Arts, April 2009 (rough cut, v1)
New School University, February 2009 (rough cut, v1)
VOLUNTEER POSITIONS
Technical Advisor and animator, International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-net) documentary project
Logo Design and PR Consultant, Justice for Bhopal Campaign
Judge, 2006 Hamptons International Film Festival, Youth Documentary
Committee Member, Columbia-Greene United Way Hurricane Reconstruction Committee
Committee Member, Columbia Council on the Arts, Grant Committee
Local Organizer, Defend The Honor Campaign
WORKSHOPS AND MULTI-MEDIA PRESENTATIONS
Saddam, Iraq, and Fear of the Arab Male
Bard College; NY; October 2002
Econference (Sierra Club); Washington, DC; October 2002
Amnesty International New York Conference; NY; October 2002,
Vassar College; NY; March 2000
State University of New Paltz; NY; March 2000
Bard College; NY; Feb 2000
Israel/Palestine and the Construction of Good and Evil
Marist College; New York; October 2002
Hampshire College; Massachusetts; May 2002
Vassar College; New York; May 2002
Knox College; Illinois; March 2002
Columbia College; Illinois; March 2002
Goshen College; Indiana; March 2002
Oberlin College; New York; March 2002
State University of New Paltz; New York; March 2002
Bard College; New York; March 2002
Racism and Sexism in Non-Profits, Activist Groups, and Education
Red Hook High School Diversity Day; New York; October 2006
Supporting White Anti-Racist Movements – 10 week course; New York; June – August 2006
Kingston Collective Space; New York; June 2005
Hudson Valley AmeriCorps; New York; March 2004
Dutchess County Youth Against Racism Conference; New York; November 2003
Hampshire College White Privilege Conference; Massachusetts; October 2003
Econference (Sierra Club); Washington, DC; October 2002
Knox College Fraternities, Illinois; March 2002
Young, Jewish, and Left (prior to movie)