Organization: CTC VISTA Project

I'm a recent graduate of The Evergreen State College where I studied documentary media and gender studies, culminating in the creation of A Problem Like Maria, a documentary film featuring the stories of religious sisters (nuns) and their struggles for gender equality within the Catholic Church. As a 2007 Young People For Fellow, I coordinated a documentary photography and audio exhibit on the lives of families facing welfare cuts in Washington state. I also spent a summer doing human rights documentation work in Guatemala, organized a Take Back the Night rally and currently serves on Amnesty International's Women's Human Rights Steering Committee.

After spending the last year in Seattle working on the community outreach campaign for the documentary film Inlaws & Outlaws, I am thrilled to continue combining my passions for media and social change through my work as a community organizer at The Center for Digital Storytelling.

In my spare time, I can be found freelance writing for various publications, taking photographs of gentrifying neighborhoods, and/or making mix CDs for every imaginable situation. 

I was the original Project Manager for the StoriesForChange.net site and now a recent graduate of at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Master in City Planning program. From 2005-7, I served second year VISTA Leader at the CTC VISTA Project and program coordinator and trainer at massIMPACT. My goals include supporting two online collaborative social networks (the CTC VISTAs resource portal on CTCVISTA.org and [THIS SITE], a community digital storytelling facilitators on StoresforChange.net), conducting train-the-trainer digital storytelling workshops for massIMPACT’s Spreading the Stories program, and working to bring new programs and collaborations to technology centers in MassHousing technology and community centers. In 2005-6, I served the Community Technology & Media Program at UMass Boston, as a curriculum and resource coordinator as well as the Assistant Editor of the Community Technology Review and the Project’s newsletter, the Digest. Additionally, I researched media policy as part of the Tactical Media group and conducted several digital storytelling trainings for both adults and youth. Previously, I was the Technology Director at the Charlestown Boys & Girls Club (MA) Computer Clubhouse and a MIT Media Lab IDEAS Institute Fellow. My background is in after-school multimedia programs for youth, instructional design for web-based trainings, and fundraising and development.