Tags: community organizing

Adam Selon is a social worker and activist living in Washington state. Adam is the Young Adult Program Director at Capital Clubhouse, a consumer-run mental health recovery program in downtown Olympia. He is the Regional Director of Youth N’ Action for Thurston County, a member of the The Evergreen State College’s Icarus Project, and a Certified Peer Counselor for Washington State. Mr. Selon most recently facilitated Digital Storytelling workshops for youth and young adults in recovery. These workshops combined; Joe Lambert’s model from the Center for Digital Storytelling, developmental asset resiliency methodologies developed by the Search Institute, and Richard Gold’s PONGO Teen Writing approach. Mr. Selon is currently pursuing his undergraduate degree at The Evergreen State College where he is studying community development, participatory research, and strategies for social change.

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.