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Ladonna Redmond moved to Minnesota from Chicago in 2010, and has been very active in food, environmental, and social justice groups in the Twin Cities, ranging from Neighborhoods Organizing for Change to Homegrown Minneapolis to urban farm projects. She also hosts a radio show — “It’s Your Health” — on KMOJ.
Jamie Keith grew up on Navajo and Hopi Reservations in Arizona, and works for the Minnesota Youth Council. She’s an active volunteer, working with the Ginew/Golden Eagles program at the Minneapolis American Indian Center, and volunteering in other youth-related programs in St. Paul.
Born and raised in Chicago, Lisa Deputie moved to Minnesota in the 1990s. She works as a parent mentor in the Child Protection Clinic at William Mitchell College of Law, and with Prevent Child Abuse-Minnesota.
Born and raised in Texas, Oscar Del Sébastien came to Minnesota at the age of 15, “as a migrant worker in a migrant family.” After completing high school, he “majored in confusion” at Moorhead State, but graduated from the University of Vermont with a degree in art and literature. After a decade in New England, he came home to Minnesota and became a teacher during the day and a musician after school hours.
Coming to the Media Skills Fellowship without a lot of experience in social media, Lee-Hoon Benson appreciated the focus on tools. My single accomplishment is to lose my fear of social media,” she wrote in the evaluation. “I think I know which ones I can use in my personal spheres to build community with like-minded people on a range of topics…. One thing I have learned is the proliferation of tools to communicate a message and ways to think about selecting the best tools for specific communication goals. The exposure and guidance to these tools at TCDP gave me more confidence in trying them.”
Leyla Bari identifies herself as “a mixture of Palestinian, Bedouin, Russian/Ashkenazi Jewish lineage,” adding that, “If I have to put a name to this identity I would say multi-racial, or multi ethnic, however I believe that this is an oversimplification, and feel like ‘perpetual outsider’ or ‘in-betweener’ is more accurate.” As an “in-betweener,” she said, “The community I identify strongest with is the globally expanding 1st generation community. Definitions of a first generation person vary, but like to define it as person who is the first person in their family to be raised entirely or primarily in another culture.”
Dancer, mother, student, artist, activist — Emilia Gonzalez Avalos is a busy woman!
Why is a commuter train accident that claims 1 percent of Minnesota’s annual highway death toll front-page news 1,200 miles away? Multiple-fatality auto crashes right here seldom crack a Star Tribune cover. Continue Reading
I want to see neighborhood organizations get more media coverage for their projects and events and meetings.. If you have a picture of a meeting or event, write a caption and email it to your local and/or ethnic papers. They will often print the picture. Submit your picture and caption to the Daily Planet: they can run the picture in their Community Voices. And sometimes Twin Cities area media such as Channel 5, the Star Tribune, and Minnesota Public Radio, will troll through the Daily Planet and local and ethnic papers to find interesting story ideas, and contact you to do follow up stories. Continue Reading
“If you exist in the real world and do good, important work, THAT’s how you get followers,” said Guante in keynote of Fall Media Forum. For the story – check out Storify below, which we added to and built throughout the day.Some memorable quotes from the day: Guante: “Do good work, write good articles, get out in the community and build relationships with people – everything else is secondary. Everything else will follow that.”Karyssa Jackson: “If you’re not a member of the community that you’re trying to reach – why do you want to reach them? And are they going to benefit from it?”Alfred Walking Bull: “It sounds cheesy, but I go back to the traditions of storytelling.” Deanna Cummings: “Work is about leaving the people we work with better off – not about propping up the nonprofit.”[If you don’t see the Storify photos and comments below, please refresh your browser window.][<a href=”//storify.com/tcdailyplanet/getting-the-word-out-fall-media-forum” target=”_blank”>View the story “Getting the Word Out: Fall Media Forum” on Storify</a>]
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