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Transmission Project CPCS / UMass Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, MA 02125-3393 |
Belinda Rawlins Director
Belinda has been active in the community media and technology movement for nearly 25 years. She started out at an all-volunteer radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she programmed a late night radio show for 18 years and began to understand the importance of community based media in society.
She turned her back on working for The Man and moved on to non-profit work, starting with the Cincinnati Art Museum and moving on to Media Bridges Cincinnati, which she transformed from a traditional public access television model into a media arts education center. Later, Rawlins took on a transitional role as the Executive Director of the New Mexico Media Literacy Project, helping to strengthen the organization during the founding director’s retirement.
But the siren song of community radio was strong drawing Rawlins to the rocky cliffs of Northern California to head up Mendocino County Public Broadcasting, a rural community radio network with six facilities, three frequencies, and 125 volunteers.
Making her grand return to the east coast, Belinda became the Director of the Transmission Project in 2008. Here she loves working with media and technology non-profits across the nation to build their capacity to better serve their communities.
Ben Sheldon Program Director
Ben served 3 years as an AmeriCorps*VISTA member in a variety of organizations and communities in and around Boston. An engineer at heart, Ben believes in the transformative power of proper planning, practical technology and passionate people within organizations, communities and social-causes.
Mira Allen VISTA Leader East
Mira graduated from the University of Hawaii, Maui with a degree in Liberal Arts. An avid foodie and news junkie, she combined the two and became a freelance journalist writing about Hawaii’s environmental and political issues- with a little restaurant and film critiquing thrown in for good measure. After a few years of this she decided she wanted to find a way to become more involved in the nonprofit sector. She joined Americorps and served a year at 119 Gallery in Lowell, Massachusetts. Mira is passionate about media reform and citizen journalism. This is her first year serving as a VISTA leader.
Dan Stangl VISTA Leader West
Dan Stangl is a recovering Emerson College film major that stumbled upon the CTC VISA project while searching for meaningful post-grad employment. Growing up in the cultural mecca of upstate New York, provided Dan with the analytical skills necessary to become active in both social advocacy and media production. After taking a detour from rationality for four years in Boston, he decided to “give back” by signing up as a VISTA and moving to the most grounded city in America: San Francisco. Having being thoroughly propagandized over the last year, he decided to evangelize the benefits and luxurious lifestyle of the Americorps lifestyle, and become a VISTA leader.
Reebee Garofalo Primary Investigator
From the production of benefit concerts to the study of music as a social indicator, Reebee Garofalo has promoted the use of music as a community resource and an educational tool. Since 1978, Garofalo has taught at UMass Boston, where he is affiliated with the College of Public and Community Service and the American Studies Program. His most recent book is Rockin’ Out: Popular Music in the USA. He has written numerous articles on copyright and digital downloading, racism, censorship, the political uses of music, and the globalization of the music industry for popular as well as scholarly publications and has lectured internationally on a broad range of subjects relating to the operations of the music industry. Garofalo has been active in promoting popular music studies internationally, as a member of the Executive Committee and past Chairperson of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US, and an editor for several popular music journals, including the Journal of Popular Music Studies. At the local level, Garofalo serves on the organizing committee for the HONK! Festival, an annual gathering of activist street bands in Somerville. For relaxation, he enjoys drumming and singing with the Blue Suede Boppers, a fifties rock ‘n’ roll band, and marching with the Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band, a New Orleans-style brass band.
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