JONES

Johanna (Jones) Franzel is the director of Generation PRX (generation.prx.org), a division of Public Radio Exchange (PRX.org) dedicated to supporting, connecting and distributing youth-made radio. She also acts as Blunt Youth Radio’s Outreach Director and teaches in Blunt’s Incarcerated Youth Speak Out Project.  Before joining PRX.org, Jones co-founded “Youth Noise Network,” a program of the Center for Documentary Studies to train young people in documentary media production. Jones holds a Masters in Arts in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a certificate from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.  She thinks working with young people in radio is the best job ever.
OPENING SESSION: BETTER THAN “GOOD” - HOW TO CRITIQUE WORK
We’ve all been there:  You listen to a friend’s audio piece, or your own, and… you just don’t know what to say about it.  In this interactive session, we’ll develop tools for giving meaningful feedback that get beyond “it was, um, good.”  From listening for technique, to understanding how to make a story sing, participants will develop an ear for bringing out the best in an audio piece.  We’ll also look at ways to share your story to get as much feedback as you can.  Don’t be shy!  Bring your works in progress to share in a supportive space. 

TONY SCHLOSS

Tony Schloss is a Program Coordinator at the Red Hook Initiative, where he helped to found RHI Radio, a youth produced Internet radio station. He also leads a Young Adult Media Team in producing media dedicated to community development and social justice, and an afterschool Math/Science group for 8th graders. Additionally, Tony is the co-founder of The Hook Studio, a full service recording studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn that focuses on the recording of world music. In his audio career, Tony has engineered and produced voice overs, audiobooks, commercials, film scores and albums. Since graduating from Stanford University’s Learning, Design and Technology in 2010, Tony has shifted his career focus away from recording music and now concentrates on implementing digital media in order to educate youth.
SESSION: ALL ABOUT AUDIO
In this workshop, we will explore how sound is made and what happens when it is broadcast into the world. We will investigate how organic sounds are produced and how synthesized sounds are created by a machine. Acoustics will be explored, as well as digital effects that engineers and producers use to enhance their recordings. Workshop attendees will gain a new appreciation of all of the wonderful sounds that surround us, and be able to incorporate this knowledge into their work and play.


MIKE JONES, RAYON WRIGHT & DANIEL OCHOA
MIKE JONES:

Mike Jones is a producer/engineer and founder of Jones Audio Productions. Educated at UNCA (BS) and NYU (MMMT), Mike has worked in the audio production industry since 1987. He began his recording career at studios in North Carolina and New York City.  In 1995 he served as the Radio Officer and 3rd Mate of the Research Vessel Heraclitus for most of that year. While aboard, sailing from Miami to Crete, Greece, he conducted research for his master’s thesis on underwater sound recording.

Currently, Mike is the Chief Audio Engineer and Co-Producer of PRI’s “Afropop Worlwide.” In addition he is very active in the international film and television industry working as a location sound recordist, specializing in documentary films.  He was the sound recordist for “Inside Job”, which won the 2011 Oscar for best feature length documentary.  He has recorded music and production sound in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Morocco, Senegal and throughout the US and EU. His commercial clients include HBO, The Food Network, Discovery Channel, A&E, and The National Geographic Channel.


RAYON WRIGHT:

Rayon O. Wright was born in Jamaica and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. He goes by the name Black Star Global [ 까만 별/黑星 ]. He recently graduated high school, and aspires to be a media producer in music and film mainly for the Asian market. He’s been studying Korean for 5 years and in the hopes that he will be able to write songs and movies to be a super producer for the Korean entertainment industry - it’s his ultimate passion.  Currently, he’s a professional recording & live sound engineer and have been producing for four years. He’s also a Flushing 2010 workshop graduate of the Radio Rookies program - he reported on a story “Gamun-Pyul” about his love for Asian music and how aspires to be a Korean Entertainment Producer.


DANIEL OCHOA:

Daniel Ochoa is a music producer/ engineer known as (Danny Ocho) born and raised in Queens, New York.  He has been working on music production since the age of 14 and works night and day to achieve his dreams of one day being a successful music producer.  He currently attends The SAE institute of audio technology to further enhance his knowledge in the audio field.  Daniel was blessed with the opportunity to work in Dark Child Studios, which is owned by the family of one of the most successful Grammy award winning music producers alive today, Rodney “Dark Child” Jerkins (Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Beyonce, Tyrese, Britney Spears, etc…)  He also has studio session experience along side of David “Von Doom” Harris, a music producer/engineer well on his way to being one of the greats.  Through his years of experience and excellent guidance, Daniel has crafted a sound that distinguishes himself from the rest and will continue to strive for nothing but the best for himself, friends and family. 
SESSION: AUDIO IN GAMES, FILMS, DOCS AND MORE


KATHERINE FRY, PH.D.

Co-founder and Education Director of The LAMP, Katherine is also a professor of media studies in the Department of Television and Radio at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She earned her Ph.D. in Mass Media and Communication from Temple University in 1994, and brings to The LAMP many years of experience teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in media history, criticism, theory and research methods. She has an extensive background in curriculum development. In addition to her teaching, Dr. Fry’s publications include the following books: Constructing the Heartland: Television News and Natural Disaster (2003, Hampton Press); and Identities in Context: Media, Myth, Religion in Space and Time (2008, Hampton Press). She has also published articles and contributed to books about communication technology and psychological well-being, television news, advertising and popular culture and radio. Her current research is in the history of news and in the future of news from the audience perspective.
SESSION: DIFFERENT TOOLS, DIFFERENT NEWS
This is a comparative media workshop where students will learn how images versus sound versus text compare as media (as different tools) to shape news and information.  Examples will be given and students, in small groups, will participate in a brief exercise where they are given news facts and asked to create news primariy for a sound medium, for and image-based medium or for a text-based medium.  The goal is that they will understand the defining characteristics of each medium and how news is shaped and perceived differently across these media.


MIGUEL MACIAS

Originally from Sevilla, Spain, Miguel Macias moved to the United States in 2001. After completing his M.F.A. in TV production, Macias joined New York Public Radio, WNYC, as an associate producer for Radio Rookies. For his work with Radio Rookies, he received a Peabody Award in 2006. He moved to Los Angeles in 2006, where he joined the team of American Public Media’s Marketplace. For two years he was the overnight associate producer and director for the Marketplace Morning Report. In 2008 he became the Los Angeles Bureau Chief for Youth Radio, and in 2009 he accepted a position as a faculty member at Brooklyn College. Macias is proud to be a volunteer for the NGO Madre. As such, he has trained indigenous radio reporters in Peru and instructed video production to teenagers in Colombia. His credits include NPR’s All Things Considered and Morning Edition; PRI’s The World and This American Life; and ABC Radio National.
Fact: He knows quite a bit about recorders, microphones, editing systems, video and audio… all things tech!
SESSION:  DIY DIF (DO IT YOURSELF, DO IT FREE)
In this workshop Miguel Macias will explain the process of recording and editing a short audio news story using tools available to most users for free.
Up until very recently, recording and editing a professional quality audio report involved spending hundreds of dollars on gear and software. Today, more and more users are taking advantage of the capacities of devices such as smart phones or inexpensive cameras to record audio, and using editing software available for free download to craft their reports.
In this one-hour workshop session attendees will use their own smart phones (or cameras) to record; and free software to complete a short story.
Note: Attendees should bring any USB cable or adapter they might need to transfer files from their smart phones to the computers.


MARISA JAHN

Marisa Jahn is the Deputy Director of People’s Production House. The editor of “Byproduct: On the Excess of Embedded Art Practices,” Marisa Jahn is an artist, writer, and community organizer embedded in various social and economic justice groups since 2008. Her work has been presented at venues such as the MIT Museum, The Power Plant (Toronto), ICA Philadelphia, The National Fine Art Museum of Taiwan, New Museum (NYC), ISEA, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Boston Museum of Science, and more. A graduate of MIT and an artist in residence at MIT’s Media Lab, Jahn has been recognized as a leading educator by UNESCO and has been a CEC Artslink cultural fellow in Tajikistan, Estonia, and Russia. Her work has been written about in media such as The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Clamor, Punk Planet, Art in America, and Discovery Channel. In 2009, she co-founded REV-, an organization dedicated to socially-engaged art, design, and pedagogy; she is currently the Deputy Director at People’s Production House, a journalism training and production institute that works with low-wage workers, immigrants, and teens to produce groundbreaking news that has been seen and heard on BBC, ABC, PBS Newshour, Mother Jones, The Nation Magazine, The New York Times, and more.  marisajahn.com, rev-it.org, peoplesproductionhouse.org
SESSION: WORMHOLES AND LOOPHOLES - TURN YOUR CREATIVE JUICES ON

MODERATOR: VERALYN WILLIAMS

Veralyn Williams has a B.A. in Media Studies from Hunter College, and is currently a Freelance Journalist working in New York City. Ms. Williams is a Radio Rookies’ graduate, who recently taught and produced during Rookies’ St. George (2011) workshop. Ms. Williams blogs for SexReally.com and produces her independent work at VeralynMedia.com.


PANELIST: ALLISON JONES

Allison is a writer and advocate who is passionate about educational equality and a stronger non-profit sector. 
After graduating from Haverford College, she was awarded a fellowship by her college to work in a non profit in Philadelphia where she coordinated a leadership program for disadvantaged teens. After that year, she took her passion for educational change back to her home city New York where she is currently the External Affairs Manager for Explore Schools, a Brooklyn based non-profit providing under-served students in Brooklyn with the excellent education they deserve.
Allison is actively engaging the next generation of non profit leaders through her blog allisonj.org while working closely with current leaders on better shaping the image of nonprofits. She has been featured in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, New York Daily News.  She has given presentations on social justice leadership at leading public institutions including Demos and NYU, and was selected as a fellow in the NYU Fellowship for Emerging Leaders in Public Service. 
Allison is on the board of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network-NYC Chapter and mentors an amazing high school senior in the Bronx through iMentor.  When she isnt trying to change the world she is baking scones and watching baseball.


PANELIST: MIKE JONES

Mike Jones is a producer/engineer and founder of Jones Audio Productions. Educated at UNCA (BS) and NYU (MMMT), Mike has worked in the audio production industry since 1987. He began his recording career at studios in North Carolina and New York City.  In 1995 he served as the Radio Officer and 3rd Mate of the Research Vessel Heraclitus for most of that year. While aboard, sailing from Miami to Crete, Greece, he conducted research for his master’s thesis on underwater sound recording.

Currently, Mike is the Chief Audio Engineer and Co-Producer of PRI’s “Afropop Worlwide.” In addition he is very active in the international film and television industry working as a location sound recordist, specializing in documentary films.  He was the sound recordist for “Inside Job”, which won the 2011 Oscar for best feature length documentary.  He has recorded music and production sound in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Morocco, Senegal and throughout the US and EU. His commercial clients include HBO, The Food Network, Discovery Channel, A&E, and The National Geographic Channel.


PANELIST: ANSLEM SAMUEL

Anslem Samuel has been a music/entertainment journalist for over 10 years. After a four-year stint as Culture Editor at The Source, the New York native became the founding Editor-in-Chief of The Ave, an independent quarterly publication that combined entertainment, social issues and politics. From there, he served as the Senior Editor for XXL magazine for three years before moving up the ranks as Digital Content Director for XXLMag.com. Currently, he serves as the Senior Producer of Interactive Media at BlackEnterprise.com. In addition to his writing appearing in Essence, Blender, Penthouse, Complex, Vibe, King and Rides, Anslem also has radio experience, working as a weekly news correspondent for “Phat Saturdays” on Bahamas’ 100JAMZ for several years. In 2008, Anslem started penning his own personal tales about the pursuit of life, love and understanding the opposite sex on his hilarious and insightful daily blog, Naked With Socks On [www.NWSO.net], which earned the title of Best Blog Series in the 2009 Black Weblog Awards.