Presenters

AMANDA HICKMAN

Amanda Hickman has spent more than a decade working at the intersection of journalism and civic engagement, reporting on local and international events and helping community organizers understand and draw their membership into the political process. In 2009, she...

AMANDA THIEROFF

Amanda Thieroff is an organic farmer/independent documentary radio producer with an affinity for traditional work songs, sea shanties, and found sound. She has worked as a youth media facilitator at Children's PressLine and WNYC's Radio Rookies. Amanda's favorite...

ANNIE CORREAL

Annie Correal is the editor and co-founder of Cowbird, a global community of storytellers interested in telling deeper, longer-lasting stories than you're likely to find anywhere else on the Web. Before joining Cowbird, Annie was a print and radio journalist based...

BREAKTHROUGH.TV

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Breakthrough is a unique, global human rights organization that is a recognized leader in...

BREE PERSON

YOUTH REP, 2012 NYC DIGITAL WAVES YOUTH MEDIA FESTIVAL

BRYAN HAMILTON

YOUTH MC, 2012 NYC DIGITAL WAVES YOUTH MEDIA FESTIVAL

Bryan Hamilton Jr. is a Brooklyn native, born in 1990 to a mother from the Dominican Republic and a father from Guyana. He is the third born and only male of their four children. Growing up, Bryan's interest in...

CATRIN EINHORN

Catrin Einhorn is a producer at the New York Times who focuses on multimedia. Before that she spent several years at WBEZ, the public radio station in Chicago, where she reported on urban affairs and immigration. She also spent a year as a researcher and writer at...

COURTNEY STEIN

Associate Producer at WNYC’s award winning youth radio program, Radio Rookies. She teaches teenagers from all five boroughs of New York City to report and produce radio documentaries and multimedia stories about their lives and communities.

COWBIRD

Cowbird is a simple tool for telling stories, and a public library of human experience. Launched by Jonathan Harris in 2012, Cowbird currently has around 20,000 members around the world. It was recently chosen by TIME as one of the 50 Best  websites of 2012. It’s...

D.C. VITO

THE LAMP CO-FOUNDER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
D.C. Vito co-founded The LAMP (Learning About Multimedia Project) in 2007 with Education Director Dr. Katherine Fry. Since that time, The LAMP has brought media literacy training to over 1,000 youth, parents and educators,...

DANIELLE MOTINDABEKA

YOUTH REP, 2012 NYC DIGITAL WAVES YOUTH MEDIA FESTIVAL

ISHITA SRIVASTAVA

Ishita Srivastava is the Multimedia Producer at Breakthrough, an innovative global human rights organization using the power of pop culture, media and community mobilization to transform public attitudes and advance dignity, equality and justice. Ishita led...

JACOB CAGGIANO

Jacob Caggiano works with the Mozilla Foundation to empower users of the web into becoming active makers. His latest project is with Mozilla Popcorn, an open source tool that turns video on the web into an interactive experience, using nothing more than the browser....

JOHANNA (JONES) FRANZEL

Johanna (Jones) Franzel is the director of Generation PRX, a division of Public Radio Exchange 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...

JOSETTA ADAMS

SINGER-SONG WRITER, STUDENT

Josetta Adams, a fun-loving Brooklyn native who is currently attending the City College of New York where she is studying to be a veterinarian. Her love and respect for animals as well as music has stemmed from her childhood and she...

KATHERINE FRY, Ph.D.

THE LAMP CO-FOUNDER, EDUCATION DIRECTOR
Katherine is 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,...

KEISHA “TK” DUTES

Keisha "TK" Dutes is a staple in the underground Hip Hop community and community radio in New York City. The Brooklyn bred, executive producer and co-host of Rise Up Radio leads a collective of young adults that reaches tens of thousands in the tri-state area and...

LEAH GILLIAM

Leah Gilliam is the portfolio strategist for Hive Learning Network NYC, a project of
the Mozilla Foundation. Leah is a facilitator, educator and designer who is fascinated
by systems and the way things work. She has a rich history designing learning
experiences...

RADIO DIARIES

Radio Diaries is a non-profit organization that works with people to document their own lives — in their own words — for public radio.  Our documentaries air on NPR’s All Things Considered and have won every award in broadcast journalism. We also publish educational...

SANDA HTYTE

ORANIZER, 2012 NYC DIGITAL WAVES YOUTH MEDIA FESTIVAL

Associate Producer for WNYC Radio’s award winning after-school youth media program, Radio Rookies. She teaches NYC teens how to report and produce radio documentaries and multimedia stories about their lives...

SARAH KRAMER

Sarah Kate Kramer is Associate Producer at Radio Diaries. Sarah first got hooked on collecting stories as a StoryCorps facilitator, then traveled the world with a microphone for a few years before settling down in her hometown of New York City. Before coming to...

SAYRE QUEVEDO

YOUTH MC, 2012 NYC DIGITAL WAVES YOUTH MEDIA FESTIVAL

Sayre Quevedo, 19,  lives in Oakland, California. He studied creative writing at Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in San Francisco.
When he's not riding his bicycle or writing poetry he's working as a reporter...

SEAN COLE

Sean Cole has been in public radio since 1997, when he took a newsroom internship at WBUR in Boston. Strangely, three months later, the station began paying him. He worked as a morning production assistant, broadcast techinician, overnight announcer, field producer...

TANGENEKA TAYLOR

YOUTH REP, 2012 NYC DIGITAL WAVES YOUTH MEDIA FESTIVAL

TONY SCHLOSS

CO-ORGANIZER, 2012 NYC DIGITAL WAVES YOUTH MEDIA FESTIVAL

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...

VERALYN WILLIAMS

MULTIMEDIA PRODUCER

Veralyn Williams has a B.A. in Media Studies from Hunter College, and is currently a Freelance Journalist working in New York City. She has spent 4 years at WNYC Radio working with various departments including: Radio Rookies, Culture, News,...

VIKKY CRUZ

GRADUATE RADIO ROOKIE AND MEDIA STUDENT

Vikky Cruz is a graduate from the WNYC Radio Rookies program. She has been in the program since 2008; she started in the Short Wave workshop, where she was introduced to the world of journalism. There she learned the basic...