Sessions
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WAM!2009 Sessions:
FRIDAY INTENSIVE PRE-CONFERENCE
March 27, 11:00AM - 4:00/6:00PM
Creating, Designing and Promoting Your Own Blog (Pre-Conference)
Christine Cupaiuolo
Effective Outreach Strategies for Increasing Diversity within Your Organization (Pre-Conference)
Adaora Asala, Tikesha Morgan
Media Literacy As An Act of Self Defense (Pre-Conference)
Lillian Jimenez
PR: Getting Your Work Out There - A dynamic day of media strategy for feminists and community organizers who are media savvy but not (necessarily) PR savvy (Pre-Conference)
Mahdis Keshavarz, Denise Moorehead, Emily Howe, Gail Leondar-Wright, Ina Howard-Parker Jennifer L. Pozner, Jennifer Mattson, Kelley Chunn, Rebekah Spicuglia, Rochelle Lefkowitz, Shonna Carter, Sue Dorfman, Sui Lang Panoke, Talana Lattimer, Tristin Aaron, Glennda Testone
RE:Framing Feminism: Narrative, Strategy, and Social Change (Pre-Conference)
Doyle Canning, Shana McDavis-Conway
Women & the Dynamics of Digital Social Capital: Making the Tools Work for You (Pre-Conference)
Deanna Zandt, Susan Mernit
WAM!2009 BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Saturday, March 28 - 11:00AM to 12:30PM
Blogging for the Man: Challenging the Commodification of Online Communities
Diane Farsetta, Veronica Arreola, Joanne Bamberger
Covering Climate Change
Jen Angel, Brianna Cayo Cotter, Colleen Cronin, Nell Greenberg
Even When We’re Insiders We’re Outsiders: Moving from Black Women’s Invisibility to Visibility in Popular Media and Culture
Tokumbo Bodunde, Courtney Young
FOIA for Feminists: Investigative Techniques You Can Use
Kelly Virella, Aura Bogado, Lindsay Beyerstein, Esther Kaplan
How to Work in the Mainstream Media—and Why You Want to
Kara Jesella, Ada Calhoun, Rebecca Traister, Lynn Harris
In/Out of Focus, Broadening a Feminist Lens: Gender, Non-Conformity and the Media
Kate Bovitch, Miriam Zoila Perez, Jack Aponte, Julia Serano
Making Girl Media Makers: The Whys and Hows of Youth Media
Cara Lisa Powers, Samantha Muilenburg, Maile Martinez, Soul Brown
Our Airwaves: Whose Access?
Cory Fischer-Hoffman, Andalusia Knoll, Loreto Bravo
Women’s Voices and Visions on Film
Melissa Silverstein, Nicole Franklin, Deborah Kampmeier, Thato Rantao Mwosa
Saturday, March 28 - 2:00PM to 3:30PM
Accessible Communications: Federal 508 Compliance and the Needs of Persons with Disabilities
Donna Ledbetter
Catalyzing Cultural Change with Social Media: Fad or Feminist-Fix?
Masum Momaya, Jo Beaton
Feminist Blogging: From Journalism to Activism in Election Years and Beyond
Veronica Arreola, Jennifer L. Pozner, Kim Pearson, Cynematic
Get Inside the Minds of Editors
Denice E. Zeck, Marjorie Pritchard, Marcia Lythcott, Tania Lara, Martha Burk
Global Citizens, Global Journalists: Women journalists organizing around the globe
Lily Yulanti Farid, Parveen Sultana, Raziah Mwawanga, Preeti Mangala Shekar
“Our Bodies, Whose Selves?”: How HIV is Kept Outside the Feminist Agenda
Kellee Terrell, Laura Whitehorn
Queer Teen Filmmakers: Eradicating Homophobia Across the U.S. Reel by Real
Ingrid Hu Dahl, Kali Snowden, Genne Scott, Zaida Sanabia
Run Go Tell Dis: writing and self-publishing our stories from the inside/out (a black women’s guide to navigating the self-publishing industry in order to diversify the media landscape)
Joyce Angela Jellison, Letta Neely
Women’s Voices & Media Policy
Joshua Breitbart, Mari Castaneda, Mary Alice Crim, Alexandra Russell
Saturday, March 28 - 4:00PM to 5:30PM
A WAM! Roundtable on the Economy: Crisis & Opportunity
Randy Albelda, Tokumbo Bodunde, Diane Farsetta, Tracy Van Slyke
Got Democracy? Media and Movements
Alice Kim, Barbara Becnel, Liliana Segura, Cassandra West
Lessons from the Ethnic and Community Media: Identification, Representation, and Dealing with “Difference”
Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Carolyn Ji Jong Goossen, Shruti Swamy
More Than Guilty Pleasures: Sexism, Racism, Consumerism & Other Hazards of Reality TV
Jennifer L. Pozner, Andrea Isabel Quijada
New Administration, New World Order: The Top Five Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights Stories You’ll Want to Track - And How
Dana Goldstein, Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, Kiki Zeldes, Emily Douglas
Publicity on a Shoestring: Promoting Your Own Book or Project on a Tight Budget
Jen Angel, Justine Johnson
Rapid Response Journalism: How Social Media Tools Can Enhance Your Work
Deanna Zandt, Susan Mernit
The Other Glass Ceiling: We had a woman candidate, but where are the women in the political media?
Mikki Halpin, Rebecca Traister, Lisa Stone
Women & Trauma: Lessons from the Coverage of the Colombian Conflict
Jenny Manrique Cortes
Sunday, March 29 - 9:30AM to 11:00AM
Beyond Representation: Exploring Media Access, Ownership, and Justice in Youth Media
Maile A. Martinez, Samantha Muilenburg
Get Opinionated: Write and Publish Persuasive Op-Eds for a National Audience
Laura Mazer, Catherine Orenstein
Hip Hop, Motherhood and Social Justice
Jeannine Cook, DJ L’Oqenz, Sasa Ynoa, Sham-e-Ali al-Jamil
How to get your P.O.V. heard: A panel with the producers of the P.O.V. (Point of View) series on PBS
Elriva Colorado, Natalie Jesionka, Jocelyn Glatzer, Cynthia Lopez, Irene Villasenor
New Technology, New Activism: Case studies
Loretta Ross, Sheryl-Ann Simpson, Nancy Scola
The Global Abortion Dialogue
Lisa Russell, Laura Villa Torres, Anu Kumar
Women & Investigative Journalism
Sarah Posner, Adele Stan, Silja Talvi, Sabrini Hersi-Issa
The Art of Low Budgets: How Indy Magazines Can Compete In a Mainstream World
Sanhita SinhaRoy, Rachel Jefferson, Neelanjana Banerjee, Jen Angel
Sunday, March 29 - 11:30AM to 1:00PM
Going Group: How Blogging in Numbers Gets It Done
Shira Tarrant, Ebony Utley, Deborah Siegel, Latoya Peterson
How To Sow Your Grassroots: Replicating Actions Elsewhere Using Online Organizing Without Losing Your Message
Jennifer Berger, Alyza Jehangir
Make Money From Your Writing: How to Negotiate Money and Rights with Editors
Sue Katz, E. Jeanne Harnois, Shirley Moskow
Pulling the Plug on Rape Culture One Word at a Time: Using Accuracy to Undermine Dangerous Attitudes and Injustice
Cara Kulwicki, Ashley Burczak, Marcella Chester, Ashwini Hardikar
Social Media and Women of Color
Shireen Mitchell, Keida-Ann Borgella, Corvida Raven
What’s Next? Media’s Mixed Messages to Women
Caryl Rivers, Rosalind C. Barnett
Women & the Economic Crisis: Getting Beyond the Corporate Media Narrative
Julia Hollar, other presenters TBA
