Zakiyyah finishes up covering the Root Skills Conference with an emphasis on Maine’s Hurricane Island Foundation. Here are our interviewees:

Dee Azubuike Johnson

Dee Wells – Co-Founder of Future Focus Media CooperativeWebsite: https://futurefocusmedia.org

In 2011, Dee co-founded Future Focus Media Co-op & Youth Training Institute, a photography and film production company that works with clients such as UMASS, Main South CDC, and the Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island, to name a few, while teaching youth video production skills.

Camelle Scott Mujahid – Training Director at CTCORE-OrganizeNowWebsite: http://www.ctcore-organizenow.org/staff

Camelle Scott-Mujahid, has been organizing in New Haven for the past ten years. She moved to New Haven from El Paso, Texas in 2003 to attend Yale University.

During her time at Yale, Camelle found community and a political home in New Haven’s activist and organizing community engaging in direct action, grassroots organizing, and coalition building. Camelle has organized around a range of issues, including Immigrants Rights, Police Accountability, and Education Equity.

Robin Chernow – Science Education Manager at Hurricane IslandWebsite: http://www.hurricaneisland.net/

Robin is originally from Chester, NJ. Before coming to Maine, she worked at Philadelphia’s FirstHand Lab, facilitating hands-on science labs for middle school students at the University City Science Center. Robin earned a B.S. in Geology from Haverford College, where she was a student leader of Haverford’s Public Observing Astronomy program and a teaching assistant. Teaching marine science outdoors is "the coolest job she can imagine," and after working as a seasonal employee in 2016, she is thrilled to join Hurricane's year-round staff.

Phoebe JekielekWebsite: http://www.hurricaneisland.net/

Phoebe originally hails from Punxsutawney, PA, Home of the Groundhog! She received a BA in Biology from Boston University in 2003. She lived her love for the ocean and education for 5 years as a marine science instructor, aquarist and Assistant Program Director for the Catalina Island Marine Institute in southern California. She then returned to Maine to pursue her love of science and complete her Dual Masters in Marine Science and Marine Policy at the University of Maine in 2012.

Anna Somo

Music:Lessazo “Soleil D’Hiver” – http://altermusique.org/Lessazo/
Imperial Tiger Orchestra "Ethic Event #1" – http://imperialtigerorchestra.blogspot.com
Jesse Spillane “Art of Presentation – https://jessespillane.bandcamp.com
Kevin MacLeod "Quasi Motion"

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