Culture Lens: Recent Episodes
The second episode of Culture Lens aired 5-6pm (PST) Tuesday July 10 on KZSU Stanford, 90.1 FM.
Sanitation / Tippytap.org and Watershed Management Group:
(facebook: Tippytap/WMG , twitter: tippytap_org) Sowmya Somnath, P.E. is a registered Professional Engineer with over a decade of structural engineering experience designing and managing diverse construction projects in the US and is an expert on rural sanitation. She is a founding member of the US based community development NGO, the Watershed Management Group (WMG). Sowmya is a former Indicorps Fellow and has implemented rural sanitation infrastructure development and hygiene education projects in India and Africa. She has also been a professional mentor for Engineers without Borders on a large-scale drinking water filtration project in Ghana. She is passionate about safeguarding public heath through water and sanitation projects and is a strong proponent of community led, locally appropriate technologies.
Dr. Jared Buono has 15 years of experience in the environment sector and holds a MSc in Watershed Management and a PhD in Natural Resource Management. He is a founding member of the US-based community development NGO, WMG, which has trained thousands of people across 4 continents in conservation practices (see www.watershedmg.org). Jared has conducted ecohydrology research for the US Department of Agriculture and US Forest Service and has extensive experience in Africa where he has implemented community-based conservation programs with Peace Corps and has managed USAID-sponsored famine relief programs. Though trained as a scientist, Jared likes to refer to himself as a “community worker at heart” and spends most of his working on watershed projects at the grassroots level.
Labor / Labor Voices: (twitter: @laborvoices)
Dr. Kohl S. Gill is the President and founder of LaborVoices, Inc. Dr. Gill served as an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow for the U.S. Departments of Energy and State, most recently as the South Asia and Middle East Labor Affairs Officer for the Office of International Labor and Corporate Social Responsibility in the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. Prior to federal service, Dr. Gill was an Indicorps Fellow in the slum areas of Delhi, India, serving as a volunteer paralegal with local residents, using transparency legislation to fight both petty and grand corruption at the local level. Dr. Gill is a graduate of the California Institute of Technology and received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, for his work in quantum computing and semiconductor physics.
Culture Lens: Show 1 Egypt (7.3.2012) The first episode of Culture Lens: 5-6pm Tuesdays, 90.1 Stanford KZSU
Egypt - Where are we now?
Interviews with Amin El Gamal and Dina Ibrahim
Amin El Gamal is a first generation Egyptian-American actor who was born and raised in Palo Alto, CA. He attended Stanford University and then USC’s Masters of Fine Arts in Acting program. Within months of graduating, he caught Aaron Sorkin’s eye and landed a role on his new HBO show The Newsroom. Amin guests on the fifth episode, which is named after his character and will air July 22nd. He also can be seen regularly on professional stages across the country, most recently appearing in repertory at A Noise Within Theatre Company in Pasadena, CA.
Dina Ibrahim is an Associate Professor of Broadcast & Electronic Communication Arts at San Francisco State University, where she has been teaching radio and television news production for nine years. She has reported and produced for the BBC World Service Radio in London, United Press International in Cairo, CNN in Atlanta, NPR in Austin, KPOO 89.5 FM in San Francisco and ArabicTV in San Jose. Her research interests include the psychological impact of television news, the role of Arab journalists in the post-Arab spring transition to democracy, and analyzing American television representations of Muslims and Arabs.
Thank you to Molly and Daniel Carr for the intro and outro tune.
The Los Angeles Riots and the Art Of Urban Occupation Stanford University, May 2, 2012
Anna Deavere Smith, Adam Mansbach, Ruben Martinez, Elaine Kim
Panel on the 20th anniversary of the Los Angeles Riots and their impact on the arts. These artists look at race and visual culture, generational and aesthetic shifts in the arts,video and the rise of social media, all in the context of "occupying L.A." then and now.
Part of a 10-week course exploring how the arts reflect the complex, contested, and shifting ideas associated with the word 'Occupation.' Examine this idea from indigenous, Black, immigrant, worker, and student perspectives, and in contexts such as the 1992 Los Angeles riots, present-day Oakland, and the Stanford campus itself.
Stanford University, April 25, 2012
Angela Davis is best known as a radical African American educator, and activist for civil rights and against the prison industrial complex. She is a distinguished professor at the University of California-Santa Cruz, a job she was once fired from for ties to communism. In 1970, she was imprisoned for charges related to her involvement with a shooting in the San Francisco Bay Area. Davis is the author of several books, including Women, Race, and Class (1980) and Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003).
March 1, 2012 – Stanford University
Grace Lee Boggs, whom Cornel West calls “one of the great freedom fighters in the history of this nation.a deep democrat, a revolutionary in spirit, heart, and mind, grounded in love and justice with an inimitable smile on her face.”