Week 5 - Evergreen Alums working in Media
Here's some detail on this Tuesday's (May 1) Evergreen media alums panel. Anne Fischel and Beatriz Flores Gutierrez, Mediaworks faculty, have arranged this event and invited us to attend. This is a fantastic opportunity to hear from recent grads about their creative work and media career paths.
We'll be in Seminar 2, C-1105 from 10 am to 1 pm.
Panelists include:
--Erica Schisler '91, Adobe Software Developer and Graduate Student in UW's Master of Communication in Digital Media Program: http://depts.washington.edu/mcdm/overview/index.html
Erica is Group Program Manager for Digital Video and Audio Engineering at Adobe, where she has worked for 12 years. Over this time she has worked in product marketing and has collaborated with teams to define best practices for software development. She recently spent three months in the South Pacific exploring the life and influences of Len Lye, an early animator who based his work on indigenous design from paper. Erica received her BA from The Evergreen State College with an emphasis in filmmaking and animation.
--Laurel Spellman Smith '97, independent documentary filmmaker. Directed the documentary "Busting Out" (2004) http://www.stiritup.com/index.php
Laurel is a two-time regional Emmy Award-winning producer of national and local programs for PBS including the critically acclaimed feature documentary "Faith and Fear: The Children of Krishna" and "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." She graduated from the Evergreen State College with a degree in cultural anthropology and film. She is an avid traveler and often incorporates footage from around the world in her documentaries.
Interview with Laurel about "Busting Out" here: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/175484_moment01.html
--Jamala Henderson '98, Announcer and Reporter at KUOW 94.9 Seattle's NPR Station http://www.kuow.org/about/staff.asp?staff=1260
Before landing at KUOW, Jamala studied film and video at Evergreen, where she obtained a BA. She gained audio skills working as a production assistant at the Washington State Department of Information Services, hosting some shows as a volunteer at KBCS in Bellevue, then working at the Evergreen Radio Reading Service for several years as a Broadcaster.
