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Tom Voegtle has taught Film Study and Video Journalism at Schurz High School for ten years.
Before that, he was a freelance writer/designer/director whose clients included WCIU, the Chicago Wolves and the American Medical Association. Voegtle began his work with multimedia as Curriculum Director at Energy Concepts, Inc., where he developed one of the first high school science programs to incorporate animated computer-aided instruction, in 1987, after graduating from UIC in 1984 with degrees in Communications and English.
Currently he is Vice-President of the Scholastic Press Association of Chicago, and sits on the board of the annual McCormick/Tribune Foundation High School Media Awards. He serves on the Education
Advisory Board of Cinema/Chicago.
Voegtle was recently awarded a CJE (Certified Journalism Educator) title by the Journalism Education Association (JEA) and the National
Scholastic Press Association (NSPA), giving him national certification in video journalism. He has presented seminars on video production and film study at seven Best Practices conferences, and various regional and national conferences.
David Stovall received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2001.
Presently he is an Assistant Professor of Policy Studies in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago(UIC. His scholarship investigates four areas
1) Critical Race Theory,
2) concepts of social justice in education,
3) the relationship between housing and education, and
4) the relationship between schools and community stakeholders.
In the attempt to being theory to action, he has spent the last three years working with community organizations and schools to develop curriculum that address issues of social justice.
His current work has led him to become a member of the Greater Lawndale/Little Village School of Social Justice High School design team, which opened in the Fall of 2005. Furthering his work with communities, students, and teachers, Stovall is involved with youth-centered community organizations in Chicago, New York and the Bay Area. In addition to his duties and responsibilities as an assistant professor at UIC, he also serves as a volunteer social studies teacher at the School for Social Justice.
Salome ChasnoffExecutive Director, is a video and installation artist, media activist and educator, whose work is dedicated to expanding media access for the diverse stories of women and girls.
She has a masters degree in Theatre and Performance and a doctorate in Performance Studies with a certificate in Women's Studies from Northwestern University.
She has been an arts educator for the past 20 years in university and community settings, and an artist-activist in the prison moratorium movement for 8 years. She has created more than 20 documentaries and other work on women's issues, and she is a single mother with three fabulous children.
Adán Madrigal BA in Anthropology MFA in film/ Video/ Animation from University of Illinois at Chicago
Adán Madrigal presently works for After School Matters as the Media Arts Coordinator at the Gallery 37 Center for the Arts. He is also a visiting lecturer at the College of Art and design at the University of Illinois at Chicago and teaches video production for the CPS advanced education program at Gallery 37.
He has worked in collaboration with numerous other non-for-profit agencies and independent video artists to promote the use of video, not only as a means to communicate ideas, but also as a teaching tool. Video can also operate as a vehicle to resolve conflicts, help achieve social justice and grasp a better understanding of our society and world. Adán mediates the After School Matters’
video instructor’s forum. The forums primary focus is to make after school programming more effective during regular school hours.
As more After School Matters programs are being utilized by young artists, their work is always being documented on video for future use. These videos are vital for presenting the After School Matters program to the public.
Adán makes this possible by organizing, promoting and screening these After School Matters videos in public venues.
Suree Towfighnia is as an independent filmmaker and freelancer living in Chicago, Illinois.
She is co-founder (with Courtney Hermann) of Prairie Dust Films, which recently completed Standing Silent Nation (2007), a feature that chronicles a Native American family's struggle for economic empowerment by growing industrial hemp on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Her documentary short, Tampico (2006), won the Studs Terkel Award for Community Media.
Suree earned her MFA in documentary film from Columbia College Chicago, where she was technical coordinator of the Michael Rabiger Center for Documentary and adjunct faculty in the film/video department. She received a BA in History and Latin American Studies from the University of California, at Santa Cruz.
Marquesa Macadar M.A. in Latin American Literature and Ethnography, PhD Candidate in Folklore, independent writer, Latin American film Instructor, UIC; Spanish language and culture instructor, IUB;
She has led many workshops on memory, cultural imaginaries, and techniques on documenting cultural imaginaries via multi-media.
She also has been an editor and consultant for various educational publishing services. She has contributed articles on Latin American contemporary culture to academic books such as New World Disorders and Peripheral Strains and Las ciudades latinoamericanas.
Ron Falzone B.A.,Columbia College; MFA, Northwestern University. An award-winning screenwriter and director in theatre and film, he has been responsible for over 70 mainstage theatre productions from Boston to New York to Chicago.
The co-host of “Talk Cinema” screening series, he is an eight-time Artist in Residence at The Ragdale Foundation and a Year 2000 recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship in Screenwriting.
Ron is currently the coordinator of the Directing concentration and as founder of the Visiting Director Program, he has been responsible for bringing such directors as Harold Ramis, Todd Solondz, Volker Schlondorff, Margarethe von Trotta and Ousmane Sembene for programs in the department.
He is the Directing Area Coordinator at Columbia College, Dept. of Film & Video.
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