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Natasha Freidus |
Natasha
Freidus is the founder and co-director of Creative Narrations.
Before entering the media field, Natasha worked as an adult
educator and organizer for eight years. It was through community
building work that she developed her interest in the role of
storytelling as a tool for social change. Natasha has conducted
workshops in multimedia storytelling for diverse groups throughout
the country. She has also studied and worked in a range of communities
including the U.S./Mexican border, the Dominican Republic, and
Thailand. Natasha earned her Masters degree in Urban Studies
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she was community
media coordinator and a course instructor at The Center for
Reflective Community Practice from 2001 to 2003. She believes
that if she can learn how to connect a video camera to a computer,
anyone can. |

Jennifer Nowicki |
Jennifer
Nowicki joined Creative Narrations as a co-director in 2007
after many years of fruitful collaborations. Jennifer has
been working as an instructor, program coordinator and technology
trainer in adult education since 2003. She received her BA
in Sociology from Boston College and her Masters degree in
English Language and Linguistics from the University of Arizona
and went on to teach and create digital stories with university
students and instructors in China. She sees digital storytelling as a powerful
way to express ourselves truthfully in a new language and
engage in our communities. Jen has also coordinated the production
of several program documentaries, including We Are Adult Education
and Refugee Journeys in Tucson, AZ. She enjoys printmaking,
photography and cooking very spicy food. |
About
- Associates
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Lisa
Dush teaches writing, literature and digital composition courses
to college students, and collaborates with Creative Narrations
to offer digital storytelling workshops. She is currently writing
a dissertation for a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst, a project that documents
the attempts of an organization to integrate digital storytelling
into its work over a one-year period. In her teaching, research,
and the work of her technology consulting business, Storybuilders,
Lisa enjoys helping people to both shape their experiences into
stories and to improve their work lives through smart and sustainable
use of new technologies. |

Sean Effel |
Sean
Effel collaborates with Creative Narrations on digital storytelling
trainings, video production, and web design. When he is not
narrating creatively, he is production coordinator at Cambridge
Community Television and co-director of the world's
first four
square league. |

Julie Mallozzi |
Julie
Mallozzi is a documentary
filmmaker based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her films explore
the interactions between cultures thrown together by history,
and between politics and personal stories.
Her debut film, Once
Removed, premiered at Boston’s Museum of
Fine Arts, won awards at numerous festivals, and aired on
public television. It tells the story of meeting her mother's
family in China and learning about their involvement in China's
complicated political history. She recently completed Monkey
Dance, a coming-of age story about three Cambodian-American
teens navigating the confusing landscape of urban adolesence.
She also produces educational and outreach films for community
organizations. |

Vanessa Pabon |
Vanessa
Pabon is the acting director of Telling Our Lives Digitally
(T.O.L.D.) in the North End community of Springfield, MA.
With a background in web design and technology, Vanessa recently
left her position as youth director at the North End Youth
Center to launch the first community digital storytelling
center in the country. When she isn't working on her own web
design business, Vanessa can be found salsa-dancing throughout
the Northeast corridor. |

JaModi Robinson |
JaModi Robinson
worked in conjuction with various organizations throughout
Boston over the several years before moving to Los Angeles
in 2006. His goal is to create programs to link creativity
and technology through learning within the city and beyond.
JaModi teaches digital storytelling with Creative Narrations,and
with his own production and training company, Digital
Expressions. His work with digital storytelling stresses
needs for individual expression and personal growth. |
About
- Get Involved!
Creative Narrations is always looking for motivated
associates. Contact us (email below)
if you are interested in collaborating in future projects.
About
- Affiliations and Links
Creative
Narrations is closely affiliated with the following institutions
and organizations:
BlinkTank
Cambridge
Community Television
Center for Reflective
Community Practice
Center for
Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling
Association
MassImpact
Middlebury
Collaborative for Digital Storytelling
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