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2:00 pm: Panel Begins
Stay for a Popcorn & Perrier Reception immediately following the Panel
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Our next Vital Conversations panel takes on the question: How are people creatively using media to engage, activate, and organize, and whose voices are we still leaving out?
Media, The Great Equalizer? is a conversation focused on how activists are using media to communicate their message, engage audiences, and motivate them to action. Featuring a panel of media and youth organizations, our panel will ask open questions that create space for youth and adult filmmakers to not only engage with mediamaking but supporting the need for intergenerational collaboration in social justice movements.
The conversation will highlight media literacy and political engagement through a multigenerational lens. Confirmed panelists include Stephanie Skora from Girl Voter, Alex Herrera from Free Spirit Media, and Margaret Caples from Chicago Film Workshop. Maxwell Evans of Block Club Chicago will moderate.
The panel will be followed by an audience Q&A, with the total runtime of the event being around 90 minutes. Thank you to our Vital Conversations Series Sponsor Tracy Kupferberg.
PANELISTS
Maxwell Evans, Block Club Chicago (Moderator)
Maxwell covers Hyde Park, Woodlawn, South Shore and the Southeast Side for Block Club Chicago, where he writes about everything from housing and environmental justice to arts and new businesses. He is a South Shore resident who hails from Kalamazoo, Michigan, and loves the musician Jai Paul, shish kofta and the Toronto Raptors.
Stephanie Skora, Girl Voter (Panelist)
Stephanie Skora is a writer, educator, speaker, organizer, and non-profiteer based in Chicago, Illinois. She lives as a femme lesbian, trans woman, and working-class anti-Zionist Ashkenazi Jew, and mobilizes her identities to work in solidarity with Palestinians, to queer Jewish spaces, and to fight for justice and liberation for all trans people. Stephanie is the co-Founder of Chicago’s Brave Space Alliance, serves on the Board of the Midwest Institute for Sexuality and Gender Diversity, and is the co-author and editor of the “Girl, I Guess” Progressive Voter Guide. When not working or organizing, Stephanie can be found enjoying the pleasures of life for a Virgo: food, love, and being right.
Alex Herrera, Free Spirit Media (Panelist)
Alex is the Director of Programs and Partnerships at Free Spirit Media, where she uses arts education to empower young people in Chicago and create partnerships programs that foster social justice, belonging, and amplify youth voices. Before Free Spirit Media, Alex managed teen programs at the Hyde Park Art Center, served as a Teen Learning Specialist at the Shedd Aquarium, taught Digital Design and 3D animation in the CPS Advanced Arts Program, and held a position as Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Margaret Caples, Chicago Film Workshop (Panelist)
Ms. Caples is a graduate of the first class of the Community Film Workshop of Chicago. She has an MSW from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. Margaret has over 30 years of experience developing media education programs and working with teens and teachers. Locally, she served as a partner on numerous groups, such as the Englewood Cultural Planning Council and the boards of CAN TV and Kartemquin Films. Ms. Caples is co-founder of “Diverse Voices In Docs” and developed the “Digital Storytelling Institute” at the Logan Media Center.
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