[act-ma] 3/15 GWAMIT Empowerment Conference: Digital Empowerment for the Real World: Using Social Media, Creating Social Change (Keynote)
Charlie Welch
cwelch at tecschange.org
Fri Mar 9 04:02:34 PST 2012
GWAMIT Empowerment Conference: Digital Empowerment for the Real World:
Using Social Media, Creating Social Change (Keynote)
Speaker: Latoya Peterson, Founder and Editor, Racialicious
Time: 6:30p--8:00p
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Location: MIT Building-Room 32-123
<http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=32-123&mapsearch=go>
Latoya Peterson discusses digital empowerment and the leveraging of
technology against structural barriers such as race, gender, and class.
A certified media junkie, Latoya Peterson provides a hip-hop feminist
and anti-racist view on culture with a special focus on video games,
film, television, and music. Skilled in interviewing and creative
non-fiction, Latoya Peterson spends her time editing the award winning
blog Racialicious.com -- the intersection of race and pop culture. She
is a Contributing Editor for The Root.com and Content Producer for the
Online News Association.
Her work has been published in/Spin, Vibe, The American Prospect, The
Atlantic/ Blog, /Bitch Magazine, Clutch Magazine/, the /Women's Review
of Books/, /Slate/'s Double X, The Poynter Institute, The Root.com and
the /Guardian/. She was a contributor to Jezebel.com. Her essay, "The
Not Rape Epidemic" was published in the anthology /Yes Means Yes:
Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape/ (Seal Press,
2008). She also contributed "The Feminist Existential Crisis (Dark
Children Remix)" to the anthology /Feminism for Real: Deconstructing the
Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism /(CCPA, 2011).
As a digital media consultant, Latoya Peterson has worked with brands
like NPR, Wikipedia, and Weber-Shandwick to provide demographic
analysis, ideas on improving user experience, and specialized outreach.
She is also a guest radio host for WEAA's Michael Eric Dyson Show and a
contributor/substitute digital producer for Al-Jazeera's The Stream.
Her perspectives have been quoted in/Essence, The Boston Globe, CNN, the
Guardian, the Austin Chronicle/, and /Newsweek/ and she regularly speaks
on topics of race, gender, and social media at conferences like Women,
Action and the Media and South by Southwest Interactive.
She is currently working on projects related to race, pop culture, and
video games, and will speak for a fourth time at SXSW Interactive 2011
on issues of technology and social justice. She is a Poynter Institute
Sensemaking Fellow, and one of the inaugural Public Media Corps fellows.
Part of
GWAMIT Spring Empowerment Conference
The Spring Empowerment Conference, started spring 2010, seeks to provide
resources for and promote discussion of issues relevant to the life
choices of graduate women. The planning committee comprises women from
across MIT departments and invites speakers that are role models for
graduate women and/or experts on how to become those role models.
Events have included a lecture on implicit bias, a panel on
collaboration, a workshop on online personal branding, a panel of "power
couples," and a panel on modern feminism.
Digital Empowerment for the Real World-Using Social Media, Creating
Social Change:
Latoya Peterson discusses digital empowerment and the leveraging of
technology against structural barriers such as race, gender, and class.
Networking reception with refreshments and hors d'oeuvres from 8:00-8:30pm.
Web site: empowerment.gwamit.org <http://empowerment.gwamit.org>
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free Admission
Tickets: No tickets required. RSVP at empowerment.gwamit.org
Sponsor(s): GSC Activities, School of Engineering, Dean's Office, Office
of the Dean for Graduate Education, Division of Student Life, MIT School
of Science
This event is categorized as: personal development, diversity & inclusion
http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=14975337&date=2012/3/15
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