Filmmaker Eli Kimaro gives the Closing Keynote Address at the Annual WSCADV (Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence) Conference: https://www.samaralectures.com/speaker-videos/eli-kimaro-closing-keynote-address/
Journalist Quinn Norton is also on a roll with her reportage on the internet group Anonymous. She is quoted in this AdAge article on the group, and her first chapter on the group for Wired Magazine was named #3 Story of the Week by the Village Voice’s Runnin’ Scared.
Journalist Quinn Norton continues her unparalleled reporting on the Occupy Wall Street movement with a slew of new articles: ‘How Occupy Became This Century’s Free Speech Movement’ and ‘Occupy Wall Street Loses Legal Bid to Rebuild in Zuccotti Park’ for WIRED Magazine.
Journalist Quinn Norton was recently interviewed on NPR about her profile of the online group Anonymous, found in WIRED magazine, and part of her in-depth series ‘Anonymous: Beyond the Mask’. Quinn has also been reporting on the Occupy Wall Street protests, such as this WIRED article on the protest in Long Beach, CA.
James Yee, author and former US Army Muslim Chaplain at Guantanamo Bay is interviewed in this 26 minute profile for Autograph, a program on Press TV. He explains in detail the abuse he witnessed at the prison base and his experience being falsely accused of espionage and arrested without charge: https://www.samaralectures.com/speakers-names/james-yee/?post_type=speaker-videos
Author, astronomer and speaker Phil Plait has been immortalized in two different comics! The first in a Saturday Morning Breakfast cereal comic (http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2423#comic) and the other is a comic by artist Maki Naro for his sci-ence blog: (http://sci-ence.org/lunar-erratum/) where he explains the REAL reason the moon looks bigger on the horizon. This comic also made …
Astronomer Phil Plait gleefully moderates this awesome panel at TAM11 – panel includes Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye the Science Guy! http://dvice.com/archives/2011/10/watch-awesome-s.php
Check out astronomer Phil Plait strutting his stuff in this awesome TEDxBoulder video ‘An Asteroid Impact Can Ruin Your Whole Day. And Your Species’.
Chaplain James Yee is featured in the TIME magazine Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience, a special issue dedicated to the 10th anniversary of 9/11. You can see his insightful interview here: http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,1139681500001_0,00.html
Mercado Global was invited to present at the launch of the United Nation’s Fashion for Development Programme. Founder Ruth DeGolia: “It was an honor to present on Mercado Global’s work to such a high-profile gathering of leaders from the fashion industry and the development world. Attendees were excited to hear about our model and successes, and …