Hosted by Alicia Fry, Susan Kraker and Melissa Chiprin.
We will dialogue with Leila Steinberg, founder of Alternative Intervention Models (AIM), an educational system transformed at its core to recognize the value of “heART Education”: enriching the hearts of under-served youth and instilling emotional literacy through training in arts, dance, athletics and media interventions. AIM workshops held nationally are deeply influenced by the work of Leila Steinberg and Tupac Shakur – tracing back to a young Shakur who was a regular participant in Steinberg’s poetry workshop – eventually culminating in the posthumous publication of Shakur’s poems in The Rose That Grew From Concrete.
And author Jennifer L. Pozner, founder and executive director of Women In Media & News (WIMN) a media analysis, education and advocacy group- deconstructs reality TV’s twisted fairytales for us. Demonstrating that, far from a harmless “guilty pleasure,” this genre has a damaging impact on our intellectual and political development. All in her critically acclaimed book Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth about Guilty Pleasure TV.
(left: Leila Steinberg; middle: Jennifer L. Pozner; right: Reality Bites Back)
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