Here is a list of people we are hoping to interview during the Mozilla Festival. Links to the interview will be added soon.
Sanda Htyte
Associate Producer for WNYC Radio’s award winning after-school youth media program, Radio Rookies. She teaches NYC teens how to report and produce radio documentaries and multimedia stories about their lives and communities. The documentaries broadcast on the shows, Morning Editionand All Things Considered, as well as on the web. She also co-created and co-organized the 1st Annual NYC Digital Waves Youth Media Festivalin the summer of 2011.
Courtney Stein
Associate Producer at WNYC’s award winning youth radio program, Radio Rookies. She teaches teenagers from all five boroughs of New York City to report and produce radio documentaries and multimedia stories about their lives and communities.
Cydney Gray
Digital Learning Program Associate for DreamYard Project. DreamYard Project, the largest K-12 arts education organization in the Bronx, believes that project-based creative learning can ignite the transformative spirit in youth, public schools and communities.Chris Lawrence Director of Mozilla’s Hive Learning Network NYC. Hive NYC is a consortium of cultural organizations working together to create and connect learning opportunities for tweens and teens using the web and digital tools.
Leah Gilliam
Program Manager for Informal Learning at Institute of Play, where she develops and implements learning experiences for youth that focus on games, the creative use of technology and the transformative power of play.
Jess Klein
Design and Learning Lead of Mozilla Hackasaurus. Combines handcrafted art, photography, and digital techniques to create engaging interactive experiences. MFA from Parsons the New School for Design.
Chloe Varelidi
Design & Learning Specialist at p2pu.org leading work on assessment of deeper learning in Mozilla School of Webcraft. Game designer and educator, helped open Quest to Learn in NYC.
Chris Lawrence
Director of Mozilla’s Hive Learning Network NYC. Hive NYC is a consortium of cultural organizations working together to create and connect learning opportunities for tweens and teens using the web and digital tools.
Rayon Wright
Graduate of New York Public Radio’s award winning after-school youth radio program, Radio Rookies. At the age of 17, Rayon reported and produced his story “Gamun-Pyul” in 2010 about being a Jamaican American Teen who wants to be an media producer in the Asian entertainment industry. He continues to work with WNYC’s Radio Rookies program as a Graduate Radio Rookie. He also works as a freelance media producer & audio engineer in both the US and Asian markets.
