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Mission Statement

The Center for Social Media showcases and analyzes strategies to use media as creative tools for public knowledge and action. It focuses on social documentaries for civil society and democracy, and on the public media environment that supports them. The Center is part of the School of Communication at American University.

Staff

Patricia Aufderheide

Director

Ann Williams

Associate Director

Bree Bowman

Projects Manager

Jessica Clark

Director, Future of Public Media Project

Maura Ugarte

Associate Research Director

Alison Hanold

Projects Coordinator

Claire Darby

Graduate Fellow

Genna Duberstein

Graduate Fellow

Zia Holder

Administrative Assistant

Research & Media Fellows

Greg Fitzpatrick

Barbara Abrash  

Director of Public Policy Programs, New York University

Mridu Chandra

Director, Documentary Ethics Project

Giovanna Chesler

Executive Producer, Tune in STI Network

Kate Schuler

Research Fellow

Gordon Quinn

President and founding member of Kartemquin Films

Neil Sieling

Media Fellow

Advisory Committee

Helen De Michiel

Co-Director
National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture

Sally Jo Fifer

President
Independent Television Service

Faye Ginsburg

Professor and Director
Center for Media, Culture and History
New York University

Barbara Kopple

Filmmaker

Cara Mertes

Director
Sundance Documentary Film Program

Chon Noriega

Professor and Associate Director
Chicano Studies Research Center
University of California Los Angeles

Mimi Pickering

Film/Video Producer
Appalshop Films

Ellen Schneider

Executive Director
Active Voice

George Stoney

Filmmaker and Goddard Professor of Cinema
New York University

Debra Zimmerman

Executive Director
Women Make Movies

Sandra Braman

Professor
Department of Communication
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Andrew Calabrese

School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Colorado

Katy Chevigny

Executive Director
Arts Engine, Inc.

Linda Garcia

Director
Communication, Culture & Technology Program
Georgetown University

David Liroff

Senior Vice President, System Development and Media Strategy
Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Kevin Martin

Vice President, Station Grants and Television Station Initiatives
Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Michael Schudson

Professor
Department of Communication
University of California - San Diego

Ernest J. Wilson III

Dean and Walter Annenberg Chair in Communication
School for Communication
University of Southern California

Don Young

Interim Executive Director
Center for Asian American Media

Former Research & Media Fellows

Kathryn Montgomery

Youth, Media & Democracy Project Director

Martin Lucas

Media Fellow

Brigid Maher

Video Producer

Maggie Burnette Stogner

New Media Literacy Project Co-Director

Celine-Marie Pascale

New Media Literacy Project Co-Director

Working Group

The Center for Social Media Working Group is composed of School of Communication faculty who advise, assist and participate in the Center's activities.
Barbara Diggs-Brown
Jane Hall
Leena Jayaswal
Larry Kirkman
Brigid Maher
Kathryn Montgomery
Christopher Palmer
Rick Rockwell