Amplifying the Voices of Climate Justice

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Website

http://www.radioproject.org/desks/environmental.html

Topics

Environment: Atmosphere, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Environmental Activism, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Rivers, Soils
Human Development: Agriculture, Education, Energy, Fisheries, Food, Intermediate Technology, International Cooperation, Labor, Land, Migration, Poverty, Refugees, Social Exclusion, Transport, Urban, Volunteering, Water/Sanitation, Youth
Human Rights: Civil Rights, Gender, Indigenous Rights, Race Politics, Social Exclusion
Politics: Activism, Democracy, Globalization

Project Geography

US: National, California
International: North America

Identity Niches

African American, Asian American, Indigenous, Latino, Native American, Pacific Islander

Budget

Raised to date: $27,500.00
Estimate to complete: $17,500.00
Total Estimated Budget: $45,000.00
The budget numbers above are accurate as of 05/30/2010

Status

Production

Media Type

Audio

Project End Use

Radio

Key Personnel

Tena Rubio
Executive Producer
Tena Rubio will be leading the production of the three radio documentaries. Her responsibilities will include: research, developing program outline, integrating advisors’ suggestions, assigning segments to freelance journalists, recording, interviewing, writing, editing recordings, and final mixing, as well as the uploading and delivery of our programs through our regular distribution channels.

As the Executive Producer and Host of Making Contact for the past three years, Tena has produced a variety of award-winning programs. A recipient of the Open Society Institute 2006 Katrina Media Fellowship, she produced the award-winning "Katrina Uncovers" radio documentary series, focusing on racism, environmental justice, immigration, and labor in post-Katrina New Orleans.

Khanh Pham
Associate Director
Khanh will facilitate consultation and collaboration with the 10-12 environmental justice organizations participating in these radio programs. This includes coordinating conference calls, identifying key themes and stories to highlight in programs, soliciting feedback throughout the process, and evaluations at the end of each program to inform the process for the next program.



She will also be responsible for coordinating the outreach to educators to market these programs as teaching tools. As the staff lead for this project, she is the primary contact in communication with funders.



As our Associate Director, Khanh leads collaborations with our national network of grassroots partners. She was trained as an organizer through the Bus Riders Union, a project of the Labor/Community Strategy Center. Every day, she talked with Black and Latino bus riders in South Los Angeles about the connections between the lack of public transportation in their neighborhoods and the plight of developing countries struggling with droughts, food scarcity, and rising sea levels.

Lisa Rudman
Executive Director
Lisa will lead the organization’s management of this project, including the bookkeeping, fundraising, and budgeting. She will also lead the marketing of these programs to radio stations, with the assistance of a part-time contractor.

An award-winning documentary video and radio maker with over 20 years of experience, Lisa has been with National Radio Project since 1998 and became the Executive Director in February of 2003.

A leader in promoting the idea of "community accountable media," Lisa has presented the work and philosophy of Making Contact across the country. Lisa created and led the Welfare Radio Collaborative that trained women receiving welfare in radio production, combined with political education.

Outreach/Engagement Plan(s)

We maximize the impact of our programs by continually building our broad national distribution. Almost 200 radio stations across the US--including major US markets such as Denver, the San Francisco Bay Area, Atlanta, Houston, Austin, Tampa, and Atlanta--broadcast our work each week. Moreover, we are expanding our web distribution, which currently has over 17,000 podcast subscribers and 60,000 web visitors each month. We also re-purpose documentary films to allow film projects to reach a broader audience via radio airwaves.

With increased funding to the Environmental Desk, we would be able to expand our current national distribution to include teachers, educators, and community organizers and to develop discussion guides that would encourage them to use these radio documentaries as valuable teaching tools in their classrooms and community groups.

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