Dino+Sossi


 * CS48. Dino Sossi ** – //The Equality through Media Project’ (TEMP): Media Production that Fosters Democratic Learning//

May 28 Saturday 11:30-12:15 PM HM 152 //TEMP // is a school-based educational program that will encourage Harlem students to creatively produce innovative personal digital media projects. These projects will explore the realities of their lives, including feelings of inequality and disenfranchisement.

Affiliation/Bio: Teachers College, Columbia University, doctoral student, dds2130@columbia.edu. Dino Sossi is an award-winning researcher, filmmaker/video journalist; writer/editor, radio host, spoken word performer and comedian. Dino is a Research Fellow with the Harlem Schools Partnership (HSP) which is funded by the General Electric Foundation. Dino works to implement digital media and technology-based programs with students and staff that will help them explore issues of identity, race, ethnicity and national origin. Dino has presented his research at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), University of Cambridge (UK), Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania (US). Dino has produced, directed, shot and edited television segments including Grammy Award-winning artists Rod Stewart and Nelly Furtado; he also produced stories involving The Doors and Sum 41. Dino is a Blogger with AOL where he writes for the PopEater pop cultural website www.popeater.com/bloggers/dino-sossi. Dino has hosted, produced and technically-produced two popular shows for CIUT 89.5 FM: Spotlight and Youth Live Radio, which focused on youth issues. Dino has performed stand-up comedy at Carolines on Broadway, Comix Comedy Club, and the New York Comedy Club among other New York venues; and with the Cambridge Footlights and The Comedy Store in both London and Manchester (UK). Dino has performed storytelling and poetry for live audiences at the Bowery Poetry Club, Nuyorican Poets Café, Housing Works Cafe and ABC No Rio, all in New York. Dino earned his Juris Doctorat from Queen's University (Canada) and his Master of Philosophy in Educational Research from the University of Cambridge where he earned First Class Honors for his thesis. He is currently a graduate student in Instructional Technology and Media at Columbia University where he earned a 4.0 GPA.