Advancing Media Literacy Education:
A Shared Responsibility
Thursday, April 4, 2024, 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. PT
Arizona State University California Center
1111 S. Broadway, Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Event Center
Los Angeles, CA 90015
The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) and Arizona State University’s Learning Transformation Studios cordially invite you to join us for a thought-provoking event to inspire and inform industry professionals about the importance of media literacy education, Advancing Media Literacy Education: A Shared Responsibility, at the Arizona State University (ASU) California Center Broadway in Los Angeles on Thursday, April 4, 2024.
In an era inundated with an overwhelming barrage of information, media literacy education has never been more critical. The ubiquity of media demands more than just basic literacy skills; it requires a comprehensive understanding of how to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and act upon information across all media forms. In a world where the news cycle is relentless, clicks drive content, and noise pervades our information streams, being a critical thinker and an active participant in democracy hinges on media literacy.
Join us as we bring together individuals working in media, tech, and journalism to:
- Discuss the importance of media literacy and the state of media literacy education in the U.S.,
- Explore the intersections between media literacy and media industry,
- Brainstorm ways we can work together to move media literacy forward and prepare current and future media professionals to contribute to a positive/healthy/responsible media ecosystem.
Agenda
| 8:30 a.m. | Registration and Breakfast (provided) |
| 9:00 a.m. | Welcome and Opening Remarks • Michelle Ciulla Lipkin, NAMLE • Alan Arkatov, Arizona State University • Dr. Battinto L. Batts, Jr., Arizona State University |
| 9:15 a.m. | Media Literacy and Why It Matters The State of Media Literacy Education in the U.S. • Presented by NAMLE |
| 9:45 a.m. | News Industry and Media Literacy • Nina Jankowicz, Centre for Information Resilience • Christina Anagnostopoulos, Reuters News Agency • Mariana Dale, LAist • Facilitator: Dr. Kristy Roschke, NAMLE Board of Directors |
| 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:45 a.m. | Entertainment Industry and Media Literacy • Shaunelle Curry, Media Done Responsibly • Nicole Starr, Participant • Kyle Bowser, Hollywood Bureau, NAACP • Facilitator: Michelle Ciulla Lipkin, NAMLE |
| 11:30 a.m. | Exploring Shared Responsibility |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch (provided) |
| 12:30 p.m. | Technology Industry and Media Literacy • Jacklyn Doig-Keys, Meta • Tami Bhaumik, Roblox • Gabriel Verdake, YouTube • Facilitator: Anne Collier, NAMLE Board of Directors |
| 1:15 p.m. | Exploring Shared Responsibility (continued) |
| 2:00 p.m. | Wrap-up |
Speakers
Christina
Anagnostopoulos
Fact-Checking Editor, US
Reuters News Agency
About Christina
Christina joined the fact-checking team in 2020 to lead the company’s misinformation-fighting efforts for the U.S. market. Her team monitors and fact-checks false or misleading narratives on social media about politics, social issues, natural disasters, international conflicts, and more. Prior to that, she worked on Reuters News Agency’s user-generated content (UGC) desk out of Mexico City, verifying breaking news videos and photos.
Alan
Arkatov
Senior Advisor to the President
Arizona State Univ.
About Alan
Alan is Senior Advisor to ASU President Michael Crow, Executive Director of the ASU Learning Transformation Studios, and a Professor of Practice at the ASU College of Global Futures and Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. Concurrent with his new roles at ASU, Arkatov received appointments as a senior fellow at the USC Rossier School of Education and the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies.
Previously, he was the Founding Director of USC’s Center EDGE and the Katzman/Ernst Chair for Educational Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Innovation at USC’s Rossier School of Education.
Alan was the President of Changing.edu, CEO of the Teaching Channel, a founding team member and EVP for 2U, and the founder and Chairman of OnlineLearning.net.
A former California State Board of Education member, Alan was Chair of the California Post-Secondary Education Commission and Los Angeles Information Technology Agency, a U.S. Secretary of Education appointee to the Congressional Web-Based Education Commission, and President of the L.A. Commission for Children, Youth, and Families.
Tami
Bhaumik
Vice President, Civility &
Partnerships, Roblox
About Tami
Tami Bhaumik is the Vice President of Civility and Partnerships at Roblox where she spearheads the platform’s digital civility initiative. To establish healthy and safe communities, Tami is focused on providing kids, teens, parents, and caregivers with skills needed to create positive online experiences, in partnership with leading global safety and industry organizations. With over 25 years of experience, she has successfully fostered supportive communities in a variety of industries through leading the growth of multiple Silicon Valley startups and is Chairperson of the Board for the Family Online Safety Institute. She is also an advisory board member of the Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital and is on the advisory council for the Geena Davis Institute.
Kyle
Bowser
Senior Vice President,
Hollywood Bureau, NAACP
About Kyle
Kyle Bowser serves as the Senior Vice President of the Hollywood Bureau. In this capacity, Mr. Bowser is responsible for advancing NAACP’s Hollywood projects, relationships, and overseeing NAACP’s Image Awards production.
For nearly three decades, Kyle Bowser has worked as an entertainment industry executive. His experience spans film, television, music, theater, radio, and digital media. This immersion within a vast sphere of media interests has provided Bowser with unique insight into the intersecting parameters of the arts, culture, business development, and emerging technologies.
Bowser’s career began in theater management and concert promotion. His involvement in television began with NBC Business Affairs in New York City. He later moved to Los Angeles to join Fox, Inc., where he developed television programming of multiple genres and creatively managed primetime fare aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company. Bowser next served as Director of Creative Affairs for HBO Independent Productions, where he developed new programs and creatively supervised content licensed to primetime broadcast carriers. Throughout Bowser’s storied career, his producing talents have been engaged by countless media companies, including NBC, Fox, HBO, Showtime, Starz, Comedy Central, Lifetime, Cooking Channel, PBS, iNDemand, Facebook, Warner Bros., Harper Collins, AEG, the NFL, and more.
A native of Philadelphia, PA, Kyle Bowser received his Bachelor of Science degree from Ohio University in Radio/Television Communications and earned his Juris Doctor degree from Widener University School of Law. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Bar Associations and supports the Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association and the National Association of Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) – for whom he founded the annual Vision Awards and received its coveted Legacy Award.
Anne
Collier
Board of Directors
NAMLE
About Anne
A writer and youth advocate, Anne Collier is founder and executive director of the nonprofit Net Safety Collaborative. She has been writing about youth and digital media at NetFamilyNews.org since 1999 and serves as an adviser to Meta, Roblox, Teleperformance, YouTube and Yubo on digital safety, citizenship and literacy. In addition to her work as a NAMLE board member, she serves on the international advisories of the Young & Resilient Research Center at Western Sydney University and Project Rockit in Melbourne. She has contributed to a number of books and publications, most recently Children’s Privacy and Safety (IAPP, 2022). In 2016, she delivered a talk on “The Heart of Digital Citizenship” at TEDxGeneva at the ITU’s World Summit on the Information Society. She is also active in the user care space, having piloted a social media helpline for US schools 2016-‘18. A native of Boston, she resides in Salt Lake City.
Shaunelle
Curry
Founder and CEO
Media Done Responsibly
About Shaunelle
Shaunelle Curry is a media literacy expert, collegiate educator, author and social entrepreneur. A practitioner in the global digital wellness movement, she creates safe digital media spaces that support community, civil dialogue, and digital wellness. Shaunelle developed and moderated a panel for technology experts and the filmmakers of Netflix’s The Social Dilemma, and was the Keynote Speaker for the Berkeley Forum on “Developing Anti-racist Technology and Re-imagining Digital Safe Spaces” at University of California, Berkeley.
Jacklyn
Doig-Keys
Youth Safety Policy Manager,
Meta
About Jacklyn
Jacklyn Doig-Keys is a Youth Safety Policy Manager focusing on parental supervision tools and family education at Meta and is based in Washington DC. At Meta, she works with youth experts to advise product and policy teams on best practices and outcomes for parents, families and young people across all platforms. She has worked with, and trained, a variety of parent and teacher communities on Meta’s safety policies and tools. Prior to joining Meta, Jacklyn worked as a teacher in New York City and Washington DC for a decade. She has completed her Masters in Education and the Teach for America program in New York City and has a Masters in Global Politics from the London School of Economics.
Nina
Jankowicz
Vice President, Centre for
Information Resilience
About Nina
Nina Jankowicz is an internationally-recognized expert on disinformation and democratization, one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in AI, and the author of two books: How to Lose the Information War (Bloomsbury 2020), which The New Yorker called “a persuasive new book on disinformation as a geopolitical strategy, ” and How to Be A Woman Online (Bloomsbury 2022), an examination of online abuse and disinformation and tips for fighting back, which Publishers Weekly named “essential.” Currently the Vice President at the UK-based Centre for Information Resilience, a non-profit focused on countering disinformation, Jankowicz has advised governments, international organizations, and tech companies, and testified before the US Congress, UK Parliament, and European Parliament.
Michelle
Ciulla Lipkin
Executive Director
NAMLE
About Michelle
Michelle Ciulla Lipkin has served as Executive Director of the National Association for Media Literacy Education since 2012. Michelle has helped NAMLE grow to be the preeminent media literacy education association in the U.S. She launched Media Literacy Week in the U.S. now in its 10th year, developed strategic partnerships with companies such as Thomson Reuters, Meta, YouTube, and Nickelodeon, and restructured both the governance and membership of NAMLE. She has overseen seven national conferences, created the National Media Literacy Alliance for teacher membership organizations, and done countless appearances at conferences and in the media regarding the importance of media literacy education. Michelle was the recipient of the 2020 Global Media and Information Literacy Award given by UNESCO.
Michelle is an alumni of the U.S. Dept. of State’s International Visitors Program (Australia/2018). She regularly serves as Adjunct Lecturer at Brooklyn College where she teaches Media Literacy. She sits on the Advisory Council for the ML3: Librarians as Leaders for Media Literacy initiative led by Project Look Sharp.
Michelle began her career in children’s television production, in various roles on both corporate and production teams. She earned both her undergraduate and graduate degrees from New York University. Michelle focused her grad work on children and television where she caught the “media literacy bug”. After graduate school, Michelle worked as a facilitator for The LAMP (Learning about Multimedia Project) teaching media literacy and production classes for Pre-Kindergarten to 5th grade students.
Her passion for media literacy education stems from a very personal place. Learn more about Michelle’s story here.
When not thinking about media literacy, Michelle is either sitting at home in Brooklyn with her dog and husband, most likely reading, or at one of her kids’ music gigs somewhere around the country.
Kristy
Roschke, Ph.D.
Board of Director
NAMLE
About Kristy
Kristy Roschke is a media literacy educator and scholar. She is the managing director of the News Co/Lab, a Cronkite School initiative aimed at advancing media literacy via journalism, education and technology. She previously served as executive director of KJZZ – SPOT 127 Youth Media Center, a community initiative of the Phoenix NPR member station that mentors and empowers the next-generation of digital storytellers. Roschke has developed curriculum and taught journalism, digital media production and media literacy courses at the high school and university level for nearly 20 years.
Nicole
Starr
SVP, Content Representation
and Impact, Participant
About Nicole
Nicole Starr is Senior Vice President, Content Representation and Impact at Participant, the leading media company dedicated to entertainment that stands at the intersection of art and activism. In this newly created role, Starr ensures that Participant’s narrative, documentary, and episodic content aligns with the company’s impact priorities and authentically reflects the world around us. This includes applying a lens of impact, issue-based insights and representation at the beginning of the development process and carrying that perspective through production and into the project’s social impact campaign.
In her previous role as VP, Social Impact, Starr oversaw the development and execution of impact campaigns to accelerate progress around the world’s most pressing issues. Her passion for leveraging the power of storytelling to inspire action drives her work at Participant, which has included the creation of impact and campaigns for film including the Sundance Special Jury Award winner Descendent, Judas and the Black Messiah, RBG, and Academy Award® winner Roma. Notably, the impact campaign for Roma helped shift the narrative around domestic workers and inspired the cultural conditions for policy change in the US and Mexico.
Starr came to Participant with over a decade of experience in the entertainment industry, including a six year stint at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. She is a founding member of Storyline Partners, an organization working in writers’ rooms to create authentic portrayals of underrepresented or misrepresented communities in pop culture.
Gabriel
Verkade
Senior Global Marketing Manager, YouTube Responsibility
About Gabriel
Gabriel Verkade is a passionate mission-focused marketer leading all global responsibility programs that reach YouTube users across Media Literacy education, Elections/Civics, Youth Experiences, Health and Learning. His early career in Canada included leading consumer brands like Dove and Ferrero Rocher. Since joining Google, he has spent the last decade developing go-to-market programs that reflect YouTube’s commitment to responsibility. Outside of work, Gabriel is a passionate gardener and landscape designer.