ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>About Beyondmedia</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"> <meta http-equiv="expires" content="-1"> <meta http-equiv= "pragma" CONTENT="no-cache"> <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.2/jquery-ui.min.js"></script> <script src="http://www.beyondmedia.org/js/corners.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script>$(document).ready( function(){ $('.rounded').corners("10px"); }); </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.beyondmedia.org/js/jquery.pngFix.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function(){ $(document).pngFix(); 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controlling expression and containing resistance.<br> </li> <li> promotes a world in which power is shared and each person is heard as a speaker with narrative agency.<br> </li> <li> defines narrative agency as the linchpin of personal and global transformation: to frame and speak one's point of view, and derive response.<br> </li> <li> understands the role of art in the world as presenting the broadest range of images, such that each person has the opportunity to see her or his reflection somewhere in that mirror.<br> </li> <li> is committed to the free expression of all people, including us.</li> </ul> </div> <div align="center"> <p><br> <br> <b>Check out our new office video!</b></p> <p><object width="400" height="327"> <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /> <param name="movie" value="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1474582&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=ff9933&amp;fullscreen=1" /> <embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1474582&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=ff9933&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="327"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/1474582?pg=embed&amp;sec=1474582">Beyondmedia Office Video</a> from <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/beyondmedia?pg=embed&amp;sec=1474582">Beyondmedia Education</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com?pg=embed&amp;sec=1474582">Vimeo</a>.</p> </div> <div id="titleheader" class="rounded"><img src="subtitles/staff_bios.gif"></div> <div class="staffboxgreen"> <img src="about/maryjo.png" align="left"><p class="aboutustitletext"><strong><a name="maryjo" id="maryjo"></a><span class="style10">Executive Director, </span>Mary Jo Schnell</strong></p> <p class="aboutusbiotext">Mary Jo Schnell brings vast professional experience that builds upon and strengthens Beyondmedia s reach as a nationally recognized media justice organization. She began her work in the sector as the performance, film and video program director at Randolph Street Gallery and has an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where, some years later, she taught a graduate seminar course on Alternative Curatorial Practices. She is currently on the steering committee for a local nonprofit leadership development initiative, and is a guest lecturer at Northwestern s campus CATALYST program. Her 20 years of work in the nonprofit sector includes national, regional and local organizations in a variety of social issue areas. She has contributed much to the health and well-being of organizations by leveraging knowledge and skills acquired as a Board member, executive director, development director, program staff, and consultant for a variety of issue areas. <a href="#top" class="white">top</a></p> </div> <div class="staffboxyellow"> <img src="about/salome_icon.jpg" align="left" valign="top"><a name="staff"></a> <a name="salome"></a> <p class="aboutustitletext"><span class="style8"><span class="style10">Artistic Director,</span> <span class="style9">Salome Chasnoff</span></span></p> <p class="aboutusbiotext">Salome Chasnoff is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, installation artist and media activist who has been guiding Beyondmedia&rsquo;s artistic production since founding it in 1996. Her strong commitment to using media for liberation education and progressive organizing has drawn like-minded people over the years to shape Beyondmedia&rsquo;s distinctive artistic and political vision. Salome has an M.A. in Theatre and Performance and a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University. She has been an arts educator for more than 20 years in university and community settings, and has produced more than 25 works, several dedicated to expanding media access to the diverse stories of women and youth. <a href="#top" class="white">top</a></p> </div> <div class="staffboxgreen"><img src="about/new/Joanne.png" width="150" height="150" align="left"> <p class="aboutustitletext"><strong><span class="style8"><a name="joanne"></a></span><span class="style10">ASSOCIATE Director,</span> JOANNE ARCHIBALD</strong></p> <p class="aboutusbiotext">Before coming to Beyondmedia in 2007, Joanne worked at Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers (CLAIM) for 14 years, beginning as Advocacy Coordinator, and then working as Advocacy Project Director and Associate Director. She serves on the Advisory Board of Grace House, a transitional program for women exiting the prison system, and on the Institutional Review Board for Northwestern University, as an advisor on prison research. Finally, after 27 years and seven schools, she earned her BA in 1994 from Northeastern Illinois University, but her greatest and most rewarding learning experience has been raising her son. <a href="#top" class="white">top</a></p> </div> <div class="staffboxyellow"><img src="about/new/.png" width="150" height="150" align="left"> <p class="aboutustitletext"><strong><a name="zaida"></a><span class="style10">Youth Outreach Coordinator, </span>Zaida Sanabia</strong></p> <p class="aboutusbiotext">Zaida Sanabia began learning video production when she participated in a Beyondmedia workshop at Horizon's Young Women's Drop-In Program in 2001. In 2002 Beyondmedia Education partnered with Sanabia to produce <i>A Fish Almost Eaten by a Shark</i>. She has just completed her first year of college and she's begun working on a new Beyondmedia project, <i>Can LGBTQ + School = Safe?</i>, gathering stories of anti-gay violence and sexuality-based discrimination from students in Illinois schools. Most recently, Sanabia won Chicago Foundation for Women's Ripple Effect Award as "a shining example of the triumph of women and girls when given opportunity" in 2003, and the Amigas Latinas "Aixa Diaz Scholarship" for her work in creating safe schools in 2004. On 2006 Sanabia with the help and support of Amigas Latinas headed the first Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Young Latina group "Amiguitas" in Chicago.<a href="#top" class="white">top</a> </p></div> <div class="staffboxgreen"><img src="about/davey.png" align="left"> <p class="aboutustitletext"><strong><a name="davey"></a><span class="style10">Program Staff,</span> Davey Ball</strong></p> <p class="aboutusbiotext">Davey Ball began learning website development while publishing his own internationally focused arts and music magazine onlinecalled QueerKit in 2003. He studied Photography at the University of Central Florida and has since been published online in Spark Magazine and in print as a contributor to and Chicago representative of Bust Magazine. Before moving to Chicago he worked at the Minnesota AIDS Project doing HIV prevention, counseling and testing on-site at various bars and clubs throughout and city. In Chicago he has worked to organize a monthly gathering called Chances Dances as an effort to mobilize the marginalized gay, lesbian and trans communities by creating a safe space for them to socialize. <a href="#top" class="white">top</a> </p> </div> <div class="staffboxyellow"> <img src="about/new/Rebecca.png" alt="" width="150" height="150" align="left"><p class="aboutustitletext"><strong><a name="rebeccac" id="rebeccac"></a><span class="style10">Program Director, </span>Rebecca Connie</strong></p> <p class="aboutusbiotext">rebecca s. a. connie is currently a film and video MFA candidate at Columbia College Chicago. She strives to use art as a tool for activism, education, and communal solidarity. Classically trained in the theatre arts, she received a BA in media studies and anthropology from DePaul University. She has primarily worked with youth and young adults for Chicago Public Schools, Gallery 37, DePaul University, and Columbia College. She has produced both narrative and documentary films, covering such topics as autism, urban education, and contemporary materialism. rebecca is currently working on an independent documentary concerning the idealistic notions of motherhood and mental health. <a href="#top" class="white">top</a> </p> </div> <div class="staffboxgreen"> <img src="about/new/LaurenLaRose2.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" align="left"><p class="aboutustitletext"><strong><a name="lauren" id="lauren"></a><span class="style10">Program Staff, </span>Lauren La Rose</strong></p> <p class="aboutusbiotext">Lauren La Rose recently graduated with a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) with an emphasis in fiber and material studies. She is a Merit Scholarship Recipient, won an Academic Achievement Scholarship, and was honored with a SAIC Student Leadership Award in 2007 and 2010. Lauren has exhibited her work nationally at Beaver Street Gallery, Impala Gallery, Sullivan Gallery, Peanut Gallery, and at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada. Lauren's current studio practice addresses the poetics of labor and her personal need to develop intimate meditative spaces through the practice of hand weaving. Her experiences as a peer-peer facilitator and advocate for mental health issues are also an integral part of her art practice. Lauren began as a Beyondmedia intern in 2009 and was recently hired as Program Staff. <a href="#top" class="white">top</a> </p> </div> <!-- <div class="staffboxgreen"> <img src="about/madsen_icon.jpg" alt="" align="left"> <p class="aboutustitletext"><strong><a name="madsen" id="madsen"></a><span class="style10">Program Staff, </span>Madsen MinaX</strong>.</p> <p class="aboutusbiotext"> Madsen is a multi-media artist, musician and activist. After growing up in the scenic woods of northern Michigan, he trained as a filmmaker at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and classical quartet composer at Hogeschool voor Muziek en Technologie in Utrectht, The Netherlands. Madsen spends much of his time playing upright bass in the duet music project Actor Slash Model, utilizing songwriting and vaudevillian performance to address political issues, identity, queerness and kink. In addition to music performance, Actor Slash Model also collaborates in other media; the duo are currently producing an experimental documentary exploring trans and gender variant idenitities as they related to music and performance, wherein Madsen in directing his first feature length film, scheduled for completion in 2009. <a href="#top" class="white">top</a> </p> </div>--> <BR> <BR> </p> <div id="titleheader"><IMG SRC="subtitles/board.gif"></a></div> <div class="staffboxyellow"> <img src="about/new/Erik.png" width="150" height="150" align="left"> <p class="aboutustitletext"><a name="erik" id="erik"></a><span class="style10">CHAIR/TREASURER, </span> <B>Erik Bataller</B></p> <p class="aboutusbiotext">Erik Bataller is a father, partner, friend, son, cousin, community participant and Senior Information Risk and Security Consultant. In addition to being on the board of Beyondmedia, Erik is a volunteer social studies teacher at the St. Leonard's (Ministry) Adult High School in Chicago. He works for Neohapsis, Inc. as a consultant with large, medium and small private and public sector organizations to manage, assess and improve their risk and security strategies and postures more effectively on an ongoing basis. <a href="#top" class="white">top</a><br> </p> </div> <div class="staffboxyellow"><img src="/about/new/Cecil.png" width="150" height="150" align="left"> <p class="aboutustitletext"><a name="cecil" id="antonio"></a><B>CECIL THOMAS</B></p> <p class="aboutusbiotext">Cecil is the Associate Director of Community Engagement and a Core Faculty member at the Adler School of Professional Psychology. His efforts at Adler focus on helping provide students with an awareness of how the built urban environment impacts the mental health of individuals and communities as a result of poor planning and policy making that perpetuates uneven development. With a Masters of Urban Planning & Policy from the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) and a Master of Arts in International Education from the School for International Training (SIT), Cecil has always placed an emphasis on social justice issues that transcend geographic locations and focus more importantly on the structural inequalities that negatively impact communities here in Chicago and those throughout the world. His research at UIC focused on how to use microenterprise development through the workforce development system as a way to deal with the negative impacts of recidivism for the formerly incarcerated here in Chicago. His research at SIT focused on how participation in community service programs in Kerala, India influenced electoral politics. Cecil has also served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Zimbabwe, Africa and as an AmeriCorps*VISTA Leader with the Vermont Campus Compact. Cecil spends his free time cooking, pedaling the streets of Chicago, collecting records, and DJing. <a href="#top" class="white">top</a><br> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div id="left"><br><br><div id="leftnav"> <p><a href="#mission"><B>MISSION</B></a><br> <br> <a href="#ideals"><B>IDEALS</B></a><br> <br> <a href="#staff"><B>STAFF BIOS</B></a><br> <a href="#joanne">Joanne Archibald</a><br> <a href="#davey">Davey Ball</a><br> <a href="#rebeccac">Rebecca Connie</a><br> <a href="#salome">Salome Chasnoff</a><br> <a href="#lauren">Lauren La Rose</a><br> <a href="#zaida">Zaida Sanabia</a><br> <a href="#maryjo">Mary Jo Schnell</a><br /> <br> <a href="#board"><B>BOARD OF DIRECTORS</B></a><br> <a href="#erik">Erik Bataller - <em>Chair</em></a><br> <a href="#cecil">Cecil Thomas</a><br /> </p> </div> </div> <div id="right"><br><br><div id="photobox"><div align="center"><img src="images/staffmeeting08.jpg" height="104" width="160"></div> Some staff &amp; board members at our January '08 meeting. </div> <BR><BR> <div id="photobox"><div align="center"><img src="about/board07.jpg" height="120" width="160"></div> Laurie, Zaida and Kelly at the board meeting in '07</div> <BR><BR> <div id="photobox"><div align="center"><img src="about/staff04.jpg"></div>Hello Zaida, Tina, Lara, Salome, Kelly & Rebecca</div><BR><BR> <div id="photobox"><div align="center"><img src="about/board04.jpg"></div>Board members at our September '04 meeting!</div><BR><BR> <div id="photobox"><div align="center"><img src="about/board.jpg"></div>Our fabulous board at the holiday party!</div><BR><BR> <div id="photobox"><div align="center"><img src="about/summer03staff.jpg" height="120" width="160"></div>Beyondmedia staff summer 2003</div><BR><BR> <div id="photobox"><div align="center"> <img src="about/newoffice.jpg"></div>Beyondmedia's office on Glenwood</div><BR><BR> </div> <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-3106169-1"; urchinTracker(); </script> </body> </html>