Maggie Burnette Stogner’s latest film Upstream, Downriver will screen at a series of festivals and events in the coming weeks, including:
April 7th, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) - If you’re in the New York State area, the 2024 year of FLEFF runs from April 1 - April 14. Upstream, Downriver is scheduled to screen in person with a virtual Q&A with director Maggie Burnette Stogner at 5pmET.
April 10th 7-8:45pm, Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, Maryland - If you’re in the greater D.C. area, please join us! Moderator: Maggie Burnette Stogner; Panelists: Ruby Stemmle, Founder and CEO, EcoLatinos; Sadie Drescher, Vice President of Programs for Restoration, Chesapeake Bay Trust; Fred Tutman, CEO, Patuxent Riverkeeper; Brian Coyle, Ph.D., Executive Officer, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.
April 18th, 7pm, One Earth Film Festival - Upstream, Downriver will screen in-person and virtually at this popular Chicago film festival.
April 22-23, Maryland Public Television Chesapeake Bay Week - MPT will screen Upstream, Downriver on April 22 at 10:30pm and April 23 at 2:30am. CEF/MPT student film “Troubled Tributary” screens on April 22 at 10pm.
April 24, Maryland Public Television - A special shout out to alum Jess Wiegandt’s!! Her thesis film A River Called Home is having its first broadcast premiere on MPT on April 24 at 7pm. We are so proud of you!
Filippo Trevisan was interviewed by Expresso – Portugal’s most read newspaper – about former Brexit Party leader turned TV host Nigel Farage and his ability to affect Conservative Party politics. Filippo noted that Farage’s program on the right-leaning TV channel GB News “has marginal viewership figures […] but it’s quite effective at influencing the agenda and the conversation in other media, […] by bringing U.S.-style ‘culture wars’ to British media.”
Gridiron Scholarship Winners Announced - Journalism and Digital Storytelling graduate student Josie Ansbacher and junior Alexia Partouche have been honored with the 2024 Gridiron Scholarship. The Gridiron Club and Foundation of D.C. has been a long-standing financial supporter of AU SOC journalism students. Read more.
Dow Jones News Fund Taps SOC for Business News Program – SOC is proud to announce it will be hosting a pre-internship training program for future business reporters in partnership with the Dow Jones News Fund. This program, aimed at the intersection of business and government relations, will cover important topics such as the workplace, technology, small business, and student loans. Adjunct Associate Professor and business reporting veteran Paul Albergo developed and will lead the program.
This week's episode of Media in the Mix is special for a number of reasons! First, we are celebrating SOC's 30th Anniversary with two very distinguished SOC guests, Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer, Pallavi Kumar and professor and Interim Dean Leena Jayaswal. Second, this entire podcast episode comes to you care of SOC students participating in our first ever Media in the Mix experiential learning demo! A team of six students worked together in our Media Production Center to produce the episode from lights to set design to sound to a 3-camera set-up. So, sit back, enjoy their hard work and some throwback features of Leena and Pallavi when they were students here! A Special Shoutout to the SOC Students who made this happen: Marley Joseph, Susan DeFord, Bekah Jarnagin, Sophie Myers, Van Duong, Yifei Wang. LISTEN AND WATCH HERE
SOC's Comms and Outreach team held its second experiential learning event for students in March as part of Inclusive Excellence Week. It brought alumni back to campus for candid conversations about how they have successfully navigated a range of DEI-related issues in their own careers and, in doing so, help prepare students to address such concerns in the workplace. The robust and candid conversations left our alumni impressed with the students' grasp of the real work inclusive excellence requires and left our students feeling more confident and with new connections to our alums and each other. We are so grateful to alumni Erin Logan, SOC/MA '17; Sylvia Carignan, SOC/BA '12; Don Michael Mendoza, SOC/BA '10, MA '17; and Kyoka "Kex" Rhodes, SOC/BA '15, for being so generous with their time and so open about their experiences.
