Gateway Media Literacy Partners is again presenting to the St. Louis region (Missouri and Illinois) a week’s worth of events to bring attention to media literacy and how a media literacy education can help us better relate to and even act on timely issues and concerns.
This year we’ve added a new offering, in keeping with the organization’s desire to involve all sectors– public, private, volunteer and independent–in the media literacy conversation.
It is with great pleasure that Gateway Media Literacy Partners unveils this collaborative…. 22 guest columnists from the St. Louis region, commenting on media literacy’s importance in connection with the work they are doing, and on why media literacy is so important to our entire community. The varied comments and perspectives have a common thread: they exclaim media literacy education’s virtues as a connecting force and necessary skill for negotiating our worlds; and they all point to media literacy as a nexus for change.
We’ve covered education (from a student’s point of view all the way up to academia); faith; the arts; media; health; politics; civics and entertainment, attempting to mirror the unique community in which we live!
We thank all of our guest contributors for their willingness to be a part of our effort to engage the community in this “conversation;” for bringing us ideas we may not have considered; and for helping us to stop and think about how media literacy can affect what each of us is does or endeavors to do.
Guest Contributors in celebration of GMLP’s Fourth Annual Media Literacy Week, ”Media Literacy: Truth or Consequences:”
Karen Aroesty Regional Director, Anti-DefamationLeague, Missouri/Southern Illinois
Marvin Beckerman – Chair, Citizenship Education ClearingHouse (CECH) Advisory Board, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Mary Elizabeth DeVelario – Middle School STUDENT at John Paul II Preparatory School, involved in YEA, the YouthEmpowerment and Action media literacy program, UM-St. Louis.
Dan Duncan- NCADA is Director of Community Services and featured panelist at Becker Library’s media literacy panel, Oct. 6
Paul Guzzardo -”Digital Creative / Urban Designer”
Melinda Hemmelgarn – Melinda Hemmelgarn is a registered dietitian and “investigative nutritionist,” with 30 years experience inclinical, academic and public health nutrition. She is an award winning”Food Sleuth” newspaper columnist and radio host based in Columbia, MO.
Gary Hicks –Chairman, Dept. of Mass Communications, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, former newspaper reporter
Terry Jones, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Administration, U of Missouri – St. Louis
Charles Klotzer –Founder and Editor Emeritus, the St. Louis Journalism Review
Lynne Lang – GMLP board member and Curriculum Development Manager for BJC School Outreach and Youth Development.,
Don Marsh –Host, St. Louis Public Radio’s “St. Louis on the Air, and long time journalist and television broadcaster.
Pier Marton – Sr. Lecturer, Washington University,Film/Media Studies Program, St. Louis,
T. Michael McDowell, City Manager—City of Olivette, Missouri Member, MY-LOGOProgram Advisory Board
Mark Sableman –Attorney and Copyright expert, Thomas Coburn Mitchell LLC
Rabbi Mark Shook–Rabbi Emeritus, Congregation Temple Israel and winner of St. Louis’2010 Malachi Award for Interfaith Relations andUnderstanding.
Phil Sutin–Journalist and reporter for the St. Louis Pos-Dispatch for more than forty years.
Barbara Turkington – Barbara Turkington, Executive Director, St.Louis Regional OASIS
John Urkevich, Executive Director, Cooperating School Districts of Greater St. Louis
Roseann Weiss– Director of Community Art Programs & Public Art Initiatives, Regional Arts Commission,
Al Wiman – Vice President for the public understanding of Science, the St. Louis ScienceCenter, and former longtime journalist and broadcaster.
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