Thelma Young
Personal Information
First name:
Thelma
Last name:
Young
Brief Bio:
Thelma Young is a human rights activist and media maker whose work focuses on participatory media and social change. Based in New York City, and calling the South Bronx home, she is finishing her MA Media Studies and is currently working with the FemTechNet project. She spent 7 years with Burma's democracy movement doing communications and advocacy and worked on a variety of efforts from mapping election violations, making documentaries, gathering oral histories and organizing international campaigns.
Recent Content
Blog Post / Teaching & Learning Practices
FemTechNet's White Paper: Understanding the DOCC
FemTechNet Video Dialogue Recording: Hershman & Rich
Topic:
A conversation between current "Dorothy H. Hirshon "Director in Residence" Lynn Hershman Leeson and B. Ruby Rich on the topic of "archive" as it relates to feminism and technology. Dean Anne Balsamo will moderate. This event is part of the Video Dialogue Series produced by FemTechNet for the 2013...
65 West 11th Street
New York City, NY
United States
FemTechNet Video Dialogue Recording: Skawennati & Cassils
Topic:
A conversation between artists Skawennati and Heather Cassils on the topic of "Bodies." The dialogue will focus on issues of feminist, Indigenous and trans* aesthetic-political approaches to bodies and technology, and the technology of bodies. T.L. Cowan will moderate. This event is part of the...
55 West 13th Street
New York, NY
United States