Get to know Cecily Tyler …
A global citizen, Cecily Tyler, has 25 years of experience in the field of communication, while supporting leadership, innovation, social change and community engagement through film, technology and art. She has taught, produced, and directed documentary, entertainment TV, independent filmmaking, theater, animation design and multi-media gaming. Cecily has worked with multiple organizations including the Discovery network; PBS/WGBH; the NBC News educational website — “NBC News Learn;” New York Times Television; BBC NYC; Harvard University; The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, Brown Alpert Medical School; The Department of Labor YouthBuild, YouthBuild USA; One Day on Earth Foundation and multiple independent productions. She has consulted and acted as a project manager in media-capacity building for non-profits and small businesses internationally and has worked with government officials and offices in the U.S.A, Mongolia, Ghana, and The Netherlands. Cecily is the founder of docutribe, Inc. the organization that believes in the transformative power of storytelling, filmmaking, and technology to create social good. You may contact Cecily Tyler about further learning at docutribe.org/contact.
Get to know Alyson Gounden Rock …
Alyson Gounden Rock is a second year doctoral student in Organizational Behavior at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University. She studies working practices that contribute to unequal gender outcomes at work and in society. Current research includes organizational inequality linked to task segregation (in the context of U.S. unions) and norm emergence, stability and change associated with working from home under COVID. Since 2017, Alyson has been a Research Associate at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance at the Harvard Kennedy School. Alyson received her B.A. in Modern Languages from the University of Oxford, an MA in Business from Audencia Business School in Nantes, France, and a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. After Jorrit de Jong and Cecily Tyler established the Video Essay and the pedagogies that were most effective in its implementation, Alyson Gouden Rock and Cecily worked to outline the rationale and pedagogical backdrop, seen here.
Get to know Jonathan Square …
Jonathan Square is a writer and historian specializing in fashion and visual culture of the African Diaspora. He has a PhD in history from New York University, a master’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and a B.A. from Cornell University. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Fashion Institute of Technology, Parsons School of Design, and currently at Harvard University. He has written for Fashionista, Fashion Studies Journal, Refinery29, Vestoj, Hyperallergic, British Art Studies, and International Journal of Fashion Studies. A proponent in the power of social media as a platform for radical pedagogy, he founded and runs the digital humanities project Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom, which explores the intersection of fashion and slavery. Jonathan has served as the digital humanities consultant on the project, working closely with the team to make information created in this project accessible to users inside and outside of academia. Visit his website here.