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Episode 10: A Conversation with Phoebe Eng of 1000voicesarchive.org
Posted by Meredith R Miller at 9/9/2008 
Categories: Law School,public interest work,media,Film,Public policy
Categories: Law School,public interest work,media,Film,Public policy
Today's podcast features a conversation with Phoebe Eng. Phoebe was a corporate attorney before becoming the publisher of A Magazine, which covered Asian American issues. She is also the author of a memoir titled Warrior Lessons: An Asian American Woman's Journey into Power. Among many other philanthropic and civic minded pursuits, Phoebe currently serves as Director of Creative Counsel. Creative Counsel is an organization that showcases art that promotes "dignity, compassion and opportunity for all." It does this "through large-scale collaborative projects featuring the top arts, media and technology talent to connect and inspire audiences to action."
Creative Counsel has partnered with the Fledgling Fund to compile the 1000 Voices Archive. The archive features professionally produced videos of people telling stories related to social justice causes. The short vignettes are composed by talented filmmakers, and tell compelling stories. The website is visually stunning and powerful tool for spreading information about social justice issues, and has links to organizing tools by the videos as the play on the site. The series currently in the archive feature stories that provide an intimate human face to many social justice issues.This podcast focuses on the 1000 Voices Archive. Topics include: the inspiration for the project, the power of storytelling, some of the causes addressed in the videos, early achievements of the project, how educators (including law professors) and activists can use the archive to encourage discussion of issues, and the connections Phoebe sees between this project and her own memoir writing.
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