In this webinar, filmmaker and professor of digital storytelling, Dr. Imani Cheers will present her expertise on digital storytelling in the classroom, which she uses as a way to document and share critical environmental and social issues. She will share her research and filming experiences in South Africa, Namibia, and Palestine, documenting systems of institutionalized racial segregation, terror, and political and economic disenfranchisement. This project later became the documentary Agricultural Apartheid: Land and Water. Attendees are encouraged to view these two short films directed by Dr. Cheers before the webinar: Agricultural Apartheid: Land and Water and Journey to Freedom
Imani M. Cheers, Ph.D., is an associate professor of digital storytelling at George Washington University. She is an award-winning digital storyteller, director, producer, and filmmaker. As a professor of practice, she uses a variety of mediums including video, photography, television, and film to document and discuss issues impacting and involving people of the African Diaspora. Her scholarly focus is on the intersection of women/girls, technology, health, conflict, agriculture, and the effects of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa.
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