Aliza Dichter
Aliza is the Co-founder and Director of Programs for the Center for International Media Action (CIMA), a new not-for-profit organization providing strategic services to media advocacy, reform and education groups. Previously she helped found MediaChannel.org, where she became Senior Editor and Education Coordinator for an information network serving more than 1,000 media-issues groups. Aliza helped plan and launch the Action Coalition for Media Education, a national media literacy membership organization and works with the Angels of the Public Interest, an activist group challenging FCC deregulation. She sits on the board of Women In Media and News (WIMN), a women's media-monitoring, training and outreach organization and participated in the planning and strategy meetings that initiated the Youth Free Expression Network (Y-FEN). Prior to joining the MediaChannel start-up team, she developed and led a two-year field study of violence and media culture for the crisis intervention agency Family Of Woodstock. An independent media advocate, media justice organizer and media educator, Aliza is frequently asked to speak or lead trainings on media policy, independent media and other topics at events nationwide. She was a participant in the 2002 Highlander Media Justice Gathering and the 2002 "Break The Media Blackout" Anti-Poverty Conference, among many other recent gatherings. She co-produced the 6th Annual Schmio Awards (2003), an anti-awards parody show of advertising and commercial culture, and was a delegate to the III World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. |