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Thursday, July 13 • 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Multilingual Programs

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Reaching communities and creating content that matters means speaking to audiences in their own languages.  How do you create the skills and resources to do that?  What are the lessons you can learn from organizations that have committed to creating non-English and multilingual programs?   We’ll talk with community media projects that do this work, and get examples of successful programs that you can apply to your community. 

Speakers
avatar for Donna T. Keating

Donna T. Keating

Media Services Manager, Montgomery County Government
Donna has worked in access television for over twenty-five years. Currently she is the Media Services Manager/Executive Producer for County Cable Montgomery (CCM), Montgomery County, Maryland’s government access channel. Donna’s duties and responsibilities include managing resources... Read More →
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Lillian McDonald

Lillian McDonald is the Managing Director for Twin Cities Public Television’s Emergency Response Services or E-R-S. ERS evolved out of collaborative work between TPT and Public Safety Partners to prepare real time warning and alerts in different languages including Spanish, Hmong... Read More →
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Zipporah Mesesi

Producer/Board Member, NWCT -CCX Media
Zipporah Mesesi emigrated from Kenya to the United States in 2001. Zipporah taught the Swahili language for 14 years and was a recording artist in Kenya prior to moving to Minnesota. In June of 2010 Zipporah attended her first class at Northwest Community Television-CCX Media in... Read More →
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Monica Weitzel

Director of Community Relations, MetroEast Community Media
Monica Weitzel is Director of Community Relations at MetroEast Community Media in Gresham, Oregon. She is a member of MetroEast's Leadership team and is active in negotiating partnerships, sponsorships and grant writing. Monica is also Co-Producer & Host of MetroEast's award-winning... Read More →

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Thursday July 13, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Minnesota Room 6th Floor of the Marriott
  Education Sessions

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