Allied Media Projects

Media strategies for a more just and creative world
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About AMP

  1. AMP shares and develops models for transforming our selves and our communities through creative communications.

  2. Creating our own media is a process of speaking and listening that allows us to imagine other realities and then organize to make them real. Read the AMP mission

  3. The Allied Media Projects network emerges out of thirteen years of organic relationship-building across issues, identities, organizing practices and creative mediums. Read the AMP network principles

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Allied Media Conference

  1. The Allied Media Conference offers hands-on trainings and strategy sessions in a wide-range of media practices.

  2. Through the AMC, held every summer in Detroit, we unite the worlds of media, art, technology, education and social justice. Participants build knowledge and relationships that continue to grow throughout the year.

  3. The 14th annual Allied Media Conference is June 28 - July 1, 2012 in Detroit.

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Detroit Future

  1. AMP’s local programs innovate practices in education, economic development and community organizing. We are a founding member of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition.

  2. Detroit Future Media teaches core digital media competencies, and their application in community organizing, education, and entrepreneurship.

  3. Through Detroit Future Schools we integrate digital media arts in the classroom.

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Online Resources

  1. We are building web technologies that support the collaboration and creativity of our network.

  2. AMPTalk is a message board system for the network.

  3. Allied365 is a catalog of the services, curricula, and other offerings of the AMP network.

Contact

  1. Contact us, we'd love to hear from you.

Crew

ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS STAFF

Co-Directors:
Jeanette Lee
Mike Medow
Diana J. Nucera

Operations & Outreach Manager:
Adriel Thornton

IT Manager:
Anderson Walworth

Allied Media Conference Program Coordinator:
Morgan Willis

Detroit Future Media Program Coordinators:
Janel Yamashiro
Imad Hassan

Detroit Future Schools Program Coordinator:
Ammerah Saidi

Detroit Future Schools Artists in Residence:
Bobby Colombo
Nathaniel Mullen III
Joeseph Rodriguez-Tanner
Piper Carter
Conja Wright
Isaac Miller

AMP BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Grace Lee Boggs
Adrienne Maree Brown
Dani McClain
Hannah Sassaman

PARTNERS

Web Development, Art Direction, Graphic Design:
Nina Bianchi and Benjamin Chodoroff for The Work Department

Strategic Development Consultant:
Joshua Breitbart

Bookkeeping:
Monica Kish

Co-implementation of the Detroit Future program:
East Michigan Environmental Action Council
Open Technology Initiative