Tag: diversity
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Leadership Panelist
Leadership experiences and preparation: Panel discussion [RIT Faculty in Leadership] This winter I was invited to join a panel of women leaders at this year’s Advance RIT Leadership Summit. By conventional wisdom, a foreign woman working as a professor of animation in a technical institute makes me quite the unlikely leader. However, in the year…
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International Women Faculty: Together RIT Programming 2023
RIT’s Day of Understanding Programming was established in 2022 to allow the RIT community to “engage in intentional and honest dialog about challenging issues”. As someone actively engaged in exploring ways to improve cross-cultural communication using animation and gaming, I was invited to join the panel of international women to talk about the experiences that…
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Taking This Show On The Road!
A busy week with two presentations on the Lahore Fort Project happening back-to-back!
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Diversity in Gaming Panel
Hosted by UNC Charlotte’s Atkins Library and faculty from the College of Arts + Architecture and College of Computing and Informatics.This event was made possible with a grant from UNC Charlotte’s Chancellor’s Diversity Challenge Fund. Invited Panelists: Latoya Peterson, Glow Up Games, CXO/Co-FounderTara Mustapha, Code Coven, CEO and FounderEve Crevoshay, Take This, Executive DirectorMark Barlet,…
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Guest Speaker: Ringling College of Art and Design
I was invited to speak to the Body Art and Culture class at Ringling College of Art and Design to discuss how to design diverse characters and accurately represent a culture without falling into the trap of appropriation. This was a journey into the processes our team developed as we designed the characters for the…
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Revisiting the Iroquois Creation Story in 2020
Five years after it’s first launch, the Iroquois Creation Story (or ICS for short) is enjoying a mini-revival in 2020. With the sparking of a brand-new (old) conversation about diversity in animation and appropriate cultural representation, this project is being used as a prime example of how to respectfully represent the ideology of a nation.…
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Pre-production Ideas/Concepts
It makes no sense to learn a program or build a new workflow without first creating an idea that you want to implement it on. After all, a theory is no good unless it has been tested and proven in some way. And what better way to establish a good workflow than to throw it…
