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LA Hashtags Herself

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Los Angeles Hashtags Herself, a limited series podcast, features representatives of various Angeleno private and public organizations leading the critical trend of using digital media for urban and social development. This diverse group serves as both a reminder and an analytical insight that digital media are neither just "useful" nor peculiar to the sharing and cultural economies, but fast becoming standard to the practice of material and social placemaking. If you like art, community bene ...
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Ashlee Marie Preston, civil rights activist, writer, speaker, and host of the excellent podcast SHOOK with Ashlee Marie Preston. Ashlee Marie is the first transgender woman editor-in-chief of a national publication, the first openly trans person to run for the California State Legislature, and among many other accolades she’s received in recent yea…
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Native American award-winning film director and producer, actor, singer/songwriter, author, and founder and CEO of multiple media organizations, humanitarian Joanelle Romero. Joanelle was born in both the artistic and activist worlds and has spent her life bringing those two realms together. Listen to Joanelle share stories about her many years' be…
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Rochelle Steiner is a curator, writer, public art producer, and Professor of Critical Studies at USC’s Roski School of Art and Design. She has curated over 60 major exhibitions and large-scale public art projects in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Listen to Rochelle share the discoveries she has made through her career of bringing art into public space…
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Urban journalist and advocate Alissa Walker abandoned her car ten years ago in favor of a pedestrian lifestyle, a move which led to an expansive career as an urbanist and urban advocate that coincides with watershed moments in online journalism and the urban renaissance. What sets Alissa apart, though, is her dedication to online discourse and gene…
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Frogtown-based LA-Más is a design and policy advocacy nonprofit whose mission is to “help lower-income and underserved communities shape their future through policy and architecture.” Timme and Leung’s shared vision for urban growth that is “equitable and self-directed—where the best local solutions are brought to a city-wide scale” motivates and i…
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Professor Lisa Schweitzer opens this season of LA#Herself and explains how flourishing is "the heart of what urban planning has to be about," and how she works to make good neighborhoods, "physical shape aside, that give spaces for people to develop and grow such that flourishing spreads." Listen to how Lisa's belief in flourishing has shaped her r…
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Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan are self-proclaimed “authors, bloggers, and fashion assassins.” Creators of so many people’s favorite celebrity fashion blog, Go Fug Yourself, and authors of bestsellers like the fortune-telling The Royal We (about an American who falls in love with and marries a British prince), Heather and Jessica share with us th…
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Public historian Nathan Masters is host, producer, and managing editor of LOST LA, a co-production of KCETLink and USC Libraries LA as Subject research alliance. The show, which just started its second season, “recenter[s] the telling of Los Angeles history” away from the Anglo-American perspective. “The point that we make is that LA has always bee…
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Donna Spruijt-Metz, MFA, PhD, is the director of the USC mHealth Collaboratory at the USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research. Donna researches ways of using smartphones and other Internet of Things platforms to take individuals' temporally dense, context-specific data, such as mood and eating behaviors, from individuals and devise jus…
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Thor Steingraber is the executive director of Cal State Northridge's Valley Performing Arts Center, or "The Soraya," thanks to Younes and Soraya Nazarian's decision to give $17 million in support of the center's programming. Donations such as these, as Thor notes early in our conversation, are "transformative." They offer both financial security to…
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Marissa Gluck is a digital research strategist who’s worked in tech since the mid-90s, an urbanism and architecture writer, and a principal of the design-cum-civic engagement non-profit Design East of La Brea, or de LaB. Through her unique bundle of expertise, Marissa gives us insights into how her three fields engage with issues of culture, identi…
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Welcome to Los Angeles Hashtags Itself #6. The fall’s final guest is Erin Mavian, COO of Runyon, a full-service real estate company working with high-end retailers, restaurants, and creative companies to provide their visitors and partners with unique experiences. Mavian hosts us at Runyon’s Culver City offices to discuss Runyon’s Hayden Tract-loca…
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Welcome to episode 5 of Los Angeles Hashtags Itself. Our guest on this episode is media artist Anne Bray. Bray is executive director of Freewaves, the LA-based nonprofit arts organization that advocates for and exhibits new, uncensored, independent media. She tells us about her thirty-plus years using media art to initiate difficult and essential d…
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Today’s LA#itself features a conversation with Dennis Crowley, the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Foursquare. Foursquare is so much more than the check-in social media app we know from the late naughts. Today Foursquare comprises a host of consumer and enterprise products, all of which emerged from a single idea over ten years ago. “How can I…
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Today’s LA#itself features a conversation Ashley Hand, the City of Los Angeles’ Transportation Technology Strategist fellow from 2016-2017 and co-founder of smart cities consulting firm CityFi, as well as the country’s first woman to serve as a municipality’s Chief Innovation Officer in Kansas City, Missouri from 2013-2015. We discuss the final rep…
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This episode of LA#itself features a conversation with Angie Jean-Marie, Social Innovation and Marketing Manager at the Goldhirsh Foundation, and her predecessor Shauna Nep, Senior Philanthropic Advisor at Fundamental. Jean-Marie and Nep tell us about LA2050, the Goldhirsh Foundation’s ambitious grant crowdsourcing “initiative driving and tracking …
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Don’t believe Los Angeles has always been a creative city or that Los Angelenos love local history? Don’t believe it. Listen to Los Angeles Hashtags Itself’s conversation with Artbound executive producer Juan Devis and learn what can happen when you dedicate multiple online platforms, streaming video capabilities, and the power of social networks t…
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