Radio host Reen Cook on the air at CKON in Akwesasne
Reen Cook, longtime radio host and community celebrity, on the air at CKON, a community radio station based in Akwesasne. 2013. Photo taken by David Sommerstein.
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Katsitsionni Fox on openness as a documentary filmmaker
Katsitsionni Fox is a documentary filmmaker from Akwesasne. Katsitsionni described how openness makes for a good documentary filmmaker, and her favorite moments on a shoot. Director Katsitsionni Fox holds a microphone while interviewing Pete Jemison. Photo courtesy of Katsitsionni Fox.
Documentary filmmaker Katsitsionni Fox on proximity to her subjects
Director Katsitsionni Fox holds a microphone while interviewing Pete Jemison. Katsitsionni is a documentary filmmaker from Akwesasne. One of Katsitsionni’s most recent films was focused on her daughter and friends, and what growing up is like for Mohawk youth. She spoke about the advantages of being close to your subjects as a filmmaker. Photo courtesy […]
Monica Peters on her fascination with technology
Monica Peters is a virtual reality developer who grew up and lives in Akwesasne. She primarily focuses on work related to indigenous people, including VR development aimed at teaching users Mohawk language. Monica describes growing up fascinated with technology, a passion that eventually turned into a career.
Monica Peters describes her “Kakwitene VR” program
Monica Peters is a virtual reality developer who grew up and lives in Akwesasne. She primarily focuses on work related to indigenous people, including VR development aimed at teaching users Mohawk language. Monica’s “Kakwitene VR” program teaches users Mohawk language in a colorful world. Here she describes what it’s like to be in the VR […]
Monica Peters on developing her VR program “Kakwitene VR”
Monica Peters is a virtual reality developer who grew up and lives in Akwesasne. She primarily focuses on work related to indigenous people, including VR development aimed at teaching users Mohawk language. Developing her program “Kakwitene VR” was extremely difficult because there are no Mohawk speech engines, a technology that allows computers to understand spoken language. […]
The Strand Theatre Promenade
Schroon Lake’s Strand theatre. 2010-2020. Schroon Lake, NY. Photo by Dan Burkholder. Hear more about the Schroon during the Covid-19 lockdown here: https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/43038/20210127/north-country-at-work-the-strand-in-schroon-lake-trying-to-weather-the-coronavirus-storm
Jacquiline Touba on founding the World Awareness Childrens Museum in Glens Falls
Jacquiline Touba has lived in Glens Falls for a combined 40 years. As a PhD Sociologist, she spent 13 years of her life teaching and researching in the middle east and traveling throughout the world. When she returned to Glens Falls, she wanted to create a space where children could learn about the world outside […]
Frieda Toth on working at the Crandall Public Library from page to teen services
Frieda Toth started working at the Crandall Public Library when she was just 15, as a page. She worked as a page for four years at the library, and concluded that she never would be a librarian. But after several years working for AT&T, she decided that the corporate world wasn’t for her, and found […]
Historian Teri Rogers on building a historical organization that looks to the future
From newspaper caption: Teri Rogers (in 2007, Teri Ulrich-Gay) and Lori Calderon (left) selling and autographing copies of ‘Malta Memories’, a compilation of personal writings by local authors by Malta Town Historian, Teri Ulrich-Gay. Photo printed in the Ballston Journal December 6, 2007. Copy of photo provided by Teri Rogers. Teri Podnorski Rogers was born […]