How Participatory Action Research Can Promote Social Change and Help Youth Development

Cara is an innovative strategic thinker working across a variety of disciplines to build the capacity of communities to create meaningful and lasting change.  Before her current role as Executive Director of Transformative Culture Project, Cara founded the Youth Media Institute at Project: Think Different and also ran Digital Media programming for the United Teen Equality Center (UTEC). She holds a Doctorate in Educational Leadership and Change in addition to a MA in Transformative Media Arts and a BA in Screen Studies and Urban Development/Social Change.

In addition to time spent on the Adjunct Faculty at Wheelock College, Worcester State University and UMASS Boston, Cara has guest lectured at  Northeastern University, MIT, Simmons College, and Amherst College. She has produced programming for MTV & NBC, and has provided training in media and social change to non-profit leaders like Oxfam and Facing History & Ourselves. Cara has also presented at several conferences, including the Women, Action and Media Conference, the Be the Media Conference, the National Conference for Media Reform, and the Action Coalition for Media Education Conference. She is the recipient of the Empowerment Award from the 2008 Media That Matters Festival, is featured in No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power by Gloria Feldt.

You can read her work in the Kinder Braver World Series, published by Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society in partnership with Lady Gaga’s Born this Way Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. Her writing has also been featured on Kveller, The Establishment, and on Facing History and Ourselves. She sits on several Boards and Commissions and plays Roller Derby as Surely Chis'l in Worcester, Massachusetts where she resides with her husband and daughter.

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