Websites I've built and managed, articles I've written and a few other things I've done. Under construction, as they used to say.

WORK

Recent updates to my resume have me increasingly subscribing to a modified version of the "seven year rule of life stages." After spending the last six+ years consulting and freelancing, I recently became Site Manager and Editor of KCET.org, which is the station website for KCET in Los Angeles, Southern California's largest PBS affiliate. In that capacity I manage web editorial and online community operations for the station - blogs, community tools, social media campaigns, etc, etc. Previous to that I worked for (about) seven years managing commercial websites serving the African-American audience and its various admirers (corporate and otherwise). Previous to that, I worked for seven years as film critic in NYC. Not quite three perfect sevens, but close enough.

WRITING

Since 1990 I've published over 300 published articles on race, film, television, video games, digital FX, psychoanalysis and new media for a range of venues, including The Village Voice, Vibe Magazine, Essence, Interview, Bidoun, The Source, Lacanian Ink, Black Issues Book Review, and other publications. From 1997 until 2000 I was a Writer-at-Large at Vibe Magazine, where I wrote monthly film reviews, as well as regular film features and profiles. From 1995 until 2001 I was a Contributing Writer at The Village Voice, where I rote weekly reviews, reviews, profiles, and features.

Here are some of my favorites from recent articles:

• Have Pamphlet, Will Travel. Bidoun, 21 Summer 2010: Bazaar II. A prehistory of infotainment.
• The Aloha President. Bidoun, 17 Spring 2009: Flower. On the first Hawaiian president.
• The Cleaver Sleeve. Bidoun, 14 Spring-Summer 2008: Objects. On Eldridge Cleaver's fancy pants.
• Why I don't like Stuff White People Like. The Root.com.
• "The Feast of the Epiphany." The Time of My Life: Writers on the Heartbreak, Hormones, and Debauchery of The Prom. Ed. Rob Spillman. New York: Random House, March 2008. The sad tale of my senior prom.
• "The Fifth Element." Bidoun, 13 Winter 2007-2008. On glory.
• “A Portrait of the Jihadist as a White Negro.” Bidoun 11, Summer 2007. The strange case of "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh.

Additionally, as a blogger, I've been lucky have a few posts circulate somewhat far afield, most notably this bit on blackface and blogs, a post about the unusually loud, er, relations a neighbor was having for a spell (NSFW, depending on where you work), and some fun with Photoshop.

SITES

The New KCET.org Homepage: my most recent projectKCET.org
I recently helped relaunch the website for KCET / Community Television of Southern California. The goal was ambitious: rebuild KCET.org from scratch and, in the process re-imagine what a public television website could be. A site like KCET's website has to serve a number of constituents: viewers looking for schedule information, potential donors looking to support the station, parents and teachers looking for relevant educational programming, Southern California residents looking for best of breed public media content and so on. Additionally, the station's website is one of the place where the full range of the organization's activities meet - fund-raising, communications, events, content production and distribution, programming support, community outreach, viewer services and more. Since we launched (and as of 6/10), page views and visits are up, but our pages per visit has quintupled, average time spent on the site has gone from about 2 minutes to just over 8, and the bounce rate in mission critical areas like the schedule has gone from the sixties to 34.2% as of last check. Not a bad change for an community focused non-profit eager to connect with the region it serves. I am also currently charged with site's editorial operations, so next up - finding a new and novel way to cover Southern California, on the cheap of course!

KCET Local - 10/08-5/10
How to help a traditional public television brand explore social and collaborative media?

AOL BlackVoices - 3/04-7/05
In my capacity as Director of African American Programming for AOL, I was primary strategist and information architect on the development and 10/04 re-launch of AOL BlackVoices. I was also the site's founding Editor-in-Chief.

Africana.com - 4/02-2/05
As Editor-in-Chief, I managed the day-to-day editorial, community, sales, and technical operations of Africana.com until the site's 2/05 decommissioning by AOL. I assigned and top-edited articles for all sections of the site, and wrote and edited Africana’s most read column, “The A-List.” In February 2003 I was the primary strategist and information architect of a wholesale site technology and editorial re-launch.

BlackPlanet.com - 10/99-4/02
I started out as an editor at the world's most heavily trafficked African American site, but eventually became the Site Manager, where I was charged with managing the the bulk of the site's day-to-day editorial and community activities. It was a thrilling, transforming experience.

C.V.



ODDS AND ENDS

• Reader, "Another Border - Films and Videos from the Cinémathèque de Tanger Archives at LACMA,” LACMA, Los Angeles, CA (2009)
• Reader, "An Evening with Bidoun,” The Kitchen, New York, NY (2008)
• Presenter, "Showings,” TELIC, Los Angeles, CA (2007)
• Graduate, "Clarion West Writer's Workshop," Seattle, WA (2007)
• Panelist, “Yale Access to Knowledge Conference,” New Haven, CT (2007)
• Panelist “New Media and Publishing,” Summer Literary Seminars, Nairobi, Kenya (2006)
• Judge, Emerson College Evvy Animation Awards, Emerson College Boston, MA (2005)
• Panelist, “Making Films in Haiti,” Haiti on Screen Film Festival, NYU, New York, NY (2004)
• Panelist, “Digital Diasporas,” South Street Seaport Museum, New York, NY (2004)
• Funding Panel Member, The National Black Programming Consortium, New York, NY (2003)
• Panelist, "The Haitian Diaspora: Contributions and Challenges,” American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY (2003)
• Panelist, “Close Up in Black: African Americans in Film,” The Boston Film & Video Foundation and the National Heritage Museum,” Boston, MA (2003)
• Funding Panel Member, LEF Foundation New England Film Fund, Cambridge, MA (2003)
• Panelist, “AIDS and the Black Press,” Black AIDS Institute, Los Angeles, CA (2002)
• Panelist, “So You Want to Break into (Internet) Movies?” - Urbanworld Film Festival, New York, NY (2001)
• Panelist, “New Technologies,” African Diaspora Film Festival, New York, NY (2000)
• Feature Film Competition Jury Member, Urbanworld Film Festival, New York, NY (1999)
• Programmer, Black Filmmaker Foundation’s monthly film screenings, New York, NY (1997)
• International Film Competition Jury Member, Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany (1993)