Jasmine Park is a student at Stanford, the social media coordinator for the CAN chapter in Palo Alto, AND she’s producing a really amazing Social Action Project on hunger. Basically, she’s awesome. But, I didn’t quite realize the degree of awesome until our phone call last week. Each week, Jasmine and I hop on the [...]
Read MoreA Day of Fasting
To feel pure hunger, I decided to fast for a day. As someone who eats every meal and needs breakfast to function, I knew this challenge was going to affect me throughout the day. This hunger would be different from any other because I wasn’t waiting for the dining hall to open to instantly gratify [...]
Read MoreRECAP: A Place at the Table | CAN Showcase
I ended the final day in my undergraduate career at the University of Texas at Austin on the highest note possible. The CAN showcase was a night to remember! It was full of brilliant and moving work produced by Creative Activists. In addition, Thursday’s screening of Participant Media’s call-to-action film, A Place at the Table, [...]
Read MoreCAN Students on KUT 90.5
If you missed it last week, here’s the interview with KUT host Nathan Bernier and CAN students Skylar Moran and Emily Ng. Thank you, KUT, for helping to share our story!
Read MoreAnnouncing Winner of UT Film Challenge!
So, last Thursday we announced the winner of the CAN 5-Day Film Challenge at UT. I was excited to be one of three judges for the final submissions. The other judges on the panel were Evan Shapiro, President of Pivot TV, and Keith Maitland, an incredible documentary filmmaker based in Austin. It was fascinating to [...]
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Bringing the Issue of Hunger to Life!
So if you follow us on social media, you’ve probably noticed that we’ve been promoting a little event called the CAN Social Action Showcase. Not surprisingly, it’s a showcase of student work from the CAN chapter in Austin, Texas. Students at UT have been working all semester to build an amazing multimedia portfolio that brings [...]
Read MoreA Two-Way Street Learning Experience
This post is second in a short series of reflections from Ricardo Palomares, an artist, filmmaker, SOW alumni, and mentor for the UT CAN 5-Day Film Challenge, which wrapped on Sunday. Ricardo is one of our favorite storytellers — a true servant to the story, always seeking inspiration. It was really interesting to be on the other [...]
Read MoreFilm Challenge Recap: Girls on Fire
Along with the reflections from film mentor Ricardo, we are blogging this week from the perspective of some of the Film Challenge teams. From filmmaker Jacob Velcoff, here’s a recap on the Green Monkeys’ experience in the challenge so far… After sifting through an array of potential topics, our project led us to tackling sex trafficking in [...]
Read MoreIntroducing Blogger at Stanford: Jasmine Park
Hi, everyone. I’m Jasmine and I’ll be the social media coordinator for the Stanford chapter of CAN. I am so happy to be a part of CAN and to use various media outputs to promote our mission and progress here in Palo Alto. I have always believed that giving back to the community does not [...]
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Film Challenge Recap: Green Monkeys
Along with the reflections from film mentor Ricardo, we are blogging this week from the perspective of some of the Film Challenge teams. From filmmaker Jacob Velcoff, here’s a recap on the Green Monkeys’ experience in the challenge so far… Just prior to the kickoff meeting, our team decided to check out the Odyssey School, an institution [...]
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