Keynote+Speakers

Dr. Matt Hern[[image:IC_Hern.jpg width="180" height="197" align="right"]]
Purple Thistle Centre/UBC Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy


 * November 2nd, 7:00pm-8:00pm**
 * SFU Harbour Centre, Room 1600: Canfor Policy Room**

Matt Hern is a widely known writer and activist, and is the director of the Purple Thistle Centre, an arts and activism centre for youth. His fifth book (//Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future)// will be published this fall by AK Press.


 * Selected Work and Related Sites**

[|The Purple Thistle Centre]

Marcus Youssef, MFA [[image:IC_Youssef.jpg width="165" height="228" align="left"]]
Co-Director, Neworld Theatre


 * November 4th, 7:00pm-8pm**
 * SFU Harbour Centre, Room 1600: Canfor Policy Room**

Marcus Youssef is an award-winning playwright, director and writer who has mentored and taught young people performance, writing and new media in both large and small organizations across the country. He has always been interested in the relationship between art and activism; right now he's also thinking a lot about the relationship between hard work and having fun.

[|Neworld Theatre]
 * Selected Work and Related Sites**

Dr. Elisabeth Soep [[image:IC_Soep.jpe width="176" height="220" align="right"]]
Research Director, Youth Radio


 * November 6th, 7:00pm-8:00pm**
 * SFU Harbour Centre, Room 1600: Canfor Policy Room**

Lissa Soep is the Education Director and Senior Producer at Youth Radio in San Francisco, CA, a media institute that trains more than 1300 youth each year in broadcast journalism, media production and cutting-edge technology. She has published widely on youth media and community-based education, including //Youthscapes: The Popular, The National, The Global.// Most recently, she and young journalists at Youth Radio broke the story of widespread hazing and abuse inside a special service unit in the U.S. Navy. The story was picked up by the Huffington Post and NPR, and led to calls for an official investigation by the Navy.


 * Selected Work and Related Sites**

[|Youth Radio] (Soep, 2007) (Chavez & Soep, 2005) (Soep, Saavedra & Kurwa, 2007)