Happy International Day of the Girl!
Today marks the first International Day of the Girl! What’s that? Last year, a Resolution adopted by the General Assembly of the UN established that from 2012 forward October 11th would be recognized as the International Day of the Girl. On this day every year, individuals and organizations are encouraged to raise awareness and promote initiatives that highlight the strength of girls everywhere and seek to improve their livelihoods. Emphasis is placed on increasing girls’ access to education and jobs, fighting violence and gender violence against women and girls, and more »
Share Important Stories: 5 Steps to Master the Interview
How do you find and tell stories that embody entire movements, campaigns, or organizations? A crucial element of using storytelling to represent your organization or campaign is having either a single narrative or a set of individual narratives that represent(s) your vision and key messages. At ListenIn, we feel the best ways to learn and represent stories of individuals within an organization or campaign is through the direct voice of the protagonist. Often, individuals have a hard time seeing their place as a protagonist in an incredible story, or don’t more »
Street Jam
The Of Rags Street Jam was an extended surreal moment in which my brain was in Mantra Mode repeating over and over— I Love What I do. The Street Jam was the culmination of all that we had done in Ghana. Three intense weeks of dreaming big, planning to make it happen and then seeing it all come true. We ran a weekend workshop in which students in the Passion Squad designed their own circle shirts, which are being given to their counterparts in the project in New York. A more »
Welcome!
Who are we? Annie Escobar (me) and Ethan Goldwater. Me: One of ten kids. I love biking, yoga, cooking, people watching, exploring NYC, random encounters, dancing, trampolines, laughing, playing with kids and (of course) photography. Long time nanny/babysitter. I expanded into film making a few years ago- I approach film making with a photographer’s sensibility/eye. I love photography because it makes me feel alive and connected to the world and people. Photography has trained me to search for the beauty in every situation. It gives me my energy and sustains me. I more »
