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22 Jan Laura Salas
| WITNESS Laura Salas, Senior Program Manager, Latin America & the Caribbean Laura leads WITNESS’ work in Latin America and the Caribbean. Under this role over the past decade, she has helped implemented initiatives such as Voices of Women, Caravans of Free and Community Media, the School of Strategic Communication for Land Defense and the School of Communication and Free Technologies for the Collective Defense of Territory, among others. She has over twenty years of experience in communication work, especially on community, video and rights process. She has directed over a dozen audiovisual projects with social and human rights themes that have been screened at film festivals in Mexico and internationally. Previously, Laura served as Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression at the Human Rights Commission of Mexico City. She has also worked with various human rights organizations, including the Mexican Commission of Defense and Promotion of Human Rights, the World Association of Community Radios (AMARC) and the Human Rights Center of the Mountain “Tlachinollan”. Laura coordinated the WITNESS and HIC AL (Habitat International Coalition – Latin America) video advocacy initiative in Mexico. She also serves on the Board of La Sandia Digital, a feminist training media and video collective she formally co-founded
21 Jan Tim Robbins
| WITNESS Tim Robbins Tim Robbins ranks among contemporary cinema's most acclaimed and provocative voices; a multifaceted talent, who has acted, written, directed and produced films including Dead Man Walking, Shawshank Redemption, Mystic River, The Player, Bob Roberts, Short Cuts, Bull Durham, Jacobs Ladder, Hudsucker Proxy, Code 46, Catch a Fire, The Secret Life of Words and Cradle Will Rock. He has been the recipient of the Academy Award, the Prix D'Interpretation Masculine at the Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Globe Award for best actor, the Screen Actors Guild Award, the Humanitas Award, the Bronze Prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival for his debut film Bob Roberts, Best Director and Best Film at the Sitges Film Festival in Spain for Cradle Will Rock, as well as four awards at the Berlinale Film Festival for Dead Man Walking, for which he received an Oscar nomination for best director. Most recently Mr. Robbins was honored to be named Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Republic of France. In addition Robbins has been a consistent and influential voice in the theater for the past 32 years as an actor, director, playwright and Artistic Director of the Actors' Gang, which has
20 Jan Andrew Rasiej
|Andrew Rasiej is a civic and social entrepreneur, technology strategist, and Founder of Personal Democracy Media, focusing on the intersection of technology, politics, and government. He recently founded Civic Hall, an 18,000 square foot community center and event space for civic innovation in the Flatiron District of New York City. He is the Chairman of the NY Tech Meetup, a 47,000+ member organization of technologists, venture funders, and marketers representing start up and more mature technology-based companies in New York City. He is the Founder of MOUSE.org, which focuses on 21st century public education. He is also Senior Technology Advisor to the Sunlight Foundation, a Washington DC organization using technology to make government more transparent. Andrew lives and works in New York City, and can be followed on twitter at @rasiej.
