As founder of the nonprofit organization Entertainment for Change (EFC), Jade Zaroff ’16 is connecting children with artists nationwide via online classes aimed at empowering youth on how to lead through art and activism.
Betsy Kalin is an affiliated faculty member at Emerson Los Angeles, teaching a course in Social Impact Documentary. This semester, her 43-minute documentary for Spectrum News 1, Vision 2030: The Future of SoCal, was nominated for a Los Angeles area Emmy Award.
Julia Perry ‘20 and her Business of Creative Enterprises (BCE) cohort made Emerson College history this spring when they became the first-ever graduating class in its BCE undergrad program. Beyond the College, the small cohort of 30-plus students left a lasting impression with real-world clients after they provided six local partners with applicable creative business services.
Kristin Linklater, a world-renowned voice teacher and former head of acting in Emerson’s Performing Arts department, died Friday, June 5, at her home in Scotland’s Orkney Islands. She was 84.
Through the first half of the spring 2020 semester, students in the Journalism course TV News Magazine and Documentary had been developing short documentaries on subjects related to social change. But when production was disrupted by COVID-19 restrictions, they, along with Assistant Professor Gino Canella, saw the opportunity to expand their projects into multimedia websites, with deeply satisfying results.
Cultural offerings from Emerson community members this Juneteenth.
Meet Alison Qu, Class of 2020! Alison majored in Performing Arts and is co-founder of CHUANG Stage, the first Mandarin Chinese theater community of Emerson College.
President Lee Pelton will join former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and a panel of local leaders online Tuesday, June 16, for The Pandemic and the Police: A Conversation About a Moment of Profound Change in America, hosted by CommonWealth Magazine.
The International Public Relations course in the Communication Studies department focuses on global and international media relations, social media, branding, media management, crisis communication, and policy. Students of the class then apply those concepts at GlobComm, coordinating across geographic, cultural, language, religious, technological, and national differences — just as they would in a professional setting.
Rhythm-A-Ning Entertainment (RAN Ent), the music and film production arm of jazz great Thelonious Monk’s estate, of which Emerson Trustee Doug Holloway is president, is scheduled to release Palo Alto, the first of multiple planned joint releases with Impulse! Records, on July 31.
