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The nonprofit organization SoundGirls is sounding off on the lack of representation of women in the audio and music production industry. In the male-dominated world of music production and sound … Continue Reading Emerson LA Starts a ‘Mix’ with SoundGirls
Veteran multimedia journalists Julio Ricardo Varela and Tim Estiloz sat down with Emerson College’s chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) to talk about their experiences working in … Continue Reading Hispanic Journalists on Telling Their Communities’ Stories
Free market economist F.A. Hayek in 1981. Hayek is the subject of the first lecture in a new conservative speaker series at Emerson. Photo/Wikipedia Emerson is looking at the right … Continue Reading New Speaker Series to Offer Conservative Views on Timely Topics
ArtsEmerson co-artistic director and HowlRound director P. Carl is one of 25 new Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellows, joining the ranks of Oscar-nominated filmmaker Ava DuVernay and award-winning writer … Continue Reading Ford Foundation Names HowlRound Director P. Carl “Art of Change” Fellow
The Latino digital media company MiTú launches the YouTube Red original comedy Long Distance on September 28, which several Emersonians helped to produce. “It’s a very charming, character-driven, and fun … Continue Reading Emersonians Have a Hand in YouTube Red Comedy Long Distance
Hurricane Irma slammed into the U.S. Virgin Islands just as Cyana Francis-Berkitt ’19, a native of St. Thomas, was starting classes for the semester. Though her own family’s home was … Continue Reading Student Raises Supplies, Awareness for U.S. Virgin Islands
This semester, Emerson is offering a college-in-prison program at MCI-Concord, by teaching a 4-credit liberal arts course to 20 inmates and furthering the College’s commitment to civic engagement and education … Continue Reading Emerson Launches College in Prison Program
This week, federal judges in the District of Massachusetts granted summary judgments for Emerson College in two Title IX lawsuits brought against the College by former students three years ago. On … Continue Reading Statement on Title IX Rulings
Tony Kushner, horrified at then-President Ronald Reagan’s lack of response to the AIDS crisis and disappointed at his recent reelection to a second term, wrote a play set in 1932 … Continue Reading Emerson Stage Confronts Fascism, the Devil with Kushner Play
Writing, Literature and Publishing Professor Daniel Tobin won this year’s Julia Ward Howe Prize from the Boston Authors Club for his book-length poem, From Nothing (Four Way Books). The Julia … Continue Reading Tobin Wins Boston Authors Club Book Prize for Poetry