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 # MEDLab website
-**This website is now deprecated. The new MEDLab website is at [colorado.edu/lab/medlab](https://colorado.edu/lab/medlab).**
+A website for the Media Enterprise Design Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder. Visit it online [here](https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/).
 A website for the Media Enterprise Design Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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--- a/_posts/2019-01-06-notes-on-collective-governance.md
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 tags: [collab-gov]
 ---
-<img alt="Wave image by Katy Fetters" src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link assets/fetters-wave.jpg %}" style="float:right; width:50%; padding:10px;" />Those of us looking to shape our enterprises with methods for collective governance and shared ownership are led to ask: *What can collective governance look like? What shape does that take? What are some of the challenges and freedoms presented in this model?*
+<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link assets/fetters-wave.jpg %}" style="float:right; width:50%; padding:10px;" />Those of us looking to shape our enterprises with methods for collective governance and shared ownership are led to ask: *What can collective governance look like? What shape does that take? What are some of the challenges and freedoms presented in this model?*
 We spoke with several cooperative-minded experts who offered their insight into these questions, as part of a collaboration with the Action Network, a nonprofit online mobilization platform whose team is seeking to further democratize its operations. Here are a few takeaways from our discussion:
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-layout: event
+layout: post
 author: Nathan Schneider
 title: "Event: Boulder, Meet The Colorado Sun"
 summary: Join editors and reporters for a celebration of what they have accomplished
--- a/_posts/2019-02-20-better-work-together-enspiral.md
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 tags: [collab-gov]
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-![Better Work Together cover](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55a0c7c1e4b0ab3ab0407073/t/5c2960d32b6a28bef1a2dea9/1546215658386/BWTcover.jpg?format=1500w)
+![Better Work Together](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55a0c7c1e4b0ab3ab0407073/t/5c2960d32b6a28bef1a2dea9/1546215658386/BWTcover.jpg?format=1500w)
 Part of the appeal in being a worker on new gig-economy platforms like Uber or Taskrabbit is the apparent autonomy, the feeling of not having a boss. Sure, an app on your phone is your new boss, and through it a large, transnational corporation whose investors want nothing more than to automate you away, but maybe that beats someone coming out of the corner office to breathe down your neck. For some people, the app-boss is at least a step in the right direction.
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 ---
-layout: event
+layout: post
 author: Nathan Schneider
 title: "The New Trusts: Democratic Ownership Beyond the ESOP"
 summary: A webinar on emerging explorations on trust structures—their promise and their problems
 tags: [internet-of-ownership, events]
 event-date: June 6, 2019
 event-time: 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
 event-location: webinar
 ---
 <iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/new_trusts_democracy_ownership_beyond_ESOP" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>
 **A webinar on emerging explorations on trust structures—their promise and their problems**
 June 6, 2019   
 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
 The employee stock-ownership plan, or ESOP, is one of the most powerful legal innovations in recent US history. Since its introduction in the mid-1970s, millions of employees have benefited from being co-owners of the companies where they work. But ESOP formation has slowed in recent years, and it has come with shortcomings. A new generation of lawyers, investors, and worker advocates has been exploring new strategies for broad-based ownership—potentially serving employees, contractors, and community stakeholders. Many of these involve reworking the mechanics of the trust, the legal structure at the heart of the ESOP.
 In this interactive webinar, we'll hear from some of the leaders of this emerging conversation about the promise and pitfalls of new strategies for democratic ownership.
--- a/_posts/2019-05-03-building-spaces-for-belonging.md
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 **Excerpt—[Read the rest on our Medium page](https://medium.com/medlab/building-spaces-for-belonging-7024f49ab071)**
-<img alt="Katy Fetters" src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/katy_fetters.png %}" style="float:left; width: 200px; padding: 0 10px 10px 0px;" />In recent years, I have struggled to call myself an advocate for those with cerebral palsy. I’ve struggled to understand what that means both online and offline in the disability community.
+<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/katy_fetters.png %}" style="float:left; width: 200px; padding: 0 10px 10px 0px;" />In recent years, I have struggled to call myself an advocate for those with cerebral palsy. I’ve struggled to understand what that means both online and offline in the disability community.
 What do I advocate for? Whom do I advocate for?
--- a/_posts/2019-07-09-curafied-co-op-story-prequel.md
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 tags: [internet-of-ownership]
 ---
-<img alt="Arielle Jordan" src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/arielle_jordan.png %}" style="width: 100%;" />
+<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/arielle_jordan.png %}" style="width: 100%;" />
 I’m the founder and CEO of Curafied. Curafied is a platform that helps digital content creators earn monthly income by charging a low monthly subscription to fans for their content creation and curation directly—not from “patron” donations or advertising sponsorships. We’re exploring a new direction for our startup, and I would like to tell you about it in case you have any feedback or want to help.
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 tags: [collab-gov]
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-<img alt="Alphonse Desjardins (photo by Vista Stamps, used without permission)" src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/desjardins.jpg %}" style="width: 100%;" /><br />
+<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/desjardins.jpg %}" style="width: 100%;" /><br />
 <em>Alphonse Desjardins (photo by Vista Stamps, used without permission)</em>
 I have been trying for some time to put my finger on the difference---between the stories of co-op origins I read about for years while working on my book, _[Everything for Everyone](https://nathanschneider.info/e4e)_, and what I encounter among many larger cooperatives today. Certain differences are obvious: the scale, the maturity, the technology, the political power, and the global reach of co-ops now are well beyond what the founders could have imagined a century or so ago. But many co-ops have also lost a feature that was their main competitive advantage at their founding.
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 layout: post
 author: Nathan Schneider
 title: "Field Trip to System76"
 summary: Visit a company that designs and builds open-source computers in Colorado
 tags: [events]
 event-date: September 27, 2019
 event-time: 12 p.m. - 2 p.m.
 event-location: Denver, CO
 ---
 Most of the computers we use were built far away, often under questionable conditions. But at least one computer company, [System76](https://system76.com/), builds some of its machines here in Colorado. These computers are open hardware and run the company's own Linux-based, open-source operating system. On this field trip, we'll take a tour of the System76 facility and have lunch with employees.
 This event is open to all members of the CMCI community. [RSVP and sign up to carpool here](https://etherpad.net/p/medlab-system76) Those carpooling meet at the Armory parking lot at 11 a.m.
 *Learn more on [our interview with Emma Marshall from System76](https://news.kgnu.org/2019/07/looks-like-new-what-makes-computers-happy/) on our radio show, Looks Like New.*
 **[See photos from our visit here](https://cloud.medlab.host/s/zmZgtyWj8QJDppH)** by Kimberly Coffin
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 layout: post
 author: Laura Daley
 title: "How MEDLab Evaluated the Colorado Sun's Public Benefit"
 summary: 'The search for a third-party standard in journalism'
 tags: [stakeholder-news, shared-ownership-in-colorado]
 ---
 [*The Colorado Sun*](https://coloradosun.com/) is a new Colorado
 news organization seeking a business model that allows it to break
 free from the outside financial interests [currently dominating the
 state's news scene](https://www.youtube.com/embed/uR_jBlB-fj8?hd=1). Founded as an employee-owned company just last year,
 the *Sun* has incorporated as a Public Benefit Corporation---a
 categorization for companies that value social or environment impact
 alongside turning a profit. Maryland led the charge in PBC legislation
 in 2010 and since then, quite a few states have followed suit. While
 PBCs don't receive specific tax benefits, their status illustrates a
 strong commitment to giving back to the public.
 Different states require different actions on the part of a PBC to
 demonstrate its success in achieving the chosen benefits. In
 [Colorado](https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/business/FAQs/pbc.html),
 PBCs are required to publish an [annual
 report](https://codes.findlaw.com/co/title-7-corporations-and-associations/co-rev-st-sect-7-101-507.html)
 with a narrative description of their progress: What went well? What
 challenges hindered achievement of the benefit? The report is also
 supposed to include an evaluation by a third-party standard.
 *The Colorado Sun* incorporated as a PBC in January. This August, then,
 was its first opportunity to complete the annual report. The *Sun*
 staff asked MEDLab to provide consultation on the reporting procedure. (There
 was no fee or other financial relationship associated with this arrangement; 
 MEDLab has received a grant from the Brett Family Foundation to support work
 on Colorado journalism.)
 Our process began with research about PBCs. In Colorado, annual
 reports are required to be published on a company's website or available
 to anyone who for them; how hard could it be to find examples to draw
 on?
 We found lots of example reports, but many were wholly irrelevant to the context of journalism or media production in the state. In-depth, beautiful reports from companies like [Namasté
 Solar](http://info.namastesolar.com/hubfs/2019_Public_Benefit_Report_Namaste_Solar.pdf)
 provided guidance for tone, format, and breadth, but the standards those
 companies used didn't necessarily apply to the *Sun.* For instance,
 environmental impact may be easy to quantify for companies creating consumer
 goods (or, like Namasté, installing solar panels), but that task is harder for an online-only news platform.
 Standards like those used by the nonprofit certifier B-Lab can be
 useful, but questions about employee benefits and charitable giving
 don't quite capture the community impact of a news organization.
 How can one assess the impact of the news? Terms like "democracy" and
 "public knowledge" seemed too nebulous, too big to attach to tangible or
 measurable actions by the *Sun*. We had to improvise.
 Our first step was [creating a questionnaire](/medlab/assets/SunEvalQs-2019.pdf) of reflective questions for the *Sun* staff members. We wanted to hear
 from them about how they evaluate themselves, and we began
 with questions drawn from the *Sun*'s own purpose statement in its
 articles of incorporation. We also drew on the Society of Professional
 Journalists' [code of ethics](https://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp) and
 the [journalism ethics
 policy](https://civil.co/constitution/#ethics-policy) of Civil, the
 blockchain-based network of news organizations of which the *Sun* is a
 founding member.
 The *Sun* responded with incredibly mindful, intentional responses that
 far exceeded our expectations. Staff members shared data sets
 illustrating not only audience reach and geographic coverage but also
 tangible examples of instances when the *Sun*'s reporting had clear
 impact. With these in hand, we undertook the next step of the process:
 MEDLab director Nathan Schneider
 [interviewed](https://news.kgnu.org/2019/08/looks-like-new-what-is-public-benefit-journalism/)
 Dana Coffield on our KGNU radio show [*Looks Like
 New*](https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/radio-podcast-looks-like-new/).
 The conversation further illuminated the *Sun*'s purpose and impact, and
 it was broadcast across the Front Range.
 Following the interview and the responses to our questionnaire, we
 created an
 [evaluation](/medlab/assets/SunEval-2019.pdf), which in turn the _Sun_ included in its first [annual report](https://coloradosun.com/annualreport).
 The *Sun*'s achievement of its stated benefit purpose was remarkable. The shortcomings we identified are largely consequences of its early-stage limitations. Because of its small staff size, for
 instance, senior editors are currently involved in business and
 sponsorship decisions. Securing the sponsorships aspired to in the
 purpose statement has also been a challenge for the *Sun*, so grant funding
 and memberships have been the main sources of revenue. The *Sun*, like
 many news organizations, also struggles to reflect the diversity of the
 community in the diversity of its newsroom.
 The standard we created to evaluate public benefit journalism was
 multifaceted, as it was based on "hard" numerical data as well as "soft"
 anecdotal evidence. The *Sun*'s mission is to provide accessible news
 for the entire state; we took a look at the kinds of coverage they
 provided for all parts of Colorado---including the areas that often go
 unacknowledged by larger, Denver-based publications. In the coming years,
 the *Sun* can analyze changes in this data to identify any gaps in both coverage and audience locations around the state. The other important aspect of
 our quantitative standards focused on the business model of the *Sun*
 through exploring the breakdown of funding sources and their
 relationship with the *Sun*'s purpose statement.
 But numbers alone don't give justice to the *Sun*'s impact. We
 identified standards to evaluate each clause of the *Sun*'s purpose
 statement and probed them with questions related to the tenets of
 journalism. These standards focus on ethics, accuracy, independence,
 truthfulness, and contributions to Colorado's democracy. We asked process-oriented questions whose answers are hard to measure quantitatively: How does the *Sun* verify information
 and sources? Parse opinion and commentary from fact? Fairly represent
 sources and relevance of information? How does the Sun maintain
 independence? Avoid conflicts of interest? Interact with advertisers,
 donors, and sponsors?
 Impact is no doubt difficult to measure, but this
 hybrid approach for understanding all parts of the *Sun*'s mission and
 fulfillment of it hopefully yields an accurate depiction of the publication's first year. We also hope that what we have done will be useful to other news organizations seeking to evaluate their public benefit. In the long term, however, it is probably best that specific standards from journalism simply inform how journalism PBCs fill out a more standard, cross-industry instrument like the [B Impact Assessment](https://app.bimpactassessment.net/login).
 Public Benefit Corporation status is an emerging strategy for better
 reflecting the dual role of journalism as a public service and a
 business. It may help to protect local news from the profit-seeking,
 outside interests that have dominated newsrooms in Colorado and
 throughout the country. *The Colorado Sun* is a pioneer in this, and we
 have been grateful to help document its progress.
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 title: "Startups Need a New Option: Exit to Community"
 summary: "Why are we building disposable companies?"
 tags: [internet-of-ownership]
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 <img alt="Pricing table for startup exit options" src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/e2c-pricingtable.png %}" style="width: 100%;" />
 Founders create startups for all sorts of reasons. Often, the motivation
 is a mix between the founders' desires to do well for themselves and to
 do something worthwhile for others. Dreams of greatness might figure in
 there too. Rarely, however, is the overriding reason to build a company
 people want to get rid of. But that is what the startup pipeline is
 designed to produce.
 When a startup company takes early investment, typically the expectation
 is that everyone is working toward one of two "exit" events: selling the
 company to a bigger company or selling to retail investors in an initial
 public offering. In either case, the startup is a hot potato. One group
 of investors buys in order to sell to another group of investors who buy
 in to sell to the fools down the road. There's something sort of
 pyramid-scheme-ish about all this. The exit event, also, is often the
 beginning of the end of any positive social vision that the company
 might have held.
 What if startups had the option to mature in a way that gets them out of
 the investors' hamster wheel?
 In the coming months, I will be exploring strategies and stories that
 could help create a new option for startups: Exit to community. In E2C,
 the company would transition from investor ownership to ownership by the
 people who rely on it most. Those people might be users, workers,
 customers, participant organizations, or a combination of such
 stakeholder groups. The mechanism for co-ownership might be a
 cooperative, a trust, or even crypto-tokens. The community might own the
 whole company when the process is over, or just a substantial-enough
 part of it to make a difference.
 When a startup exits to community, founders should see enough of a
 reward that they feel their risk and hard work was worth it. Investors
 should see a fair return for their risk. Most importantly, the key
 stakeholders should know the company is worthy of their trust and
 ongoing investment because they co-own it. For a social-media company,
 this might mean that users have a meaningful say in how their private
 data is or isn't used. For a gig platform, it might mean that the gig
 workers co-determine their working conditions and what is done with the
 profits they produce. These kinds of outcomes could help prevent the
 massive accountability crises that now beset today's most successful
 venture-backed startups.
 One way to begin exploring E2C could be by identifying a subset of
 startups in venture capital portfolios that lie in "zombie"
 territory---somewhere between failure and exit-ready. Investor owners
 would benefit from having a new way of liquidating investments that
 would otherwise lie dormant. In some cases, the community might be in a
 position to buy the company with cash on hand---especially if it came
 back to them in later savings or profits. In other cases, E2C might be
 financed externally on the expectation of future growth, as is generally
 done for employee-ownership conversions using an Employee Stock
 Ownership Plan. Startups might also plan ahead for E2C by identifying
 particular guardrails that keep this option open as they negotiate their
 early rounds of financing. As with the ESOP---and with [the venture
 capital industry
 itself](https://logicmag.io/scale/the-unicorn-hunters/)---a targeted
 policy intervention may be necessary to make this kind of financing
 attractive enough to be feasible. These possibilities and more are the
 kinds of things I've been thinking about and would like to think about
 with others.
 Why not, you might ask, just begin these startups under community
 ownership? This is certainly an option, and it's one that I have
 enthusiastically supported through the \#PlatformCoop community and
 through co-founding the Start.coop accelerator. But getting going under
 community ownership doesn't seem like the right approach in many cases.
 Ambitious startups are a risky endeavor, and it may not be fair to
 distribute that risk with early-stage participants. Also, startups
 usually need to make a few dramatic pivots early in their life, and
 having a large community of co-owners would make those hard decisions
 more difficult than if a small, high-trust group of founders is in
 charge. Centralizing the risk and responsibility early on is a
 reasonable strategy for startups. Later, once the company has found its
 market and its footing, the transition to accountable community
 ownership will better suit the nature of the business. With E2C, we get
 the best of both worlds---the dynamic startup, then the accountable,
 sustainable public asset.
 For me, this vision came together in conversations with social
 enterprise lawyer [Jason Wiener](http://jrwiener.com/team/jason/) (who
 has participated in some exits to community), along with sources of
 inspiration that include [Zebras Unite](https://www.zebrasunite.com/),
 [Louis
 Kelso](https://osf.io/v7fe2/?view_only=2ffd750b4ba54001beb5a459d61faff0),
 [platform cooperativism](https://platform.coop/), and the
 [steward-ownership](http://steward-ownership.com/) network. Now it is
 time to bring more people into the conversation.
 Our team at the [Media Enterprise Design
 Lab](http://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/) at the University of Colorado
 Boulder is looking for collaborators on this work. This includes
 entrepreneurs, activists, investors, policy advocates, researchers, and
 more. Do you want to join us? [Let
 ](mailto:medlab@colorado.edu?subject=E2C)[us](mailto:medlab@colorado.edu?subject=E2C)[
 know](mailto:medlab@colorado.edu?subject=E2C) what you'd want your E2C
 to look like.
 *Also published at [Hacker Noon](https://hackernoon.com/startups-need-a-new-option-exit-to-community-ig12v2z73) and [The Internet of Ownership](https://ioo.coop/2019/09/startups-need-a-new-option-exit-to-community/).*
--- a/_posts/2019-09-20-unicorns-to-zebras-mara-zepeda.md
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 layout: event
 title: "The Future of Startups, from Unicorns to Zebras"
 summary: A conversation with Mara Zepeda of Zebras Unite
 tags: [internet-of-ownership, events]
 event-date: October 4, 2019
 event-time: 3 - 4:30 p.m.
 event-location: CASE building, rm. E422   
 ---
 <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/ZepedaEvent.pdf %}"><img alt="Event poster with Mara Zepeda" src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/ZepedaEvent.png %}" style="width: 100%;" /></a>
 **[See photos from the event here](https://cloud.medlab.host/s/qPo9rSdyJXQFgyi)** by Kimberly Coffin 
 Startups are increasingly looked to as the future of the economy, but their founders, their investors, and the people they chiefly serve often represent a narrow, privileged minority. Mara Zepeda is working to change that. As CEO of her own startup, Switchboard, and co-founder of the Zebras Unite network, she is opening the doors of startup finance and culture to a much broader range of founders and communities. Come for an open conversation on how to foster truly inclusive entrepreneurship.
 Coffee and snacks provided. [Please RSVP here](https://cloud.medlab.host/apps/forms/form/UqTEVdpL5gZEkcHw).
 *Hosted by the Media Enterprise Design Lab in the College of Media, Communication, and Information.*
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 ---
 layout: event
 title: "If I Only Had a Heart: Accounting for Care Work in Organizations"
 summary: Activist Stacco Troncoso introduces the Decentralized Cooperative Organization
 tags: [internet-of-ownership, events]
 event-date: November 18, 2019
 event-time: 3-4:30 p.m. Mountain Time
 event-location: CASE E422
 ---
 <img alt="Poster by Cassandra Dana" src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/TroncosoPoster.png %}" style="width:100%" />
 **[Listen to the conversation here](https://news.kgnu.org/2019/11/looks-like-new-can-business-account-for-care-work/).**
 Too often, the necessary care work that generates and sustains our lives occurs at the margins of the economy, unaccounted for and under-recognized. Spain-based activist [Stacco Troncoso](https://stacco.works/) is part of a movement to change that. Troncoso, a member of the Guerrilla Media Cooperative, is part of a collective developing a new model—the DisCO, or Distributed Cooperative Organization. It’s a set of organizational tools and practices for people who want to work together in a cooperative, commons-oriented, and feminist economic form. It’s also an alternative to the logic of blockchain-based Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, or DAOs.
 **[Register here](https://cloud.medlab.host/apps/forms/form/9ewtcuacnmye2lrz)**, and [here is a map to the CASE building on CU Boulder's campus](https://www.colorado.edu/map/?id=336#!m/347439).
 Read more about the DisCO concept at _[Hacker Noon](https://hackernoon.com/last-night-a-distributed-cooperative-organization-saved-my-life-a-brief-introduction-to-discos-4u5cv2zmn)_.
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 layout: event
 title: "Exit to Community: A New Option for Startups?"
 summary: "What if startups could transition to ownership by the people who rely on them most?"
 tags: [internet-of-ownership, events]
 event-date: December 11, 2019
 event-time: 10-11:30 a.m. Mountain Time
 event-location: Webinar
 ---
 <img alt="Pricing table for startup exit options" src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/e2c-pricingtable.png %}" style="width:100%" />
 When a startup company takes early investment, typically the expectation is that everyone is working toward one of two “exit” events: selling the company to the investor-owners of a bigger company or selling to stock-market investors in an initial public offering. What if there were a third option, an "exit to community," in which a startup transitions to ownership by the people who rely on it most?
 Those people might be users, workers, customers, participant organizations, or a combination of such stakeholder groups. The mechanism for co-ownership might be a cooperative, a trust, or even crypto-tokens. The community might own the whole company when the process is over, or just a substantial-enough part of it to make a difference. These kinds of outcomes could help prevent the accountability crises that now beset today’s most successful venture-backed startups.
 In this participatory webinar, we'll hear from entrepreneurs, investors, and activists who are working to make exit-to-community a viable option in the startup economy. We will also work together to devise some plausible pathways for how such exits might become a reality.
 <iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/exit-to-community-webinar-20191211" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>
 ## Speakers
 * Camille Canon (Purpose Network)
 * Bruno Haid (founder, Roam)
 * Scott Heiferman (founder, Meetup)
 * Arielle Jordan (founder, Curafied)
 * Jonathan Moore (founder, RowdyOrb.it)
 * Modupe Odele (attorney, Tiphub)
 * Mara Zepeda (founder, Switchboard and Zebras Unite)
 ## Read more
 * "[Startups Need a New Option: Exit to Community](https://hackernoon.com/startups-need-a-new-option-exit-to-community-ig12v2z73)," *Hacker Noon* (September 16, 2019)
 * "[Meetup to the People: How a Zebra could Rise from a Unicorn’s Fall](https://medium.com/@sexandstartups/meetup-to-the-people-how-a-zebra-could-rise-from-a-unicorns-fall-cfa93d83bcdc)," @sexandstartups on Medium (November 5, 2019)
 *Hosted by the [Media Enterprise Design Lab](http://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/) at the University of Colorado Boulder and [Zebras Unite](https://www.zebrasunite.com/), with support from the Open Society Foundations, which are not responsible for the content.*
 <img alt="Zebras Unite" src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/zebras_unite_logo.jpg %}" style="width:100%" />
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 ---
 layout: post
 author: Cassandra Dana
 title: "The Quiet Media Revolution in Longmont"
 summary: 'Many in Longmont are excited to be pioneering their own model for public
 access television.'
 tags: [stakeholder-news, shared-ownership-in-colorado]
 ---
 When the *Longmont Observer* responded to a request-for-proposals for control over the
 city's public access channels, the team wasn't sure they'd win. The contract
 had been held by another organization for over 30 years, and most
 assumed it was unlikely to change hands. But the *Observer* presented an
 unusual idea, one that sparked imaginations by proposing to reconfigure
 notions of media ownership.
 If you walk into one of Longmont Public Media's community organizing meetings, you'll find 20 to 30
 enthusiastic individuals happy to greet you and excited to work. Longmont Public Media is the *Observer*'s new public
 access branch. The energy of this eclectic group is palpable.
 Many in Longmont are excited to be pioneering their own model for public
 access television.
 The notion of public access television was devised in the late 1960s and
 early 1970s. In the era of the first televised war, NBC, CBS and ABC
 controlled broadcast coverage of the cultural, political and social
 conflict. They depicted the gruesome fighting overseas and the civil
 unrest here in the United States. The effects were extraordinary. Screen
 media began to have a major influence on public policy and mass
 upheaval. TV began to be seen as a uniquely powerful force, one that was
 dictated by commercial broadcast networks. Recognizing the power of the
 medium, counterculture movements and media scholars began to advocate
 for what was referred to as "[Guerrilla Television](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_television)." Michael Shamberg
 pioneered the term in 1971, stating, "Guerrilla Television is grassroots
 television. It works with the people, not from above them."
 Recognizing the importance of community driven media, the FCC developed
 regulations authorizing state and local governments to require cable
 television networks to set aside channels for public access. Cable
 companies entered franchise agreements with municipalities in which
 access to infrastructure——telephone poles, sidewalks, etc.——was granted
 in exchange for 5 percent of companies' gross revenue. This franchise
 fee was paid to the city, which often reinvested this money into public
 access. Initially many local municipalities adopted this model, granting
 community members access to production and distribution methods.
 However, as pressure for public access decreased and many municipalities
 began experiencing increased financial burdens, funding for public
 access became less feasible. Some communities shut down public access
 channels entirely, while others limited them to local legislative
 proceedings. Public access shifted from a place where community members
 could develop skills and exhibit ideas to a droning of traffic court and
 city council hearings.
 To complicate the matter further, in August 2019 the FCC approved an
 amendment to their 1970s regulation. The change in legislation allows
 cable companies to deduct "in-kind provisions" from their franchise
 fees. This means cable companies can now assert that the market value of
 public access networks is deductible from
 the revenue they pay to the municipalities. In 2017 Longmont allocated
 25 percent of the franchise fees collected from Comcast (or \$187,924)
 to public access television. [According to the _Colorado Sun_](https://coloradosun.com/2019/02/11/cable-franchise-fee-limit-public-access-channels/), that is
 enough funding to cover one full-time employee and two part-time
 employees. The diminishment of franchise fees will seriously impact
 the ability of cities and states to maintain public access television.
 The president of Rocky Mountain PBS told the _Colorado Sun_, "Going from
 having franchise fees to not having them, typically what happens in that
 case is the public access goes away." It's clear that new models must be
 developed in order to maintain public access.
 Longmont Public Media has taken on the challenge of innovating public
 access. Its founders have suggested that public access television can truly
 function as it was intended, as a resource created for and by the
 masses. They have proposed a cooperative model of media ownership in
 which members pay a small fee and in exchange can produce and exhibit
 their work. The studio that houses Longmont Public Access will be
 transformed into a media makerspace, serving as a venue for community
 members to create, collaborate, share infrastructure and distribute
 work. Each member of the co-op contributes to ideas around governance,
 programming, events and space utilization. As Michael Shamberg explained
 when he was proposing public access, "The inherent potential of
 information technology can restore democracy in America if people become
 skilled with information tools."
 This is not Longmont's first foray into municipal ownership of community
 media. In 2014 Longmont launched NextLight, a municipally owned
 broadband enterprise. NextLight has dethroned Google Fiber as the
 fastest fiber-optic network, and it is now a national model for publicly
 owned internet access. Five years later, Longmont is building on this
 precedent through the creation of Longmont Public Media.
 When Longmont Public Media asked MEDLab to get involved——to help
 formulate this model of cooperative public access——I knew it was an
 opportunity not to be missed. Thursday nights have become one of my
 favorite parts of the week, when I slide past the local middle school
 choir and the couples quietly nestled sipping lattes to the back room of
 the local coffee shop, where we work to revolutionize media ownership.
--- a/_posts/2020-01-10-exit-to-community-legal-options-webinar.md
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 ---
 layout: event
 title: "Exit to Community: Legal Options"
 summary: "Expect to come away with actionable tools for engineering your own E2C"
 tags: [internet-of-ownership, events]
 event-date: January 24, 2020
 event-time: 10-11:00 a.m. Mountain Time
 event-location: Webinar
 ---
 <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/e2c/000124_Webinar_web.png %}"><img alt="Graphic recording of the session by Sita Magnuson of Dpict." src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/e2c/000124_Webinar_web.png %}" style="width:100%" /></a>
 <em>Graphic recording of the session by Sita Magnuson of Dpict. <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/e2c/000124_Webinar_print.jpg %}">Download the print version here</a>.</em>
 A growing network of entrepreneurs, activists, and investors are exploring the possibility of "exit to community"—enabling startups to transition toward ownership by their core stakeholders. There are a variety of possible pathways toward this goal, as well as a variety of challenges that stand in the way. Both the pathways and challenges depend on the underlying law.
 In this webinar, three pioneering legal experts will share the strategies they have been developing for enabling various forms of exit to community. We will leave most of the time for a facilitated discussion based on questions from webinar participants. Expect to come away with actionable tools for engineering your own E2C.
 <iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/exit_to_community-legal_options" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>
 ## Speakers
 * Camille Kerr (Upside Down Consulting)
 * Morshed Mannan (Leiden Law School)
 * Jason Wiener (jason wiener \| p.c.)
 ## Resources
 * “[Startups Need a New Option: Exit to Community](https://hackernoon.com/startups-need-a-new-option-exit-to-community-ig12v2z73),” *Hacker Noon* (September 16, 2019)
 * "[Exit to Community: A New Option for Startups?](https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2019/12/01/exit-to-community-webinar.html)," MEDLab webinar (December 11, 2019)
 * “[Meetup to the People: How a Zebra could Rise from a Unicorn’s Fall](https://medium.com/@sexandstartups/meetup-to-the-people-how-a-zebra-could-rise-from-a-unicorns-fall-cfa93d83bcdc),” @sexandstartups on Medium (November 5, 2019)
 * "[Conversion to Accountability: Strategies for Multi-Stakeholder Ownership in the Platform Economy,](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SFUklZmxDHVKU-fXlXc8C5JDmPuAJU9CN7Oklgjghck/edit#heading=h.mih5fqhxywjl)" working draft
 *Hosted by the [Media Enterprise Design Lab](http://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/) at the University of Colorado Boulder and [Zebras Unite](https://www.zebrasunite.com/), with support from the Open Society Foundations, which are not responsible for the content.*
 <img alt="Zebras Unite" src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/zebras_unite_logo.jpg %}" style="width:100%" />
--- a/_posts/2020-01-13-alt-startup.md
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 ---
 layout: event
 title: "Alt-Startup: Intro to Nonprofits and Community Ownership"
 summary: "A workshop for New Venture Challenge participants"
 tags: [events]
 event-date: January 22, 2020
 event-time: 3-5 p.m. Mountain Time
 event-location: Center for Academic Success and Engagement (CASE), E422
 ---
 How can you anchor your startup to a social mission? How can you make it accountable long-term to the communities it is meant to serve? This session, led by members of CMCI's Media Enterprise Design Lab, introduces several strategies for protecting social enterprise, including nonprofits, benefit corporations and cooperatives.
 **[Register here](https://calendar.colorado.edu/event/alt-startup_intro_to_nonprofits_and_community_ownership).**
--- a/_posts/2020-01-15-coleman-alt-right-anonymous.md
+++ b/_posts/2020-01-15-coleman-alt-right-anonymous.md
@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
 ---
 layout: event
 title: "Alt Right vs. Anonymous: A Critical Comparison - with Gabriella Coleman"
 summary: "Hear from a leading anthropologist of digital cultures"
 tags: [events]
 event-date: February 6, 2020
 event-time: 5:00-6:30 p.m. Mountain Time
 event-location: Hale Sciences 270
 ---
 **[RSVP here](https://cloud.medlab.host/apps/forms/form/W2jfW1xNsdcMGS2w).**
 <img alt="Anonymous logo, via Wikimedia Commons" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Anonymous_emblem.svg/480px-Anonymous_emblem.svg.png" style="width:40%; padding: 0 0 10 10;" align="right" />Today’s “Alt Right” or “Far Right” is a loose coalition of Internet trolls, White nationalists, men’s rights activists, game enthusiasts, and others. They have become a subject of intense scrutiny for their shrewd use of digital communications to recruit new participants, manipulate the news narrative, and nurture a political movement in support of the Trump presidency and its policies. Some critics compare this movement to one that emerged six years ago: Anonymous—the hacktivist collective that captured news headlines for its computer hacking sprees, vigilante justice operations, and support of social movements like Occupy and the Arab Spring. Coleman argues that these are two very different movements, notwithstanding that both emerge from habits of Internet trolling and transgression. She will compare Anonymous to the Alt Right, honing in on their origins, methods, tactics, and modes of recruitment, highlighting substantial differences and making the broader case for careful historical analysis in media studies work on virtual domains. The very classification of such disparate movements as “Internet activism” fails to capture the dynamics and importance of online tools for political movements today.
 Gabriella (Biella) Coleman holds the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy [at McGill University.](http://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/people-contacts/faculty/gabriella-coleman) Trained as an anthropologist, her scholarship [covers the politics, cultures, and ethics of hacking](https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/688697). She is the author of two books on computer hackers and the founder and editor of [Hack_Curio](https://hackcur.io/), a video portal into the cultures of hacking. Her first book [Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking](http://www.amazon.com/Coding-Freedom-Ethics-Aesthetics-Hacking/dp/0691144613/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1419086140&sr=8-1&keywords=Coding+Freedom) was published in 2013 with Princeton University Press. She then published [Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous](http://www.versobooks.com/books/1749-hacker-hoaxer-whistleblower-spy) (Verso, 2014), which was named to [Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2014](https://www.kirkusreviews.com/lists/best-current-affairs-books-2014/hacker-hoaxer-whistleblower-spy/) and was awarded the [Diana Forsythe Prize by the American Anthropological Association](http://blog.castac.org/2015/10/2015-forsythe/). Committed to public ethnography, she routinely presents her work to [diverse audiences](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8mtG4oMzLs), teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, and has written for popular media outlets, including the New York Times, Slate, Wired, MIT Technology Review, Huffington Post, and the Atlantic. She sits on the board of [The Tor Project](https://www.torproject.org/).
 [Hale Sciences 270](https://www.colorado.edu/map/?id=336#!m/193879)    
 1350 Pleasant Street    
 Boulder, CO 80302
 *Presented by the Department of Media Studies and the Media Enterprise Design Lab.*
 **[RSVP here](https://cloud.medlab.host/apps/forms/form/W2jfW1xNsdcMGS2w).**
--- a/_posts/2020-02-27-exit-to-community-culture-webinar.md
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@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
 ---
 layout: event
 title: "Exit to Community: Community Culture"
 summary: "Learn about community culture from two specialists in digital organizing"
 tags: [internet-of-ownership, events]
 event-date: March 6, 2020
 event-time: 10-11:00 a.m. Mountain Time
 event-location: Webinar
 ---
 How can startups create truly empowered communities? A growing network of entrepreneurs, organizers, and investors is exploring the idea of “Exit to Community”—enabling startups to transition toward ownership by their core stakeholders. There are many possible pathways towards this goal, as well as many challenges along the way. But one way or another, community ownership depends on community culture.
 In this webinar, we will learn about community culture from two specialists in online communities and digital organizing. We’ll talk about why community stakeholders are the toughest customers, how to engage them in building power, and what the key tensions are around governance, control, and making things work. After brief presentations, we’ll dedicate most of our time to a facilitated discussion based on questions from webinar participants. Expect to come away with strategies for your own Exit to Community.
 **[RSVP here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DCiVv9HdYDZi1CFs9Ypo-uQR6jmiieiUeplZHFBB2ZY/viewform) to share your questions about community culture.**
 ## Speakers
 * Carrie Melissa Jones ([Gather Community Consulting](https://www.gathercommunityconsulting.com/))
 * Ari Trujillo-Wesler ([OpenField](https://openfield.ai/))
 ## Resources
 * “[Startups Need a New Option: Exit to Community](https://hackernoon.com/startups-need-a-new-option-exit-to-community-ig12v2z73),” *Hacker Noon* (September 16, 2019)
 * “[Instead of IPOs and Acquisitions, Exiting to Community Is One Alternative](https://cloud.medlab.host/s/ACcHwG5TodRwxdL),” TechCrunch (February 25, 2020)
 * "[Exit to Community: A New Option for Startups?](https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2019/12/01/exit-to-community-webinar.html)," MEDLab webinar (December 11, 2019)
 * “[Meetup to the People: How a Zebra could Rise from a Unicorn’s Fall](https://medium.com/@sexandstartups/meetup-to-the-people-how-a-zebra-could-rise-from-a-unicorns-fall-cfa93d83bcdc),” @sexandstartups on Medium (November 5, 2019)
 * "[Conversion to Accountability: Strategies for Multi-Stakeholder Ownership in the Platform Economy,](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SFUklZmxDHVKU-fXlXc8C5JDmPuAJU9CN7Oklgjghck/edit#heading=h.mih5fqhxywjl)" working draft
 *Organized by Danny Spitzberg, community fellow with the Media Enterprise Design Lab @ CU Boulder, in partnership with Zebras Unite, and with support from the Open Society Foundations (which are not responsible for the content).*
 <img alt="Zebras Unite" src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/zebras_unite_logo.jpg %}" style="width:100%" />
--- a/_projects/collab-gov.md
+++ b/_projects/collab-gov.md
@ -5,15 +5,12 @@ slug: collab-gov
 summary: Exploring leading-edge democratic governance and leadership, especially through digital tools
 ---
-We are conducting consulting, convening and research on leading-edge democratic governance and leadership, especially through digital tools.
+Through 2019, we are conducting consulting, convening and research on leading-edge democratic governance and leadership, especially through digital tools.
 ## Publications
 * [CommunityRule](https://medlabboulder.gitlab.io/communityrule/), "a governance toolkit for great communities"
 * [Democratic Mediums](https://medlabboulder.gitlab.io/democraticmediums/), "a directory of patterns for decision, deliberation, and noise"
 * Nathan Schneider, "[Admins, Mods, and Benevolent Dictators for Life: The Implicit Feudalism of Online Communities](https://nathanschneider.info/implicit-feudalism)"
 ## Collaborators
 * [Action Network](https://actionnetwork.org/)
 * [Metagovernance Project](http://metagov.org/)
--- a/_projects/internet-of-ownership.md
+++ b/_projects/internet-of-ownership.md
@ -2,27 +2,23 @@
 layout: project
 title: Internet of Ownership
 slug: internet-of-ownership
-summary: Supporting an ecosystem for democratic business in the online economy
+summary: Supporting an ecosystem for cooperative business in the online economy
 ---
 Since [reporting on](https://www.shareable.net/blog/owning-is-the-new-sharing) an emerging interest in ownership among tech entrepreneurs in 2014 and co-organizing the first "[platform cooperativism](https://platform.coop/)" conference with Trebor Scholz at the New School in 2015, MEDLab director Nathan Schneider has been active in organizing and documenting this growing movement aiming to build an ecosystem for cooperative business in the online economy.
 MEDLab has focused on developing the concept of "exit to community" (E2C), a set of narratives and strategies to re-orient the startup economy toward community ownership and accountability.
 *Supported by fellowships from the Open Society Foundations and Rutgers University's [Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing](https://smlr.rutgers.edu/content/institute-study-employee-ownership-and-profit-sharing).*
 ## Publications
 * [The Internet of Ownership](https://ioo.coop/), a resource-sharing network that includes a directory of the platform co-op ecosystem
 * Morshed Mannan and Nathan Schneider, "[Conversion to Accountability: Strategies for Multi-Stakeholder Ownership in the Platform Economy](https://nathanschneider.info/conversion-strategies)"
 * Nathan Schneider and Jason Wiener, "[Exit to Co-op](/medlab/assets/exit_to_co-op.html)," concept slide deck (2017)
 * Nathan Schneider, "[VirtualCoop](/medlab/assets/VirtualCoop.pdf)," concept whitepaper (2018)
 * Nathan Schneider, _Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition that Is Shaping the Next Economy_ (Nation Books, 2018)
 * Nathan Schneider, "[An Internet of Ownership: Democratic Design for the Online Economy](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0038026118758533)," _The Sociological Review_ 66, no. 2 (March 2018)
 * Nathan Schneider, "[Startups Need a New Option: Exit to Community](https://hackernoon.com/startups-need-a-new-option-exit-to-community-ig12v2z73)
 * Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider (eds.), _Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet_ (OR Books, 2016)
 ## Collaborators
 * [Curafied](https://curafied.com/)
 * [Sarapis](https://sarapis.org/)
 * [Zebras Unite](https://zebrasunite.com)
--- a/_projects/stakeholder-news.md
+++ b/_projects/stakeholder-news.md
@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ In collaboration with pioneering publications, we are exploring how democratic s
 ## Publications
 * "[_Colorado Sun_ Benefit Corporation Evaluation](/medlab/assets/SunEval-2019.pdf)," Media Enterprise Design Lab (August 2019)
 * Nathan Schneider, "[Broad-Based Stakeholder Ownership in Journalism: A Legacy and a Strategy](https://osf.io/g4e6t/?view_only=e9cb90e1f67c4aaab97666b213c75d75)" (working draft)
 ## Related
--- a/about.md
+++ b/about.md
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 ### Director
-<img alt="Nathan Schneider" src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/nathan_schneider.png %}" style="float:left; width: 200px; padding: 0 10px 10px 0px;" /> **[Nathan Schneider](https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/media-studies/nathan-schneider)** (assistant professor, Media Studies) works at the intersections of technology and social change, particularly in efforts to develop more democratic business models for the online economy. He is the author of three books, most recently _[Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy](https://nathanschneider.info/e4e)_, and he co-edited _[Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet](https://nathanschneider.info/books/books/ours-to-hack/)_. His articles have appeared in publications such as _Harper's_, _The Nation_, _The Guardian_, _Vice_ and _The Catholic Worker_. Find more information at [nathanschneider.info](https://nathanschneider.info/).
+<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/nathan_schneider.png %}" style="float:left; width: 200px; padding: 0 10px 10px 0px;" /> **[Nathan Schneider](https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/media-studies/nathan-schneider)** (assistant professor, Media Studies) is a journalist who works at the intersections of technology and social change. He co-organized the New School in 2015, Platform Cooperativism, and has been a leader in efforts to develop more democratic business models for the online economy. He is the author of three books, most recently _[Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy](https://nathanschneider.info/e4e)_, and he co-edited _[Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet](https://nathanschneider.info/books/books/ours-to-hack/)_ with Trebor Scholz. His articles have appeared in publications such as _Harper's_, _The Nation_, _The Guardian_, _Vice_ and _The Catholic Worker_. Find more information at [nathanschneider.info](https://nathanschneider.info/).
 ### Research fellows
-<img alt="Boushra Batlouni" src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/boushra_batlouni.jpg %}" style="float:left; width: 200px; padding: 0 10px 10px 0px;" />**[Boushra Batlouni](https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/graduate-students/media-studies/boushra-batlouni)** (PhD student, Media Studies) wants to investigate the intersections between global startup culture and mediated narratives of innovation and success. She is interested in the structures and rituals that emergent technologies impose upon us, and how they shape our capacities for imagining different futures. She is also fascinated by the role that basic, and particularly base, human emotions can play in constructing and designing potentials to instigate positive change.
+<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/laura_daley.jpg %}" style="float:left; width: 200px; padding: 0 10px 10px 0px;" />**[Laura Daley](https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/graduate-students/media-studies/laura-daley)** (MA student, Media and Public Engagement) is a digital arts scholar with a strong interest in the politicization of health, particularly for women and marginalized groups, and its relationship with media. With a passion for creative video production and an eye toward social justice, she hopes to create impact-driven media that challenge traditional power structures. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Writing, Rhetoric, & Communication and Spanish Language & Literature from Transylvania University in Lexington, KY.
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-<img alt="Laura Daley" src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/laura_daley.jpg %}" style="float:left; width: 200px; padding: 0 10px 10px 0px;" />**[Laura Daley](https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/graduate-students/media-studies/laura-daley)** (MA student, Media and Public Engagement) is a digital arts scholar with a strong interest in the politicization of health, particularly for women and marginalized groups, and its relationship with media. With a passion for creative video production and an eye toward social justice, she hopes to create impact-driven media that challenge traditional power structures. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Writing, Rhetoric, & Communication and Spanish Language & Literature from Transylvania University in Lexington, KY.
+<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/cassandra_dana.jpg %}" style="float:left; width: 200px; padding: 0 10px 10px 0px;" />**[Cassandra Dana](https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/graduate-students/media-studies/cassandra-dana)** (MA student, Media and Public Engagement) is passionate about creating exhibition opportunities for media that features traditionally underrepresented populations. Prior to beginning her degree Cassandra worked as the Production and Marketing Manager for the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival, and as a Marketing and Public Relations Coordinator in Providence, Rhode Island. Cassandra’s interests include queer theory, gender representation and media’s role in norm evolution. Cassandra holds a BA in sociology and film studies from the University of Colorado. 
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-<img alt="Cassandra Dana" src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/cassandra_dana.jpg %}" style="float:left; width: 200px; padding: 0 10px 10px 0px;" />**[Cassandra Dana](https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/graduate-students/media-studies/cassandra-dana)** (MA student, Media and Public Engagement) is passionate about creating exhibition opportunities for media that features traditionally underrepresented populations. Prior to beginning her degree Cassandra worked as the Production and Marketing Manager for the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival, and as a Marketing and Public Relations Coordinator in Providence, Rhode Island. Cassandra’s interests include queer theory, gender representation and media’s role in norm evolution. Cassandra holds a BA in sociology and film studies from the University of Colorado. 
+<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/mark_fairbrother.jpg %}" style="float:left; width: 200px; padding: 0 10px 10px 0px;" />**[Mark Fairbrother](https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/graduate-students/media-studies/mark-fairbrother)** (MA student, Media and Public Engagement) aims to build media productions and products that challenge injustice, promote civil dialogue, and inspire collective action. His interests include entertainment media, dynamic education, and sustainable development throughout the Americas. Prior to his graduate work, he enjoyed lengthy stints in Latin America (y por eso sí habla español). He holds a bachelor’s degree in public relations and leadership from Central Michigan University.
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-<img alt="Mark Fairbrother" src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/mark_fairbrother.jpg %}" style="float:left; width: 200px; padding: 0 10px 10px 0px;" />**[Mark Fairbrother](https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/graduate-students/media-studies/mark-fairbrother)** (MA student, Media and Public Engagement) aims to build media productions and products that challenge injustice, promote civil dialogue, and inspire collective action. His interests include entertainment media, dynamic education, and sustainable development throughout the Americas. Prior to his graduate work, he enjoyed lengthy stints in Latin America (y por eso sí habla español). He holds a bachelor’s degree in public relations and leadership from Central Michigan University.
+**Brady McDonough**
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 <img alt="Brady McDonough" src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/brady_mcdonough.jpg %}" style="float:left; width: 200px; padding: 0 10px 10px 0px;" />**[Brady McDonough](https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/graduate-students/media-studies/brady_mcdonough)** (MA student, Media and Public Engagement) is interested in media representation of the Queer community in both niche and mainstream markets combined with the development of Queer culture and economy on a societal scale. His undergraduate work focused on subcultural appropriation of normative characters and symbols and performative sexuality. Aside from a service-based career, Brady also worked in radio, finance, and gender equity during his undergraduate experience. Brady holds a BA in Communications – Media Studies, Global Studies from the University of Wisconsin – Superior.
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 <img alt="R. M. Shea" src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/ryan_shea.png %}" style="float:left; width: 200px; padding: 0 10px 10px 0px;" />**[Ryan Shea](https://shea.cool/)** (undergraduate student, Computer Science) is interested in startups and new technologies. He has interned at local blockchain companies in Colorado and has organized events in the Boulder entrepreneurial community. When he's not behind a screen, you can find him on the ski slopes or looking into a camera.
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 ### Faculty fellows
-* **[Lori Emerson](https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/iawp/lori-emerson)** (associate professor, English and Intermedia Arts, Writing, and Performance; founding director of the [Media Archaeology Lab](https://mediaarchaeologylab.com/))
+* **[Lori Emerson](https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/iawp/lori-emerson)** - Associate professor of English and Intermedia Arts, Writing, and Performance, founding director of the [Media Archaeology Lab](https://mediaarchaeologylab.com/)
-* **[Casey Fiesler](https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/information-science/casey-fiesler)** (assistant professor, Information Science)
+* **[Steven Frost](https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/media-studies/steven-frost)** - Instructor of Media Studies and host of the [Colorado Sewing Rebellion](https://www.stevenfrost.com/portfolio/colorado-sewing-rebellion/)
-* **[Jolene Fisher](https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/advertising-public-relations-and-media-design/jolene-fisher)** (assistant professor, Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design)
+* **[Mark Meaney](https://www.colorado.edu/business/mark-meaney)** - Executive director of the [Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility](https://www.colorado.edu/business/CESR/)
 * **[Steven Frost](https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/media-studies/steven-frost)** (instructor, Media Studies; host of [Colorado Sewing Rebellion](https://www.stevenfrost.com/portfolio/colorado-sewing-rebellion/))
 * **[Tim Kuhn](https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/communication/timothy-kuhn)** (associate professor, Communication)
 * **[Christine Larson](https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/journalism/christine-larson)** (assistant professor, Journalism)
 * **[Mark Meaney](https://www.colorado.edu/business/mark-meaney)** - (executive director, [Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility](https://www.colorado.edu/business/CESR/))
 ### Community fellows
-* **[Danny Spitzberg](https://twitter.com/daspitzberg/)** (user researcher for a cooperative economy)
+* **[Cadwell Turnbull](https://cadwellturnbull.com/)** - Speculative writer and grassroots activist, author of _The Lesson_
-* **[Cadwell Turnbull](https://cadwellturnbull.com/)** (speculative writer and grassroots activist, author of _The Lesson_)
+* **[Jason Wiener](http://jrwiener.com/team/jason/)** - President, Jason Wiener\|p.c.
 * **[Jason Wiener](https://jrwiener.com/team/jason/)** (president, Jason Wiener\|p.c.)
 * **[Mara Zepeda](https://www.marazepeda.com/)** (founder, Switchboard and Zebras Unite)
 ### Alumni
 Katy Fetters (founder, [#CPSTRONG](https://cerebralpalsystrong.com/)) <!--use commas to separate subsequent entries-->
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-![Drawing by Jasmine Albuquerque]({{ site.baseurl }}{% link assets/albuquerque.png %})
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 <small><em><a style="float:right;" href="https://jasminealbuquerque.com/Fine-Art">Jasmine Albuquerque</a></em></small>