CINELEARN CORE TEAM
Founder Maria Marewski has become an expert in designing learning experiences that range from film courses at Vassar College, University of Maryland and Hunter College to animation workshops for 4th graders, to the MacArthur Foundation funded Talking Walls program for urban and rural youth, from Smokescreens, an anti-tobacco media literacy textbook, to the Community Fellows program at Vassar College. These learning experiences are grounded in youth development practices, positive psychology, and the neuroscience of learning.
Marewski began as a filmmaker and founded a non-profit film and media arts education organization (now the Art Effect) that used filmmaking as a youth development and community enrichment tool. In this capacity, Marewski has worked with many populations from learners to teachers, from elementary to high schools, to community groups, to local colleges, to libraries, and to international conferences. She has served on panels, presented at conferences, and collaborated with many communities and educational institutions.
Marewski has produced award-winning youth-oriented educational products including: Smokescreens: From Tobacco Outrage to Media Activism Media Literacy Textbook and User’s Guide, funded by the Dutchess County Health Department; Please Stand Up an interactive anti-school-bullying CD-ROM, funded by New York State; He Said, She Said, Sexual Assault and Violence Prevention, in collaboration with Vassar College and funded by the U.S. Department of Justice; Shadowhood: a Hero’s Journey film and youth development curriculum funded by the New York State Department of Labor.
“What I have learned is that film has the ability to engage students deeply. Not only are images the language of this generation, the process of decoding, creating, and sharing in this language can be deeply transformative”. mariamarewski.com/portfolio
Core Team
Nicholas Riley, , Developer and Product Manager, complex problem solver extraordinaire, has been Senior Developer and Product Manager at JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) since 2014 where he was responsible for:
• Front-end and back-end projects related to new features, redesigns, browser and mobile compatibility, and maintenance for www.jove.com, a site serving thousands of videos to universities globally using PHP, JavaScript (vanilla and jQuery) and MySQL as well as 3rd party APIs for Salesforce, Pardot, SendGrid, and Google all on a custom MVC.
• Wireframing, specifications, design documentation, development and overall planning of major projects for team development
• Responsible for developing and maintaining a custom CRM tool managing millions of leads and sending thousands of targeted emails weekly using SendGrid and MailChimp.
• Update and maintain a custom portal that allows scientific articles to be edited and published, user accounts maintained, and permissions set for tools used across the company.
• Write web scrapers that gather abstracts for millions of scientific articles using PHP and xml, store results in multiple MySQL databases across a dozen servers, and display in a searchable front end written in PHP and HTML5.
• Update and maintain mobile version of jove.com written using Node.js and Backbone.js, as well as the related API’s using PHP and MySQL.
Riley was also Senior Developer at hibu, a leading company in the fields of IYP, SEO, online commerce and reputation management. In this capacity he:
• Designed and developed ui for various innovative projects using HTML5, Javascript(ext.js, prototype, yiu) and CSS, resulting in new product offerings for existing and new customers
• Created design elements for cross-platform mobile and tablet applications.
• Lead and managed international teams of 2-10 engineers and analysts in the development of products for analytics, consumers and small businesses.
• Produced wireframes and workflows for design and functional documentation.
• Responsible for frontend development for a multi-million dollar SEO platform
Rebecca Carr, a PhD graduate in Cultural Studies, lectures at Trinity College Dublin. She teaches students from disadvantaged secondary schools in film literacy and cultural studies through the Trinity Access Programme and Access Ed-Scholars Ireland. Carr is dedicated to bridging the public and academic communities by using film as a tool to understand events and has presented on the topic nationally and internationally.
Sam Pender is a video editor who also specializes in motion graphics. He moved to Boston in 2011, and in 2013 spent some time working at ABCD (Action for Boston Community Development), an anti-poverty organization. Sam has been working on the CinemaTec project since 2018
Anne Continelli is a documentary filmmaker and video professional with over two decades of experience in video education. She is a Team Leader and Senior Animator at JoVE, inc, working in their Science Education Department, where she works with writers, storyboarders, and project managers to create engaging videos that clarify complex scientific concepts through dynamic animations. She was a math and science writer for the Denali Project, an educational software company that utilized storytelling and video as supplemental learning for elementary and middle school children.
Sheryl Conkelton is an art historian, curator, and writer based in Houston, focused on media and photography. She has organized numerous exhibitions and has published widely, authoring numerous books. She was director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at Tyler School of Art, Temple University and held senior curatorial positions at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; and the LA County Museum of Art.
She has contributed to journals, exhibition catalogues and other publications and lectures. She taught at University of Houston; Moore College of Art and Design; University of Washington; UCLA; and California State University, LA. Awards include grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the NEA, the Peter Norton Family Foundation, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France.
Sarah Hanssen is Associate Professor of Film at CUNY Bronx Community College where she is also the Faculty Advisor to the Bronx Community College Film Society. Her writing has been published in The Projector: A Journal on Film, Media, and Culture, Community College Journal of Research and Practice, and The Curator.
Professor Hanssen is the Faculty Advisor to the recently created Bronx Community College Film Society. Her research and teaching interests are Digital Film and Video Production, Digital Film and Video Editing, World Cinema. Professor Hanssen holds a M.F.A. in Film from Massachusetts College of Art.
Claire Winthrop is Global Customer Success Director for online content and tools with:
• 12 years providing online solution sales management consulting;
• a track record of significant revenue growth;
• expertise in building strategic solutions to multi-layer technical challenges;
• thorough understanding of learning management systems and CRMs, effective with key internal stakeholders, partners and external channels;
• focus on KPIs, improving sales revenue and cash flow;
• and is driven by the voice of the customer, mission and team achievement.
Her specialties: Designing customer retention and growth plans. Leveraging systems, negotiation, training, coaching and mentoring skill to exceed goals and establishing external partnerships and strengthening collaborative programs.
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