Vita

Updated Sept. 16th 2010

Education

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA , Chapel Hill, NC
Ph.D., Mass Communication, 2001
Certificate in Cultural Studies
Dissertation: Micro-Radio and the FCC: Media Activism and the Struggle Over Broadcast Policy .

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON , Eugene, OR
M.S., Communication, 1998
Thesis Project: Dr. Shipsey and the Cows: Searching for Solutions. A 30-minute video documentary.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY , Cambridge , MA
B.A., Cum Laude, Anthropology 1986
Honors Thesis: Speaking Without Tongues: Tradition, Technology and the Talking Drum of the Yoruba.

Academic Appointments & Teaching

Associate Professor, Florida State University, Fall 2001 to present

Area Head, Media Production Program, January 2005 to present
Taught undergraduate video production courses

Taught graduate seminars

Teaching Assistant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Sept 1998 to May 2000 Taught undergraduate video production labs

Teaching Assistant, University of Oregon, Sept 1996 to May 1998
Taught undergraduate video production skills

Books

Elmer, Greg & Opel, Andy (2008) Preempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future. Arbeiter Ring Press. More Information...

Opel, Andy. (2004). Micro Radio and the FCC: Media Activism and the Struggle Over Broadcast Policy. Praeger Press. More Information...

Opel, Andy & Pompper, Donnalyn, Eds. (2003). Representing Resistance: Media, Civil Disobedience and the Global Justice Movement. Praeger Press. More Information...

Refereed Publications

Proffitt, Jennifer; Opel, A.; Gaccione, J. (2009). Taking Root in the Sunshine State: The Emergence of the Media Reform Movement in the State of Florida. Journal of Communication Inquiry. 33(4), pp 318-336

Opel, Andy. (2008). From Water Crisis to Water Culture: An Interview with Vandana Shiva. Cultural Studies. 22(3-4), pp 497-507

Opel, Andy. (2006). Corporate Culture Keeps Nature Regular: Super-Citizens, Media and the 'Metamucil and Old Faithful' Ad. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 17(3), pp. 100-113.

Elmer, Greg & Opel, A. (2006). Surviving the Inevitable Future: Preemption in the Age of Faulty Intelligence. Cultural Studies. 20(4-5), pp. 477-492.

Opel, Andy & Templin, Rich. (2005). Is Anybody Reading This? Indymedia and Internet Traffic Reports, Transformations, 10, special issue on alternative media. Read Article Online.

Opel, Andy. (2005). Paradise Lost I & II: Documentary, Gothic and the Monster of Justice. Jump Cut, 47. *Reprinted and Translated into Greek, Program for the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (2008) Read Article Online.

Opel, Andy & Smith, Jason. (2004). ZooTycoon: Capitalism, Nature and the Pursuit of Happiness. Ethics and the Environment, 9(2).

Opel, Andy . (2002). Monopoly, The National Parks Edition: Reading Neo-Liberal Simulacra. Book chapter in Enviropop: Studies in Environmental Rhetoric and Popular Culture, Ed. by Mark Meister and Phyllis Japp. Greenwood Press.

Opel, Andy. (1999, Winter). Constructing Purity: Bottled Water and The Commodification of Nature Journal of American Culture, 22(4) Winter 1999. * Reprinted (2008) in Cultural Studies: An Anthology, M. Ryan Ed., Blackwell Publishing

Multi-Media Products

Opel, Andy. (In Production). BEATING JUSTICE: The Martin Lee Anderson Story. A one hour documentary about a 14-year old boy who was beaten and died in a Florida sheriff’s “boot camp.”

Gardner, Paula and Opel, Andy. (In Production). Eyes That Don’t See, Hearts That Don’t Feel. One hour documentary profiling survivors of torture who have resettled in the U.S. Produced in cooperation with the Center for the Advancement of Human Rights at FSU and Florida Center for the Survivors of Torture. View Video Clip.

Opel, Andy and Galloway, Terry. (2009). Tough. 16 minute video collage of performance art piece by Terry Galloway, Produced and Directed by T. Galloway, D. Nudd and A. Opel. Video Production by Opel. To be included in a DVD companion to the book Gay Shame, edited by David Halperin and Valerie Traub, University of Chicago Press. **Refereed** View video clip.

Opel, Andy (2008). 9 Sustainability Public Service Announcements. Grant funded project including student collaborators. Short pieces that promote sustainability on FSU Campus. View videos.

Opel, Andy. (2006). The Cargo Bike. 30 Minute narrative video in the Eco-Horror Genre.

Opel, Andy & Ellison, Amy. (2003). Precogs and Preemption: Minority Report and The Bush Doctrine. An 8 minute video (de) construction. View video.
Competitive Screenings:

●Florida State University Literature and Film Conference, February, 2003.
●Console-ing Passions Conference, New Orleans, LA, May, 2004.

Opel, Andy. (2000). Power. A 7 minute experimental documentary.
Competitive Screenings:

● Duke University Film and Video Documentary Happening, Durham, NC. February 2000.

Opel, Andy. (1998). Dr. Shipsey and The Cows. A 30 minute video documentary produced as my Master’s project at the U. of O.
Competitive Screenings:

● First Place winner in the student competition at the Marco Island Film Festival, Marco Island, FL. $1,000 cash prize. October 1998.
● Fort Worth Film Festival, Fort Worth, TX, October 1998.
● Duke University Film and Video Documentary Happening, Durham, NC, January 1999.

Opel, Andy. (1998). The End of The Ride. A Feature length screenplay about two twenty-something friends who decide to abandon cubicle lives and race across the country hitch-hiking.

● Semi-finalist in the Lonestar Screenplay Competition, 1998.
● Quarter-finalist in the Empire Screenplay Competition, 1998.

Invited Book Chapters

Opel, Andy (In Press). Media Coverage of Protests. Contribution to Protest Cultures: A Companion, Volume 1:Pragmatics of Protest, K. Fahlenbrach, M. Klimke, and J. Scharloth Eds., Berghahn-Books, New York/Oxford.

Opel, Andy (2010). Low Power FM Radio in the U.S.. Contribution to the Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media, John Downing Ed., Sage Publications.

Opel, Andy (2009). Community Radio. Contribution to the Encyclopedia of Journalism, C. Sterling and D.C. Whitney Eds., Sage Publications.

Elmer, Greg & Opel, Andy. (Under Review). “Pre-empting Panoptic Surveillance: Surviving the Inevitable War on Terror”, in Theorizing Surveillance, D. Lyon Ed.

Opel, Andy. (2003). Punishment Before Prosecution: Pepper Spray as Post-Modern Repression. In Representing Resistance: Media, Civil Disobedience and the Global Justice Movement, edited by Andy Opel and Donnalyn Pompper. (2003) Praeger Press. More Information...

Refereed Conference Presentations

Opel, Andy (August 2010). Preempting Dissent: Tasers, Citizen Media and Open Source Documentary Production. Presentation to the University Film and Video Association, Burlington, VT.

Opel, Andy and Arpan, Laura (May 2010). Artists and Scientists Make Green Media: Toward a Model of Data Driven Media Production and Research. Presentation at the conference, Understanding Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities, Portland, OR.

Opel, Andy and Adamoli, Ginevra (November, 2009). Wading Into the Stream: Low Power Radio Stations and Their Internet Websites. Paper presented to the Mass Communication Division of NCA, Chicago, IL.

Opel, Andy (June 2009). Theory and Practice of Making Green Media. Conference on Communication and the Environment, Portland, ME.

Opel, Andy (May 2009). A Roundtable Discussion About the Greening of ICA. ICA conference, Chicago, IL. **Panel Co-Organizer**

Opel, Andy (November, 2007). Greening NCA: A Roundtable Discussion on Shrinking the Ecological Footprint of the NCA Annual Convention. Roundtable discussion for the Environmental Communication Division of NCA, Chicago, IL. **Panel Organizer**

Opel, Andy and Elmer, Greg (October, 2007). Electrifying Dissent: Mapping Pain Compliance Technologies. Paper present to the Union for Democratic Communications, Vancouver, BC.

Opel, Andy (February, 2007). Micro Radio and the Media Activism and Reform Movement: Looking for Community Connections. Paper presented to the Media Studies Interest Group of the Western States Communication Association, Seattle, WA.

Opel, Andy (November, 2006). The Memory of Landscapes: An Injury to One and the Persistence of Environmental Injustice, Panel presentation to be presented to the Environmental Communication Commission of NCA, San Antonio, TX. **Panel Organizer**

McKahan, Jason and Opel, Andy (November 2006). The Earth’s First Soft Drink?: Perrier Bottled Water Advertising in the U.S., Paper to be presented to the Critical and Cultural Studies Division of NCA, San Antonio, TX.

Opel, Andy (November, 2006). Voyage to Kure: Nature Documentaries, President Bush and Public Policy. Paper presented at the Film and History Conference: The Documentary Tradition, Dallas, Texas.

Opel, Andy (November, 2005). Depleted Uranium and the Media: Conspiracy, Censorship and the Iraq War. Panel presentation to the Environmental Communication Commission of NCA, Boston, MA.

Opel, Andy & Elmer, Greg (May 2005). Looking Back at the Future: Betting, Inevitability and the Survivor Society. Paper presented to the Philosophy of Communication Division of ICA, New York, NY.

Opel, Andy (November, 2004). Photoshop, Email and Resistance: Bush Parody Posters and the Iraq War. Paper presented to the Critical and Cultural Studies Division of NCA, Chicago, IL. **Panel Organizer**

Opel, Andy (November, 2004). Disciplining Civil Disobedience: Mapping 'Pain Compliance' Technologies at the Miami FTAA Protests. Paper presented to the Political Communication Division of NCA, Chicago, IL.

Opel, Andy & Templin, Rich. (May, 2004). Is Anybody Reading This? Indymedia and Internet Traffic Reports. Paper presented to the Political Communication Division of ICA, New Orleans, LA.

Opel, Andy & Smith, Jason. (May 2004). ZooTycoon: Capitalism, Nature and the Pursuit of Happiness. Paper presented to the Popular Communication Division of ICA, New Orleans, LA.

Opel, Andy . (March, 2004). Paradise Lost I & II: Documentary and the Monster of Justice. Paper presented to the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta, GA.

Opel, Andy. (November, 2003). Corporate Culture Keeps Nature Regular: Super-Citizens, National Parks and the 'Metamucil and Old Faithful' Ad. Panel presentation for the 2003 NCA convention, Environmental Communication Commission, Miami Beach, FL.

Nudd, Donna Marie; Schriver, Kristina; Opel, Andy. (November, 2003). Don’t Attack Iraq: Audience and the Power of Puppetry in Protest. Panel presentation for the 2003 NCA convention, Visual Communication Commission, Miami Beach, FL.

Opel, Andy. (May, 2003). The Whole World is Sweating: Media Coverage of the Student Anti-Sweatshop Movement . Paper presented to the Popular Communication Division of ICA, San Diego, CA.

Opel, Andy. (November, 2002). A Typology for Media Activism: A Social Movement About Media and Democracy. Paper presented at the 2002 NCA convention, Critical Cultural Studies Division, New Orleans, LA.

Opel, Andy. (November, 2002). Tapping Patriotism: Mapping attempts to link patriotism and efficiency post 9/11. Paper presented at the 2002 NCA convention, Environmental Communication Commission, New Orleans, LA.

Opel, Andy. (November, 2002). Representing Dissent: Media, Discourse, and the Global Justice Movement. Panel organized for the 2002 NCA convention, Critical and Cultural Studies Division, New Orleans, LA. **Panel Organizer**

Opel, Andy. (October, 2002). Media and the Student Anti-Sweatshop Movement. Paper presented at the Union for Democratic Communication Conference, State College, PA.

Opel, Andy. (October, 2002). Looking for Signs of a Media Activism Movement. Paper presented at the Action Coalition for Media Education Summit, Albuquerque, NM.

Opel, Andy. (August, 2002). Representing Micro Radio: Newspaper Coverage of the Micro Radio Issue, 1998-

Paper presented at the annual convention of the Association for the Education in
Journalism and Mass Communication, Miami, FL.

Opel, Andy & Matthews, Denise. (August, 2002). Lights, Camera, Activism: On The Road to a Critical Media Pedagogy. Panel presentation presented at the annual convention of the Association for the Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Miami, FL.

Opel, Andy. (November, 2000). Punishment Before Prosecution: Pepper Spray as Post-Modern Repression.

Paper presented to the Critical and Cultural Studies Division of the National Communication Association Conference, Seattle, WA.

Opel, Andy. (August, 2000). Hemp in the News: Social Struggles Over a Controversial Crop. Paper presented to the Cultural and Critical Studies Division of the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Phoenix, AZ.

Opel, Andy. (June, 2000). Monopoly, The National Parks Edition: Reading Neo-Liberal Simulacra. Paper presented to the Popular Communication Division at the International Communication Association Conference, Acapulco Mexico. **Awarded Top Student Paper**

Opel, Andy. (June, 2000,). Constructing Purity: Bottled Water and the Commodification of Nature. Paper presented to the Popular Communication Division at the International Communication Association Conference, Acapulco Mexico.

Opel, Andy. (October, 1999). Micro-Radio and the Law. Paper presented to the Union for Democratic Communication Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.

Opel, Andy. (August, 1999). Pirate Radio’s Challenge to the FCC: Direct Action and the Judiciary as Tools for Change . Paper presented (with companion video Showdown at the FCC) to the Law Division at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference in New Orleans, LA.

Opel, Andy. (May, 1999). From Activism to Consumption, The Evolution of a Community: The Oregon Daily Emerald’s Framing of the Grateful Dead 1968-1995 . Paper presented to the Popular Communication Division at the International Communication Association Conference in San Francisco, CA.

Book and Film Reviews

Opel, Andy (2009). Review of Democratic Communications: Formations, Projects and Possibilities by James Hamilton. Democratic Communique, v23, n1.

Opel, Andy (2007). Structural Change? Environmental Documentary and Globalization. [Review of the films Darwin’s Nightmare and Who Killed the Electric Car]. Environmental Communication, v1, n1.

Opel, Andy (2007). Review of Global Citizens: Social Movements and the Challenge of Globalization by Marjorie Mayo. International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, v.3, n2.

Opel, Andy. (2004). Review of Communication, Media, and American Society: A Critical Introduction by Daniel W. Rossides. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, v81, n1.

Opel, Andy. (2004). Review of Beyond Ideology: A Case for Egalitarian Bias in the News, by Reginald Ecarma. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, v81, n1.

Editorial Board Appointments

Editorial Board Member, Environmental Communication Yearbook. Fall 2003 - 2006
Editorial Board Member, Kaleidoscope: Graduate Journal of Qualitative Comm. Rsch.
Fall 2002 - Present
Editorial Board Member, Popular Communication Journal Fall 2006 - Present
Film Review Editor, Environmental Communication, A Journal of Nature and Culture
Fall 2006 - Present
Guest Reviewer, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Summer 2009
Guest Reviewer, Transforming Anthropology Winter 2008
Guest Reviewer, The Information Society. Fall 2004 - Present
Guest Reviewer, Communication Theory Fall 2004 - Present

Committees & Service

Departmental Service (Florida State University)
Director, Media Production Program Jan. 2005 -Present
Coordinator, Graduate Certificate in Digital Video Production Fall 2007 -Present
Chair, FSU Media Production Faculty Search Committee. Fall 2006
Chair, FSU Media Production Faculty Search Committee. Spring 2006
Member FSU Media Studies Faculty Search Committee. Fall, Winter 2002/3
Member, Media Production Faculty Search Committee. Winter 2002/3
Chair, FSU, Dept. of Communication, V89 radio station revision task force. Spring 2002
Coordinator, Media Production Program Student Video Festival. 2002-4

Student Committees:

Ph.D

Joe Clark (Committee Chair) 2009/10
Topic: Second Life and Environmental Politics

Jason McKahan (Committee Chair) 2009
Title: Hollywood Counterterrorism: Violence, Protest and
the Middle East In U.S. Action Feature Films Download PDF

Rich Templin (Committee Chair) 2009
Title: Rage Against The Machine: How Indy Media’s Radical Project
Is Working to Create The New Public Sphere Download PDF

Jason Smith (Committee Chair) 2006
Title: Political Ecology in Large Format Films: Analyzing Environmental
Representation and Audience Reception of IMAX Documentaries. Download PDF

Ginevra Adamoli (Committee Member) 2011/12
Bakari Akil (Committee Member) 2007
Albert Hsu (Committee Member) 2005
Mihaela Nicasian (Committee Member) 2005
Tami Tomasello (Committee Member) 2003

Willow Shanti (Outside Committee Member, Education) 2010/11
Sammy Rastagh (Outside Committee Member, Sociology) 2010/11
Sarrah Conn (Outside Committee Member, Sociology) 2010/11
Anthony Ricks (Outside Committee Member, English) 2010/11
Marko Horn (Outside Committee Member, Management) 2010
Kathryn Wright (Outside Committee Member, Humanities) 2010
Jason Eastman (Outside Committee Member, Sociology) 2007
Michael Allison (Outside Committee Member, Pol. Sci.) 2006
Kirsten Stewart (Outside Committee Member, Geography) 2006

M.A.

Derrick Shannon (Committee Chair) 2010/11
Title: Portrait of an Activist as a Yesman

Bayard Stern (Committee Chair) 2009
Creative Capstone Project: Watery Treasure
30 minute Video Documentary on Wakulla Springs View Video.

Jennifer Toole (Committee Member) 2010
Grace Keenan (Committee Member) 2008
Andrew Davis (Committee Member) 2008
Stephen Andon (Committee Member) 2005
Kristina Ferguson (Committee Member) 2004
Lauren Handler (Committee Member) 2004
Chris Creel (Committee Member) 2003
Abe Kahn (Committee Member) 2002
Scott Varda (Committee Member) 2002

Undergraduate Honors Thesis

Benjamin Verhulst (Committee Member) 2009
Alex Smith (Committee Member) 2009
Chris Chafin (Committee Chair) 2004
Michele Harvey (Committee Chair) 2004

Professional Service ( Florida State University)

Alternate representative of the College of Communication to the Faculty Senate, FSU.Spring 2002-2005
Panelist for the film, “Justice and the Generals.” Premiered at FSU. Feb. 20 th, 2002 Moderator, Literature and Film Conference, FSU. January 2002
Appointed Member, FSU Visions committee. 2002-05
Member, Faculty Human Rights Seminar. 2002-04

Professional Activities (External)

Member, Task Force for Greening ICA 2009-10
Reviewer, Critical and Cultural Studies Division, NCA. 2003
Reviewer, Popular Culture Division, ICA. 2002-04
Respondent, Popular Culture Division, ICA. 2004
Reviewer, Environmental Communication Commission, NCA. 2002-08
Respondent, Panel Chair, Environmental Communication Commission, NCA. 2004

Fellowships, Grants & Awards

2009 Faculty Sabbatical awarded for the fall of 2010

2009 Canadian Social Science and Humanities Council: $149,000. Collaborator. Three year grant to support the production of an open source documentary based on the material developed in our book, Preempting Dissent.

2009 Institute for Energy Systems, Economics and Sustainability: $249,800. Principle Investigator. Two year grant to support the production of a series of public service announcements and a short documentary aimed at Florida policy makers.

2008 Committee on Faculty Research Support (COFRS): $13,000. Grant to pay summer salary to support the post-production of the documentary, Beating Justice.

2008 Committee on Ethics in Research and Creative Activity: $10,000. Grant to develop a series of graduate student workshops for creative projects that address issues of copyright, peer review and human subjects/consent form clearance. Co-Applicant with Dr. Donna Nudd.

2007 Rockwood Leadership Fellowship in Media, Communications and Information Policy. Funded by the Ford Foundation

2007 Service Learning Program Grant. Campus Sustainability Initiative: $5,000. Grant to develop a series of video public service announcements promoting sustainable behaviors on campus.

2004 College of Communication Emerging Scholar Award.

Faculty Senate Library Committee Primary Resource Grant, 2004: $4000.00 grant to purchase video documentaries on social movements and the environment.

Provost’s Faculty Travel Grants 2002, 2003, 2004: $450.00 travel grants awarded to present research at NCA and ICA.

First Year Assistant Professor Award 2002: $10,000 summer research grant from the Council on Research and Creativity at Florida State University. Research Topic: The student anti-sweatshop movement on university campuses.

Park Fellowship 1998-2001: Fellowship included tuition remission, annual stipend and travel expenses for three years of Doctoral study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Eli S. Rubenstein Dissertation Research Grant 2000: Paid expenses associated with dissertation travel and research.

Senior Thesis Research Grant 1985: Summer research grant from the Committee on African Studies at Harvard University. Grant supported 10 weeks of field study in Nigeria. Research Topic: The Talking Drum of the Yoruba.

Top Student Paper Award, ICA Conference, 2000.

Kappa Tau Alpha National Honor Society, Journalism & Mass Communication Award 1997

Affiliations

International Communication Association (ICA)
National Communication Association (NCA)
Union for Democratic Communication (UDC)
Association of Independent Video and Film Makers (AIVF)

Public Scholarship/Lectures

Opel, Andy (Sept. 28th, 2010). Climate change deniers are not helping Florida. Op-Ed piece published in the Tallahassee Democrat. Read Online...

Opel, Andy (February 1, 2010). Preempting Dissent: Tasers, Secrecy and Open Source Media Production, invited lecture at the Global Media Research Center, University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale. View on-line.

Opel, Andy (August 28, 2009). Anatomy of a Photo and a Town Hall Meeting. Op-Ed published in the Tallahassee, Democrat.

Opel, Andy (January, 22, 2009). Torchlight Program invited speaker at the Florida premiere of the film, End of America, Student Life Building, FSU.

Opel, Andy (November, 19, 2008). Amnesty International invited guest speaker at the film, Mardi Gras: Made in China, Student Life Building, FSU.

Opel, Andy (November 13, 2008). Guest speaker at the Tallahassee premiere of the film, Battle in Seattle, Student Life Building, FSU.

Opel, Andy (April 2, 2008). Electrifying Dissent. Invited lecture to the Cultural Studies
Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Opel, Andy (December 1, 2007). Torture Profiteering. 30 minute radio interview, Listen on-line.

Opel, Andy (November 7, 2007). Torture and Profit – Government Sidesteps Morality and Accountability. Op-Ed piece published in the Tallahassee Democrat.

Opel, Andy (October 2, 2007). Guest Lecture in Oceanography course (OCE 5018), Issues in Environmental Science. Title: Bottled Water Summer and the Thin End of the Wedge.

Opel, Andy (April 24, 2007). Guest on the Brian Fasulo Show 1040 WWBA, Tampa, Fl.Topic: Cable franchise bill pending in Florida Legislature.

Opel, Andy (April 23, 2007). Guest panelist on the radio show Your Voice 89.7, WVFS, Tallahassee, FL. Topic: Upcoming FCC public hearing in Tampa, FL April 30th.

Opel, Andy (April 15, 2007). Cable franchise Laws and the Public Interest. Op-Ed piece published in the Tallahassee Democrat. Read Online...

Opel, Andy ( April 15, 2007). Our water shouldn't be in private hands. Op-Ed piece published in the Tallahassee Democrat. Read Online...

Opel, Andy ( March 3, 2007). Our water shouldn't be in private hands. Op-Ed piece published in the Tallahassee Democrat. Read Online...

Opel, Andy ( March 31, 2005). Government Hits New Low with Fake News. Op-Ed piece published in the Tallahassee Democrat.

Opel, Andy ( Feb. 20, 2005). Indymedia and Academics. Roundtable discussion among alternative media researchers and activists at the Indy Conference, a conference on Indymedia. Austin, TX. ** Panel Organizer **

Opel, Andy ( Nov. 7, 2004). Media Activism and Social Change. Keynote address at the annual FSU Service Scholars Dinner.

Opel, Andy ( Feb. 1, 2004). Censorship and the Super Bowl. Lead Op-Ed piece in the Sunday edition of the Tallahassee Democrat, Super Bowl Sunday. Read Online...

Opel, Andy ( March 19, 2003). Guest panelist on public radio WFSU, call-in talk show Perspectives. Topic: Media, Social Movements and the Iraq War.

Opel, Andy (March 12, 2003). Patriotism, Efficiency and The Greens. Front page story for The Tortoise, Tallahassee Community Newspaper. Read Online...

Opel, Andy (January 21, 2003). Keynote speaker at the inauguration of the Tallahassee-Red Hills Independent Media Center. (http://tallahassee.indymedia.org).

Other Professional Experience

Production Assistant
Knight Library Media Center, U. of O., Eugene, OR January 1997 to May 1998

Ran camera and audio on over 30 episodes of UO Today, a 30-minute faculty interview program.

Research Assistant
Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, OR, September 1990 to June 1995

Worked on multiple children’s health related psychology research projects. Duties included:
Project coordination, presentations to high school classes throughout Oregon, questionnaire administration, data collection and structured interviewing.

Teacher
Visions International, Blackfeet Indian Reservation, June to August 1995

Taught carpentry and backcountry camping skills to high school students.
Organized service projects on the Blackfeet Indian reservation.

Teacher
Willamette Pass Ski Area, Eugene, OR, November 1994 to March 1995

Taught basic cross-country and tele-mark skiing technique to children and adults.

Teacher
Arthur Morgan School, Burnsville, NC, September 1987 to June 1990

Taught Social Studies, grades 7-9 at an alternative middle school in the mountains of N. Carolina.
Led 3-day and 6-day backcountry camping trips with small groups of teenagers.
Led 6-week field trips to the boarder region of Texas and Mexico as part of a boarder witness program monitoring the plight of Central American refugees.