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Shannon Stewart coordinates stuff

Caught in between the music industry and grass roots organizing, in 2001, Shannon co-founded the Vera Project, an all-ages music community center in Seattle, WA and continued to explore blending community organizing models with what she know the most about – shows. She's now based out of the bay area and spends lots of time looking for awesome spaces in unexpected places. She regularly practices hand stands and strives to master the windmill. She realizes that anyone with DIY or similar anti-establishment values could be skeptical of this project. She hopes you’ll get in touch anyway. shannon(at)allagesmovementproject.org

Emily Finkel helps too

Emily hails from Spokane, Washington and as a result, is truly obsessed with everything associated with the Pacific Northwest. She loves music and thinks it sounds best when it’s made by her friends. When she’s not working at AMP, she can often be found watching the Food Network, exploring San Francisco’s parks and pretending she knows how to sew. Emily will be graduating from Northeastern University in Boston next year, at which point she will consider herself very lucky to get a job with an org even half as great as AMP.

Andrio Abero designs

This beautiful website is his. Designer for the Music Underground. www.33rpmdesign.com

Chapter Three LLC executes

Industry leaders in grassroots organizing through web communities and open-source web technology. Drupal Ninjas that make sites work. chapterthreellc.com.

MEMBER STEERING COMMITTEE

Diaris Alexander, Los Angeles, CA

Hip Hop Chair for the Local chapter of the Hip Hop Congress (UCLA)
www.hiphopcongress.com
Diaris, 19, originally from Oakland, CA, has a strong dedication to uplifting her community. She credits dance, hip hop, and writing lyrics, to providing an outlet for her expression while simultaneously maintaining her sanity and reducing stress. She is very passionate about youth and the performing arts. Diaris was drawn to become a part of the All-ages Movement Project because of her involvement with Youth Movement Records, a youth-run record label and development organization. The research project gives her the unprecedented opportunity to discover and participate in a nation-wide youth-driven effort to make a change in society. Diaris is extremely determined to make an impact on the world. Currently she is both a Jackie Robinson and Gates Millennium Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles. Although presently she is undeclared, she hopes to obtain her B.A. in Communication Studies in 2009.

Kevin Erickson, Anacortes, WA

Department of Safety
www.departmentofsafety.com
Kevin Erickson, 26, was studying religion and cultural politics at Whitman College in tiny Walla Walla, Washington, when he discovered the Pacific Northwest's vibrant underground music scene and fell stupidly in love with the radical potential of incubating DIY cultural resistance in small communities. Today, he is part of a team of artists, musicians, and friends running a unique arts infrastructure called the Department of Safety. The facility is housed in Anacortes, Washington's old fire & police station and contains an all-ages music venue, gallery, recording facilities, art studios, and zine library. He is active as a writer, recording engineer, and musician, with one recent collaboration touted as “intermittently tolerable" by Pitchfork, a National Independent Music Website.

Gavin Leonard, Cincinnati, OH

Elementz, The Hip Hop Youth Arts Center
www.natiyouthcenter.org
League of Young Voters
www.indyvoter.org
Gavin Leonard, 27, is Executive Director of Elementz: The Hip-Hop Youth Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a board member of the League of Young Voters and LYV Education Fund, and is on the advisory committees of Wiretap and the All-Ages Movement Project. He believes that building power to make change starts with strong community-based relationships.

Katy Otto, Washington DC

Positive Force
www.positiveforcedc.org
Katy Otto is the Development Director at Men Can Stop Rape. Ms. Otto has eight years of experience in fundraising for violence prevention, youth development, and arts organizations. She graduated from University of Maryland, College Park and later became certified through the University of Indiana School of Fundraising. She has done contract development work creating grassroots fundraising plans and authoring proposals for social justice organizations nationally. She runs her own independent record label Exotic Fever Records and has given workshops on such diverse topics as direct action around issues of violence against women, community response to sexual assault, animal abuse and partner violence, punk rock activism, and women and girls in music. Ms. Otto has toured the country several times playing drums in her former band Del Cielo. She is currently working on two new bands, The Bow Shock and Problems. She co-founded the national Visions in Feminism conference. She has been a member for over ten years of the group Positive Force DC, a volunteer punk collective that organizes concerts and events for social change and plans community actions.

Lori Roddy, Ann Arbor, MI

Neutral Zone
www.neutral-zone.org
After graduating with a BA from John Carroll University in Political Science, Lori spent two years volunteering in the Federated States of Micronesia teaching at a local high school. Returning to the United States, she continued teaching social studies as a middle school teacher in Cleveland, Ohio. After four years as a teacher, Lori began her Masters in Social Work focused on youth and community organizing at the University of Michigan. Her studies focused primarily on community organizing with a special interest in youth participation. After receiving her Masters in Social Work in May, 2004, she worked as a consultant for the Youth and Community Project at the University of Michigan focusing on providing participatory evaluation trainings for the 72 Youth Advisory Councils of the Community Foundations of Southeast Michigan. Lori is currently the Program Director of the Neutral Zone, a youth-driven teen center providing after-school drop-space, programming in areas of education, literary arts, visual arts, music performance and technology and leadership, and weekend concerts.

Chris Wiltsee, Oakland, CA

Youth Movement Records
www.youthmovementrecords.org
Chris has worked for more than 12 years developing innovative community-based projects and arts organizations for youth in the non-profit sector. Chris is the founder and Executive Director of Youth Movement Records (YMR), a non-profit youth-run recording company and youth development program in Oakland, California, and is a co-founder of the AMP Network (All-Ages Movement Project), which is developing a national resource for the rapidly emerging youth-media field. Prior to launching YMR, Chris served as the Program Director to the Neutral Zone, Ann Arbor’s Teen Center from 1998 to 2002. He sits on the San Francisco Recording Academy’s Education Committee and the San Francisco Carnival Entertainment Committee. Chris has recently helped develop an consultancy called The Blink Tank that is committed to helping mission-based organizations develop and thrive. Chris received his masters degree from the University of Michigan and undergraduate degree in Community Studies from UC Santa Cruz.

BIG UPS

AMP Contributors: Mark Ristaino, Zack Rosen, Nica Lorber, Claudia Bach , Kameron Mitchell Moore, Joshua Powell, Annie Sartor, Megan Wurster, Jessalyn Aaland, Molly Neitzel, James Keblas, Jessamyn Sabbag, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, James Kass, Sarina Roscigno, Erin Potts, Deydon Tethong, The Rappaport Family Foundation, Skyline Public Works, all the orgs that contributed information thus far and all the ones that will in the future.