ABOUT CSAFRICA / CORE MEMBERS / CORE CONTRIBUTORS
+ Core Contributors
Paulynn Cue (formerly of NextAid), Creative Director, Strategic Planning, and Founding Member of CSAfrica.
Alison Fast of Quest Media,
Global Outreach, Media Producer and Consultant
Courtney White, MSW, Empowerment Works, Community Liaison
Kam Diba of Reverge, Creator and Director of CSAfrica video
Jason Gurvitz of Green Dog Films
Lela Edgar, Make A Change Productions
Jenna King, Funder
Paulynn Cue, Creative Director and Strategic Planner, and Co-Founder of CSAfrica [www.paulynn.com] [send an email]
Paulynn Cue brings over 15 years of creative direction, graphic design, marketing, strategic planning, and architecture experience to CSAfrica. Ms. Cue has worked with Fortune 100 companies and entrepreneurs in a wide range of fields including architecture and design, urban and space planning, fine arts, music and entertainment, wellness and fitness, festival and event production, focusing the past 4 years on development and communication design work with nonprofit organizations.
Paulynn's work with nonprofits, especially NextAid, as creative director and designer, and co-director or day to day operations, providing strategic planning, branding and identity, media and web design, and production for a vast number of events and marketing campaigns, has unified her interests in architecture, design, children, education, music and dance, which has enhanced her dedication for work benefitting and championing children and the environment, humanitarian strategies for peace, health, harmony, and global sustainability, through creativity and excellence in communication arts and visual strategy, social and cultural and exchange and education.
Noted clients include NextAid, Fabric Interactive, Inner-City Arts, Free the Slaves, SpectralQ, Gensler Worldwide Architecture and Planning, and Paul Murdoch Architects. Her educational experience includes architecture and graphic design at Carnegie-Mellon University, environmental design at Parson's School of Design, advertising and communication design at New York University. Paulynn's past experience as a performing classical musician and modern dancer, and her love of yoga, meditation and hiking, rounds out the depth of her determination and enthusiasm for her work with NextAid and CSAfrica.
Paulynn is a founder of CSAfrica, and designer and producer of the CSAfrica graphic identity and website. top
Alison Fast of Quest Media [link] [send an email]
Qwest Media specializes in the production of broadcast quality video for television and the Internet. Alison Fast, founder of Qwest Media, holds a degree in Journalism from Boston University and has eight years of experience in the television industry. Aside from working as an Associate Producer for MTV Networks and National Geographic, she has produced segments for Foreign Exchange (PBS), and co-hosts the Emmy-nominated travel series, Weekend Explorer (PBS).
In addition to her work as a content producer, she has extensive experience conceptualizing and producing global outreach campaigns and events for nonprofits. Ms. Fast co-founded the service-learning program One Global Tribe, for which she served as Director of Outreach for three years; She has documented events at the World Water Forum in Mexico City at the invitation of Tekio.net and the Legislative Assembly of Mexico City; She has worked with youth and Native American communities including the Lakota and Hopi to get out a message about global warming; She has conceptualized and produced World AIDS Orphans Day for FXB International two years in row; She is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and has traveled to some 20 countries including Brazil where she spent six months creating advocacy videos for nonprofit organizations including Viva Rio.
Her goal is to use media and new technologies to educate and bridge diverse communities around the world and to support the exchange of skills and best practices to meet development goals.
Her areas of interest include: youth empowerment, HIV/AIDS and global strategies for peace and a sustainable future. She is one of the founding members of May 7 Coalition in Los Angeles and CSAfrica.
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"Africa’s challenges are being tackled at different levels, and some successes have been recorded. But not fast enough. The concepts of sustainable development, appropriate development models, and participatory development are not foreign.
We are aware that our children and the future generations have a right to a world which will also need energy, should be free of pollution, should be rich with biological diversity and should have a climate which will sustain all forms of life." 1991
Wangari Maathai
2004 Nobel Peace Prize-
winning social empowerment leader and founder of the Greenbelt Movement
"Can 27 million orphans be left to fend for themselves? We may not be able to solve the entire problem today, but let us not be discouraged from taking the steps necessary to begin the journey."
118 bishops of the Episcopal Church, USA. Letter on global AIDS funding to US President Bush and the US Congress.
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