The SfAA Podcast project was founded in 2007 at the 67th Annual Meeting of the SfAA. In 2007, Jen Cardew managed the project with the support of her advisor, Christina Wasson (UNT) and the SfAA Office. At the meeting Celina Kapoor, Wayne State University, volunteered her time to help record many of the sessions.

Since 2007 the SfAA Podcasts have enjoyed a tremendous growth in popularity. During the 2009 Annual Meeting of the SfAA in Santa Fe, NM the project will be coordinated by five team members. The team members were selected through an application process and are volunteering their time to the project. If you see one of the team members in Santa Fe, say ‘hi’ and maybe even thank them for all of their hard work and time they’ve invested in the project.

2009 SfAA Podcast Team

Jen Cardew – Founder, Manager
email: jencardew[at]gmail[dot]com
personal blog: Synthesis of Thought

Jen is currently a master’s student in applied business anthropology at the University of North Texas. In Fall 2006 Jen entered into UNT’s online master’s program after completing her BS in applied anthropology at the University of South Florida. Her interests are in design and organizational anthropology.  During her first two years at UNT, she worked  on a research project with her advisor, Christina Wasson (UNT), comparing an online version and on-campus version of the same graduate course.  Currently, she is working at Intrepid Consultants in Seattle, WA as a research assistant.  She plans to graduate in May 2009.

Kelly Evan Alleen email: kelly.evan.alleen[at]gmail[dot]com

Kelly Alleen is a graduate of the Western Washington University Cultural Anthropology program. She is currently serving two years as an Americorps VISTA working with a community health organization in her hometown of Bellingham, Washington. She is involved with the development and management of a program called WhatcomCounts.org which is a community health web resource that connects people to information on various topics to help them learn and take action. Additionally, she is involved with a local community food assessment, a human rights film festival, and volunteering at an independent cinema. She also loves soccer and her dalmatian, Pepper Ann! Her boyfriend is a contract archaeologist (fancy term for shovelbum) and they are huge movie fans and total bookworms.

Justin Myrick
justin.wmyrick[at]gmail[dot]com

Justin lives in the Los Angeles area and is finishing his undergraduate in socio-cultural anthropology at California State University Fullerton.  His anthropological interests lie in urban anthropology, rural-urban migration and circulation, urban living, focusing on slums and squatter communities, and action research.  He is currently engaged in a research project assessing the effectiveness of services given to the elderly by an Americorps pilot project called WECARE.  While not reading and cooking and cleaning, Justin spends time in the San Gabriel Mountains, either backpacking, running away from rattlesnakes or rehabilitating the forest and streams with a local non-profit organization, Habitat Work.

Matt Lamb
Matt is currently a master’s student studying applied anthropology at the University of North Texas with focuses on the fields of design and marketing. During his undergraduate and graduate studies at The University of North Texas, he contributed to group research projects for Microsoft and Motorola under the direction of his advisor Dr. Christina Wasson. Additionally, he has conducted independent exploratory research on the application of user experience in entertainment design. Currently, Matt works as a freelance multimedia consultant in Dallas, Texas. He plans to graduate in August 2009.

Kevin Comerford

Tommy Wingo, Audio Pro, www.Wing-O.com

Thanks to the sponsorship of the project by the Department of Anthropology at UNT, we were able to hire a professional to help us with the project this year.

Over the past three years Tommy has worked in the Orlando area as a freelance sound mixer for several different companies. These projects ranged from simple Dialogue Editing to ProTools-Based Multitrack Production Sound Mixing and have brought me into contact with quite a lot of talent.

2008 SfAA Podcast Team During the 2008 Annual Meeting of the SfAA in Memphis, TN the project was coordinated by six team members. The team members were selected through an application process and are volunteering their time to the project. Russell joined the team after the conference and did a lot of work in publishing the podcasts.

Jen Cardew – Founder, Manager
email: jencardew[at]gmail[dot]com
personal blog: Synthesis of Thought

Jen is currently a master’s student in applied business anthropology at the University of North Texas. In Fall 2006 Jen entered into UNT’s online master’s program after completing her BS in applied anthropology at the University of South Florida. Her interests are in design and organizational anthropology. She is currently working on a research project with her advisor, Christina Wasson (UNT), comparing an online version and on-campus version of the same graduate course.

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Diana Harrelson – Co-Manager
email: diana.harrelson[at]gmail[dot]com
Blog: http://www.cyber-anthro.com
Portfolio: http://www.webchica.com

Diana is currently a master’s student at the University of North Texas where she also completed her undergrad studies in anthropology, philosophy, and psychology. She is interested in design and cyber anthropology with a focus on social networking, blogging, and gaming online as well as side interests of studying sex and religion online. While pursuing her masters she also works full time as an information architect for an online media agency. There her focus is on user interface, user experience, and usability issues in online environments.
Along with full time work and full time school she is a newly wed (coming up on one year) and a stepmother to a 5 year old who teaches her something new everyday. In her scarce free time her hobbies include seeking out new trip-hop artists, taking photographs (specializing in found photography), searching out the latest and greatest social networking sites, twittering, blogging and gaming.

Kelly Evan Alleen email: kelly.evan.alleen[at]gmail[dot]com

Kelly Alleen is a graduate of the Western Washington University Cultural Anthropology program. She has her BA and is engaged in a long-term search for Applied Anthropology grad programs; she doesn’t plan on enrolling for another few years. Currently, she is serving two years as an Americorps VISTA working with a community health organization in her hometown of Bellingham, Washington. She is involved with the development and management of a program called WhatcomCounts.org which is a community health web resource that connects people to information on various topics to help them learn and take action. Additionally, she is involved with a local community food assessment, a human rights film festival, and volunteering at an independent cinema. She also loves soccer and her dalmatian, Pepper Ann! Her boyfriend is a contract archaeologist (fancy term for shovelbum) and they are huge movie fans and total bookworms.

Jonathan West
email: jjwest11[at]gmail[dot]com

Jonathan was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he earned a BA in Anthropology at the University of New Orleans. After a two year break from his academic career, he returned to UNO in the fall of 2006 in order to pursue a Masters degree in Applied Anthropology/Urban Studies. While in the program, his research interests have included coastal communities, the effects of the United States Army Corps of Engineers and the oil and gas industry on the built environment and cultural landscape of southeastern Louisiana, as well as the Isleños of St. Bernard Parish, the descendants of 18th century settlers from the Canary Islands. Jonathan’s thesis project, which will undoubtedly incorporate some of these topics, is currently in development. He is also a graduate researcher at the Center for Hazards Assessment, Response, and Technology, a research organization at UNO that specializes in hazard and disaster mitigation. He is currently in the midst of a NOAA-funded, participatory action research project, in collaboration with both NOAA and a coastal community, dealing with enhancement of the resilience of such communities.

Lauren Travis email: laurendt137[at]yahoo[dot]com

Lauren is a Masters student in Applied Anthropology at the University of North Texas. She works for Keep Denton Beautiful, a grassroots non-profit organization that facilitates local efforts in community beautification and litter reduction. She is currently working in collaboration with Keep Denton Beautiful to assess homeowner knowledge of, and attitudes toward, the use of native Texas plants in residential landscapes.
Lauren’s research interests include sustainable development; use of anthropological knowledge and skills in the non-profit sector; localization; evaluation anthropology; environmental anthropology.
Her hobbies include cooking, watching movies, discovering new music, writing, reading, biking, hiking, backpacking, traveling, gardening, dance of all kinds.

Kimberlee Norwood email: knorwood[at]utmem[dot]edu

Medical Educator
Medical/Urban Anthropologist, Social Scientist
Education: University of Memphis (BA in Anthropology, 1998; MA in Applied Medical and Urban Anthropology, 2000). She is currently writing her dissertation for a Ph.D, In Human Services with a specialization in Community and Social Services with Capella University, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her primary interest and responsibility is cultural medicine and the cultural competency curriculum and assisting with program coordination for the Prevention, Community, and Culture course; the Specialty Clerkship which includes the Palliative Care rotation; and the Patient, Safety, and QualityImprovement Clerkship. Career Development: Ms. Norwood served as a research coordinator and home visit specialist in the Department of Preventive Medicine for five years. For the two years, she has been working in the Office of Medical Education developing a cultural competence curriculum and developing curriculum and organizing several other courses within the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine.
Honors: Magna Cum Laude and Golden Key National Honor Society

Russell Willems (The newest addition- audio editor extraordinaire!)
email: rwillems[at]gmail[dot]com
personal blog: http://travelingtrowel.blogspot.com

Russell is a graduate of Western Washington University, where he received his BA in Anthropology/Archaeology. Currently he is employed as an Archaeology Field Technician (aka “shovelbum”) which, while providing him with fantastic fieldwork experiences in the Great Basin and Pacific Northwest, causes him to spend a lot of time away from his girlfriend and dog back at home in Bellingham, Washington. Russell’s interests include involving native groups and the public in archaeological work, developing new information tools (and making existing tools better), and learning about life and culture in prehistoric North America. In his spare time he meddles in guitar, harmonica, geology, computer programming, and editing podcasts