I’ve just retyped a more clearly formatted copy of our FoodWorks roster, with the names of Fellows grouped by site and with their email addresses included. Please let me know if I’ve introduced any errors and I’ll try to correct them right away.

Middlebury FoodWorks Fellows, 2015

 

Fredy Rosales                    DC                 frosales@middlebury.edu

Grace Levin                        DC                 hlevin@middlebury.edu

Armon Smith                     DC                 adsmith@middlebury.edu

Jeanne Penn                       DC                 jpenn@hamilton.edu

Erin Pickens                       DC                 ewpicke@clemson.edu

Caroline Vexler                  DC                 caroline_vexler@brown.edu

Nina Dewees                       DC                nina.c.dewees.16@dartmouth.edu

Rose Wang                          DC                 ruijiawang@umass.edu

Madyson Martin                DC                 mlmart19@louisville.edu

Lindsey Letellier                DC                 lindsey.letellier@nyu.edu

Karen Lee                           DC                  hklee@middlebury.edu

Sarah Wall                          DC                  swall@middlebury.edu

Emily Robinson                 KY                  ehrobinson@middlebury.edu

Raphaelle Ortiz                  KY                  raphaelle.ortiz@gmail.com

Yingshi Liang                     KY                  yingshil@middlebury.edu

Cornelia Brabazon            KY                  cbrabazon@coa.edu

Kelsey Voit                          KY                 kavoit7@gmail.com

Ashley Burton                    KY                  ashnburt@ut.utm.edu

Ann Hageman                    KY                  ahage004@odu.edu

Cate Heine                          KY                  cate.heine@centre.edu

Charlie Mitchell                 VT                   clmitchell@middlebury.edu

Emma Homens                  VT                   ehomans@middlebury.edu

Dor Hirsh Bar Gai              VT                   dor_hbg@gwu.edu

Camryn Hellwarth             VT                   c.cpaige@gmail.com

Diana Wilkinson                VT                   dwilkinson16@gwu.edu

Chloe Kidder                       VT                   ckidder@middlebury.edu

Nina Buzby                          VT                   nbuzby@middlebury.edu

I hope that everyone will print up a copy of this roster and bring it along to the videoconference tomorrow evening. I’ll be trying to call on people by name and if you can begin doing so too that will help us develop this aspect of our summer’s conversation further. (As described in my last “Letter to the Class,” it seems possible that the technology for our upcoming videoconference might also be even more conducive to our goals.) At any rate, I’m attaching the roster here and will also post it later today in the next “Letter.”

And here’s a listing of who’s responsible for posting a video interview on which dates. 

June 13                                 Fredy, Grace, Yingshi, Charlie

June 20                                 Armon, Raphaelle, Emma, Dor

June 27                                 Jeanne, Erin, Emily, Camryn

July 3                                    Caroline, Nina D., Cornelia, Kelsey

July 11                                   Rose, Mady, Ashley, Diana

July 18                                  Lindsey, Ann, Chloe, Nina B.

July 25                                  Karen, Sarah, Cate

Over a total of seven weeks (not six as I said in a recent email to folks in DC), every Fellow will post one such interview. In the final week, folks at each site will pull together a digital story about the particular food community in which you’ve been interning this summer. This final community-assignment will draw on the weekly interviews posted by Fellows at your site. You’ll be looking for a theme or narrative thread to tie each digital story together in some way, editing the individual interviews further, and perhaps adding voice-over or subtitles. This is your chance to make the project engaging and substantial by your own lights. Toward the end of the course, a given team might also decide to do a couple of additional interviews to bridge a gap in your project. Similarly, it’s always fine for anyone to post an extra interview; perhaps others’ videos will give you an idea you feel like following up. Here’s one final comment from this grizzled teacher of writing. Producing the culminating digital story at each site may in one way resemble an essayist’s process of integrating various journal entries into a unified essay: you’ll find gaps, and perhaps even contradictions, which you can only get beyond by delving deeper into the meaning of your own material.

Finally, I am sending along a YouTube selection identified by Mae, our FoodWorks Coordinator for the Middlebury site. It’s a piece on bees from a Bill Moyers program that features Bill McKibben, who will be on the panel tomorrow. Mae’s excellent suggestion was that it might offer another good reference as we all head into the videoconference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNNcjAD_DOY