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Uberentrepreneur Joichi Ito comes to MIT Media Lab

Leveraging Employee Networks

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August 2011 Business

Feature

12 | Q&A with

Emerson College’s New President, Lee Pelton

Entertainment

16 | PUSH: Madison v. Madison: Local Documentary has Film World Abuzz 18 | Selena Gomez has stayed grounded as her career has soared Lifestyle

20 | Vino 101: Wine as Education 22 | The Academics of Fashion

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5 | Learn to Leverage Employee Networks Benchmarks

6 | Uber tech-entrepreneur Joichi Ito comes to MIT Media Lab Dialogues

8 | The Dog Days of Dating for Career-minded Professionals Society

10 | Boston LatinoTV’s Fourth Annual Access Awards 23 | Color Magazine’s Second Annual Women of Color Leadership and Empowerment Forum

Cover photo courtesy of Willamette University

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Welcome F r o m t h e EDITOR

n accordance with this month’s theme of education,

I’d like to acknowledge a man who is educating baseball fans across the country about people with different abilities. His name is Tom Willis, and on July 7th he threw out the first pitch at Fenway Park – with his foot. Tom was born without arms but certainly has some amazing feet: he drives, writes and does most everything else with them. His appearance at Fenway was one stop in his “Pitch for Awareness” tour where he will travel to Major League Baseball Stadiums across the country to throw out the first pitch. Education in the traditional sense is schooling. Education in the actual sense is everything you learn from others. Dr. Tom Willis Lee Pelton (p.12), the new president of Emerson College, has always emphasized community service as an integral part of education. We could all learn a thing or two from Selena Gomez (p.18), who just turned 19, and has had to learn to gracefully handle mammoth pressures and expectations since she was a child. Joichi Ito (p.6), uber-entrepreneur and the new head of the MIT media lab, never completed college (although it was a Nobel Laureate who encouraged him to drop out) and says he even learns things from the people who annoy him. The lesson here is never stop learning; don’t stop when you get home from school, earn a degree or get the job you want. Learn from everyone and anyone you interact with – in my book that’s the mark of an educated person. Michael

CONTRIB U TIN G WRITERS

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Joanne Choi is a freelance journalist who also regularly contributes to AsianBoston Magazine. Her passion is staying up-to-date on people and society. She is working on her first novel.

Tim Estiloz is a two-time Emmy Award winning TV journalist and film critic with more than a decade of experience covering news, features and Hollywood celebrity entertainment. Tim currently works as a host and producer for Boston Latino TV and is a performer and illustrator. To see his work visit www.timestiloz. com.

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Mimi Gonzalez is a stand-up comedian actively touring since 1998. She’ll go anywhere to make people laugh, including Iraq and Afghanistan to entertain the U.S. military. She’s also a part-time blackwalnut farmer in between comedy shows and writing assignments.

Trond Arne Undheim is an entrepreneur, speaker and author. He lives between Boston and London, speaks six languages and has a Ph.D. in sociology. He writes frequently on wine and society.

Jay Calderin is the author of Form, Fit & Fashion,’ and Fashion Design Essentials. Jay is an instructor and the Director of Creative Marketing at the School of Fashion Design, as well as the Executive Director of Boston Fashion Week, which he founded in 1995.

Desmond Williams is a freelance writer and JUNO magazine columnist. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, is half of a mixed-race couple and father to a rambunctious, comedic and inquisitive kindergartner. Desmond is currently working on a graphic novel, The Painted Man.

Business

recruitment process. Network leaders volunteer to represent State Street at key diversity sponsorship opportunities and recruiting events such as the Massachusetts Conference for Women, the Alliance for Latin Professionals in Finance and Accounting National Convention, and the Spirit Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) Executive Networking Night.

Employee Network Internal Recognition

Leveraging Employee Networks By Michael J. Scannell

Editor’s Note: Employee networks are increasingly becoming an essential part of an inclusive and productive corporate environment. More and more companies are reaping the benefits: attracting and retaining talent, improving employee morale, and having a positive impact on the community. For some advice on how to get the most out of these groups we turned Michael J. Scannell, senior vice president and head of Global Inclusion at State Street Corporation, a financial service provider with a reputation for superior and extensive employee networks.

How does State Street engage its employees most effectively? By working at the grassroots level to establish more than 50 employee networks across 26 offices globally. Employee networks are sponsored by Global Inclusion, a company-wide initiative to ensure State Street employees feel valued and engaged by recognizing and utilizing their unique talents. Research indicates that more engaged employees will ultimately deliver better business results, helping to make State Street a stronger company.

Employee networks are created by those wishing to increase their visibility within State Street and to share their unique perspectives with the company. Open to all employees, these networks create volunteer, career development and cultural opportunities that align with members’ goals and interests. Last year, more than 15,000 employees attended at least one of the 402 employee network events at State Street.

Community Involvement Volunteering in the community is central to State Street’s culture and its employee networks, giving back to the communities in which we live and work by organizing volunteer events throughout the year: The Chinese Professional Network sponsors and participates in Boston’s Dragon Boat Festival annually; the Japan Family Network hosts a community family day to offer support for those dealing with aging parents; and the Black Professionals Group regularly supports the BELL Foundation’s Summer Opportunities Fair, providing more than 150 under-served middle schoolers and their families with in-depth exposure to summer educational programs and services.

Role in the Recruitment Process In addition to hosting events, employee networks are active supporters in State Street’s

Internally, State Street has created a Global Inclusion Spot Award Program to honor those who have gone above and beyond in driving employee engagement at State Street. Additionally, State Street has established the Voices of Inclusion Program, designed to provide employee network leaders with an opportunity to directly connect with State Street’s Management Committee, the company’s most senior strategy and policymaking team. This program allows network leaders to engage with our senior management globally about their experiences at State Street.

Employee Network External Recognition The work of State Street’s employee network leaders has also been recognized within their communities. A member of the Black Professionals Group was recently honored at the 36th Annual YMCA Achievers Recognition Awards Gala. Another employee network leader was recently featured in a local newspaper for her positive experiences living and working as a transgender woman. In the piece, she made mention of State Street’s support in embracing and accommodating her transition. As a member of State Street PRIDE’s steering committee, she is committed to providing personal and professional development opportunities for GLBT employees within the company.

Going Forward Looking to the future, State Street’s Global Inclusion program remains focused on strengthening employee involvement by educating managers to encourage participation in network events and initiatives to foster professional development and increase engagement levels. This continues to be an area of opportunity for State Street and has resulted in a partnership between Global Inclusion and its Talent Management Center of Expertise to develop diversity and inclusion programs for managers.

State Street Employee Networks Below is a partial list of State Street’s employee networks. In most instances, multiple chapters of these groups exist in various locations. Asian Professional Group Bible Study Group Black Professionals Group Catholic Employee Network Chinese Professional Network Disability Awareness Alliance Global Administrative Assistants Network Indian Employee Network International Cultural Exchange Group Irish-American Professionals Group Italian American Professional Network Jewish Professional Group Latin American Professionals Network Military Employee and Family Member Network Muslim Employee Group State Street Connect State Street PRIDE Professional Women’s Networks Toastmasters UK Families Network Working Parents Group

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benchmarks

Q+A

Joichi Ito

The new head of MIT’s Media Lab brings an off-the-beaten-track record of success

The MIT Media Lab (Andy Ryan)

(Mizuka Ito)

By Joanne M. Choi

n Joichi (“Joi” – pronounced Joey) Ito’s blog (joi.ito. com), the new director of the MIT Media Lab discusses the online professional networking site LinkedIn: “So, this is my last “real job” before I transition over completely to the [MIT] Media Lab role: helping to launch LinkedIn in Japan.” The words of a man used to juggling different roles.

Joi Ito has been hired to bring his particular blend of energy, entrepreneurial savvy, and style to the prestigious MIT Media Lab, which was founded in 1985 and has a budget in $35 million range. A renowned thinker on innovation and technology, Ito saw the potential of the internet long before others did. He invested in twitter and Flickr when they were start-ups, and launched his own company, Digital Garage, at the age of 28. The first commercial search engine in Japan, Infoseek Japan, was one of his 6

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ideas and he later became chairman. He also was a part of PSINet Japan, the first commercial Internet service provider in Japan, and later served as its CEO. Ito’s unorthodox journey has a resulted in a modern, global perspective (which living in Japan, Canada and the United States helped to shape). In his impressive curriculum vitae, his support of the arts, teaching and non-profits stands out – and that Joi never completed college.

“The thing about worldchanging innovation is that it’s totally unpredictable,” Ito said. “By abandoning traditional disciplinary divisions, encouraging risk-taking, and creating a research environment that embraces serendipity and ‘the Power of Pull,’ the Media Lab comes up with the type of hybrid innovations that address the complexity and speed of the current global challenges.” Joanne Choi: Your education and career path have been unconventional in many aspects. Can you tell me about some of your role models and mentors? Joi Ito: I’ve had a lot of mentors, but no real role models. In a way, each of my mentors have lived their own life their own way and in that way they are role models, but not in the specifics. Also, I find that so many people in my life teach me things, that almost everyone in my life teaches me something. In many ways, even very annoying people whose experiences that have caused me tremendous stress, have taught me lessons.

However, I suppose some people have taught me more than others. Timothy Leary, who had an amazing ability to come up with bumper-sticker-sized thoughts, used to say, “Question authority and think for yourself.” I’ve found those words to be incredibly important in innovation and how to live life. Kenichi Fukui, who was my mother and father’s friend used to spend hours with me when I was a young man, 13 years old or so. He was a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry and very smart but very self-deprecating. He encouraged me to drop out of college based on my interests and my personality and helped me overcome my anxiety around not pursuing an academic track even though many of my friends and family were great academics. Stanford R. Ovshinsky, inventor, drop-out and physics genius gave my father his first real job, my mother her first job and me my first job. He taught me about activism, the role of science in society and much more. But my late mother was probably my greatest mentor, giving me the courage and will to do what inspired me. JC: What did you learn culturally from living in both Asia and North America as a young person? JI: I grew up in a suburb of Detroit during the downturn in the U.S. auto industry, the mid 70s. It was a hard time to be growing up as the only Japanese kid in a school where most kids only heard bad things about the Japanese at home. I was faced with fairly serious racism and it really battered my self-esteem as a young boy. Then, moving to Japan, I was also sort of an outsider. Eventually, I was able to forge a bicultural identity in the International School system and then realized that there was a lot of value in bridging cultures. Since then, I’ve explored beyond just the U.S. and Japan and have been exploring the Middle East and Muslim culture and others, finding myself always trying to get out of my comfort zone in order to learn. I’m also deeply passionate about human rights, human dignity, diversity and freedom. I think this is inspired by my experiences in my youth. JC: Why Boston? Why MIT? JI: The people at MIT inspired me. The students are motivated, smart and creative as are the faculty and staff. People were thinking with agility but with long term vision as well – something that I sometimes miss doing startups. I am myself a very multi-modal and multidisciplinary person and I really felt like I was in my element at the Media Lab.

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Dialogues

Dog Days of Dating It may be the careerminded professionals who needs to learn the new trick By Mimi Gonzalez

ating, dating, dating. If you’re single, sometimes it’s the foremost thought in your mind. If you’re married, it’s a dangerous thought you shouldn’t be having. You might think being single and seeing new and exciting different people will stimulate all your senses. Your creativity will pique! You’ll have a joie de vivre you didn’t have before! You’ll be seen as attractive and compelling and interesting by someone other than your pet, your children, your spouse. Think again.

Better yet, talk to your single friends. Ask them how much fun it is to be single. How easy it is to sign up with an online service, scanning a one-thousand-page menu of faces hoping that the person behind that smile really will find your golf score inspiring, be impressed by the position you’ve carved out in the precarious world of real estate or finance or law. Maybe you’ll meet a kindred soul who’s worked as diligently as you to arrive at stability, comfort, even prestige. Hopefully they’ll have made the same mistake you’ve made along the way – an easy one in the busy world of career development – you forgot to date. Unlike forgetting your homework, forgetting to make time to date doesn’t come with any reprimand or consequence other than the tug of your human heart pulling you toward connection with another. Sure your friends at the office fulfill some of your need to socialize. You spend more time there than at home when you’re not asleep. But you know an office romance is not what you’re looking for. Something in you has finally awakened to the truth that you’d like to meet someone to have fun with. You need a companion who doesn’t need a leash or a litter 8

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box. And that metaphor can be extended to some of your past dates, can’t it? Maybe it was one of those that sent you packing for the confines of your career, where you could comfort yourself on accomplishments. But no amount of IRA-padding will carry on a conversation with you about the Sox or the beautiful sunflowers your neighbor is growing that adorn your commute. These are the moments you need friends, which of course, some of your colleagues are. But when is the appropriate moment going to come when you can turn to a co-worker and give them a kiss for how cute their summer dress looks on casual Friday? NEVER. How do you do it? How do you meet someone? Internet dating has become a multi-million dollar enterprise aimed at addressing that need. Yet many of the sites have a sleazy, hurry-up and hook-up feel. Might as well spend $20 on a couple of drinks at the local watering hole where you can at least be entertained by a threedimensional vision of someone you’re not with. If you’re really ready to admit, like most people over 40 who’ve taken their career seriously and are divorced, widowed or just done with dinner for one, you’ll have to teach your old dating dog a new trick. The trick is in first admitting this is something you want even if you haven’t done it for a long time. The next trick is learning how to make time in a schedule you’ve filled up in order to avoid the pitfalls of dating. Enter the idea of a service that isn’t based on forms, pictures and window-shopping. Post Club is a matchmaking service in Boston that’s been in the business of introducing candidates to

each other for more than twenty years. Owner Geoffrey Klein said too many professionals have put dating on the back burner because their career comes first. Meeting a professional member of a matchmaking staff in person adds the human touch to a formula packed with the many random quotients that each individual is. Takes an individual to know an individual. Online dating offers a flat screen of basic questions. Having a person who’s met you, that knows other people who might be right for you adds and element of humanity needed to meet someone worthwhile. Post Club’s website lists an interesting statistic confirming this: a majority of their respondents listed meeting through friends as the number one way they find other singles. It takes a village of friends to help each other find someone to go out with. Maybe you’ve exhausted all your resources or you’ve been a bad dog on some dates and your friends are no longer willing to embarrass themselves because you’ve forgotten how to behave. Klein developed relationship coaching because “for people under forty-five or fifty, dating and communicating has really changed. You have to know when to use the phone, text or email.” Then he’s had to help people learn how to communicate once they’ve gotten the date, whether it be a warning not too talk to much, or telling one guy not to demand an answer by the end of the night or to encourage business women to shake hands less forcefully than they’ve become accustomed to in their working lives. “Professionals need to incorporate dating into their lives,” said Klein. He offered that the people who come to his service “aren’t desperate and don’t need someone to complete them; they already lead full lives.” His service is there to help “people carve out the time to have a relationship.” So take the first step and look at dating the way you’d look at project managing a new task. Manage the resources of your time, tolerance and willingness to learn a new skill. Set a goal: to meet three new people to possibly date within the next quarter. If you don’t meet your target, optimize the lessons learned, reevaluate, regroup and do it all over again. Or get used to hours in front of a computer monitor wondering what it feels like to hold someone’s hand. And teaching your dog that trick doesn’t count!

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The Fourth Annual Access Awards B y T i m Est i l o z

he Annual Boston Latino TV Access Awards is

always one of the year’s most highly anticipated, glamorous and entertaining events for Boston’s Latino and multi-cultural community. As in years past, the fourth consecutive incarnation of this event (June 30th, 2011 at Royale Nightclub) recognized, honored and celebrated the leadership, success and inspiration provided by a talented group of selected individuals.

The event featured some of the most influential individuals within New England’s multicultural community and this year’s event was a night filled with plenty of music, mingling and celebration. An array of individuals who represent some of the best of Boston’s Latino community were on hand to honor the award recipients, including, State Rep. Jeffrey Sanchez; City Councilors Tito Jackson and Marilyn Vega; Junot Diaz; renowned Salsa Singer Frankie Negron; and Richy Pena, 2010 Access Award honoree and 2010 Latin Grammy winner. “The evening was the best in class and a great opportunity to highlight individuals and organizations that do amazing work in our communities”, said Yvonne Garcia, segment marketing of personal markets at Liberty Mutual – the title sponsor of the event, “The evening reminded us how far we have come and how the journey has only begun”. Boston Latino TV hosts Evelyn Reyes and Gil Matos welcomed the audience shortly after the red carpet arrival as guests were entertained with a lively mix of Latin music provided by DJ Matos. The New England Revolution’s Rev Girls dance troupe kicked off the evening with a lively performance. Venezuelan singer Alexander performed a rendition of “Dos Gardenias Para Ti” while dancers Fran and Mariale from Dance Fusion provided an elegant interpretive accompaniment on stage. Rising star Elisa Rodriguez also impressed. The evening was closed out with a featured performance by singer Yunel Cruz performing his current hit “Dominicanita.” 10

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Access Award Winners The Boston Latino TV Access Awards recognizes the finest in individual achievement and public leadership within Boston’s Latino community. The Influential Leader Award was presented to Ferdinand Alvaro, Esq, Partner in Charge, Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan, LLP

The Visionary Award was presented to La Alianza Hispana and was accepted by Janet Collazo, Executive Director of La Alianza Hispana The Make a Difference Award was awarded to Ralph de la Torre, MD, Chairman and CEO, Steward Health Care The Media Award was presented to Marcela Garcia, Editor of El Planeta The Community Networking Award was presented to El Mundo’s Professional Mixer and was accepted by the entire Executive Team The Entrepreneurial Spirit Award was presented to Jody Mendoza, owner of Mojitos Lounge and co-Founder of Rich Republic The Artistic Expression Award was presented to Manny Perez, one of the most recognized Latino actors in Hollywood. Manny is also the writer and producer of the movie “La Soga”

1 Yunel Cruz (David Corbera) 2 Alexander (David Corbera) 3 Manny Perez and Junot Diaz (LuzPortfolio) 4 Elisa Rodriguez (David Corbera) 5 Professional Mixer Team (LuzPortfolio)

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with

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Lee Pelton President of Emerson College

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he parents of Dr. M. Lee Pelton were laborers who never attended college. Perhaps

because of their lack of higher education, they grasped its importance, a lesson that was not lost their son, who last month, became the 12th President of Emerson College.¶ The first in his family to go to college, Pelton has graced numerous institutions, earning degrees from Wichita State and Harvard University, serving as dean of Colgate University and Dartmouth College, and, most recently, president of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. In his final year at Willamette, the school was one of only six to receive the Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll Presidential Award from President Obama.¶ As he begins his career at Emerson, Pelton brings a commitment to civic engagement, diversity and a passion for 19 th century British poetry, to the city he loves “more than any other place on earth.”

Color Magazine: Why did your parents emphasize education? Lee Pelton: My parents believed that education was a life raft in an unsettled and stormy sea that had special consequences for a young african american boy growing up in a world divided by race. They taught me at a very early age, that nothing on earth, save family and church, was more precious than a good education, and I’ve made education my life’s work. It derives from the simple but profound notion that education is the key to ascending the social and economic ladder in America, and that was certainly the case for me. I suspect that my experiences growing up, in many respects, would be similar to the kids of immigrant families who have come to the new world for a brighter and better future.

The most important lesson I learned from Jim was to have the courage to see something as it is and to speak to that truth, to speak with authenticity and speak from the values that are important to me. He knew, and I have since learned, that when one speaks with an authentic, truthful voice, one is respected even by those who might disagree. That is not an easy position for college and university presidents to take these days, especially when they are preoccupied with nurturing relationships with alumni and other external constituencies whose resources have the capacity to advance the college or university. I think we’ve seen in the last sixty years a regrettable silencing of college and university presidents on issues and topics that really matter to this country.

CM: Did you have any mentors along the way, and what did they teach you? LP: There’s probably only one person whom I would describe as a mentor and he was also a great friend. That is Jim Freedman who was president of Dartmouth College, and, as you may know, is no longer living. He taught me a great many things, and when I say he taught me, these are things that I observed in his own leadership. Like the prophet Isiah, he taught me that without vision people perish. He taught me through his own life and work, that those who walk in goodness, who walk in beauty and truth will have happiness as their faithful companion. He taught me to know the difference between leadership and management and, whenever possible, to exercise the first of these. The former leads by principle and the latter manages by pragmatism.

CM: Do you feel college presidents should have a certain shelf life? LP: Undoubtedly, the decision to leave an institution after several years of service is complex and it involves a great many things not readily apparent to anyone except the president and perhaps the board. However, if the answer to the question, ‘Have I done all that I can do or all that I set out to do?’ is ‘Yes,’ then it’s time for him or her to take their leave. Regrettably, some presidents do great harm to their legacy and, by extension, their university by staying too long. The answer to those questions for me were, ‘Yes.’ The process of answering truthfully those questions was complex and time consuming. It took me a year and a half, maybe longer, to feel I could answer those questions resolutely. Once I did, then I realized that I should be open to other opportunities, and Emerson was

an opportunity that found its way into my life. CM: Why did you choose Emerson? LP: I’m inspired and motivated by change. I arrived at Emerson at a particular moment in its long history, having finalized the rather bold move from Boston’s Back Bay to the Theater District, and revitalizing a long-neglected neighborhood, and at the same time signaling its own emergence as an institution of high aspirations. I have come here to shine an even brighter light on its capacity to educate the people who will solve the problems and change the world through engaged leadership, arts and communication. CM: What challenges do universities and colleges face in terms of promoting diversity as opposed to other organizations? LP: There are differences. The military, by the way, has been extraordinarily successful incorporating diversity into its organization, and it’s been able to do that because the culture of a strong chain of command allows for these kinds of changes to take place very rapidly. As you know colleges and universities are highly democratized and professors have the opportunity for lifetime employment, and they represent the core of the institution. Administrators, presidents, come and go, so it’s a very different culture here. Having said that, progress in this important area is often impeded by what I call the tyranny of good intentions. Places sometimes mistake good intentions for acting affirmatively to make sure – through diligence, commitment, resource allocation, innovation, new ways of seeing the world, – that diversity is

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advanced as a core component of what it truly means to be educated. Success is a three-legged stool. The three legs include strategy, resources, and leadership. If any one of these three legs are missing the stool will not stand. And it is rare, in my experience with institutions of higher learning, to have all three of these legs operating at the same time on behalf of diversity. CM: How is it different being in downtown Boston versus Hanover, NH (Dartmouth College) in terms of your diversity strategy? LP: First of all there’s more of it here. There’s more cultural, racial, ethnic and social orientation diversity. Second, Boston offers a larger platform on which one might say important things about diversity that might influence and shape the contemporary thinking of a broad audience. CM: At Willamette you emphasized community service. Will you do the same at Emerson and why? LP: Yes, because one of the aims of great colleges and universities, no matter their niche or specialized mission, is to educate students as leaders in a participatory democracy. And we know that education does not stop at the classroom door or when they leave Emerson’s glorious creative laboratories, but rather it extends profoundly into their co-curricular life. We need to make sure, at Emerson, that the curriculum and the architecture of their social life helps to contribute in meaningful ways to their growth and development so they can put into play their full potential as leaders and shapers of society. CM: Are there days when you are sick of being a president and you wish you could jgo back to being a professor? LP: I love what I do. I can not imagine a better

(David Rosen courtesy of Emerson College)

job than the one that I now have. Having said that, I was educated to teach, and I miss it. After Harvard, I taught at Colgate, Dartmouth, Willamette, and I’ve even threatened to teach at Emerson and I hope I can carve out the time to do so. Probably not an entire course but maybe as a guest lecturer on 19th century British poetry or prose. CM: How did you become interested in that? LP: I get asked that question all the time. I grew up in the highly romanticized late 60s and early 70s. The values of liberation, freedom, standing in opposition, to the old way of seeing the world, in opposition to power structures that in our view had become deracinated even corrupt – that was part of my growing up. When I discovered literature, I was immediately drawn to the romantic poet. There was a great connection for me to the great romantic poets of the 19th century, so it became a love and passion for me. CM: What were you looking forward to the most in coming back to Boston? LP: Two things: The first was reconnecting with old friends. And then, returning to a city that I love more than any other place on earth. I sort of feel like Ulysses having returned to home from a long, weary, epic journey. So far, my life

here has exceeded all of my expectations. CM: Is there a anecdote you look back on and say ‘I really made a difference here’ that sticks out in your mind for whatever reason. LP: I’ll give you one story which connects to Emerson. Several years ago when I was at Willamette, I gave a commencement address at a High School in Salem (Oregon). This was a high school that had students from working class and poor backgrounds, the vast majority of these students, did not and would not attend college. Just two weeks before I was leaving Willamette, a student from that high school told me a remarkable story: He was a sophomore attending the graduation ceremony of the seniors, and he heard my talk. He told me that it so inspired him that this young man, who was struggling to get through high school who had never considered going to college, began to devote himself and commit himself to doing well so he could attend the institution where I was president. Which he did, and he graduated in May of 2011. He came to my office to tell me that he now wants to come to Emerson College as a graduate student and asked would I serve as a reference for him, mind you he had gone four years without speaking to me. It is my hope that he will one day attend Emerson as a graduate student.

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Coach Dennis Wilson gives a pregame speech (Mike Pecci)

Local Basketball Documentary has Roxbury, Film World Buzzing By John Black

ou could feel the electricity in the air.¶

Saturday, April 30, 2010. The Independent Film Festival Boston. The big house at the Somerville Theatre, packed to capacity, the audience cheering like they were at the seventh game of an NBA finals and the Celtics were seconds away from winning it all.¶ Somewhere in the crowd, director Rudy Hypolite, feels the love from the crowd; it tells him that the years it took to make his movie, Push: Madison Vs. Madison, were well worth it.

“It was an amazing night because we had all worked so hard and were so involved with the movie and the people in it, but because we were that close we didn’t have any perspective about how the rest of the world would react,” Hypolite said in an interview with Color Magazine. “I mean, the first edit of the film was three and a half hours long, and the film shown that night is about an hour and forty five minutes long, so that gives you an idea of the amount of work we did to get the story to flow.” The flow he and his crew found for the final film worked – Push: 16

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Director Rudy Hypolite

Madison Vs. Madison went on to win the IFFB audience buzz award, and has since gone on to be invited to a number of film festivals, both local (the Roxbury International Film Festival), regional (Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival) and, potentially, global (The New York International Latino Film Festival, presented by HBO). Not bad for an indie movie set at Madison Park Vocational Technical School in

Roxbury. So what was it about the movie that had everybody on their feet at the end? What’s the movie about? Well, as the director is quick to point out, Push: Madison Vs. Madison is about a lot of things. It’s the story of a basketball team on their quest to win a championship, and it’s about the dynamic coach (Dennis Wilson) who worked with the players on their life skills as much as on their basketball skills. It’s the story of inner city life – the good, the bad and the ugly – while also painting a compelling portrait of the people who make it a real neighborhood despite the obstacles. It’s about sports, it’s about people, it’s about a school program and it’s about all of us, the ones in the movie and the ones in the theater watching those lives unfold. “I made a conscious decision when making the film not to use a narrator or write a narration to tell people what the movie was about,” Hypolite said. “I want them to discover it for themselves, and to relate to it on a personal level.” At of the time of this interview, Push: Madison Vs. Madison did not have a theatrical distributor, but anybody who has seen the movie will tell you it’s only a matter of time before it is playing in a theater near you. To find out more about the movie, to post your reviews and to follow Rudy Hypolite on his journey wth the film, visit pushmadison.com.

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Selena Gomez America’s super starlet has stayed grounded as her career soars By John Black

he transformation from teenager to adult can be an intense time for anybody, but when it seems like half the the world watched you grow up on TV and the other half hides out in the bushes with long lens cameras trying to get a picture of you for the tabloids, the pressure can be almost too much to bear. Unless, of course, you have a strong sense of who you are and a healthy curiosity about who you want to become, which is how singer/actress Selena Gomez keeps her feet on the ground as her career takes off to the stars.

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Selena Gomez on the set of Monte Carlo (Larry Horricks)

“It’s a really exciting time in my life,” Gomez said in an interview with Color Magazine done while she was in Boston to promote her new movie, Monte Carlo. “I haven’t done a lot of movies and now I’m totally addicted to acting and want to do more. But I also have a new CD out and I’m also working on putting together my summer tour and it’s the first time I’ve done a full show like this, so it’s pretty intense, but it’s also pretty amazing.” Gomez, who started her career on the Barney & Friends TV series when she was 10 years old, knows a lot about the intensity of building a career in show business. As a girl who grew into a young woman virtually on camera on The Disney Channel (Wizards of Waverly Place), she also knows the responsibility of having a rabid fan base that grew up with you. “Being a Disney kid you’re kind of a product. Your life becomes your name, and I want to start over. I want to switch everything up to make it about my work,” she said. “I never said that I wanted to be a role model. I do, however, have the most amazing fans. They look up to me and, obviously, that means the world to me, but I also let them know that I’m not perfect. I make mistakes. I’m growing up and figuring out who I am. So, if anything, I’m growing up with them. They make me better in the best way possible because they do make me more aware of the decisions I make. At the same time, there’s only so much that I can give of myself because I have to leave some for me. There are parts of my life that have to stay private.” Taking a step back from the star machine that made her reflect on where she wants her career (and life) to go from here has also given the Texas native the time to explore her Latina roots (her father is Mexican-American) and the courage to make her heritage part of her career. “I used to be fluent (in Spanish) but I lost it because I didn’t use it, and it disappoints me because I am proud of my background,” Gomez explained. “So I decided to explore my heritage through music and am now recording a Spanish-language album and it’s an incredible experience. It made me remember how beautiful the language is, and it’s given me a new perspective as a singer because of the emotions I’m discovering when I sing in Spanish.” At the time of the interview, Gomez was about half-way through recording the CD, but wasn’t sure when it would be finished and released. It’s obviously a project that means a lot to her and she wants to get it right. Besides, there’s the tour this summer, and another movie to make (13 Reasons Why) when that is done, and a clothing line to oversee, and on and on. “As I get older and I’m going to want all this to slow down, I think I’m going to concentrate on acting,” Gomez said, “but for now I want to do it all.”

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Wine as Education By Trond Arne Undheim

ine is more than just a drink these days. We attend wine tastings, events and courses. We buy wine tasting kits. We drive down wine trails visiting vineyards. Some even take exams on the matter. We want to know what we are doing. We want expertise. Why?¶ First of all, wine is a great way to meet people. Moreover, just like sports, music or the arts, it is a hefty hobby providing distraction, cognitive stimulation, and maybe a complement to your job, family or other pursuits. To have a hobby is human. In fact, wine appeals to the collector’s instinct, which is about categorizing things, putting things in order – mostly our own, personal order. Unlike with stamps or coins, there is the additional appeal: the collection can be consumed when appropriate. Also, not to forget, wine expertise is socially desirable. It exudes sophistication, elegance and style. Wine connoisseurs are popular and score points with family, friends, dates and occasionally, with spouses. In reality, there is no mystery to it; wine, like anything else, can be learned.

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Secondly, the market offerings are exploding. Educational options are accessible, affordable and attractive. According to a survey by the Global Wine Capital network, the average wine tourist is domestic, male, 36-55, visits in the summer, and buys wine when visiting wineries. Clearly, getting people on location is important. All wine producing nations and most significant wine regions have their own educational facilities. University of California Davis is the standard for viticulture. Cornell’s offering is taking shape as New York’s Finger Lakes wine industry grows. Less formal wine education is readily available in most cities around the world. Thirdly, we increasingly taste wine in a specific cultural context: rural, scenic and serene. We experience the wine setting, meet the winemaker, touring cellars and vineyards. This whets the appetite for ever more wine knowledge. And cultural tourism is somewhat recession proof, it is not driven by prices, but by the desire for peak experiences or nostalgic familiarity. We want to find the hidden wineries, the good stories, the new, great wines few have yet heard of.

Trond’s Picks Online wine education has also exploded in the last few years. You can get everything from degree programmes to the flippant Wine Library TV with Gary Vaynerchuk’s daily video blog now in its 1,000th episode, or the random person’s YouTube exploits. Lots of educational apps – such as Memorable Wines which lets you take a picture, record a sound bite and a short comment about any wine you just tasted – are available for smart phones. According to VinTank, a digital think tank for the wine industry, who recently performed a study on the topic: “there are 452 wine iPhone apps, with a clear lead in users from HelloVino, Drync, Nat Decants and Springpad.” Wine and education are becoming linked in new ways because, as market offerings get more creative, it is a way to meet people, gain socially desirable knowledge, and derive cultural experiences that either challenge or soothe us, whichever is needed at that moment.

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This dry, minerally strong wine made from old vines planted in limestone soil exudes longevity. It smells of concentrated gooseberry and white flowers. In fact it is elegantly refined, produces notable citrus aromas throughout the palate, and gives off a long, satisfying aftertaste. A certified biodynamic wine by Ecocert, an organic certification organization based in Europe but which conducts inspections in more than 80 countries. This wine is expertly brought to the States by, among others, Boston-based importer Cynthia Hurley. Vouvray is an area situated in the Loire Valley in France where the terroir friendy Chinon Blanc, a white wine grape characterized by strong acidity, dominates production.

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This light pink, bone dry rose is surprisingly strong in the attack, great acidity, with herbal anchoring and only mildly floral in nature, with notes of strawberries, lavender, and minerals and a clean finish. Grapes are picked from the ripest vines on the property with southern exposure and in a terroir of chalky-clay slopes. Grape varieties include Grenache (73%), Rolle (4%), Cinsault (9%), Syrah (8.5%) and Mourvedre (5.5%). This is at the low end rose offering of Sacha Lichine, son of the famous wine commentator Alexis Lichine, who with the purchase of Chateau Desclans in 2006, together with winemaker Patrick Leon has been trying to take the rose category to new heights. The other three rose offerings use extreme selection of grapes and old vines from only the best sites and vineyards of the domaine, the top one pushing the $100 price tag. Judging from Whispering Angel alone, one could say he is about to succeed.

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The Academics of Fashion B y J ay C a l d e r i n

t its best, making fashion is a complex and creative undertaking. There are many layers of learning that go into the development of the beautiful garments and accessories that grace a runway, or make it onto the editorial pages of a fashion magazine. Reality television satisfies the public’s appetite for behindthe-scenes access, hence the popularity of programs like “Project Runway,” now in its ninth season. (Kudos to local designer David Chum, who has secured a spot on the show!) Shows like this do in fact educate us about the world of fashion, but only to a point. Although entertaining, this format is limited by the time span of an episode, not to mention the need for ratings. The very nature of the methods involved in creating fashion require the development of special skills like sketching, draping, patternmaking and sewing. It also demands the time to test and experiment with ideas that stem from the fruits of historical research, scientific discovery and forecasting. For anyone interested in diving into the depths of design there is no better place to experience the process than the classroom.

curriculum a good match to my learning style? What does the program prioritize in terms of creativity, professionalism and innovation? Does the schedule offer me options that work within the context of my lifestyle? Add to these any and all questions that are specific to how and what you want to learn. Before a prospective student starts to make the rounds, there needs to be a clear idea in their mind of what they want from the time and money they are investing. An enthusiastic novice with a love of fashion may take on occasional DIY projects, or sharpen their skills with sewing or drawing classes at very accessible places of learning like the Boston Center for Adult Education. Many larger schools now also recognize the need for single classes without prerequisites, which allow the student to dabble and move at their own pace, before committing to becoming a full-time student. Advocates of a fashion education will agree that no matter how clever or talented

New England boasts one of the largest concentrations of fashion design programs in the country. In the heart of Boston there are distinguished schools like the School of Fashion Design, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Bay State College and Fisher College. Throughout the state of Massachusetts, edu-

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cational institutions like Lasell College, Mount Ida College and Framingham State College, all offer respected fashion design programs. Then of course, just beyond our state border in Providence, there is the world-renowned Rhode Island School of Design. Although the goal of each program is to turn out a well informed, professional fashion designer, each school has a unique culture and environment depending on their location, class size and faculty. For the most part, the subject matter is fairly consistent. Selecting the school with the right fit becomes a matter of asking the right questions. Is the

an individual may be, they will always benefit from working with a variety of teachers who stimulate their imaginations, help hone new skills, and provide alternative ways of thinking about design challenges. The collaborative and competitive nature of the classroom is also invaluable because of the relationships that are built with fellow students. The beauty of the study of fashion is that it does not have a beginning, a middle and an end. In the best-case scenario it follows the designer throughout their career, and continues to provide great rewards and inspiration.

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