ORGANIZATION AND STAFF
Founded in 2012, the Center for Media and Destiny is a very small organization that is just beginning to develop its website, programs, and activities. If you are interested in supporting or working with the Center, please contact us.
FUNDING
The seed capital for the Center came from royalties on sales of Barry Vacker's text anthology, Media Environments. We hope to grow and fund our projects through donations, grants, and memberships. Donations and memberships are tax deductible. Details are forthcoming.
A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION
The Center for Media and Destiny is an official 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and public charity, as designated by the Internal Revenue Service of the United States government.
FOUNDER AND SOMETIMES DREAMER
Founder and President, Center for Media and Destiny
Associate Professor, Dept. of Media Studies and Production
Temple University
FOUNDING ASSOCIATES
Jarice Hanson, Amherst
Professor, Department of Communication
The University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Genevieve Gillespie, Philadelphia
Associate Director of Events, Center for Media and Destiny
Temple University, 2013
Yoni Van Den Eede, Brussels
Ph.D. fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders
Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences
Free University of Brussels (VUB)
Olivia Antsis, Philadelphia
Director, Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival
MFA, University of the Arts, 2005
Osei Alleyne, Philadelphia
PhD student
Department of Anthropology
The University of Pennsylvania
Angela Cirucci, Philadelphia
PhD student
Temple University
Stacey Sullivan, Philadelphia
MA, Temple University, 2011
Agreen Wang, Shanghai
MA, Temple University, 2011
OFFICERS
Barry Vacker, President
Gail Bower, Treasurer
Stacey Sullivan, Secretary
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Barry Vacker, Associate Professor, Temple University (PhD, University of Texas at Austin)
Jarice Hanson, Professor, The University of Massachusetts-Amherst (PhD, Northwestern University)
Gail Bower, President, Bower & Co. Consulting LLC.
Eventually, we will add more advisors to our Board of Directors.
OUR NONPROFIT ATTORNEY
Morgen Cheshire, ESQ. LLC (Philadelphia)
• The Center offers much thanks and gratitude for all the expertise and ethusiasm shared by Morgen in handling the legal issues involved in setting up our nonprofit. Here is a great story in the Philadlephia Inquirer about Morgen's law firm for nonprofits.