Panel: The State of the Art
Sam Gregory is a human rights activist, advocacy trainer and video producer. He is currently the Program Director of WITNESS. WITNESS uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations. It empowers people to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools for justice, promoting public engagement and policy change. Recently WITNESS launched the Hub (hub.witness.org), a participatory media site where anyone can upload and share human rights-related video, audio and photos, and engage in action to end human rights abuses Sam has worked in collaboration with human rights organizations across the world, and particularly in Burma, including co-producing the recent Shoot on Sight: The Ongoing Military Junta Offensive against Civilians in Eastern Burma (2007). In 2005 he was the lead editor on Video for Change: A Guide for Advocacy and Activism (Pluto Press) and in 2007 he designed the curriculum for WITNESS first two-week global Video Advocacy Institute. Videos he has co-produced have been screened at the US Congress, UK Houses of Parliament, the United Nations and at film festivals worldwide. He studied at Oxford and as a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard. He is a Board Member of the US Campaign for Burma and the Tactical Technology Collective.
photographer credit: ©WITNESS by James Rexroad.