The Center for Applied Liberal Arts has been a destination for extraordinary non-credit education in New York, and we work hard to attract knowledgeable and dedicated instructors who are eager to share their professional expertise with you. Here are some of our new faculty in Writing and Communications, and just a few of the projects they’ve been working on.
Abby Russell’s Emmy nomination, Telly Awards, James Beard Award, and extensive experience as a television producer and filmmaker puts her at the forefront of video storytelling. Her work has appeared on PBS, Discovery, Food Network, MTV, Sundance, and Lifetime. Moreover, as founder and CEO of Nuforms Media, with a wide range of clients including Funny or Die, IBM, Gillette, HBO, and Armani, Abby knows how to help professionals in very different industries tell stories that have an impact, engage audiences, and get results.
Click the link below to see some of her films, and then sign up for one of her classes, Multimedia Storytelling or Producing Comedy Videos.
https://vimeo.com/nuformsmedia
As an accomplished and award-winning podcaster and public radio reporter, Eric J Molinsky is a key player in one of the fastest growing industries for writers. Eric knows podcasting and radio reporting inside and out: he has worked as an associate producer at Studio 360 from WNYC and PRI, and on The New Yorker Radio Hour; he has reported for some of public radio’s most popular programs, including Marketplace, Morning Edition, and All Things Considered; and he has hosted and written for podcasts like The Truth and Imaginary Worlds on the Panoply network.
Click the link below to listen to some of his work, and then sign up for his class, Podcasting: Creating a Public Radio-Style Podcast.
https://www.wnyc.org/people/eric-molinsky/
From deputy director of BuzzFeed Audio to senior producer for Trump, Inc., a popular podcast that employs innovative new ways to investigate the business dealings of Donald Trump and his family, Meghan Cramer has been an innovator in the way reporters and storytellers engage listeners in topics like business, politics, and arts and culture. Having also worked for Michigan Radio and APM’s Marketplace, her thorough knowledge of podcasting and audio reporting promises to be an extraordinary asset to SPS students.
Click the link below to learn more about Trump, Inc., and then sign up for her class, Podcasting: Creating Interviews and Conversation Shows.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/trumpinc
Rachel Abrams has been a reporter with the New York Times since 2013. She was part of the team of reporters that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for reporting that exposed sexual harassment and misconduct, and another that covered General Motors’ faulty ignition switches and the government’s failure to respond.
Click the link below to read some of her stories about these topics and many others—including bias training at Starbucks, wage growth in America, and the business dealings of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, to name just a few—and then sign up for her class, Newswriting: Writing Above the Fold.