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Antonio López's goal as an educator, journalist, media producer and speaker is to bridge worlds—mental, cultural, ecological and technological. He was content provider for a groundbreaking Spanish language media and health CDROM, Medios y Remedios, produced by the New Mexico Media Literacy Project and created a multicultural media literacy curriculum, Merchants of Culture. As a producer of dozens of youth media projects, López has collaborated with MacArthur Foundation, National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, Action Coalition for Media Education Summit, National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, and National Rural Health Organization. As a consultant, López has advised PBS' In the Mix series, Intel and The Praxis project on media and cultural diversity. He teaches and trains instructors in outreach, media production and media literacy, specializing in rural and underserved communities.
López's background in print journalism includes writing for Mondo 2000, Hispanic Magazine, Urban Latino, Southwest Art, El Andar, In These Times, New Mexico Magazine, Native Peoples, Tricycle and Punk Planet. He was a staff arts writer for The Santa Fe New Mexican and the Albuquerque Journal. He has essays in Puerto del Sol, Travelers Tales: Cuba, In Search of Adventure, Media Literacy: A Reader, Understanding Borat, Emotional Appeal In Advertising, and a chapter in the up-coming MacArthur Foundation series, Digital Media Learning. His book on media education, Media Mindfulness (Peter Lang Publishing), will be released at the end of 2008. He received professional training at the Center for Investigative Reporting in San Francisco, and earned his BA in Peace and Conflict Studies at UC Berkeley and MA in Media Studies at the New School for Social Research. He holds a PhD from the school of punk rock. López currently blogs at http://mediacology.com and lives in Rome, Italy.
