Presentations + Press
(presentations given by SalaamGarage founder Amanda Koster, unless otherwise noted. Amanda is represented exclusively by Samara Lectures for all public speaking and book signing events. To schedule, please contact info@samaralectures.com)
5/11: Bellevue Community College: “No More Drive-Bys.”
3/11: UC Merced, CA: “Incorporating entrepreneurship, leadership and social justice: you are now a free agent.” Private presentation and workshop.
3/11: “The High Bar” TV interview with Warren Etheredge (that was really non-alcoholic beer)
2/11: Ignite13, Seattle. “I may have more impact on a cheeseburger”
4/10 @ TEDx Seattle: “In Steve Biko’s backyard: the intrinsic value of show and tell.”
4/10: BBC ‘Pods and Blogs’: “Leaks, blogs and NGOs” interview with Jamillah Knowles of BBC.
4/10: “Global Humanitarian Discussions” for blogtalkradio.com Interview with Megan Schiebe.
4/10 @ Tertulia (private)
3/10: Tech Flash: Awarded “Top 100 Women in Seattle Tech”
3/10: Chicago Trib Nation: “Talking About the Future of Journalism.”
3/10: Pro Blogger: “Updates from SxSW.“
3/10 @ SxSW (Amanda Koster + Amanda Rose of Twestival) “Citizen journalism and the little NGO that could.”
3/10 @ Ignite Seattle: “How I made sense of my trip to Vietnam.”
12/09 @ Willamette University
4/09 @ Web 2.0 conference: “SalaamGarage: Imagine What You Can Do”
2/09 @ Northeastern University Private presentation to media students.
5/12/09 HUFFINGTON POST article
SalaamGarage is in the top ten! 10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media by Max Gladwell
4/09 Article by SalaamGarage trip producer Maggie Soladay on the WanderingEducators.com
Using Social Networks for Social Change
3/09: Wandering Educators features SalaamGarage Guatemala/09 Trip:
http://www.wanderingeducators.com/best/traveling/salaamgarage-guatemala.html
2/26/09: NYC SalaamGarage Party! click here to see photos!
1/20/09: T Labee and Adrian MacDonald complete a short documentary about Amanda Koster/SalaamGarage.
(still photos: Cynthia LaRowe, India video: Conrad Chavez, Kenya video “AIDS Is Knocking”: Amanda Koster)
12/10/08: Microsoft Social Computing Symposium
12/8/08: Interview with www.wanderingeducators.com “SalaamGarage” by Jessie Voigts
11/08: @ thewarrenreport.
11/08: Article in OnScreen Magazine: “The Woman Who Shot the World” by T. LaBee
11/08: SalaamGarage receives the go-ahead to lead a trip with PeaceTrees Vietnam in 1/10. This is the first time a group of traveling photographers have been cleared to enter the Quang Tri Province Province by the Vietnamese government since the war.
10/08: Interview with www.wanderingeducators.com: “Can I Come With You? Social Documentary Photography” by Jessie Voigts
9/17/08 SeanBohan blog
Salaam Garage – Amazing idea, story, presentation & effort: a piece about SalaamGarage and Amanda Koster’s talk at Gnomdex
9/08: Amanda presents SalaamGarage at Microsoft’s Social Computing Symposium
9/08: Amanda invited to present at Web 2.0 in late March/09 by O’Reilly Media.
8/8: Amanda’s Book “Can I Come With You” Published by Bennett & Hastings will be released early September 18, 2008.
8/8: 911 Media / Tajuan LaBee beings a documentary about Amanda Koster and SalaamGarage for On Screen magazine.
Stay tuned for the video doc.
8/08 Amanda Koster video at Gnomdex August 2008
8/8: www.revenews.com features SalaamGarage “Altered Vision SalaamGarage Gives Voice To Positive Content On Developing Nations“ by Angel Djambazov
8/08: Amanda presents para invitation at to speak a Gnomdex08 :
3/08: Conscious Choice Magazine features SalaamGarage: “Have Cause Will Travel” by Daysha Eaton
2/08: Chicago Tribune syndicates Cecilia Goodnow’s story.
2/08: Seattle Post Intelligencer features SalaamGarage: “Opening Eyes: Four travelers mentored by a Seattle photographer document the life-affirming work of an Indian orphanage” By Cecilia Goodnow
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