Contact: David Staley at staley.3@osu.edu

Brooke Bryan will present on harnessing new media for community engagement. The Why Here | Why Now Project explores place, personhood, and the experience of community in Yellow Springs, Ohio. The project seeks to document and portray the lived experience of the families of Yellow Springs — their individual struggles and accomplishments, their relationship to others in the community, and to the place of Yellow Springs. Through interview and documentary photography, Brooke works with digital audio and new media with the hopes of reinvigorating community and fostering conversations that might not happen on the street.