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Amy L. Hill
Amy L. Hill is a digital storytelling instructor, documentary filmmaker, and public health consultant. Amy’s twelve-year history of coordinating community-based women’s health and violence-prevention projects led her in 2000 to found the Silence Speaks Digital Storytelling Project, which teaches survivors and witnesses of violence how to create short digital videos of courage and healing and promotes use of these pieces in training, community organizing, and policy advocacy contexts. Hill continues to coordinate Silence Speaks and other projects focused on health, human rights, community development, and social/economic justice, in her current role as Community Projects Director at the Center for Digital Storytelling. Prior to coming on board at the Center, Amy worked with the award-winning documentary film group Concentric Media, where she co-produced and edited a series of documentary films about HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia, Seeds of Hope. She has a BA in British & American Literature from Scripps College, and a master’s degree in Education/Gender Studies from Stanford University. |
