Melissa Jun Rowley
| Melissa Jun Rowley | |
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| Born | Melissa Jun Rowley December 14 Seoul, Korea |
| Other names | Melissa Rowley |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Journalism, Human Rights |
| 🌐 Website | http://thetoolbox.org/ |
Melissa Jun Rowley is a journalist, human rights activist and entrepreneur. She is the Executive Director of The Toolbox, a social impact and technology-driven organization, founded by the English musician and humanitarian Peter Gabriel[1][2]
Rowley is the creator of a youth advocacy initiative called Magic Makers,[3] which promotes the work of teen activists[4] using STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Mathematics)[5] to transform communities. The first Magic Maker Rowley selected was the American inventor, scientist, and cancer researcher Jack Thomas Andraka.
Early Life and Education
Rowley was born an orphan in Seoul, Korea. When she was five months old, she was adopted by Kay Rowley, a former school teacher, and Carl Rowley, a retired electrical engineer. In a blog series she wrote about international adoption for Huffington Post, she stated that pregnant women in South Korea who choose to keep their children are "ostracized by society".[6] She was raised in Bay City, Michigan, and later moved to upstate New York to attend Ithaca College, where she won a music scholarship to major in voice and a grant to study journalism at the Roy H. Park School of Communications. She ended up graduating with a B.A. in broadcast journalism and speech communication.
Career
The majority of Rowley's career as a journalist has revolved around social action, technology and science. She is known for writing about gender issues, race, youth advocacy, and how emerging technology can be harnessed to instigate positive social change. Her online work encompasses features for Fast Company, VICE, CBS News, Mic.com, Huffington Post Impact, Mashable, Village Voice Media, Discovery News, BlogHer, MTV Act, Cisco's Technology News Network[7] and the Smart+Connected Communities Institute.
On March 11, 2015, Rowley and Peter Gabriel announced[8] a collaborative partnership between The Toolbox and the World Economic Forum.
In June 2014, Rowley was a guest speaker at the Northside Festival,[9] where she presented on the benefits of a cashless society.
On June 13, 2012, Rowley was the international keynote speaker at Social Media Under[10] in Sydney, Australia.
In 2011, Rowley was a correspondent[11] for the interactive series What's Trending with Shira Lazar on CBSNews.com.
From 2003 to 2008, Rowley was an entertainment producer for CNN, E! Entertainment[12] and the Associated Press Television News in Los Angeles. In 2002, she produced business news for CNN from the New York Stock Exchange. She started her TV career producing news at the cable network TechTV.[13]
References
- ↑ Peter Gabriel
- ↑ http://mashable.com/2012/09/22/peter-gabriel-internet-freedom/
- ↑ http://mic.com/articles/82697/this-entrepreneur-thinks-genius-kids-will-save-the-world
- ↑ http://www.forbes.com/sites/brentbeshore/2014/01/21/what-going-back-to-high-school-can-teach-entrepreneurs/
- ↑ http://www.thevideoink.com/news/melissa-jun-rowley-looks-to-make-magic-with-new-series/#.VQNkpGTF_jI
- ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melissa-jun-rowley/an-american-girl-in-seoul_b_4206162.html
- ↑ http://newsroom.cisco.com/authorbio-detail?articleId=768623
- ↑ http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/2492920
- ↑ http://northsidefestival2014.sched.org/event/d6c614af244e7a164881efae49a9e8bd#.VQNN5GTF_jI
- ↑ http://www.bluewiremedia.com.au/blog/2012/05/social-media-down-under-event-meet-international-keynote-speaker-melissa-jun-rowley
- ↑ https://gigaom.com/2011/05/15/whats-trending-a-sneak-peek-at-cbs-newss-social-news-experiment/
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3029566/
- ↑ TechTV
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