ALISON FAST is a Television Producer and Video Journalist, based in New York and Los Angeles, who has worked for such networks as NBC/Universal, MTV Networks and PBS.
In 2007, she won a Peabody Award for writing, producing, shooting and editing a one-hour documentary, “For My Country? Latinos In The Military” for Mun2 (NBC/Universal),examining factors that influence young Latinos to join the military after high school.
Between television projects, she designs programs and leads video workshops with her husband, Chandler Griffin, throughout Africa and The Middle East. Their partners have included, The Digital Freedom Initiative (U.S. State Department), The Middle East Partnership Initiative, The Desmond Tutu HIV/AIDS Foundation and UNESCO.
Alison has extensive experience writing grants, and producing international campaigns and events. She co-founded the outreach program, One Global Tribe for Creative Visions Foundation, to mobilize kids to take action on global issues. She spent six months documenting the power of grassroots media in Brazil. She produced World AIDS Orphans Day, internationally, three years in a row for FXB International, and enjoys working with Native American communities to communicate a message of peace and respect for the Earth and future generations.
Her strengths include writing, communication, all aspects of media production, as well as program conceptualization and design. Her goal is to continue to write, shoot and produce documentaries as well as news and travel segments for television and the web, as well as to innovate new uses of media to meet development goals around the world.
Alison holds a Bachelors Degree in Journalism from Boston University, has traveled in more than twenty countries, and speaks Spanish and Portuguese fluently.
Email her to receive a link to her Digital Journal: Fast On The Run On The Road, and/or to join her online network, AL’S Pals, of friends, leaders and social innovators, who are transforming the world one day, and one person at a time.
• Leadership & Youth Empowerment
Supporting youth to have a voice on the world stage, through media empowerment projects and education initiatives.
• HIV/AIDS
Teaching people on the frontlines in Sub-Saharan Africa how to use video to support outreach and prevention strategies. Building the first participatory video library dedicated to informing policymakers of effective solutions. [read more]
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• Peace and Conflict Resolution
Addressing root causes of violence and conflict, particularly violence that impacts young men, such as drug trafficking and police violence in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• Participatory Media
Teaching people in the developing world how to create media content for their own communities to aid development goals and accelerate the spread of best practices.
Alison Fast (far right) and Chandler Griffin (middle) leading DVC with US State Department in South Africa.
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• Indigenous Knowledge/Earth Restoration
Supporting indigenous communities from North and South to get out a message about climate change and respect for future generations. I serve as a volunteer, and member of the Advisory Board for The Morning Star Foundation.
Both myself and my husband, Chandler Griffin, have a mutual desire to support young people to uplift their communities starting with themselves.
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