Who Is Dr. Pop?
Dr. Pop is a popular education website that helps people become better story-tellers and strategic thinkers. We do this by telling stories ourselves, explaining complicated things in simple ways, and showing how and why we did it. Along the way we focus on how the economy, urban planning, and democracy work, provide living examples of how they can work better, and offer tools for organizers, educators, students, activists and all manner of curious people who are interested in change.
Dr. Pop People
Gilda Haas
DIT (Do-It-Together)
After organizing, teaching, and community building for thirty years under the assumed name of Gilda Haas, Dr. Pop has finally come out of the shadows to help move old-school popular education into new places and spaces.
Originally from Tuscon, Andrea Gibbons is a former L.A. organizer and researcher, now an editor for PM Press, living in London, studying justice and geography, while collaborating on the world’s first mummy-zombie-vampire comic. Check out her London Eye beat on economic news, views, and thinkers.
Born and bred in South L.A., Gary Phillips is a mystery writer, a big fan of doughnuts, and in fact writes the Donuts at 2 AM column for the FourStory website. Gary writes the Popology column, his own own mashup of pop culture, economics and more.
Ryan Hollon is a writer, educator, and synthesizer living in Chicago where he is actively engaged in remaking and rethinking the city. Ryan holds down our World City Beat, locating brighter urban futures around the world.
Celine Kuklowsky
Really Important Things
Celine Kuklowsky has worked for SAJE and written for Truthdig. She is now living in Londontown, trying hard to outwit the Brit and eating way to many crisps. Celine writes Really Important Things about visionaries and making change.
Collaborators
The Just Economics team of Gilda Haas, Eileen Raphael, Ellen Teninty, Kimberly Tso and Claudia Vizcarra created the Meltdown training that appears on this website. Just Economics was a renowned women’s collective that produced and presented popular-education workshops on a wide variety of economic topics for over a decade — and then the team reconvened in late 2008 to create Meltdown.
