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
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. gro.poprdnull@adlig
Originally from Tuscon, Andrea Gibbons is a former L.A. organizer and researcher now writing for pleasure and money in London, working as an editor of City Journal and PM Press’s noir imprint Switchblade, and studying justice and geography at the London School of Economics. gro.poprdnull@aerdna
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 also writes comic books and wields his own particular mashup of pop culture and economics on the Dr. Pop blog. gro.poprdnull@yrag
Ryan has worked at major educational institutions across the City of Chicago, including The Field Museum, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He currently serves as a Justice Fellow for the Institute on Public Safety and Social Justice, where he supports organizing efforts in communities impacted by mass incarceration and punitive immigration policies. gro.poprdnull@nayr
Celine Kuklowsky
Celine Kuklowsky has worked for SAJE and written for the online journal Truthdig. She is now living in Londontown pursuing an MSc in Social Policy and Planning and working on a research project studying three ex-industrial French cities for the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion. gro.poprdnull@enilec
Jackie Cornejo
Jackie Cornejo is a proud L.A. native, and spent most of her childhood in the Crenshaw neighborhood of South LA. She currently works as a Research/Policy Analyst at the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE). When she’s not pursuing her interests in community-based planning, and infrastructure issues in communities of color, she can be found riding a bus or rail car around LA. gro.poprdnull@eikcaj
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.
Rosten Woo is a gentleman and a scholar and a designer who is collaborating with Gilda on Blocks and Lots –– an urban planning board game which will launch on Dr. Pop in March 2011. Meanwhile…check out Rosten’s posts about the process.
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