Cross-Cultural Communication: The Role of Ethnic and Traditional Media in Public Outreach and Advocacy

Cross-Cultural Communication:

The Role of Ethnic and Traditional Media

in Public Outreach and Advocacy

Thursday, January 28th, 2016 - 9:00am to 4:30pm

Connecticut Convention Center

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This is a statewide one-day symposium for anyone advocating for or providing services to vulnerable populations.

As a follow-up to our successful 2014 symposium on Cross-Cultural Communications: How to be Heard, we are pleased to offer another chance to learn from national experts and your colleagues statewide.

The creation of good public policy requires an active and educated public - this year’s symposium will address the role ethnic and traditional media play in educating and empowering consumers. We will examine health care and health insurance literacy and challenges to civic engagement. In addition, we will look at the changing landscape of media itself and hear how other states have engaged ethnic media to reach and inform underserved audiences.

Schedule:

8:30 - 9:00 – Registration and Continental breakfast

9:00 – Welcome and Greetings

    Jonathan A. Harris, Department of Consumer Protection, Commissioner

    Honorable Lieutenant Governor Nancy Wyman

    Honorable Senator Christopher Murphy

    Representative Matthew Ritter

Michelle Seagull – Department of Consumer Protection, Deputy Commissioner

Catherine Blinder –Department of Consumer Protection, Chief Education and Outreach Officer

9:45 - 10:30

The History and State of Ethnic Media – Felix Gutierrez, Professor Emeritus of Journalism, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California

Introduction of Keynote Speaker – Professor Felix Gutierrez

Keynote Speaker - Sandy Close, Executive Director, New American Media

10:30 – 10:45 Break

10:45 -12:00

Meeting in the Middle or Finding Common Ground: Can Traditional and Ethnic Media Work Together?

Christine Palm, Communications Director, Permanent Commission on the Status of Women, Moderator

Bessy Reyna, Former Columnist, Hartford Courant

Frank Herron, Director of Center on Media and Society, UMass Boston

Rong Xiaoqing, Sing Tao Daily Reporter

12:00 – 1:30  Working Lunch

1:30- 2:45

Developing Equity: From ACA Recruitment to Health Literacy

Dr. Linda Barry, Chief Operating Officer and Assistant Director Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, University of Connecticut, Moderator

Sandy Close, New American Media

Demian Fontanella, Office of the State Health Care Advocate

MacKenzie Rigg, The News-Times/Hearst Connecticut Media Group

2:45 – 3:00 Break

3:00 – 4:15

Examining Assumptions - How we Speak, How we Listen and How we Engage Community

Emanuela Palmares, Moderator

Deborah Kennedy, Center for Applied Linguistics

Jennifer Leach, Federal Trade Commission

Pablo Colon, Radio Cumbre

Sherry Yu, Assistant Professor of Journalism, Temple University

4:15 – 4:30 Open Questions and Farewell

Sponsored by the State of Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection.

For more information call Catherine Blinder at 860.713.6021 or catherine.blinder@ct.gov