This week's revolutionary is Charlie Grosso, a Chinese-American photographer and the creator of Hello Future, an educational non-profit that promotes digital literacy for refugees.
Our conversation goes from the roots of Hello Future and how a Chinese woman ended up with an Italian male name, to the beginnings of her photography career, what a theatre degree really is, and why the notion of a "digitally native" generation is a myth.
Some Questions I Ask:
- Where did your path begin? (4:02)
- Do you think you've grown into a new person by becoming Charlie Grosso? (8:34)
- How and When did the Wok the Dog photo series begin? (14:02)
- How did you hone your photography? (18:36)
- Where do you find resistance in your work? (21:43)
- How did Hello Future begin? (27:55)
- How can people support Hello Future? (45:42)
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
- How Charlie came to America (5:15)
- Where the name Charlie Grosso came to be (7:07)
- How a theatre degree is actually a degree in making something out of nothing, and how this relates to starting a business (12:04)
- How the challenge of identity as an Asian-American woman shaped Charlie's art (20:16)
- Why linguistic prescriptivism is stifling to creativity (23:49)
- The relationship between refugees and mobile devices (30:58)
- The need for digital literacy and how it differs from digital consumerism (37:05)
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