{"id":19912,"date":"2015-09-30T08:48:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T12:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/?p=19912"},"modified":"2015-09-30T08:48:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T12:48:47","slug":"help-support-the-alexia-foundations-next-big-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/30\/help-support-the-alexia-foundations-next-big-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Support The Alexia Foundation\u2019s Next Big Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexiafoundation.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/10\/help-support-the-alexia-foundations-next-big-initiative\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/15-09-10_DonorAppeal-MichaelSantiago.jpg\" alt=\"15-09-10_DonorAppeal-MichaelSantiago\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/15-09-10_DonorAppeal-MichaelSantiago.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/15-09-10_DonorAppeal-MichaelSantiago-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This fall, the Alexia Foundation is starting an important new initiative to further the ability of photojournalists to help bring important issues to the forefront. <\/p>\n<p>The Alexia Foundation is creating the first of many one-day workshops entitled, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexiafoundation.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/10\/help-support-the-alexia-foundations-next-big-initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\">Photography: Agent for Change<\/a>. With a variety of world-renowned experts, including grantees Ami Vitale and Tim Matsui, National Geographic\u2019s Whitney Johnson, Getty Images\u2019 Aidan Sullivan, ICP\u2019s Fred Ritchin and many others, will help attendees understand how to make the greatest possible impact with their work. This day of immersive learning will empower many more photographers and stir even more vital social change.<\/p>\n<p>Please help support photography: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexiafoundation.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/10\/help-support-the-alexia-foundations-next-big-initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\">Agent For Change<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Picture credit: From Alexia 2015 Student Winner Michael Santiago&#8217;s project &#8220;Stolen Land, Stolen Future&#8221; on African-American farmers. Ms. Shirley&#8217;s brother \u201cPeewee\u201d has also farmed all his life. He comes up to help and usually spends a couple of weeks helping out. Michael Santiago\/Alexia Foundation<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fall, the Alexia Foundation is starting an important new initiative to further the ability of photojournalists to help bring important issues to the forefront. The Alexia Foundation is creating the first of many one-day workshops entitled, Photography: Agent for Change. With a variety of world-renowned experts, including grantees Ami Vitale and Tim Matsui, National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1025],"class_list":["post-19912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-alexia-foundation","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}