#GettingPlayed
Keynote Address
Amy Pietz became familiar to TV viewers for her role on Caroline in the City, for which she received a SAG Award Nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy. Amy has appeared in more than 300 episodes of television, including regular roles on The Nine Lives of Chloe King, Aliens in America, The Weber Show, and Rodney and guest starring roles on How to Get Away with Murder, The Office, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and many others. She also has had an extensive stage career after receiving her degree in acting from DePaul University’s Theatre School. Amy plans to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in 2017, and is currently writing a book chronicling her life as an adoptee, birth mother, and birth doula.
Moderated by Kathleen A. Tarr
Kathleen Tarr is a lawyer, filmmaker, writer, performer, and lecturer in Stanford's Program in Writing and Rhetoric. She served in the "legal peace corps" as a Skadden Fellow representing disabled veterans prior to working for Legal Aid and continues to assist veterans with claims before the Department of Veterans Affairs. Kathleen delivered the General Session at the 2015 State Bar of California Annual Meeting, Delights, Diversions, and Discriminations: The Bias and Business of Show, a session joined by Symposium Keynote Amy Pietz. As Kathleen Antonia, she has accumulated numerous television, film, commercial, and stage credits including her own productions, most recently Early Aliens, Official Selection of the ASTRONOMMO film festival. Kathleen's documentary Getting Played: who's playing you?! received Honorable Mention at the 2010 International Black Women's Film Festival and inspired this symposium.
Closing Remarks
Adam Banks is a professor in the Graduate School of Education and new Faculty Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR). Prior to arriving at Stanford, he served on the faculty of the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky and the Syracuse University Writing Program. Dr. Banks is author of Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age and Race, Rhetoric, and Technology: Searching for Higher Ground, which was awarded the Computers and Composition 2007 Best Book Award and which challenges teachers and scholars in writing and technology fields to explore the depths of Black rhetorical traditions more thoroughly and make technology issues a central site of struggle.
Stanford University
February 27, 2016 ~ 1-5pm