Who is Adam?
A dashing, young(ish) Canadian who moved to Asia
in 1998. I work with a media
training NGO in Northern Thailand.
I have fervent interests in media, politics,
film, photography, green and social justice issues, reading and writing. I
was born in Montreal but brought up in Oakville, Ontario (with a few years
in snooty Connecticut)
. I earned my B.A. in Sociology at
The
University of Western
Ontario. After taking off a year to apply stickers to car batteries (who
said my Dad didn't have connections?) and fart around Europe, I returned to
school, studying journalism at Ryerson
University in Toronto.
. I earned my B.A. in Sociology at
The
University of Western
Ontario. After taking off a year to apply stickers to car batteries (who
said my Dad didn't have connections?) and fart around Europe, I returned to
school, studying journalism at Ryerson
University in Toronto.
After graduation, I moved to Vancouver, lay on a
sofa and practiced my new reporting skills by selling pens at a stationery
store. A couple years of that prepared me for Japan where I taught English
for a hideous money-grubbing language corporation in Hiroshima. Then came a year of
chilling out with Thai teenagers, a.k.a. 'teaching high school'.
In 2000, I became involved with Burma and its
democracy movement as a volunteer with VSO.
I was documenting human rights violations in Burma
with KHRG, a small NGO working on the
Thai/Burmese border. It offered me the chance to learn about the political
situation in Burma and have first hand experience dealing with refugees and
human rights situations.
Burma
with KHRG, a small NGO working on the
Thai/Burmese border. It offered me the chance to learn about the political
situation in Burma and have first hand experience dealing with refugees and
human rights situations.
In May 2001, I began work with my current
organisation. Internews works
with ethnic minorities on media issues. Our program primarily trains and
funds journalists and media orgs but we also work in media strategy, media law, graphic design, and
other media-related issues. I run
our small grants program and serve as management trainer to our partner orgs,
as well as deal with overall issues running the organisation.
For me, my life decisions should be related to
my political values. I am not particularly interested in money and I am a
critic of much of what I see as the modern economic and political worlds. I
would like to use my life in a way that promotes the ideals I believe in
(freedom, democracy, equality, ecology, human rights etc.) I may seem like a
cavalier blowhard on these pages, but in person, I'm rather gentle,
thoughtful and kind. Well... sort of.
For prospective professional contacts who haven't been scared off by my juvenile ranting, check out my resume. I do good work.
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