BIO. Liz Nord is a producer and documentary filmmaker. She currently runs MTV's Street Team ’08, a groundbreaking collaboration with the Knight Foundation and the Associated Press, wherein 51 state-based citizen journalists cover the ’08 elections from a youth perspective, across all media platforms - web, mobile, broadcast, and virtual. In 2006, she toured the world with her critically acclaimed film about rebellious young Israelis, “Jericho’s Echo: Punk Rock in the Holy Land”. When she’s not gallivanting around the globe with film projects, she is a media educator, lecturer, and columnist. She recently relocated to New York from the Bay Area, where she ran a media education non-profit and served on the Board of Directors of the Bay Area Women in Film and TV.

Remember the days when idealistic internet startups hired college freshmen as their lead designers because they knew how to use Photoshop? I was one of those designers, at the first internet commerce company. A lot has happened to me since then. See chart:

Boston University
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Web + Graphic Design –> Internet Startups
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Educational Technology. Remember CD-ROMs?
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Graduate Summa Cum Laude. Shoot for Stars.
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Design at Six Red Marbles –> Design at Upromise
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Move to San Francisco
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Design at Classroom Connect
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Volunteer Teach for Studio 5 –> Artist-in-Residence at SF Schools
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Media Education at Just Think
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Really Want to Make Movies –> Classes at Film Arts and Video Certification at BAVC
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Direct Short Documentaries –> Lots of Freelance Video Production
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Produce Street Level TV with Team of Independent Journalists
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Produce and Direct Jericho’s Echo: Punk Rock in the Holy Land –> Tour Around World With Film
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Produce for Frontline/World
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Write Columns and Give Lectures about Media Stuff
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Run TILT (Teaching Intermedia Literacy Tools)
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Move to New York!!

A big part of my story has been formed by the thousands of bands that I have seen live, housed, fed, or hung out with over the years. Here is a small sample:

108
7 Seconds
88 Fingers Louie
A.F.I.
Alkaline Trio
All
American Nightmare
Andrew WK
As Friends Rust
Assuck
At the Drive-in
Atom and His Package
Bad Religion
Bane
Battery
Beastie Boys
Beck
Big D & The Kids Table
Bigwig
Blink 182
Bouncing Souls
Breaker Breaker
Burning Airlines
Coalesce
Converge
Copper
Counterfit
Damnation A.D.
Darkest Hour
Descendents
Diecast
Dillinger 4
Discount
Dropkick Murphys
Earth Crisis
Evens
Fastbreak
Fenix TX
Fishbone
Fugazi
Go-Go's
Good Clean Fun
Good Riddance
Green Day
H20
Hatebreed
Hot Water Music
Ignite
Jewdriver
Jimmy Eat World
Kid Dynamite
Lagwagon
Lawrence Arms
Less Than Jake
Lifetime
Lunachicks
Madball
Midtown
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Murphy's Law
MxPx
NOFX
One King Down
One Way Letter
Over It
Path of Resistance
Piebald
Ramones
Rancid
Sensefield
Sick of it All
Slayer
Small Brown Bike
Sonic Youth
Sublime
Taking Back Sunday
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Ten Yard Fight
They Might Be Giants
Thrice
U.S. Bombs
Used
Useless I.D.
Voodoo Glow Skulls
Weston