{"id":3170,"date":"2016-11-03T00:02:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T00:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2016-11-03T17:10:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T17:10:53","slug":"cynthia-lowen-01-shares-insights-into-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2016\/11\/03\/cynthia-lowen-01-shares-insights-into-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Cynthia Lowen \u201901 Shares Insights into Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Leah Veldhuisen \u201919<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cynthia Lowen \u201901, poet, writer, and producer of the Emmy-nominated documentary \u201cBully,\u201d is visiting CC this block, sharing insight into her creative process, her experience as an artist, and how she innovates social change through her own creativity.<\/p>\n<p>She spoke on campus Thursday, Nov. 3, as part of CC\u2019s Innovative Minds series, which features speakers from various industries and backgrounds and allows them to share insights from their personal and professional experiences,\u00a0and is a block visitor teaching a screenwriting course in the Department of Film and Media Studies during Block 3.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jill Lange, program manager for Innovation at CC, Lowen \u201chas maintained ties with the college in various capacities over the years\u201d and Lange was excited when Lowen accepted the invitation to speak. Lange says she\u2019s proud to showcase Lowen\u2019s success in \u201cnavigating her own innovative, artistic career path.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lowen is an award-winning poet and film writer and a recipient of the Hedgebrook Women Authoring Change Prize. She wrote and produced the 2012 documentary \u201cBully,\u201d which focuses on childhood bullying in America\u2019s schools. \u201cBully\u201d was nominated for two Emmys, and was awarded the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Journalism and the 2013 Stanley Cramer Award, among others. After the production of \u201cBully<em>,<\/em>\u201d Lowen co-wrote \u201cThe Essential Guide to Bullying: Prevention and Intervention<em>.<\/em>\u201d She has also published a poetry collection called \u201cThe Cloud That Contained the Lightning,\u201d which won the 2012 National Poetry Series.<\/p>\n<p>Next up on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradocollege.edu\/other\/innovation-institute\/thursdays.html\">Innovation Thursdays<\/a>: A Big Idea workshop titled \u201cMinimum Viable Product\u201d Thursday, <strong>Nov. 10<\/strong>, 4-5p.m. Morreale Carriage House\u00a0for students interested in participating in the Big Idea competition to understand \u201cwhat is a MVP, why it\u2019s important and what it\u2019s used for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Leah Veldhuisen \u201919 Cynthia Lowen \u201901, poet, writer, and producer of the Emmy-nominated documentary \u201cBully,\u201d is visiting CC this block, sharing insight into her creative process, her experience as an artist, and how she innovates social change through her own creativity. She spoke on campus Thursday, Nov. 3, as part of CC\u2019s Innovative Minds &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2016\/11\/03\/cynthia-lowen-01-shares-insights-into-innovation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cynthia Lowen \u201901 Shares Insights into Innovation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":648,"featured_media":3171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/files\/2016\/11\/Lowen.png?fit=200%2C184&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3173,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions\/3173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}