Allied Media Projects (AMP)
AMP Seeds Series (2023)
Accessibility Coordinator
Through her work with Detroit Disability Power, Ani provided Accessibility Coordinator for AMP Seeds summer event series that included four in-person events hosted at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) and the LOVE Building. Tasks included supporting event curations with site planning and design, assisting the film production team, creating communication tools, facilitating ASL interpretation, and supporting speakers and guests access needs.
LOVE Building
Design Justice & Accessibility Advisory Committee (2021-2023)
Ani was a member of the Design & Disability justice community focus group creating recommendations and an accessibility strategy for the LOVE Building. The LOVE Building is located in Detroit’s Core City neighborhood, and will soon be home to a number of Detroit social justice organizations and additional community spaces.
Media:
Design Core Podcast: Dessa Cosma, Jeanette Lee, Sandra Little on Designing Detroit’s Most Accessible Building (See June 7, 2021, Transcript included)
Yes Magazine: A New Home for Activists, and a New Way of Building in Communities
Collective memory care: Honoring the Our Land Till Death mural (video included)
2022 Hybrid & 2020 Virtual Allied Media Conference (AMC)
In-person (2022) & Online (2020) Accessibility Coordinator
In 2022, Ani was responsible for planning and coordinating in person accessibility for ~100 in-person guests at Marygrove College, and the ~200 attendees who participated in “AMC at Nite” events at Eastern Market and MOCAD. This including hybrid considerations for content streamed into on site locations
In spite of the challenges Covid-19 brought to event and spatial planning, it gave media and conference organizers fresh inspiration to improve how people could be brought together online. Acting as the 2020 AMC Access Coordinator, for 5,000 online attendees, Ani worked to guide strategic decisions on platform choice and general operations, prepare session facilitators to consider access, and write communications such as the Access Statement for the conference website. She also hired and managed ASL and Spanish interpreters, CART and captioning providers and more. Ani acted both as liaison to the production team that managed many of the “main events” streamed publicly on YouTube in three languages, and a coordinator for ~80 sessions for pre-registered attendees.
Media:
Screen grab of 9 AMC organizing staff on a Zoom call during the conference. Bright text near each of their video squares shares their name & position.