Kendra Olson Hodgson joined the MEF staff in 2001. She worked as the associate producer on two MEF videos -- Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom and Beyond the Frame: Alternative Views on the War on Terrorism -- and authored the study guide for Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising’s Image of Women before joining the Marketing Department. She has conducted media literacy workshops at various conferences and schools and served as a media literacy consultant for schools in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. From 1997 to 2001, she was a high school English teacher at Punahou School (Honolulu, HI). While there, she taught a gender studies course, which she redesigned to include a heavy emphasis on media representations and body image. She has worked with adolescents in various contexts —- as a ropes course instructor, a wilderness trip leader, a track/cross-country coach, an Eating Disorder Awareness Week coordinator, and a faculty advisor for Punahou School’s peer helping camp program. Kendra received her B.A. in English with a concentration in Urban Education from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. She has also volunteered as a Domestic Violence Crisis Responder and is a Certified Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Practitioner.

kendra@mediaed.org