Articles by Erin Vander Weele

JAMS 332 provides the groundwork for more advanced documentary film production classes. Students learn the essentials of camera use, basic editing skills and the hands-on fundamentals of the field. Each semester, select work from 332 is chosen for inclusion on Media Milwaukee. Often, these videos represent a budding producer’s first foray into the art.

complete coverage: multimedia project When 86-year-old Jean Garrett sits down at her Macintosh computer, she finds more to do than play a game of solitaire or search the Web. Instead, Garrett opens up Photoshop and gets to work. She taught ceramics and weaving for 18 years at the University of Missouri-Columbia and started dabbling in […]

Stephen Kimble always knew he wanted to be a firefighter. At age 15, while attending high school in Milwaukee and working to support his family, he decided to take the first step in pursuing his dream. Kimble said signing up to participate in the Milwaukee Fire Department’s Explorer Post 875 was a life changing experience. […]

Every time Chris Wodke runs, she concentrates on each step.   She struggles to bend each leg and to lift her feet.  When she runs long distances, she constantly worries about the pain. Wodke, a 52-year-old Milwaukee triathlete and long distance runner, was recently diagnosed with Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disorder, the most common inherited neurological disorder.   CMT damages the nerves […]

When Dana Harbaugh served in the Navy as a lead aircraft crewman in Desert Storm and Desert Shield, he said he was “shaken into reality.”  The experience made him realize how important it is to keep our country free and to remember those who made it that way. In 2000, Harbaugh joined the Pearl Harbor […]

Devonte Hill was 6-years-old when an unknown person shot him in the arm.  While growing up in Milwaukee, Hill was getting into trouble for being involved in fights.  Many of his friends were part of gangs.  When he was 15-years-old, he decided to make a change by focusing on music and education instead of violence. […]