Marie Trigona
Peru 1153 , Buenos Aires, Argentina / (054) 11-38838866 / /
SPECIALIZED SKILLS
Fluent in Spanish; Translation; Training in journalism and field research; Media relations and interview experience; Copy-editing and proofreading; Web publishing; Photoshop; Audio and radio production;Cool Edit Pro editing; Video editing and filming
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts in Social and Global Studies, concentration in Political Science, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH (April, 2001); Enrolled in a Masters program in Sociology at the Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Reporter Free Speech Radio News, Pacifica Radio, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2005-present)
Write and produce feature stories and headlines.
Filmmaker, Video Collective, Grupo Alavío, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2003-present)
Filming, editing, interviewing, translating, distribution, online video web distribution and web curator for Ágora TV
Production Assistant, National Public Radio, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2007-2008)
Research, translation and production assistance for NPR’s South American correspondent covering Argentina’s presidential elections, soy conflict and human rights trials
Journalist/Editor at The Buenos Aires Herald, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2003-2005)
Wrote articles, produced news pieces, translated news cables, page layout, proof-read international news cables, and edited original and syndicated stories
Program Assistant, Africana and Latin American Studies Program, ColgateUniversity, Hamilton, NY (2001-2002)
Coordinated campus programming initiatives in Africana and Latin American Studies including lectures, conferences, performances, exhibits and a weekly film series
Office Manager, Community Government, AntiochCollege, Yellow Springs, OH (2001)
Organized community events and student resource centersAdministeredthe Community Government Office
Paralegal/Interpreter, The Florence Immigrant and Refugee Project, Florence, AZ (1999)
Prepared clients’ applications for asylum and humanitarian waivers; Researched documentation of human rights violation to support clients’ claims for immigration relief
PUBLISHED WORK
Works published in Books
“Occupy, Resist, Produce!: Lessons from Latin America’s Occupied Factories,” An Economy of Sustainability: Anarchist Economics, AK Press forthcoming Spring 2011
“FASINPAT (Factory without a boss): An Argentine experiment in self-management,” Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century, AK Press 2008
“Made in Argentina: Bolivian Migrant Workers Fight Neoliberal Fashion,” Real World Labor, Dollars & Sense, 2009
Political Analysis
“Argentina’s President loses power in mid-term elections,” ZNet Commentary, July 1, 2008
“Argentina’s community media fights for access and legal reform,"Center for International Policy, June 1, 2009.
“FASINPAT (Factory without a boss): An Argentine experiment in self-management,” Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century, AK Press 2008
“Argentina’s Soy Storm: Tensions rising among farmers,” Toward Freedom, April 19, 2008
“Wal-Mart faces accusations of anti-union practices,” Center for International Policy, November, 2007
“Plan Condor: Crimes without borders in Latin America,” ZNet commentary, December 17, 2007
“Made in Argentina: Bolivian Migrant Workers Fight Neoliberal Fashion,” Dollars & Sense, January/February 2007
“Mercosur: More than a trade pact,” Venezuelaanalysis.com, July 26, 2006
“Recuperated Enterprises in Argentina: Reversing the Logic of Capitalism," International Relations Center, March 2006
“Second International Forum Against Globalization,” Z Magazine, February 2002
Human Rights
“32 years later Argentina still seeks disappeared,” Toward Freedom, March 27, 2008
“Argentina: Missing witness awakens dark past,” IRC Americas Program, October 12, 2006
“Argentina 30 Years after the Coup” (International Relations Center, March 29, 2006
“30 Years Since Chile’s Military Coup, Allende Lives,” International Relations Center, October 2003
Social Movements
“Spirit of Afro-resistance alive in Candombe,” Upsidedownworld.org, February 21, 2008
“Internship in Self-Management,” NACLA Report on the Americas, November/December, 2005
“Scenes from a Revolution: Anarchist Cinema and the Spanish Civil War,” Buenos Aires Herald, November 22, 2004
“The Making of TV Piquetera,” NACLA Report on the Americas, January/February, 2004
"Argentina's Elections," Z Magazine, July/August 2003
“Zapatista Caravan,” Z Magazine, May 2001
Radio Stories
“ArgentinaDeclares Swine Flu Emergency,”Free Speech Radio News, July, 2009
“Monsanto Chemicals Could Pose Health Risk,”Free Speech Radio News,June, 2009
“D.I.Y. TV,” Radio Netherlands Worldwide, February 2, 2009
“Poor evicted in Buenos Aires,” Free Speech Radio News, January, 2009
“Farmers Strike Over Soy Crisis,” Free Speech Radio News, April, 2008
“From Sweatshop to Coop,” Radio Netherlands Worldwide, April 17, 2008
“Candombe in Uruguay: Geo Quiz,” PRI’s The World, 2008
“Sexual Rights Struggles in Latin America,” Women’s Int’l News Gathering Service, November, 2007
“Gender and the Dictatorship,” Pacifica Radio, March 8, 2007
“Plan Condor in Latin America,” Free Speech Radio News, December, 2007
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor Z Online School 2008-2009
Workers Self-management in LatinaAmerica. 10-week online course reviewing the experiences and challenges of worker-run enterprises in Chile, Uruguay, Argentina and Venezuela.
Instructor Z Media Institute 2007
Video and social change course, Aesthetics and documentary production. Woods Hole, MA.
University conferences/lectures 2004-2007
“Social movements in film: Worker self-management, constructing a new subjectivity” Lecture 2005
The New School, New York, NY; Tufts University, Boston, MA; The Pratt Institute, New York, NY; PACE University, New York, NY; Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH; Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA
"Alternative Media and Social Movements in Argentina" Lecture on the role of alternative media in Argentina’s social movements and screening of the documentary, The Face of Dignity (Memories of MTD Solano) by Grupo Alavío 2004New York University, New York, NY; Colombia University, New York, NY; Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, OH; Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Colgate University, Hamilton, NY; Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH
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