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Pamela Michael united statesPhoto © Pamela Michael
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Michael is the former travel editor and morning news anchor for San Francisco Bay Area’s KPFA-fm. She was awarded the Golden Reel in 1992 by the National Federation of Community Broadcasters for her coverage of the San Quentin execution of Robert Alton Harris and spent five years writing and producing a four-hour series on Buddhism in the United States, narrated by Richard Gere for NPR. Michael also produced and hosted “The Animal Show,” an hour-long weekly program on critters both wild and domestic, on the Sirius Satellite Network.
As director of the United Nations Task Force on Media & Education, she wrote the influential report, The Whole World is Watching: Media Involvement in Education Throughout the World (UNESCO).
After successfully producing classical music and spoken word events in the Bay Area for many years, Michael was hired as Director of Marketing and Public Relations for the San José Symphony. During her two-year tenure, she doubled the orchestra’s subscriber base and concert attendance. Michael lives in the Curry Creek watershed on the eastern slope of Mt. Diablo in Northern California.
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This is the view of beautiful Deer Valley from a corridor of Kaiser Permanent Hospital in Antioch, California.about the photographer
Writer, education reform activist and radio producer Pamela Michael has spent decades working to integrate environmental and arts education into the lives of children and their communities. Co-founder, with Robert Hass, of the much-honored River of Words organization, her “Watershed Explorer” interdisciplinary curriculum has been used to train thousands of teachers, park rangers, youth leaders and other educators how to connect kids to the natural world and to their own imaginations, inspiring them to create stunning art and poetry. She served as the organization’s executive director from 1995-2016, and during that time trained thousands of classroom teachers and other educators how to spark their students’ creativity and compassion.Michael is the former travel editor and morning news anchor for San Francisco Bay Area’s KPFA-fm. She was awarded the Golden Reel in 1992 by the National Federation of Community Broadcasters for her coverage of the San Quentin execution of Robert Alton Harris and spent five years writing and producing a four-hour series on Buddhism in the United States, narrated by Richard Gere for NPR. Michael also produced and hosted “The Animal Show,” an hour-long weekly program on critters both wild and domestic, on the Sirius Satellite Network.
As director of the United Nations Task Force on Media & Education, she wrote the influential report, The Whole World is Watching: Media Involvement in Education Throughout the World (UNESCO).
After successfully producing classical music and spoken word events in the Bay Area for many years, Michael was hired as Director of Marketing and Public Relations for the San José Symphony. During her two-year tenure, she doubled the orchestra’s subscriber base and concert attendance. Michael lives in the Curry Creek watershed on the eastern slope of Mt. Diablo in Northern California.
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