| Elsa M. Lankford is an Assistant Professor in the Radio/Audio track of the Electronic Media and Film Department. She is a 2008-09 Service Learning Fellow and is consistently working to encourage service and interdisciplinary learning into her classes. Her classes focus on audio production and post-production, sound design, and audio documentary. She has a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Goddard College in Plainfield, VT in Interdisciplinary Art and a Bachelors of Art in Music and Technology from American University in Washington, D.C. Her creative work and research focus on urban and suburban issues, particularly in and around Baltimore City.
Recent works include an article on urban soundscapes soon to be published in Environment, Space, and Place, an experimental video and sound work entitled carbon aided, and she is working on a series of short audio documentaries tying together and comparing the Highway to Nowhere in Baltimore City to the planned Red Line mass transit system. She is one of the organizers of WAMMFest (Women And Minorities in Media Festival) celebrating and promoting diversity in the production of media, and the creator and organizer of the annual Media Sprout Festival in Baltimore City, an outdoor festival promoting Baltimore City parks and art and performances in all media.
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