Charlie Grosso

This week's revolutionary is Charlie Grosso, a Chinese-American photographer and the creator of Hello Future, an educational non-profit that promotes digital literacy for refugees.Our conversation goes from the roots of Hello Future and how a Chinese woman ended up with an Italian male name, to the beginnings of her photography career, what a theatre degree really is, and why the notion of a "digitally native" generation is a myth.Some Questions I Ask:Where did your path begin? (4:02)Do you think you've grown into a new person by becoming Charlie Grosso? (8:34)How and When did the Wok the Dog photo series begin? (14:02)How did you hone your photography? (18:36)Where do you find resistance in your work? (21:43)How did Hello Future begin? (27:55)How can people support Hello Future? (45:42)In This Episode, You Will Learn:How Charlie came to America (5:15)Where the name Charlie Grosso came to be (7:07)How a theatre degree is actually a degree in making something out of nothing, and how this relates to starting a business (12:04)How the challenge of identity as an Asian-American woman shaped Charlie's art (20:16)Why linguistic prescriptivism is stifling to creativity (23:49)The relationship between refugees and mobile devices (30:58)The need for digital literacy and how it differs from digital consumerism (37:05)ResourcesCharlie Grosso's websiteHello Future Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.