The Mentor
The Mentor
Professional mentors will help students brainstorm and plan their digital media projects. Mentors for Create-Collab will be from sectors of the media production and journalism industries that overlap: documentary film makers, podcasters, social media creators, game designers, and photojournalists. The professional mentors will provide insight and guidance for the students by sharing their knowledge and production and project planning tips.
Mentors to be announced soon.
Hasi Eldib
Hasi (HAH-zee) Eldib is a full-time video producer, independent documentary filmmaker and a workshop facilitator for the New Media team in Teaching and Learning Services at Carleton University. Originally from Ottawa, Hasi graduated from the Television Broadcasting program at Algonquin College in 2007. With a career spanning 16 years, he has worked as a videographer, video editor, independent documentary filmmaker and more recently as a creative director. At Carleton, Hasi leads workshops focusing on videography, visual composition and digital storytelling. His goal through these workshops is to support students in honing their own creative voices.
Jason Chiu
Jason Chiu is a Visual Editor for The New York Times. He works on Headway, an experimental team in the newsroom that focuses on longitudinal storytelling. Previously he worked at The Globe and Mail as the Deputy Head of Visuals and The Toronto Star. He has won three National Newspaper Awards and more than two-dozen Society for New Design awards for design.
Kevin Parent
Kevin Parent has been the Social Media Lead at Ottawa Public Health (OPH) since 2018. OPH is the most-followed local public health account in North America, and their work has been recognized for its excellence by the likes of The World Health Organization, Health Canada, the Rockefeller Foundation, Macleans magazine, Arlene Dickinson, Ryan Reynolds, and others. Kevin graduated from Carleton University with major in Communications and a minor in Sociology. Kevin is a ginger.
Rachel Gilmore
Rachel Gilmore is an investigative journalist with Check My Ads and a freelance social media journalist. She spearheaded Global News’ TikTok coverage and has reported extensively on federal politics, far-right extremism and disinformation. She also briefly worked in Tunisia on a placement with Journalists for Human Rights, where she provided journalism training to women and girls.
Fangliang Xu
The passion for storytelling brought Fangliang Xu to Iceland, Rwanda, China, the Maldives, and Canada. Xu’s career highlights include filming killer whales while puking, getting sunburns discovering the not-so-paradise working conditions in the fancy tropical island resort, surviving her first on-TV standup in Shanghai’s biggest storm, and attempting to make peace with her aging by producing the ongoing multi-media project “Our Gray Hair”.
Xu’s a local photographer, documentary maker, and visual storyteller. Her work with CBC has won twice the RTNDA award.
But she’s working on her ultimate goal – becoming a stand-up comedian.