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Creative technologist with an entrepreneurial spirit and a focus on social impact.

Josephine Dorado is an award-winning creative technologist with an entrepreneurial spirit and a focus on social impact. With a portfolio of work that has garnered multiple Fulbright awards and a MacArthur Foundation award in Digital Media & Learning, her focus is innovation in hybrid online spaces with a lens toward immersive learning and international cultural exchange.

Highlights:

  • Leads Fulbright community and advocates for international understanding as President of Fulbright’s NY Chapter.
  • Worked with refugees in Austria to create virtual reality media narratives of their journeys, as part of a Fulbright-Museumsquartier artist residency.
  • Taught at The New School in the School of Media Studies, with specializations in online collaboration and learning.
  • Led digital marketing for a b2b financial services firm that funds community development programs, launching a new website for them as well as their first podcast.
  • Taught workshops in mobile storytelling and games in countries such as Ukraine, Palestine and Tunisia, as a trainer for the State Department’s TechCamps, an initiative to aid civil society organizations worldwide by building their digital capacities.
  • Founded Kidz Connect, a virtual cultural exchange program that connected youth internationally through creative collaboration and performance in virtual worlds.
  • Balances her work in online spaces with her passion for teaching Pilates, combining a technology-infused life with a physical, embodied way of being.
  • Speaking opportunities have included Talks @ Google, TedxFulbright, SXSW and SIGGRAPH.

Josephine has full stack web development skills, design expertise and deep knowledge of hybrid XR/VR experience-building. With experience in both startup and enterprise environments as well as management of distributed teams across cultures and time zones, Josephine is uniquely positioned to lead innovative initiatives with both an eye toward detail and development as well as a vision toward future trends.

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My post on networked performance and exploring the body in online space: This Body Is NETWORKED

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Happy new president & vice president day!! 🎉 I Happy new president & vice president day!! 🎉 I paddleboarded to the Statue of Liberty yesterday! It was my first time & I wasn’t sure I could do it, but the group was so supportive — & usually right around the statue, the current tends to be choppy & strong, but it’s as if Mother Nature knew the election results & the weather ended up being more than perfect — so calm & beautiful. Then while we were out on the water, they called the election. Then this strange & beautiful thing happened where there were suddenly many schools of fish, hundreds of them — & they were leaping out & back into the water as if they were jumping for joy. It’s as if they were happy too! #TheUniverseKnows — & the symbolism of being at the statue of liberty when all of that happened made me so emotional. Still feeling kinda blubbery & emotional today, but so happy 🤗

Massive hat tip to Noelle @Resilience_Paddle_Sports & fellow paddlers for being so lovely & supportive. 

Congratulations to @JoeBiden & @KamalaHarris & all of the voters, community organizers & grassroots orgs that made the win possible! 
I speak as a woman of color in a male-dominated industry with parents that are immigrants; the journey wasn’t/isn’t an easy one & the road ahead is sure to be full of challenges, but I believe in you/us & the impact we can make. #WeCanDoItAmerica #Election2020 #BidenHarris2020
#VotingIsATeamSport ✅ The policies that have bee #VotingIsATeamSport ✅ The policies that have been pushed through by the Supreme Court the last few days & the hot mess of the last few years is just a foreshadowing of what could come. I am truly concerned about our future. It'll be all about the swing states this election, so if you have friends in FL, PA, OH, MI, NC, AZ, WI or IA who are on the fence, urge them to vote in person if possible, & to amplify outreach in those areas. 
Does everyone have a voting plan?? Voting roadmap: 
http://bit.ly/VotingRoadmap2020

#VotingIsATeamSport #VoteWithUs #FulbrightNY @fulbrightnewyork 
 
Hat tip to volunteers w @ThePeoplesBodegaNYC & @Astoria_Mutual_Aid Network who gave out free water, snacks & stickers to those in line ☺️
Best definition of privilege ever. Get involved, s Best definition of privilege ever. Get involved, stay involved. #ChangeTheSystem 
via @jbaak_roxx @motherwise.life
In solidarity with BlackLivesMatter & standing aga In solidarity with BlackLivesMatter & standing against the unjust killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery & so many more. 
Committed to doing more to actively fight systemic racism and inequalities through a mission of cross-cultural understanding, both personally & in leadership of @FulbrightNewYork
 #BlackoutTuesday
TONIGHT: Selected short films that explore enduran TONIGHT: Selected short films that explore endurance, resilience, and healing. 
The @fulbrightnewyork chapter is hosting an online #Fulbright film event on Tues, May 12 @ 6:30-8:00pm ET.

The event will consist of discussions with filmmaker Melissa Hacker (Venus), film participant and dance creator @romanfbaca Román Baca (Exit 12: Moved by War), and psychologist Emily Horowitz (Manhattan Veterans Administration Hospital). https://fulbrightfilmhowwecope.eventbrite.com/
When you rsvp on Eventbrite, you’ll get links & passwords to the films + zoom link)

Pictured: still image from Joy Street, a hand-painted film by the late Suzan Pitt, courtesy of Blue Kraning
#PlayingWithPerspectives in process rehearsal 0.2 #PlayingWithPerspectives in process rehearsal 0.2 with @HussamAlsawah — #FromAbove #FromBelow
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For my bday, I’m doing an #instaformance with friends:
Wed, April 22 @ 5pm ET on #IGLive

Featuring these talented folks & more:
@FociAndLoci / @MandibleJudy - live soundscapes made by creating playable instruments in video game engines 
@JustinDances - dancemaker / filmmaker / teacher / artist @SDSpace4Art
@HussamAlsawah - dancer / cultural producer in Vienna
Process rehearsal 0.1 with @JustinDances — an ac Process rehearsal 0.1 with @JustinDances — an accidental #ExquisiteCorpse came out of it 😊 *****
Bday #instaformance with friends:
Wed, April 22 @ 5pm ET on #IGLive

Featuring these talented folks & more:
@FociAndLoci / @MandibleJudy - live soundscapes made by creating playable instruments in video game engines 
@JustinDances - dancemaker / filmmaker / teacher / artist @SDSpace4Art
@HussamAlsawah - dancer / cultural producer in Vienna
#BoatLife in Croatia with friends last week was de #BoatLife in Croatia with friends last week was delicious. I miss being on the water already. Croatia’s beautiful topography & brilliantly clear blue-turquoise water still calls to me.
#BeachDay #FromAbove #BeachDay #FromAbove
Everything is more awesome #FromAbove. Beautiful # Everything is more awesome #FromAbove. Beautiful #BlueSky day for flying (h/t instructor @Brandon_Sax @Nassau_Flyers)
A little bit of down dog in the ‘yoga room’ @ A little bit of down dog in the ‘yoga room’ @ Burlington Int’l Airport omw to Montreal. EVERY AIRPORT should have this. (Thx @evolutionptandyoga!)
#TechCampBahrain: whirlwind wknd of workshopping w #TechCampBahrain: whirlwind wknd of workshopping w these young women interested in tech & entrepreneurship. Planting seeds of inspiration & being inspired as well. Thanks for making it happen @RUWBahrain @USEmbassyBahrain!
Fort Bahrain @ twilight. It dates back to 2300 BC Fort Bahrain @ twilight. It dates back to 2300 BC & was once the capital of the Dilmun civilization, ancestral place of Sumerians
Dragon eggs, obvi Dragon eggs, obvi
Day 1 in Bahrain: a tour of the gorgeous campus @R Day 1 in Bahrain: a tour of the gorgeous campus @RUWBahrain, where #TechCampBahrain will be hosted, & dinner @ Ambassador Siberell’s beautiful home. Many thanks to @USEmbassyBahrain for putting together such lovely people making bold moves to forward initiatives in #WomeninTech
#DigitalPreservation talk takeaway w OG Internet b #DigitalPreservation talk takeaway w OG Internet boss @VGCerf & @isocNY: OPEN everything - open source, open protocols, open communities of practice will facilitate infrastructure (sustainability, access, collaboration) necessary for longterm digital preservation
Happy to share the joys of aerial fitness with @Mi Happy to share the joys of aerial fitness with @MindLeaps kids in Rwanda. 
Been thinking a lot about how aerial play can be used as social practice / in vulnerable communities. There’s an inescapable joy in the playfulness of aerial. Why not share it wherever you can? #AerialEverywhere #ShareTheJoy
Thanksgiving gathering #DronePhotography Thanksgiving gathering #DronePhotography
Old friends, new friends, good times 😊 Old friends, new friends, good times 😊
2nd time trying windsurfing. I think I love it. (I 2nd time trying windsurfing. I think I love it. (I credit my experience w skydiving for the instant comfort w the wind) 💨 ⛵️
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