About
Jo
Jo
Streit is an award-winning producer and professional speaker with
fourteen years of experience producing live interactive broadcasts,
adult education & training videos and documentaries. She has
worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies, government agencies,
universities, and foundations to facilitate learning.
Her
most recent projects include producing a 90-minute live videoconference
called "Resources For Youth:
Strategies That Work To Prevent Violence" (www.preventviolence.org)
and an educational campaign designed to engage young people
in the political process called “My
Vote Counts” for the California Secretary
of State.
From
Jo...
"We must make the state of our democracy relevant to American
voters because more and more of us are opting not to vote. I challenge
you to vote your conscience and to alter the dialogue about politics
among your friends and family. Voting one's conscience is never
a wasted vote. In fact, voting is one of the greatest freedoms
earned and one that we must protect. If we allow ourselves to
be manipulated into not expressing our true values through the
political process, then rest assured that the moneyed interests
will continue to bend government to their will. And we the people,
along with our most pressing national problems, will continue
to be ignored."
Every
culture throughout millennium has used the power of stories and
myths to transfer knowledge and inspire new ways of being.
Frankly, the United States is in desperate need of a new political
myth. Unfortunately, we have more nonvoters than voters today,
reflective of the hopelessness that many Americans feel to affect
political change. It is easy to feel hopeless in the face of a
corrupt political process. Special interest money currently controls
our public policy. No one on the left or right of the political
aisle can argue with that fact.
The
traditional media rarely gives equal time and attention to political
alternatives.
The media seems content to portray politics as a game and in the
quest for ratings (i.e. profits) has reduced the national dialogue
to 10 second sound bites focused on personalities and political
play-by-play. Opinion is reported as fact and many of the tough
questions required of our elected leaders remained unasked and
unanswered.
Exceptional
leaders do exist and they are working diligently, along with thousands
of others, to alter the course of U.S. history.
The
challenge is not a lack of viable alternatives, but an outlet
for these alternatives to communicate with the electorate. Our
nation’s love of competition does not seem to apply to voices
that are outside of the political status quo. These political
alternatives are routinely ignored or marginalized even when they
offer new ideas and solutions worthy of national debate.
To
hear more from Jo, please go to "Beyond
the Ranting"
Credentials
Appeared on C-SPAN, USA Today, Fox News, MSNBC,
and more than 20 national radio programs discussing political
and media reform
Fourteen
years producing experience specializing in live interactive broadcasts
and documentary films
1987
Graduate of Texas A&M University (Journalism)
1990
Graduate of University of North Texas. Recognized Outstanding
Graduate Student & the recipient of Phyllis George Scholarship
Owner,
Streit Productions
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