Bridget Nanyonjo has expertise in a variety of roles in monitoring and evaluation, including data collection, reporting, and analysis. Previously she worked in research and data collection in various sectors. Ms. Nanyonjo has been working in the community as a project focal person responsible for data collection and analysis and reporting through tracking forms. She also has extensive knowledge in community research, community organizing, and program evaluation. Ms. Nanyonjo holds a Bachelor’s degree in Community-Based Rehabilitation from Kyambogo University. With Health Access Connect (HAC), she helps to ensure that outreach clinic data are collected. Ms. Nanyonjo also conducts regular quantitative and qualitative studies to help HAC’s programs respond to the needs of community members and health workers.
Storytelling in Uganda
Event Overview
Health Access Connect (HAC) is a community-led system to bring government health workers and their medicines to remote villages using motorcycle taxis. Remote communities lead the setup of the outreach clinics and pool their wealth to cover the transportation costs so that they are not dependent on outside aid. HAC is currently working with the Ugandan Ministry of Health to pilot the model nationwide and teach other organizations how to implement it. Though the outreach clinics are self-sustaining, HAC relies on donations from individuals and foundations worldwide, and HAC needed an impactful way of getting its message out.
Join this Keynote webcast to discover how Cornell students and HAC co-designed interactive media to tell HAC’s story of innovation and its great potential in an effort to gain additional support from stakeholders and encourage local organizations to implement this innovative healthcare outreach program.
What You'll Learn
- Lessons on how to move from idea to impact, and from impact to resonance
- Insights into the broader challenges of contemporary healthcare NGOs
- Practices of strategic storytelling and transmedia knowledge design
- An overview of critical design thinking for community engagement
- Strategies for co-designing worlds with multiple stakeholders
Speakers
Jon McKenzie is Professor of Practice and Director of StudioLab, a critical design and media lab at Cornell University that connects researchers, designers, and organizations working in human rights, public health, and social and environmental justice. StudioLab teams collaborate on strategic storytelling through transmedia knowledge, using performance design thinking as a human-centered, iterative process of stakeholder alignment and shared dreaming. Jon is the author of Transmedia Knowledge for Liberal Arts and Community Engagement: A StudioLab Manifesto (2019) and Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance (2001), and he holds degrees in Fine Arts, English, and Performance Studies and has also worked as a writer and UX designer in NYC. He is founder and former director of DesignLab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and co-founder of the performance group McKenzie Stojnić. In addition to workshops and consulting, Jon produces experimental videos, lecture performances, and other media. His work and that of StudioLab can be found at labster8.net.
Kevin Gibbons serves people by combining his experience in community organizing, project development, digital media, social research, and organizational leadership. He co-founded Health Access Connect (HAC) after spending many months researching livelihoods and food security in Lake Victoria fishing communities. Mr. Gibbons previously worked as a Digital Media Consultant at University of Wisconsin-Madison and as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines. He has a B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Tulane University and an M.S. in Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development from University of Wisconsin-Madison. As Executive Director of HAC, Mr. Gibbons is in charge of program development, administration, monitoring and evaluation, fundraising, and communications.
As communications and development officer at Health Access Connect, Mercy Ahukana’s roles include grant writing, graphics design, success story writing, social media, and handling other external communications in which the organization is involved. She has a graduate degree in Communications and Public Relations and has had a two-year practice of communications in the world of nonprofit organizations.
Bridget Nanyonjo has expertise in a variety of roles in monitoring and evaluation, including data collection, reporting, and analysis. Previously she worked in research and data collection in various sectors. Ms. Nanyonjo has been working in the community as a project focal person responsible for data collection and analysis and reporting through tracking forms. She also has extensive knowledge in community research, community organizing, and program evaluation. Ms. Nanyonjo holds a Bachelor’s degree in Community-Based Rehabilitation from Kyambogo University. With Health Access Connect (HAC), she helps to ensure that outreach clinic data are collected. Ms. Nanyonjo also conducts regular quantitative and qualitative studies to help HAC’s programs respond to the needs of community members and health workers.
Jon McKenzie is Professor of Practice and Director of StudioLab, a critical design and media lab at Cornell University that connects researchers, designers, and organizations working in human rights, public health, and social and environmental justice. StudioLab teams collaborate on strategic storytelling through transmedia knowledge, using performance design thinking as a human-centered, iterative process of stakeholder alignment and shared dreaming. Jon is the author of Transmedia Knowledge for Liberal Arts and Community Engagement: A StudioLab Manifesto (2019) and Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance (2001), and he holds degrees in Fine Arts, English, and Performance Studies and has also worked as a writer and UX designer in NYC. He is founder and former director of DesignLab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and co-founder of the performance group McKenzie Stojnić. In addition to workshops and consulting, Jon produces experimental videos, lecture performances, and other media. His work and that of StudioLab can be found at labster8.net.
Kevin Gibbons serves people by combining his experience in community organizing, project development, digital media, social research, and organizational leadership. He co-founded Health Access Connect (HAC) after spending many months researching livelihoods and food security in Lake Victoria fishing communities. Mr. Gibbons previously worked as a Digital Media Consultant at University of Wisconsin-Madison and as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines. He has a B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Tulane University and an M.S. in Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development from University of Wisconsin-Madison. As Executive Director of HAC, Mr. Gibbons is in charge of program development, administration, monitoring and evaluation, fundraising, and communications.
As communications and development officer at Health Access Connect, Mercy Ahukana’s roles include grant writing, graphics design, success story writing, social media, and handling other external communications in which the organization is involved. She has a graduate degree in Communications and Public Relations and has had a two-year practice of communications in the world of nonprofit organizations.
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