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MEET OUR INSTRUCTORS »
CAITLIN SHETTERLY // Writing Instructor
Caitlin is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio where she reports on arts and culture, food, and lifestyle. She can be heard on both All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. For Weekend Edition, she created a series of autobiographical audio diaries about the Recession called Diary of a Recession. These diaries, along with her blog, Passage West, inspired her memoir Made For You and Me: Going West, Going Broke, Finding Home (Voice, March 8, 2011).
Caitlin's first book, Fault Lines: Stories of Divorce,is a collection of works she edited on the topic and published in 2001. For several years, she also wrote a bimonthly column, about relationships and love for the Portland Phoenix called Bramhall Square.
Caitlin is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Winter Harbor Theatre Company, where she produces and directs works that attempt to tackle the important issues of our time. Caitlin graduated with Honors in English and American Literature from Brown University. She lives with her husband, photographer Daniel E. Davis, their young son, and their salty dog, Hopper. When she isn't writing, directing plays, producing radio pieces, cooking, cleaning or childrearing, Caitlin spends as much time as possible reading, watching "Friday Night Lights" and, especially, walking outside in nature.
MICHAEL MAY // Radio Instructor
Michael got hooked on producing radio in 1998 when he went to Moscow in search of Oleg Lundstrem, the lone jazz musician that continued to perform during the Stalin years. The piece, which explored how Lundstrem created a form of distinctly Russian-flavored jazz to appease Stalin, aired on Weekend All Things Considered. Inspired by the experience, Michael quit his day job, declared himself a journalist and moved to Peru to freelance. After reporting on everything from travel to politics in Peru, Bolivia and Cuba, he moved to Austin, Texas in 2000, where his wife Rachel attended graduate school. Over the past ten years, Michael has alternated between radio and print staff jobs and working as a freelancer. He's been a daily news reporter at KUT, an editor at Weekend Reporter, and managing editor of the Texas Observer magazine. As a freelancer, he's investigated an idiosyncratic FBI informant named Brandon Darby, heard Willie Nelson sing "Amazing Grace" a capella and discovered that a police "bait car" can snare good Samaritans. His stories have ended up on This American Life, Studio 360, Marketplace, Morning Edition and others, and he has won a Third Coast Audio Festival Gold Award and a National Headliners Grand Award for his radio documentary work. Michael is thrilled to join the Salt faculty, where he can share his love for documentary radio and learn from the exemplary students here. You can hear and read more of his work at www.michaelmaymedia.com.
ANDRES GONZALEZ // Photography Instructor
Andres is a photographer originally from Mountain View, California, now Google Headquarters. He left the Golden State in 1999 to teach environmental education in the Namibian desert and it was there that he innocently fell in love with making pictures, simply recording life happening around him. After shuffling around the US for a few years -- including a semester with the good folks at the Salt Institute in 2001 and couple years picking up a Master's degree in Visual Communication from Ohio University -- Andres moved to Turkey on a Fulbright Scholarship to photograph cultural transition in Istanbul, where he has been based the last 4 years. Andres continues to look back at his time at Salt as the most influential period in his life as a photographer, and comes back to Portland to reconnect as part of the staff and share his love for documentary with an enthusiasm that only Salt can inspire. In the time that Andres has been making pictures professionally, he has landed a Canon Italia Young Photographer's Prize, was selected as one of PDN's Emerging 30, short listed for a New York Photo Award, and nominated for a Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers. To view his work, visit http://andresgonzalezphoto.com.
MAISIE CROW // Multimedia Storytelling Instructor
Maisie is a freelance photographer and multimedia producer based in New York City. In 2010 her multimedia project, A Life Alone, was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy, and she attended the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass in Amsterdam. She has worked with The Boston Globe, Bread for the World, MediaStorm, Robin Hood Foundation, Save the Children, and Virginia Quarterly Review among others. In 2009, she was the recipient of the Ian Parry Scholarship and the Pierre and Alexandra Boulat Grant. Her work has been screened at LOOKbetween, the Lumix Festival for young photojournalism and the New York Photo Festival. Maisie received her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin. She attended the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and studied as a graduate student at Ohio University's School of Visual Communication. She was a staff photographer at the Patuxent Publishing Company.
Caitlin is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio where she reports on arts and culture, food, and lifestyle. She can be heard on both All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. For Weekend Edition, she created a series of autobiographical audio diaries about the Recession called Diary of a Recession. These diaries, along with her blog, Passage West, inspired her memoir Made For You and Me: Going West, Going Broke, Finding Home (Voice, March 8, 2011).
Caitlin's first book, Fault Lines: Stories of Divorce,is a collection of works she edited on the topic and published in 2001. For several years, she also wrote a bimonthly column, about relationships and love for the Portland Phoenix called Bramhall Square.
Caitlin is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Winter Harbor Theatre Company, where she produces and directs works that attempt to tackle the important issues of our time. Caitlin graduated with Honors in English and American Literature from Brown University. She lives with her husband, photographer Daniel E. Davis, their young son, and their salty dog, Hopper. When she isn't writing, directing plays, producing radio pieces, cooking, cleaning or childrearing, Caitlin spends as much time as possible reading, watching "Friday Night Lights" and, especially, walking outside in nature.
Michael got hooked on producing radio in 1998 when he went to Moscow in search of Oleg Lundstrem, the lone jazz musician that continued to perform during the Stalin years. The piece, which explored how Lundstrem created a form of distinctly Russian-flavored jazz to appease Stalin, aired on Weekend All Things Considered. Inspired by the experience, Michael quit his day job, declared himself a journalist and moved to Peru to freelance. After reporting on everything from travel to politics in Peru, Bolivia and Cuba, he moved to Austin, Texas in 2000, where his wife Rachel attended graduate school. Over the past ten years, Michael has alternated between radio and print staff jobs and working as a freelancer. He's been a daily news reporter at KUT, an editor at Weekend Reporter, and managing editor of the Texas Observer magazine. As a freelancer, he's investigated an idiosyncratic FBI informant named Brandon Darby, heard Willie Nelson sing "Amazing Grace" a capella and discovered that a police "bait car" can snare good Samaritans. His stories have ended up on This American Life, Studio 360, Marketplace, Morning Edition and others, and he has won a Third Coast Audio Festival Gold Award and a National Headliners Grand Award for his radio documentary work. Michael is thrilled to join the Salt faculty, where he can share his love for documentary radio and learn from the exemplary students here. You can hear and read more of his work at www.michaelmaymedia.com.
Andres is a photographer originally from Mountain View, California, now Google Headquarters. He left the Golden State in 1999 to teach environmental education in the Namibian desert and it was there that he innocently fell in love with making pictures, simply recording life happening around him. After shuffling around the US for a few years -- including a semester with the good folks at the Salt Institute in 2001 and couple years picking up a Master's degree in Visual Communication from Ohio University -- Andres moved to Turkey on a Fulbright Scholarship to photograph cultural transition in Istanbul, where he has been based the last 4 years. Andres continues to look back at his time at Salt as the most influential period in his life as a photographer, and comes back to Portland to reconnect as part of the staff and share his love for documentary with an enthusiasm that only Salt can inspire. In the time that Andres has been making pictures professionally, he has landed a Canon Italia Young Photographer's Prize, was selected as one of PDN's Emerging 30, short listed for a New York Photo Award, and nominated for a Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers. To view his work, visit http://andresgonzalezphoto.com.
Maisie is a freelance photographer and multimedia producer based in New York City. In 2010 her multimedia project, A Life Alone, was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy, and she attended the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass in Amsterdam. She has worked with The Boston Globe, Bread for the World, MediaStorm, Robin Hood Foundation, Save the Children, and Virginia Quarterly Review among others. In 2009, she was the recipient of the Ian Parry Scholarship and the Pierre and Alexandra Boulat Grant. Her work has been screened at LOOKbetween, the Lumix Festival for young photojournalism and the New York Photo Festival. Maisie received her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin. She attended the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and studied as a graduate student at Ohio University's School of Visual Communication. She was a staff photographer at the Patuxent Publishing Company.