Miami, FL -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/19/2010 -- Haiti WPBT2 Pulse Special Edition
Who: Haiti, A Community Conversation, a WPBT2 Pulse Special Edition Host, Jessy Schuster
Jessy Schuster is a multimedia producer, voice-over talent and host of WPBT2’s new Caribbean public affairs program, Pulse.
What: A WPBT2 Live Community Chat Room to share stories, thoughts, information and images concerning the crisis in Haiti.
When: Wednesday, January 20, 8-9 pm on WPBT2
Where: Community Call In – 1-800-222-9728 Streaming Live – wpbt2.org
Why: Public Television WPBT2’s speaks to the earthquake in Haiti with a special edition of Pulse. WPBT2 creates a place for the South Florida Community to respond, share and come together over the devastation in Haiti.
Pulse is WPBT2’s new public affairs program about the Caribbean and the Caribbean-American experience in South Florida.
Jessy Schuster is a multimedia producer, voice-over talent and host of WPBT2's new public affairs program, Pulse.
As a multimedia producer for WPBT2's video-sharing website uVu, Schuster has covered cultural, political and educational events throughout the South Florida area. She has worked alongside numerous non-profit organizations and foundations to encourage citizens of Miami-Dade and Broward Counties to express their views via online video segments. Once a month, Jessy also hosts uVuTV, which highlights a particular neighborhood or organization in South Florida. uVuTV's goal is to take the concept of community engagement to a new level.
Her latest WPBT2 venture is hosting Pulse, a monthly Caribbean public affairs program she hopes accomplishes a better understanding of the island community. "We live in such a multicultural city that it's amazing to see how most people don't know about each others culture beyond the usual stereotypes and clichés," she says. "Hopefully Pulse can shed some light on the Caribbean community and way of life in South Florida."
Fluent in three languages, French, English and Creole, Schuster is a voice-over talent dubbing Latin telenovelas (soap operas) for distribution in Europe, Africa and the Caribbean.
About WPBT2
South Florida’s premier public broadcaster, WPBT2, is a community-licensed, not-for-profit media enterprise serving communities from the Treasure Coast to the Florida Keys. WPBT2 provides high quality content from PBS, independent acquisitions and its own original productions. WPBT2’s digital media platform, offers: 2HD, a 24-hour high definition channel; Digital 2.2, a mix of Science & Nature Channel, Culturas, The Florida Channel and Create; Digital 2.3, V-me, a 24-hour national Spanish-language network; and www.wpbt2.org, the WPBT2 website including, Impromp2 (a community blog), and uVu, a video sharing website. Based in Miami, WPBT2 is also home of the Emmy award-winning national PBS series, Nightly Business Report (pbs.org/nbr).
For More Information Contact:
Cammy Richards – Communications Director
Cammy_Richards@wpbt.org, (305) 424-4013
Natalia Villegas – Community Events Coordinator
Natalia_Villegas@wpbt.org, (305) 424-4190