Catherine Ishino

resides: Duluth, MN, USA

From 1980 to 1994, Catherine Jo Ishino has worked in divergent areas of commericial design from architectural signage systems to corporate slide presentations to national cable and network television stations. The majority of her industry career was spent working in television news graphics -- CNN, ABC, NBC and PBS. The last position Ms. Ishino held was as the Art Director of The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. She has won numerous TV awards for her work a National Emmy, a Peabody, as well as PBS and BDA accolades. Assistant Professor Ishino's current foray into higher education (1995-to present) has been a period of introspection as well as retropection of the cultural role of mass communications in our visually-laden society. Her scholary research has interrogated interjecting under-represented, contesting voices in the discursive spaces of the public media domain. Specifically, Ishino has utilized her TV news background to document first- person oral histories of her parents, aunts, uncles, siblings and nieces experiences as survivors of the World War II Internment by the U.S. government of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry.