Information, Communication and Media Specialist

BIOGRAPHY

George Lessard

George Lessard is trained and hasexperience in desktop publishing,photography, radio & TV production,computer graphics, educational audio-visuals, journalism, and web-based media.He works in English and his mother tongue, French.In the fall of 2009 he taught a series of courses (in French) created for Yellowknife's new Francophone college,

Collège des Territoires du Nord-Ouestdesigned

to service the needs of andemphasising the needs of: artists andother individuals, small and medium sizedbusinesses, family businesses,freelancers, the self-employed, non-governmental organizations and civilsociety groups calle

d Polishing Your Image: Contemporary Digital Imageryand Communications.

In August 2009 he mentored a

“Through Young Eyes”

digital photographyworkshop for young photographers in

FortLaird NWT

under the auspices of

TheFrozen Eyes Photographic Society

funded by

Fort Laird, BHP-Billiton

andthe

NWT Arts Council.

His most recent full-time job was at

Northern News Services Limited in Yellowknife, NWT

where he co-ordinated,processed and edited all the editorialphotography for this publisher's sixnewspapers for three years.George's photos on

Flickr

have beenseen by over 517,421 times by 103,111unique visitors.From 1999 to 2004 hewas the

Media Specialist

for the

NunavutDepartment of Education in Arviat,Nunavut

where hedesigned printpublications using Quarkfor distribution to Nunavutschools and producededucational videos in bothEnglish and Inuktitut. As a freelance media consultant andtrainer, George's recent contracts haveincluded advising the

Photo Studio of Yudin Andrey Nikolaevich inChelyabinsk, Russia

on studiomanagement, hardware, web presenceand international marketing; a series of workshops on Photoshop and for the

Conseil de développement économiquedes TNO / NWT Economic DevelopmentCouncil

(CDETNO)

in Yellowknife & HayRiver, NWT;

Youth Photographer Mentor for the 2008 Arctic Winter Games

inYellowknife NWT; programming consultantfor

Radio Illimani,

he Bolivian nationalradio network

in La Paz, Bolivia;

DigitalJournalism Trainer

for Media ActionInternational at the

National University of Rwanda,

Butare as part of a UNESCO journalism training project; in

Orissa,India

, he documented the work of a ruralIndian NGO whose over 200 staff members and field workers who workedwith the “tribals” of Orissa on housing,health, sanitation and income generationprojects.Prior to his work in India, he was in

Beijing, China

where he worked as acopy editor and polisher for the

ChinaDaily

Group of publications on the 21stCentury a “... semi-official...” weekly for English learners in the universities acrossthe mainland.In August of 1992, George completed atwo year contract as a

lecturer in journalism & communications teachingphotojournalism, electronic newsgathering, small groupcommunications and businesscommunications

at the

College of theBahamas in Nassau, the Bahamas

George Lessard on top of the Chelyabinsk, Russiatrade centre building, the highest building in town.The Mias River is in the background.

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