Deja (Lana) Swartz
dswartz [at] usc [dot] edu
Most of Lana's work is on money (and other regimes of value) as techno-social practice. At Annenberg, she has worked on the CivicPaths research collaborative and the new Media, Economics, and Entrepreneurship working group. In 2009, she completed a masters in Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her thesis was on "fake" luxury fashion. There, she also developed a teachers' strategy guide and organized an unconference on cultural geography and new media literacies. As part of TeachForAmerica, she taught high school English in Houston, TX. She is the 2011-2012 Wallis Annenberg Graduate Research Fellow.