jordi torrent Biography
- Job Title
- Program Manager, Media Literacy
- Organisation / Institution
- United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (AoC). The AoC seeks to reduce tensions across cultural divides that threaten to inflame existing political conflicts or trigger new ones. Working with its global network of government partners, the AoC promotes policies and initiatives aimed at improving relations between diverse cultural groups. It also works at the grassroots level in society, promoting innovative projects that build trust, reconciliation and mutual respect among diverse communities. The AoC works in four program areas to support such projects. These areas are: youth, media, education, and migration. Media Literacy is a main media-education-youth area of work of the AoC.
- Location
- UNHQ, New York
- Website
- http://www.aocmedialiteracy.org
- Areas of activity
Youth, Media, Education, Migration
- About this member
Jordi Torrent
After obtaining a degree in Philosophy at the University of Barcelona, Jordi followed graduate studies in Paris at the Sorbonne University (Film Esthetics) and at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Anthropology Filmmaking).
From 1990 to 2006 he was a Media Consultant for the Department of Education of New York City. There he created a Media Literacy Education program that was implemented at over twenty five NYC schools, as well as conducted media education workshops for educators and parents. Jordi was co-director of Media: Overseas Conversations, a series of annual conferences on media, youth and education held in NYC from 2004 to 2008. In addition, he has produced, written and directed feature films, documentaries, and TV commercials.
Currently he is Project Manager of Media Literacy Education initiatives of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and teaches a graduate course on International Media and Cinema at Fordham University, New York.
