www.victoriahartglavin.com;For more than 20 years Ms. Glavin has embedded herself in the hip-hop scene as a reporter, interviewer, instructor, feature writer, label owner and researcher. she is widely recognized as an expert in this specialty, and she has an instinctive connection to the material and the artists. ----Victoria did not grow up in the 'hood. She was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, but music has been a passion her entire life. She developed an early mania for punk rock and since the early 1980s she has embraced the music of the streets and the voice of urban communities. She studied Communications at The Evergreen State College, also learning French prior to residing in Lyon, France. During her time in Europe, she made on-air appearances in Bordeaux and Lyon and served as a kind of ambassador for the hip hop genre. The international experience broadened her music insights and gave her a great range of knowledge to transmit to her stateside listeners. ----During college Victoria was already working in the field, producing/hosting/programming a hip-hop radio show and coordinating offerings for a weekly film series on campus. During this time Victoria also became a part of Op Magazine, which started as a simple playlist and morphed into an "independent only" bi-monthly periodical. Her first radio show guest was DJ Whiz Kid, and she had people dancing in the lobby, which told her that she was definitely onto something. ----After college graduation, Victoria established a media career, working for an advertising agency and independent newweekly in Portland, Oregon. Since that time, Victoria has become a microphone for the hip-hop world, publishing articles, hosting events and promoting artists. She has studied Ethnomusicology and founded several record labels to create avenues for recording/marketing, and she is experienced in negotiating with publicists/record companies as well as with agencies. Her Willie Mae Rock Camp "Women in Hip Hop" class, executed last summer in Manhattan, was wildly successful and has sparked widespread interest. She lent a hand at the Southern Entertainment Awards in Memphis in January 2006. More than a cheerleader for hip-hop music and culture, Victoria is a historian, and she has brought credibility and gravitas to the material she embraces. ----Victoria is a force. Her background combines presentation and promotion skills with social commitment. Apart from writing about hip-hop, she is very involved in the hip-hop community. She is a board member of World-Up New York, an international nonprofit hip-hop organization. She doesn't just talk the talk; in her local area, she has worked with Vista/Peace Coprs (cited by Presient Carter for her contribution), with the Peninsula Park Gang Task Force, with the Saint Andrews Emergency Services Food Delivery Program, and with local schools on an intermittent basis. She sees hip-hop as a tool for social change and as a way for overlooked populations to speak out. She knows it is an avenue for coalition building and conflict resolution. She is a feminist and an activist, and her commitment to social issues is longstanding and entrenched.
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