This is Gina. *Squee!* I wasn’t joking when I said I was serious about African American women taking control of their images and pop cultural destinies by producing their own content.
Thanks to the hard work of Michelle Obama Watch Managing Editor, Aminah Hanan, your MOW Founder-in- Chief has had time over the past 6 months to master television production. Okay strike that. I haven’t mastered anything. I’ve managed to learn enough to manage other people who’ve mastered television production.
So Saturday, March 27, was a historic occasion. I held auditions for the host of Our East Wing, the Michelle Obama Watch-Inspired Television show. We’ve seen over the past year that there is extreme interest in the East Wing, and not just about what it’s chief occupant is wearing. One need only drive the highways and byways of Texas during March and April to see the lasting legacies First Ladies, such as Lady Bird Johnson have left behind. Or look at the work of First Lady Laura Bush or Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose post-presidency profiles loom over those of their husbands.
Most political and social commentary is dominated by old male people who live in Washington, DC- Journalists and prognostitutes going on and on about… themselves. I have no idea where I am headed exactly, but I know enough to know, I ‘ll make it work.
For example, when I posted the casting call, I thought I was going to be looking for a single host, but after the auditions I know I am going to be going for more than one host.
Saturday was my first day in the mim-studio without my instructor. COMEDY! I was always one button away from making things work. I would have %99 percent of things right, but that 1% stumped me. Simple things like recording the video on a DVD. Clearly I have to review the whole audio thingy as well. Needless to say I am most in need of a crew 
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I’m happy to have all of you along for this journey. 2011 rolls around passively watching mainstream media do what they do…poorly. We’ll be creating our own digital destiny.
Thanks to Jeanne, Natomi, Karen, Elizabeth, Felicia, Karmon, Stephanie, Jessica, Tiffany, Christie, and Ornela for taking time out of their day to audition for Our East Wing. I was overwhelmed with the amount of talent I have to choose from.
