Rosalyn Gerstein - Publishing

Co-founder of The Boston Women's Collective, a non-profit corporation chartered to develop media in support of women's changing role in society. Created the best-seller The Original Women's Yellow Pages Sourcebook Series™ from 1971 to 1978. Executive Editor and Art Director on five editions spanning Boston, New England, New York, and West Virginia. This project fostered community involvement and action, and encouraged women's groups to develop similar resource directories around the country.

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Marital Fracture. Created a prototype electronic book based on original video documentary examining divorce as a crisis in communication. Scenes of a couple in mediation were interspersed with links to reference materials and expert analysis by psychologist Carol Gilligan, mediator Michael Wheeler, and matrimonial attorney Sanford Dranoff. In 1985, this case study provided the model for the Harvard Law School's interactive media publishing program. Demonstration materials were included on videodiscs published by the MIT Media Lab.

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Learn to See. Contributor to a photography resource book for teachers, published by Polaroid, that included samples from a multi-disciplinary media course I developed in 1969. I distributed cameras and taught photography as part of my curriculum to encourage self-expression and creativity among inner-city schoolchildren.

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