Wondering how to apply your UCLA Humanities skills in an increasingly online world? Log on to learn from our alumni panelists, who will share their experiences curating content, crafting 21st-century narratives, and leveraging digital tools.
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Meet our moderator:
Daniel Scott Snelson
Daniel Scott Snelson is a writer, editor, and archivist working as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of English and Design Media Arts at UCLA, where he serves as faculty for the Digital Humanities, the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies, and the UCLA Game Lab. His online editorial work can be found on PennSound, Eclipse, UbuWeb, Jacket2, and the EPC. Published books works include Elden Poem (Hysterically Real, 2022), Full Bleed: A Mourning Letter for the Printed Page (Sync, 2019), Apocalypse Reliquary: 1984-2000 (Monoskop, 2018), Radios (Make Now, 2016), EXE TXT (Gauss PDF, 2015), Epic Lyric Poem (Troll Thread, 2014), and Inventory Arousal with James Hoff (Bedford Press/Architectural Association, 2011). With Mashinka Firunts Hakopian and Avi Alpert, he performs as one-third of the academic performance group Research Service. His forthcoming book, The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats (University of Minnesota Press, 2025), examines the networked afterlives of media-reflexive works of art and letters.
Meet our panelists:
Josh Levine
Josh Levine is an entrepreneur whose journey has been defined by spotting the gaps where music, technology, and culture intersect. As an industry outsider by design, he brings fresh perspectives to established systems and creates opportunities where others see roadblocks, which has made him a valuable guide for those navigating their own entrepreneurial paths.
As co-founder of Rebel Creator Services, Josh identified a critical gap in digital rights management costing music artists millions in lost revenue. His company empowers independent musicians to maximize their YouTube earnings in an increasingly complex digital landscape. Josh also leads A Coffee Called Folks, a coffee brand celebrating hiphop culture, and co-founded LA TO IBIZA Records with his teenage son Justin – a family business in its early stages launching Justin’s career in house music while creating opportunities for other young artists.
Josh’s innovative brand-culture partnerships include serving as head of global brand partnerships for Linkin Park, generating multi-million dollar collaborations with Mercedes-AMG and Intel. His pioneering work helped Toyota launch its youth-focused Scion brand, positioned Dr Pepper as an early leader in esports, and guided 7UP into EDM culture through collaborations with global stars like Tiësto.
Since 2015, Josh has hosted the Rebel Radio podcast, uncovering business and life lessons in over 300 interviews with artists and creative entrepreneurs. His work has been featured in Forbes, Brand Week, Advertising Age, and the Wall Street Journal.
Josh began his career as a music journalist writing for The Source and Vibe, before evolving into artist management and founding culture-marketing agency Rebel Industries. A UCLA graduate with a degree in Linguistics and Psychology, he also holds a Certificate in Business Management from USC’s Marshall School of Business.
*Josh is available for solo presentations or, for select topics, can present alongside his son Justin as a father-son entrepreneurial team discussing their journey building LA TO IBIZA Records together.*
Jordan Galczynski
Jordan Galczynski (she/her) manages the Instructional Technology Group within Humanities Technology, overseeing lab and learning spaces, a team of graduate students serving as Research and Instructional Technology Consultants (RITCs), and internal Digital Humanities projects (DH Accelerator). She received her Ph.D. from UCLA in Egyptology in 2024. Jordan co-hosts a podcast, Afterlives of Ancient Egypt, and writes on the Substack Ancient/Now, discussing the intersection of the ancient and modern worlds.
Emily Pitcher
Emily Pitcher (aka SonderingEmily) is a game developer and content creator, sharing her journey making games and her favorite indie games. She’s been featured in Forbes 30 under 30 Games, The Game Awards Future Class, Business Insider, Polygon, and Entrepreneur. Currently, she’s making lily’s world XD, a Y2K inspired horror game about investigating a young girl’s computer. Everything seems normal until you find messages addressed to you. Previously, she worked at Meta and Yahoo.
Francesca Albrezzi
Francesca Albrezzi, Ph.D. has worked with museums for over a decade, including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (Washington, D.C.), the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (Paris, France), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles, California). She completed her doctoral degree in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as a Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate through UCLA’s Center for Digital Humanities. Her dissertation interrogates modes of publishing, display, and information capture in museums and archives that illustrate a break from “traditional” models, and argues that digital modalities provide a distinctly different paradigm for epistemologies of art and culture that offer greater contextualized understandings. Specifically, she is interested in spectrums of immersive experience within GLAM organizations as offered by technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and 360 photo and video capture. Dr. Albrezzi also has significant experience developing digital tools, such as The Getty Scholars’ Workspace™ for conducting collaborative arts research and preservation. She was aHASTAC Scholar, has worked and taught within the field of Digital Humanities, Art History, and Cultural Studies for eight years, and helped to produce an online digital art history textbook. Currently, she is a digital research consultant at the Institute for Digital Research and Education at UCLA.