Dino D Sossi

Dino Sossi has produced multimedia for AOL, CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes,” CNN, the New York Times, the United Nations, and Viacom’s vh1. His documentary films have screened at festivals in New York and Los Angeles, academic institutions like Berkeley, Cambridge, Columbia, Harvard, Oxford, and Pennsylvania, as well as the United Nations headquarters in New York.

Sossi’s work as a television producer, director, videographer, and editor has been broadcast on CBC, CTV, Discovery USA, Globe and Mail, IFC, Life, MTV Canada, MuchMoreMusic, One, Pridevision, and PrimeTV, among others. His digital storytelling has been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Sossi was previously a digital media consultant at Columbia.

Sossi has taught at Adelphi University, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), City University of New York (CUNY), Hunter College, New York University, The College of New Jersey, and the University of Toronto. He also taught a short digital media workshop at Harvard.

Sossi’s published research includes topics like social media, video research, and technology integration that helps teach students in our increasingly digital world. This includes using video in research settings and comparing analog and digital ways (e.g., Kidspiration software) for teaching math, among others. He has also written book reviews on texting and other behavioral strategies to improve learning, law and educational inequality, and the relationship between text and visuals in academic comics as well as interviewed the comic book’s author.

Sossi has presented research and led professional development sessions on infographics and data visualization for over 50 faculty, graduate students, and teachers at multiple American Educational Research Association annual meetings.

Sossi has created three eBooks for Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) on Public Policy Responses to the Pandemic, Advancing Indigenous Data Sovereignty, and Social Media, Democracy, and International Human Rights (the third also included OCAD-U). He created these eBooks in collaboration with The Dais, a public policy and leadership think tank formerly known as the Ryerson Leadership Lab, and an academic group that focuses on Indigenous data sovereignty at TMU.

Sossi has performed storytelling at the Moth StorySLAM in New York as well as across Toronto and Montreal. He has also performed stand up comedy in Beijing, Boston, Calgary, Montreal, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Shanghai, and Toronto. Sossi was selected to perform standup at the Calgary Comedy Festival.

Sossi earned a Doctorate, Master of Arts, and Master of Education in Instructional Technology and Media at Columbia University. He earned first class honors for his Master of Philosophy thesis at the University of Cambridge where he performed with the iconic Footlights comedy troupe. Sossi also earned a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree at Queen’s University where he helped edit the law journal. He previously studied at Columbia Law School’s School Law Institute and the Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme. Sossi was previously a research fellow, affiliate, and intern at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard
University.