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Applied Theater and Youth Media
February 1, 2011
An interview with Robert Martin, a scholar-practitioner whose unique approach to applied theater and digital storytelling supports transfer high school students in New York City as they reframe their life experiences from a place of agency and compassion through workshops and film production.
Youth Media Saved My Life
February 1, 2011
An interview with Christine L. Mendoza, a youth media-producer-turned-educator from New York City who found that youth media saved her life.
Youth Media: Invaluable and Life Changing
February 1, 2011
An interview with Chrystian Rodriquez, a nine years-in-the-making youth-producer-turned-media educator.
Interview: Lin Ishihara, The W. Clement & Jessie V. Stone Foundation
October 27, 2010
We believe it is important to listen to our grantees, to learn from their experiences so we are smarter about how to better support their work in ways beyond the grant.
Interview: Susan Hayman Malone, Wide Angle Youth Media
October 27, 2010
The key to youth media investment is the word “long-term.”
Interview: Alyce Myatt, GFEM
October 27, 2010
Funders cannot simply leave media to “other” funders to support, just because your area of focus is poverty or health. Media is a component that greatly adds to and advances the solutions to all issue areas.
Interview: Rhonnel Sotelo, The Stuart Foundation
October 27, 2010
The youth-media field, as a whole, needs to strategically communicate its value and power on meeting the needs of young people.
Interview: danah boyd
August 30, 2010
danah boyd is the co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society's Youth and Media Policy Working Group and examines everyday practices involving social media, with specific attention to youth participation.
Interview: Henry Jenkins
August 30, 2010
Henry Jenkins is the principal investigator for Project New Media Literacies and the author of 13 books on various aspects of media, digital media and pop culture.
Interview: Beth Balliro
April 14, 2010
An interview with an advisory board member of RYMAEC, the youth media network consortia in Boston, MA.
Interview: Beverly Mire
April 14, 2010
An interview with Beverly Mire, the Assistant Director of Education at Terrascope Youth Radio, a program for MIT freshmen in Cambridge, MA.
Interview: Maya Stiles-Royall
April 14, 2010
An interview with the media lab coordinator at HOME, Inc. who doubles as a media literacy and production educator at middle schools in Sommerville, MA.
Interview: Dana Kaplan and Minh Nguyen
December 14, 2009
Executive directors at Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana and Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association of New Orleans discuss the vibrant and dynamic community of organizers in New Orleans and the Youth Organizing Collaborative.
Interview: Jim Randels and Kalamu ya Salaam
December 14, 2009
Two co-directors of Students at the Center, a writing program in the New Orleans public schools, explains the context of New Orleans and using youth media to improve schools.
Why Youth Media Needs a Social Worker
March 2, 2009
An interview-dialogue with a video instructor and director at the Latin American Youth Center’s Art + Media House with their social worker/youth developer on site staff person.
2008 Youth Media Blog-o-Thon: Interview
October 27, 2008
2008 Youth Media Blog-o-Thon: Interview with Jamilah King of WireTap Magazine and Eming Piansay of YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia.
Interview: Byron Hurt
June 6, 2008
Filmmaker of the award-winning documentary Beyond Beats & Rhymes.
Interview: Salome Chasnoff | Beyondmedia
February 14, 2008
Chasnoff reflects on a recent media justice gathering in Chicago regarding public access to media and how such coalition building applies to the youth media field.
Real Girls Media
June 14, 2007
A new media network that provides a way for women—young and older—to reach out, connect, and share their experiences in a vibrant web community.
Bridging the Gap: The University in the Youth Media Field
February 15, 2007
A unique insight to the lack of media literacy in youth made media programs in schools across the country and how partnering with academia can benefit professionals in the field at large.
On the Couch
January 11, 2006
A growing number of youth media and arts groups consult regularly with mental health professionals. A youth publication's shrink-on-call explains how he has helped the editors trust their instincts.
Eyes of the Hurricane
September 26, 2005
Independent publisher Richard Nash talks about why books written by local teens can help rebuild New Orleans.
Counterpoint: On Media Partnerships
July 1, 2005
Diana Coryat, president of the Global Action Project, discusses the downside of working with professional media outlets.
On a Mission
April 4, 2005
A marketing expert discusses how sharpening a youth media outlet’s mission prepares it to respond to national events.
Conventions Made Unconventional
March 5, 2005
Nishat Kurwa, Youth Radio’s news director and international desk editor, talks about how she pitched stories to national outlets and what a youth perspective added to mainstream election coverage.
Do You Have Time for Kids' Issues?
March 5, 2005
Katina Paron, editorial and program director of Children's PressLine, talks about youth perspectives on election coverage.