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Youth Radio Launches Digital Media Workforce Program
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Youth Radio President Ellin O'Leary cuts the ribbon with Ricci Graham, Rodney Brooks, Board Chair Keven Guillory and Youth Radio students.
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Youth Radio officially launched its Digital Media Workforce Program with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the organization's downtown Oakland headquarters. The outdoor celebration featured speakers Ricci Graham, Congresswoman Barbara Lee's Deputy District Director, and Rodney Brooks, Chief of Staff to Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson, with Oakland's Mayor Jean Quan also in attendance. As part of her commitment to increasing opportunity for low-income youth, Congresswoman Lee secured a Department of Labor grant for Youth Radio to start the program, which will prepare young people for careers in digital media focusing on: 1) app development, 2) online media and film, and 3) health media. The program was featured on KQED, KCBS, Oakland North and KGO Newstalk .
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Youth Radio Leaders Attend Education Conference in Hawaii
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| Derek, Ti'Ara and D'Mariey in Hawaii with Media Education Manager, Belia Mayeno Saavedra.
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Youth Radio attended the Engaging Communities in Education Conference supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and hosted by the University of Hawaii at Manoa's Hawaiinuiakea School of Hawaiian Knowledge. Three youth, Derek Williams, Ti'Ara Walls and D'Mariey Johnson, traveled to Hawaii with two staff members to participate in leadership development and culture-based education workshops alongside nine partner organizations. The conference was geared toward organizations that are committed to sharing, engaging, and developing their community work addressing racial equity, with a focus on children and families.
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Mobile Action Lab Runs Google App Inventor Workshop
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Mobile Action Lab participants working on the All Day Play app.
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Youth Radio's Mobile Action Lab ran an intensive Google App Inventor Workshop, facilitated by youth participants. Students in the workshop created a raffle app and a game, and worked with a computer scientist to create an original app that uses the phone's geotagging capability to connect youth with jobs. The Mobile Action Lab, winner of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition, has two apps in beta: All Day Play and Forage City.
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Youth Radio Featured At Building Healthy Futures Conference | |
Youth Project Associate David Villamarina presented alongside Youth Radio's Director of Health Services.
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Tuere Anderson, Director of Health Services, and David Villamarina, Project Associate, presented at the Building Healthy Futures Conference in Richmond, Virgina. Their presentation, "Prevention Rocks: Successfully Engaging Youth Through Media," focused on Youth Radio's model for engaging young people in violence prevention. The conference was organized by the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance.
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Remix Your Life Artists Perform at Temescal Street Fair
Youth Radio's Remix Your Life Project performed an hour-long set of hip-hop, R&B and spoken word pieces at Oakland's Temescal Street Fair. The Remix Your Life Project, a recent recipient of the Oakland Innovators Award, was showcased on the Oaklandish mainstage. Click here to see a brief video of the performance, which is part of an ongoing series of Remix Your Community events.
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Youth Radio Presents at Public Media Conference in Pittsburgh
Jabari Gray, Development Manager, was a featured panelist at this year's Public Media Development and Marketing Conference, in Pittsburgh. Gray participated in a series entitled "The Engaged Station," in a session called "Content that Meets a Community Need." The discussion was centered around how stations/organizations have identified a community need, developed programming to address it, and assessed the impact of the activities on the community. Specifically, Jabari took a look at violence in the community, and how Youth Radio has been able to make local impact through its Boss Of Me campaign (which addresses teen dating violence), coverage of the Oscar Grant shooting and subsequent events, as well as the Trafficked investigative series.
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