Growing the Media Justice Movement: Building Funding, Capacity and Peer Support Resources

Submitted by hyejung.park on Tue, 01/22/2008 - 1:44pm
Short Description: 

Media continues to play a critical role in shaping social/economic/political systems that affect the lives of ordinary people. It influences how policy is shaped, public perception is formed, and how resources are allocated to communities. And yet, there continues to be a dearth of support for grassroots media and fair distribution. There is also a need for a broader strategy to ensure community accountability.

This participatory discussion will bring together funders and grassroots organizations to explore strategies and best practices to strengthen the media justice movement locally and across the nation. We will discuss opportunities and challenges to finding resources for social and media justice groups in order to build and sustain the movement. This workshop is sponsored by the Media Justice Fund of the Funding Exchange.

Presenters
Presenter One Name: 
Sophia Silao
Presenter One Info: 

Sophia Silao currently works at the North Star Fund as Program Officer, coordinating their activist-led grantmaking program. Sophia also administers the Fund’s donor-advised giving, and organizes technical assistance workshops for their grantees. Prior to the North Star, she worked at The New York Women’s Foundation as Program Officer.

Presenter Two Name: 
Kat Aaron
Presenter Two Info: 

Kat Aaron is the Co-Director of People's Production House, a national media justice organization. She has extensive experience as a print and radio journalist, and has been teaching radio classes since 2005. Kat is a contributing producer for Wakeup Call, the morning news show at WBAI 99.5 FM.

Presenter Three Name: 
Courtney Young
Presenter Three Info: 

Courtney Young is the Director of Development for
Chica Luna Productions. She received her B.A. from
Spelman College and her M.A. from NYU’s Gallatin
School of Individualized Study. She is in
pre-production on her documentary Black Folks Don’t
Read: An Exploration of African American Culture and
Literacy, Reading and Writing.

Presenter Four Name: 
Jaewon Chung
Presenter Four Info: 

Jaewon Chung is Program Assistant for the Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere program at the Social Science Research Council, where she helps coordinate outreach, provides research/editorial assistance, and assists in the administration of grant competitions and the management of program web portals, listservs, databases, and other collaboration tools.