Session info
Start: Mar 2 2008 - 2:45pmEnd: Mar 2 2008 - 4:15pm
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This interactive media literacy workshop offers participants a chance to think critically about the media we consume everyday. Through a series of large and small group discussions, interactive activities, video clips and photographs, participants will explore: media advertising; ownership and content; media consolidation; identity and representation; and the central role media plays in democratic societies. Participants will also learn about the Youth Channel, the only TV block in NYC dedicated to media made by youth. Resources on youth media and media literacy will be provided.
Julián Gerena-Quiñones grew up in El Barrio, East Harlem, NY. He went on to attend college at the University of Hartford where he studied mass communications and TV production. He created Barrio Media, a community minded video production company and co-produced segments for a TV series entitled “Pa′ Que Sepa / So You Know,” a Latino Sports Life Style show. He is the programming coordinator at MNN Youth Channel.
Cynthia is the director of the Youth Channel- Cynthia joined MNN’s Youth Channel as its Outreach Coordinator in June 2004. As an advocate for youth media, she has been involved in the NAMAC Youth Media Leadership Institute. Prior to MNN, Cynthia was the Project Assistant for the Caribbean Cultural Center and was formerly the Pre-teen Coordinator for Hour Children, an advocacy organization for children of incarcerated mothers. As co-founder of 2Tonez Productions, she recently directed and produced "Seeking the Soul of Freedom," a short documentary examining Haitian Independence. Cynthia graduated from Hunter College with a BA in Media Studies and Latin American and Caribbean Studies and is currently working on her MA in International Relations
Habibah Ahmad has been involved at MNN Youth Channel for almost 3 years as a youth producer, being part of the creative team of D.A.M.N. YC News, as a senior producer of YC’s Youth M.I.C. program and currently as a peer trainer. She has also taken a creative and supportive role in the MNN Youth Channel production, "Bringing Back Venezuela" and directed "Beyond the Hijab: Struggling Against Stereotypes." Habibah is attending Hunter College.
Vanessa Bateau produced her first documentary Scrolii, about her lifelong struggle with scoliosis, as a participant in Reel Works Teen Filmmaking. She takes great pride in being a Peer Trainer at MNN Youth Channel, which enables her to have the opportunity of teaching other youth how to make use of media to create a social tool for change in their community or environment. Vanessa is a sophomore at Brooklyn College She reps Brooklyn to the fullest and lives off the motto “Dream big. Accomplish BIGGER!”