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Category Archives: Youth Media
Youth Guest Blogger: Claudia Luz Suarez Unveiling Inequities in Oakland
August 1, 2012 Written By Claudia Luz Suarez Recently, the Oakland Tribune released graduation and dropout data on students they’ve been tracking since 2007. As a recent graduate from East Oakland School of the Arts, one of Castlemont’s small schools, … Continue reading
KQED Youth Guest Bloggers: Maile, Daryl, Sydnee and Rebbeca
Created by Carla Tamayo On June 14, 2011, 20 High School juniors from East Oakland participated in the 6th Annual Youth Showcase and Cultural Symposium were they lead presentations and workshops using poetry, architectural school re-design, and research on trauma … Continue reading
Student Guest Blogger: Hallie Cohen
Why I Stay In School By Hallie Cohen School has always been difficult for me even in my elementary school years, mainly because of social anxieties. It showed through my horrendous attendance record. By my fifteenth year, I had stopped … Continue reading
BAYMN Presents Rise to the Occasion Youth Media Festival -- Call for Entries
Applications are now open for BAYMN’s Rise to the Occasion Youth Media Festival, hosted at the Kaiser Center in Oakland on October 13, 2012, 2-5pm. Deadline for submission: August 27, 2012 For its first public festival, the Bay Area Youth … Continue reading
KQED American Graduate: Diana, Arise HS Oakland, CA College: US Santa Cruz
Congratulations to these American Graduates! In the next couple of weeks we will share their inspiring stories and get an insight as to what they look forward to in college and beyond. In our third installment we are featuring Diana … Continue reading
Guest Blogger: Robyn Bykofsky Oakland Innovation Film Lab – Youth Mobile Media Workshop
June 25th 2012 Written by Robyn Bykofsky I have been facilitating media literacy and video production workshops with Bay Area youth and educators for over 12 years and the Youth Film Lab was the experience of a lifetime. It was … Continue reading
Video: Oakland Innovation Youth FIlm Lab
On June 18, 2012 Fourteen Oakland students came together in less than five hours to create these short films about how they stay inspired to stay in school and succeed.
