MEDIA EDUCATOR
A media educator is a facilitator and collaborator, a teacher and a trainer who works primarily with media. As a media educator I have worked with high schools, conferences, community based organizations, and to international human rights organizations. My work is grounded in a pedagogy of popular education, working primarily as a facilitator of projects, posing questions, teaching technical skills and co-developing projects with students that are grounded in their own lives and experiences. Below are sample videos from two organizations with whom I’ve worked: Global Action Project and WITNESS.
Global Action Project (GAP) is a youth media organization based in New York City. At GAP young people work together with a facilitator to create videos, animations, and web-projects that tell their own stories and speak to issues that they care about.
WITNESS partners with local human rights organizations from around the world, providing them with video equipment, training, and ongoing technical support in producing videos that can be used as advocacy tools in campaigns around human rights issues.
