Ariel Valdez, CentroNia

What’s Next?

No Comments 20 December 2010

After six hectic, exciting months, Public Media Corps is winding down. I’m writing this now from my father’s house in New Mexico as a farewell post, after a nice ceremony where we all got together and had some food, and recognized students and organizations we’d bee working with. It’s been a trying experience which has [...]

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Teen Space Screening of ¿What’s Good, DC?

Ariel Valdez, Ivana Jackson, Khalil Gill, Mike Janssen, Selina Musuta

¿What’s Good, DC?: Post-Production Screening

1 Comment 15 December 2010

Last week, the ¿What’s Good, DC? crew met to iron out post production details.  With very little time left, editing must be done and a promo plan had to be designed and executed before our fellowship concluded.  We wanted to figure out a strategy for screening a rough cut of at least one show to [...]

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Ariel Valdez, CentroNia, Fellows, Ward 1

Ward 1 Youth Speak Out: Part 3 of 3

No Comments 10 December 2010

GrayOnSYEP Click the link above to view Vincent Gray speaking about the Summer Youth Employment Program at his Ward 1 Town Hall. I started my time at CentroNia with the PMC during the middle of the Summer Youth Employment Program, or SYEP. Passions run high around this program because kids who worked in it didn’t [...]

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Ariel Valdez, CentroNia, Video, Ward 1

Ward 1 Youth Speak Out: Part 2 of 3

No Comments 16 November 2010

Back to the Ward 1 town hall, just before D.C.’s incoming mayor was elected. In this clip, a young person got up and asked about violence in communities and schools, and the mayor’s plan to curb it. Click the link below to watch. GrayOnCommunityViolence

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Ariel Valdez, CentroNia, Fellows, Video, Ward 1

Ward 1 Youth Speak Out: Part 1 of 3

No Comments 31 October 2010

Not long ago, at the Ward 1 Town Hall meeting held by Almost Mayor Vincent Gray, I did something I never thought I’d do at any political event. I walked out. I was outraged. Had Vincent Gray, the man who will probably be Washington’s next mayor, just advocated fighting as a method for dealing with [...]

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Ariel Valdez, Fellows

Everybody Loves Maps

No Comments 27 October 2010

In the process of researching the What’s Good DC ? show on the dropout rate, I found a pretty cool tool.  A lot of the other fellows here are pretty into the idea of mapping projects, and Education Week has a great one. By going to their site, you can search for your school district [...]

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