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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 [...]

Selina Musuta, WHUT

#3 ¿What’s Good, D.C.?: Producer’s Perspective

No Comments 16 December 2010

I produced the third show of the November 30 taping of ¿What’s Good, D.C.?. I volunteered to produce that episode’s show on sexually transmitted diseases and infections. Despite 5 years of experience in producing weekly and daily radio shows, this was my first time producing a television show. Television and radio are really different. Producing [...]

Fellows, Ward 8

Townhall Conversations: Internet Access and the Digital Divide

No Comments 16 December 2010

On November 29th, I headed to the THEARC (billed as “the only theater east of the Anacostia River in Washington, DC”) to participate in the digital access townhall created by my co-fellows Je’Nein and Ashley. The panel line up was formidable. Maxie Jackson, Public Media Corps Board Member and the President and CEO of the [...]

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 [...]

Anacostia High School, Danielle Scruggs, Fellows, Ward 7

The Rocky Road to Graduation, pt. 2

No Comments 28 November 2010

On dropping out. from Danielle Scruggs on Vimeo. As I promised before, here is video of Mardez Davis, a senior at the Academies at Anacostia, recounting his experiences with dropping out and returning to high school. And thanks to Brittany, I found out Mardez was featured on the amazing website People’s District, a labor of [...]

Fellows, Garfield Terrace, Robin Hamilton, Ward 1

Garfield Terrace/Guerilla Arts Open House

No Comments 22 November 2010

For the Guerilla Arts students at Garfield Terrace, an open house means free food. Students jumped at the chance to have free pizza and candy – even if it meant having to listen to adults. The purpose of the event was to tell the kids about the calendar project Guerilla Arts is launching. As part [...]

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We, the founding members of the Public Media Corps, believe that we can close this nation's digital opportunity divide through new models of community service. We connect our communities to the informative, expressive, and transformative potential of digital media in all its depth, meaning and value. United by the principles of civic engagement, social justice and reciprocity, we strengthen community voices and create networks, partnerships and dialogue between schools, service organizations, local communities and public media.

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