We would like to invite you to read, listen and view Youth Media Project’s selected works. These samples reflect the creative and original work of YMP staff and participants, as well as illustrate our connections with our partner organizations. If you would like to support our work, please click here to make a donation.

Listen to segments from Audio Revolution! Youth Media Project’s regular radio broadcast on KSFR, 101.1 fm and re-packaged for KUNM, 89.9 fm and internet distribution. This sampler represents Youth Media Project partner organizations, the after-school production team and our summer intensive. We invite you take 7 minutes to listen deeply to the voices from our northern New Mexico communities.

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The voices on the sampler are: Audio Revolution! production team hosts: Shawnelle Chavez and Gabriel Rima; Santa Fe Indian School’s Spoken Word Team; Ashly Ramirez from the 2009 YMP Summer Intensive; Yazan Deek from the United World College; students from the Student Wellness Action Team interviewing NM Senator Pete Wirth; a San Ildefonso student from Pojoaque Valley High School and Connecting to Courage; students performing in an original radio drama from Santa Fe High School’s Radio/Film class; Dominic Medina from Pojoaque Valley High School and Natural Helpers; Sergio Gonzales from Earth Care International’s Youth Allies; Carmen Gallegos from YMP’s Global Broadcasting Team’s trip to the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Melbourne, Australia; Ethan Parrot from Monte del Sol’s Radio Arts class.

Fathers in Focus is a special collaborative show that delivers the stories of youth experiencing homelessness and their experiences with their fathers. Fathers in Focus was a partnership of REEL FATHERS, Adelante Program/Santa Fe Public Schools, Youth Media Project, and Northern NM ENLACE that brought seven youth, ages 13 to 16,  to share affecting stories and insights about their fathers. The students come from Ortiz middle school, Capital High School and Santa Fe High School.

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Global Leadership Forum brought together 30 youth leaders from 15 countries “to make education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future.” Part of the GLF training www.uwc-usa.org/glf involved 6 international teams learning how to create broadcast-quality digital media. Here is the work of one team from Argentina, Colombia, Kenya, and the United States. This piece is entitled “Colors”. To see slideshows of all of the pieces, click here.

Summer Intensive. Youth Media Project and Santa Fe Art Institute join forces each summer to offer students, ages 12 – 23, a two week intensive program to learn how to write, perform, record and create their own radio narratives, audio slideshows and audio installation pieces. This story is from the 2011 Summer Intensive. Mercedes Downing shares with us her beautiful and inspiring story, the result of three pages written about life in a youth shelter and how she overcame her hardships.

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“Grandfathers” is a product of the Global Issues and digital storytelling workshop YMP conducted at United World College-USA in April 2011.

“Drawing from the Well – Connecting Schools to Community,” is an on-line resource for middle school and high school educators to integrate academic learning with community interviews, media production and public celebration of culture and history. Judy Goldberg, YMP Executive Director, initiated, designed, directed the program for four years and wrote/ produced the curriculum and video in collaboration with the Museum of New Mexico’s Statewide Services and the Van of Enchantment, Peñasco Independent Public Schools, ENLACE/GEAR-UP and other non-profit organizations. The New Mexico Office of the State Historian adopted the DFTW curricula for a statewide “Regenerating History Project.”

“Traditional and Youth Media Education: Collaborating and Capitalizing on Digital Storytelling,” is an article co-authored by John Braman and Judy Goldberg for the Youth Media Reporter, a professional journal for practitioners in the field of youth media.

“YMP has made a significant impact on me since I joined it. It’s the only way that I found to express my personality and share my stories and experiences and make them heard around the world, as happened with my first recorded piece…In the beginning I thought my stories are not that interesting, but after joining YMP I found out that I was wrong and I found how my stories are important for the others. It was important for me to share my story, give people a picture about my experience, and make them feel it and imagine it by listening to it.”
- Yazan Deek, United World College student

“YMP gave me the chance to explore the medium of radio and turned an after school activity into a passion. After completing the program and heading off to college, I knew that I wanted to study media and work with it for the rest of my life. YMP has given me the confidence to speak my mind and the tools needed to produce radio. It has also given me the opportunity to travel to places that I wouldn’t have otherwise, meeting very inspiring people along the way. I wouldn’t be where I am today without it.”
- Dolna Smithback, Former Production Team Member

“YMP has grown with me, to me, for me. It’s believed in me and I have believed in the growth of the project ever since 2005 when I was introduced to it. Now, almost five years later, I’ve not only been committed to the project, but to my community and myself. YMP believes in young people like me, who may not have the resources or opportunities as other kids but have people who are willing to listen to their stories. YMP listened to my story when no one else cared for it and I am truly grateful for it.”
- Carmen Gallegos, Former Production Team Member and Current Mentorship and Outreach Coordinator

“…I think it’s really empowering to see the fruits of your labor in the way that you do when doing radio work. Having an outlet for [students’] opinions and their community work clearly means a lot. In addition, it helps to focus the communication skills, a lot of the research we want to be doing, and community inquiry/engagement we are involved in. It’s also fun. For some reason people love hearing their own voices (even while they squeal and make fun of how they sound when they’re recorded). There is always lots of laughing. It helps to build confidence at the same time as it promotes humility.”
- Bianca Sopoci-Belknap, Educational Partner, Earth Care International