A core tenet of Youth Media Project (YMP) is for youth to have a public venue for inquiry, discovery and expression. YMP provides a platform through our educational programming, and our radio and internet broadcasts. Critical to the success of our efforts however, is how student’s and educator’s work finds new life beyond our own outlets. Our goal for YMP productions is that they travel beyond the perimeters of our reach to find a larger audience where they can engender new meaning, purpose and action. The following are acknowledgements to media works and service leadership activities which started at YMP, and have grown beyond us to find their own place in the greater world.

YMP is proud to say that we made the cut again this year and a YMP-produced project was recognized by PRX on their “Best Youth-Made Radio of 2011″ list.

Ellie Evans, a student from the New Mexico School For The Arts, created an imaginative and poetic piece that challenges our current understanding of the world around us and asks the question: What if?
Listen to What If
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Ellie Evans – What If
What If was cited on PRX’s Best Youth-Made Radio of 2011 list.
Best Youth-Made Radio of 2011
Listen to What If

Dolna Smithback – Making Water a Universal Right
Making Water a Universal Right was included in Fresh Greens 2.0, a production of New Hampshire Public Radio in collaboration with Generation PRX and youth radio organizations across the country which examines what it means to be green.
Read about Fresh Greens
Listen to Making Water a Universal Right

Ahmed Hameid – Palestinian Hoop Dreams
Palestinian Hoop Dreams was picked up by YouthCast, a project of PRX to support, connect and distribute youth-produced radio.
Check out Palestinian Hoop Dreams at YouthCast
Listen to Palestinian Hoop Dreams

Jennifer Ferran – Swatch
Swatch was cited on PRX’s Best Youth-Made Radio of 2008 list.
Best Youth-Made Radio of 2008
Listen to Swatch

Ece Ergadöz – Peculiar Privilege and the Elegy
Peculiar Privilege and the Elegy was cited on PRX’s Best Youth-Made Radio of 2010 list.
Best Youth-Made Radio of 2010
Listen to Peculiar Privilege and the Elegy

Patrick Chavez – An Unexpected Life
An Unexpected Life was cited on PRX’s Best Youth-Made Radio of 2010 list.
Best Youth-Made Radio of 2010
Listen to An Unexpected Life

Global Leadership Forum
Youth Media Project partnered with United World College to produce their Global Leadership Forum.
Read about GLF
Watch video from the 2011 forum

Judy Goldberg and John Braman – Traditional and Youth Media Education: Collaborating and Capitalizing on Digital Storytelling
An article by Executive Director Judy Goldberg and Special Projects Consultant John Braman on the Youth Media Reporter website.
Read the article