Youth Media Project celebrates youth voice through professional development; co-creating curricula and co-facilitating the creation of youth-produced media with partner organizations. At our core is positive youth development and civic engagement. Through partnerships with schools, colleges, social action teams, performing arts and broadcast venues, young people learn the craft of communications and how to address local and global issues affecting their lives. Through academic curricula, technical training, community involvement, radio broadcasts and web development, youth form creative and meaningful expression to reflect and impact the world.

Please visit our Highlights page to read, listen and view samples of the creative and original work of YMP.

Staff

Judy Goldberg, Founder and Executive Director
is an educator, video and audio producer, and consultant bringing over 30 years of experience in developing communication arts education programs to New Mexico schools and colleges. Judy is the producer and host of Back Roads Radio, featuring writers and storytellers on public radio stations in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and the upper Rio Grande region. She has guided hundreds of youth media productions and produced video and radio shows about social, environmental, instructional and cultural issues. Judy initiated, facilitated and developed Drawing from the Well: Connecting School to Community, a curriculum integrating oral histories, applied learning and broadcasting. The Regenerative History Project at the New Mexico Office of the State Historian has adopted Drawing from the Well for students to record community histories. Judy serves as an adjunct faculty at the Santa Fe Community College and as a peer reviewer for the Youth Media Reporter, an on-line and print publication for youth media practitioners and academicians. Learn more about Judy and listen to an interview on Santa Fe’s Chamber of Commerce Director Simon Brackley’s show, “Business Matters,” on KTRC, 1260 am, a Hutton Broadcasting station.

Miles Tokunow, AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer and Production Team Coordinator
graduated with honors from Wesleyan University in May 2010. During his time studying Music, Dance and Anthropology at Wesleyan, Miles was able to bring together his diverse academic and artistic interests. He focused on experimental music and dance, ethnographic film, and autoethnography, the culmination of which was a multimedia dance solo and 150 page honors thesis he performed and wrote about his being adopted. Growing up in Los Angeles, Miles has an extensive history with performing and practicing multiple forms of dance (esp. Butoh) and music (percussion and computer). Miles’ father, a motion picture sound mixer, allowed him to frequently be an assistant boom operator for feature films. His love for and experience in sound, autoethnography and children make him very grateful to be able to do the work he does with Youth Media Project. Learn more about Miles.

Katy Gross, Education Coordinator
is a native Santa Fean who received her Masters Degree in Art Education from NYU in the winter of 2010. She taught during and since that time as an instructor in documentary photography and assisted in curricular development in various arts programs in New York City. Katy graduated from Brown University in 2005, where she studied International Development. Her senior thesis focused on the power of documentary film and photography in promoting democracy in Latin America. She studied photography at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and in the Documentary Studies program at the former College of Santa Fe. She believes very much in the power of storytelling and is thrilled that she has been given the opportunity to help young people tell their stories.

Carmen Gallegos, Mentorship and Outreach Coordinator
is a youth media producer and college student. Born in Zacatecas, Mexico, she immigrated to the United States as a young child. During her freshman year at Capital High School in Santa Fe, she started working with Judy Goldberg as the first participant of Youth Media Project. During her six years with Youth Media Project as a student, AmeriCorps Vista volunteer, and youth instructor, Carmen has participated in live improvisational radio dramas, hosted Audio Revolution shows, and created narratives about her heritage. Carmen’s radio stories have been picked up by national radio programs (through Public Radio Exchange and National Public Radio’s Showcase) and prompted invitations to attend the Global Youth Leadership Institute in Mystic, Connecticut, and the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Melbourne, Australia, as a youth radio producer. After graduating from West Mesa High School in Albuquerque, Carmen is focusing on a college degree in elementary education and working with students at Youth Media Project. Learn more about Carmen.

Jason Goodyear, Director of Media and Technology
is a media composer, musician, designer, sound artist and teacher who has worked with media and technology in one format or another for more than 20 years. Teaching is part of Jason’s family heritage and is something of which he is both passionate and proud. Jason teaches audio production, film related and computer-based music performance classes at the Media Arts Department at Santa Fe Community College. He holds a degree in Anthropology and this study, particularly the practice of ethnographic interviewing, informs his work and brings a sense of story to everything he does. His work can be found online at mediaslinger, prettylittlepaw and santafeSound. He is a member of the art collective Parallel Flux. Learn more about Jason.

Michael Chavez, Director of Production and Distribution
is a native New Mexican and followed his passion for music all the way to Full Sail, a media arts school in Orlando FL. There he received a degree in Recording Arts in 2000 and stayed on after graduation as a Protools instructor. After returning to New Mexico in 2002, Michael became the head engineer at Santa Fe’s premier recording studio where he was given the opportunity to work with many national and international artists and producers. Michael’s talents have taken him from California to Beijing and he now works as a freelance music producer in addition to his work with Youth Media Project. Learn more about Michael.

Consultants

Eliot Fisher, Programming Advisor
is a media producer, composer, and teacher from Santa Fe. He has Bachelor’s degrees in Film Studies from Wesleyan University (where he was awarded the Leavell Memorial Film Prize) and in Documentary Studies from the College of Santa Fe, where he went on to teach in and serve as coordinator of the Documentary Certificate Program. His video projects include ethnographic work with Yaqui Indians in Sonora, Mexico, Power on the River, a short documentary about the impacts of a hydroelectric dam on a rural Brazilian community, and Santa Fe Lucky 7, a student-produced showcase of international artists participating in an exhibition in Santa Fe. He has composed music for a diverse group of ensembles for live performance and short films, as well as writing the book and music for eight original musical comedies, many of which he directed. Learn more about Eliot.

John Braman, Special Projects
was part of Youth Media Project’s Global Team that visited Australia in December 2009. John Braman is president of Dream Year Consulting Group and specializes in organizational development, fundraising, strategic planning, executive coaching, and the design of mission-extending, revenue-enhancing programs. He is past president of the Independent Schools Association of the Central States and served Santa Fe Public Schools on the Strategic Planning Oversight Committee. He currently works for United World College as Director of Outreach Programs, and is working on a short documentary on Youth Media Project. Learn more about John.

Board of Directors

Ellen Biderman, Secretary / Treasurer, Co-founder of the Santa Fe Children’s Museum and educational consultant in early childhood education. Ellen’s involvement in local and state government, plus expertise in program development helps guide YMP’s growth.

Marcia Brenden, President, Coordinator of ENLACE/GEAR UP and Senior Associate at the Center for the Education and Study of Diverse Populations in Española for New Mexico Highlands University.

Buddy Espinosa, Senior Manager, Beaver Toyota

Maria Guadalupe Treviso Espinosa, International Affairs, Beaver Toyota

Kelly Huber is a Public Art Project Coordinator for New Mexico Arts and was the Executive Director for the Santa Fe Youth Symphony Association for five years. She is a skilled non-profit administrator holding a Master’s degree in Organization Management for the School for International Training.

Carmen J. Lopez, a New Mexico native, has a Master in Public Policy, with a focus in Education, from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She worked as the Senior Program Director with Boston Public Schools’ High School Renewal Office, taught English and Technology for the Higher Achievement Program and worked for the U.S. Department of Education’s Elementary and Secondary Education office. Carmen facilitates professional development, focusing on cultural competency, as well as on the intersection of education, advocacy and policy.

James Williams, former KUNM News Director and Public Relations Editor for St. Johns College – Santa Fe, NM.

Advisors:

Camilla M. Bustamante, MPH, Ph.D, of Alamoworks Inc. is the Director of Environmental Sciences at Northern New Mexico College.

Joey Chavez is a professional actor, director, playwright and head of the Performing Arts Department at Santa Fe High School for 15 years.  Starting in academic year 2010-2011, Joey will be the head of the Theater Department at the New Mexico School for the Arts, where a partnership with YMP will continue.

Rand E. Cook is the owner of The Candyman Center, Music and Electronics.

Anne Farrell, Founding chair of the Media Arts Program at the Santa Fe Community College, 1992-2007. Anne is a local media artist and owner of VideoGraphicArts. She continues to counsel the development of the Youth Media Project.

Lisa Goldman, M.Ed., Educational Advisor has over 20 years of experience in education and curriculum development, especially in the field of gifted and twice exceptional learners. She was a member of the New Mexico State Gifted Advisory Committee, and the National Association for Gifted Children. Lisa has also been actively involved in media education and activism for over 10 years. She has presented at national conferences including the Action Coalition for Media Education and the Northeast Media Literacy Conference, and currently teaches Media and Culture, and Media and Gender at Santa Fe Community College. Learn more about Lisa.

Diane Karp, Executive Director of Santa Fe Art Institute.

Meredith Machen is an educator and social justice advocate. President of both the League of Women Voters of Santa Fe County and Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe, she focuses on building community leadership and economic development.

Sue Sturtevant, Ed.D, previously Director of Statewide Partnerships for the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. She is a former Chair of the Santa Fe Arts Commission and on the ArtWorks Committee that provides visual and performing arts training for public schools. Sue currently resides in Farmington, CT as the Executive Director of the Hill-Stead Museum. Sue still confers with YMP.

YMP has received support from:

Adobe Youth Voices
Aztlan Fund/Peace Development Fund
Brenner Foundation
Buckman/Knutson Fund / Santa Fe Community Foundation
Donor Advisory Fund / Santa Fe Community Foundation
Kind World Foundation
Los Alamos National Bank
McCune Charitable Foundation
New Mexico Arts
New Mexico Community Foundation with funds from W.F. Kellogg Foundation, the Coca Cola Corporation, the American Legacy Foundation,
and the Carl David Bedford Non-Permanent Fund
Oppenheimer Brothers Foundation
The Simon Charitable Foundation
Seahollow Family Gift Fund, Santa Fe Community Foundation
Surdna Foundation through KUNM and UNM
Vessel Foundation
Zona del Sol

YMP EDUCATIONAL PARTNER SUPPORT:

Connecting to Courage (NM Dept. of Health)
Earth Care International
ENLACE/GEAR-UP
The Masters Program Charter School
Reel Fathers
Santa Fe Community College through collaborative instruction of Service Leadership (HUDV 270) and Volunteer Service (HUDV 170)
Santa Fe Public School’s Student Wellness Action Team (SWAT)
United World College/USA

YMP has acquired funds for our educational partners from:

PNM
Partners-in-Education

YMP RECEIVES IN-KIND SUPPORT FROM:

Americorps VISTA through New Mexico Forum for Youth and Community
And all our partner organizations by supporting staff time, offering resources and access to facilities.

Youth Media Project is a non-profit 501 (c)(3).