By Amie Williams | Executive Director, GlobalGirl Media
Welcome to the GlobalGirl New Year!
We have been hard at work here at GlobalGirl Media central offices, not only working on our webisode series FOOD FORWARD, but launching a few new projects!
We are excited about 2014 and all the great new girls we will be training and content we will be producing.
Now we have a playlist on our YouTube Channel where you can access our entire FOOD FORWARD series,
which is also being featured in the waiting rooms of the ALTA MED medical clinics in East Los Angeles.
For our new projects, we launched a unique new program in Coachella, California with support from the California Endowment, called MOTHER/MADRE, which features short video profiles and oral histories of the mothers of our globalgirls. We are very proud of these "healing narratives" being produced, focused on opening up communication between generations and providing a safe space to talk about the trauma of immigration, migration and overcoming obstacles living below the poverty line from a female perspective.
GREAT NEWS! GlobalGirl will be expanding to OAKLAND, CA and BRAZIL, just in time for the World Cup!
Here is a video at our Oakland Launch party, featuring Danny Glover, a new Advisory Board Member!
We continue to work with our young women journalists in South Africa, Morocco and Chicago, please see our Chicago Report on globalgiving for complete details.
We also proudly announce our partnership with two new distribution networks:
The Shriver Report, Project Eve and The Girl Museum, who will be featuring our blogs and videos. For the launch of the much talked about Shriver Report, (an online womens' journalism helmed by Maria Shriver), we are featured on their HOME PAGE, with a video we produced in LA, called ON THE BRINK.
Finally, a highlight of our work culminated in attending UNESCO's first annual Forum on Gender and Media, held in Bangkok, Thailand, where our very own Rajae Hammadi from Morocco attended with Executive Director, Amie Williams, and they just ahppened to be there during anti-government protests so were able to report from the frontlines of a global news event!
RECENT AWARDS:
Rocio Ortega, GGMLA was selected for the prestigious Teen Nick HALO Award, and gave a speech to millions of TV viewers during the televised special in November. LINK TO HER SPEECH HERE:
Imani Crenshaw, GGMLA won the Carole Simpson Scholarship to support her tuition as she studies broadcast journalism at Hampton University.
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