By Amie Williams | Executive Director, GlobalGirl Media
SOUTH AFRICA
A three-week advanced digital media and journalism training was convened at the Jozi Hub, Johannesburg as part of the ongoing GlobalGirl Media News Bureau and Digital Media Trainings, sponsored by OSI. Our GlobalGirls took to the streets of Johannesburg to ask the free-born generation how they feel about the elections, the various political parties, and the experience of voting for the first time. A total of fifteen, one-minute videos were produced in addition to 7 longer pieces, which were blasted out through all GGM’s social media during the fifteen days leading up to the national presidential elections with the trending hashtag #FreeBornFreeMind.
Please check out our full playlist of videos produced for the #FreeBornFreeMind project.
CHICAGO
GlobalGirl Media Chicago also recently released a short documentary video sponsored by Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC). Low wage tipped workers in restaurants are predominantly women, and women of color, making an average of $2.50 an hour as tipped workers. The video tells the story of Aisha Thurman and her two daughters, who are "living off tips," in Detroit, Michigan, dealing with sexual harassment, job insecurity, for $2.65 an hour. The federal minimum wage for tipped workers has not increased since 1970.
LOS ANGELES
GlobalGirl Media is proud to announce 12 new GlobalGirl graduates from the Eastern Coachella Valley! These girls have worked hard to write, produce, and edit their own stories in their communities. This past winter they produced three short web-video documentaries about their mothers' own stories about immigration, women's roles in their families/communities, and their aspirations and dreams as part of the Mother/Madre Series. We are very proud of these girls' accomplishments and the bright future that lays ahead of them. Congratulations from the entire GlobalGirl Family!
LONDON
GlobalGirl Media is pleased to announce plans to open a new bureau location in London. A big thanks to Suzanne Biegel for organizing a working advisory board. You can follow Suzanne's blog here. Stay tuned for more information to come soon!
PARTNERSHIP WITH WOMEN'S ENEWS
Women's eNews, in partnership with GlobalGirl Media, launched Teen Voices during their annual awards gala honoring gender equality work. Teen Voices at Women's eNews is a new source for global news on girls' experiences, perspectives and challenges, cultivating the next generation of social activist journalists and bridging the gap between generations of female readers.
PRESS FEATURES
Zocalo Public Square featured a piece written by GlobalGirl Janelly Martinez about creating the Mother/Madre project I Am Not Ashamed. In the article, titled “Making Mom a Movie Star: Creating a Documentary About My Mother’s Work in the Fields Helped Me See Her in a New Light,” Janelly tells readers about her experience with GlobalGirl Media and how the Mother/Madre project came about:
"I honestly didn’t think of my mom’s job as interesting until my friends and I signed up for a filmmaking class this past winter break offered by Global Girl Media, a nonprofit that provides high school girls with media and leadership training. We were in a room at Mecca’s Boys & Girls Club, where I’ve been going for about a year and a half (since I was 12) to participate in community service, get homework help, and take boxing lessons. The Global Girl Media teachers asked us if we thought there was anything interesting about our lives that would make a great story. It was hard to think of something..."
UPCOMING SUMMER TRAININGS
GGM will be conducting three trainings for teenage girls in digital media journalism this summer in Chicago, Los Angeles and Oakland, California. Please welcome our new Program Partner: Youth Uprising in Oakland, CA.
Please contact brianne@globalgirlmedia.org for more information about trainings.
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