MNN Empowers Next Gen Storytellers to Make Their Voices Heard

From Parkland, Florida, to Ferguson, Missouri, young people are increasingly making their voices heard and changing the media narrative. MNN El Barrio Firehouse Community Media Center and the High School for Media and Communications (HSMC) are working together to bolster these new voices by giving high school students access to high tech media production tools and training.

During school breaks, the two organizations are partnering to offer week-long video production  training sessions for HSMC students and staff at MNN’s state-of-the-art community media facility in East Harlem.

“Training the next generation of mediamakers is what we’re all about,” said Zenaida Mendez, Director of the MNN El Barrio Firehouse Community Media Center. “So this partnership is a perfect match and we’re excited to have a talented group of students and teachers here with us.”

The partnership comes as HSMC is building out their own in-house TV studio. In order to prepare the students and teachers, the first cohort of 14 sophomores, juniors and teachers took MNN’s basic studio production course in February and are now taking the basic video editing course.

Hear what one student had to say about her experience:

Once HSMC's studio is ready in September, the school will use the space to create more hands-on learning opportunities for their students and MNN will continue to partner with HSMC in supporting the next generation of mediamakers.

Interested in taking video production courses at MNN? Attend an upcoming orientation session to learn more.

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