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Karen Sue Lieber Foundation

Feature in Edwardsville Intelligencer: Youth Be Heard provides an outlet for creativity, expression

Feature the St. Louis Post Dispatch: Youth Be Heard Honors Teens Nationwide in Annual Art and Writing Contest

Feature in RiverBender.com: Youth Be Heard Honors Teens Nationwide In Annual Art and Writing Contest

Youth Be Heard receives a $2,000 grant from Electro Credit Union to implement the Strengths-Based Writing Program

See the videos of Electro’s Power of Community Grant Opportunity here!

Partnerships

Youth Be Heard is partnering with the Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas. They are accepting proposals now (from all ages)! How do you “read the world and the word” through critical media literacy? @CMLCA4ALL welcomes you to submit proposals by July 6, 2021: https://criticalmediaproject.org/cmlca2021proposals/

#CMLCA4ALL #criticalmedialiteracy #medialiteracy #criticalpedagogy #socialjustice #environmentaljustice

Youth Be Heard Collaborates with SIUE STEM Program

Nov.-Dec. 2020 Youth Be Heard leads the narrative formation piece of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s PhotoVoice youth program. This program is implemented by the SIUE Environmental Health Investigators and funded by the Science Education Partnerships Award program of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health. See youth PhotoVoice projects here!

Conference Presentations

National Association of Media Literacy Education Conference

July 16-18, 2021, Youth Be Heard presents: Cultivating Confidence in Youth Voices to Change the Media Landscape

Northeast Media Literacy Conference

November 6-7th Youth Be Heard presented through a panel discussion featuring Natasha Casey (YBH Board Member), Renee Childs (YBH Executive Director), and Youth Advisory Board members Andra Lang and Hannah Sterkel.

Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas

Oct. 2020 Youth Be Heard presented at the Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas on October 18th through a panel discussion with Natasha Casey (YBH Board Member), Renee Childs (YBH Executive Director), Charlotte Cheung (YBH youth advisor), and Diana Edmonds (YBH contributor). The theme of the conference was decolonizing media education.