Global Girl Media, Los Angeles, USA
From the Global Women's Network
| Global Girl Media, Los Angeles, USA | |
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| Logo: |  |
| Street address: | 4203 Jackson Ave |
| City: | Culver City |
| State or Province: | CA |
| Country: | United States |
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| Location coordinates: | 34° 0' 52" N, 118° 23' 41" WLatitude: 34.014367 Longitude: -118.39459 |
| Executive Director: | Amie Williams |
| Contact email: | office@globalgirlmedia.org |
| Website: | http://www.globalgirlmedia.org |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/#!/globalgirlmedia |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/globalgirlmedia |
| Target: | Girls and Women |
| Organization type: | International NGO (operating in multiple countries) |
| Operates in the following countries: | USA, South Africa |
| Sectors: | Education, Empowerment, Media/Journalism |
| Year founded/registered: | 2010 |
Summary
Global Girl Media trains girls from under-served communities as new media citizen journalists to speak out about the issues that affect them most.
About
Global Girl Media is dedicated to empowering high school age girls from under-served communities through media, leadership and journalistic training to have a voice in the global media universe and their own futures.
Global Girl Media grew out of a coalition of women broadcasters and journalists from around the world who recognized that much mainstream reporting focuses on flash points of violence, celebrity or disaster, while the everyday experience and voice of the invisible majority, particularly young women, passes silently under the radar. With the explosion of social media networking and user-generated content on the web, the fact remains that this media is only open to those who have access to these technologies, leaving many youth, especially young girls in at-risk or impoverished communities, falling hard into the digital divide.
Global Girl Media seeks to address this disparity by supplying the equipment, education and support necessary to help young women become digital and blog journalists, bringing their own unique perspective on their lives, their communities and world events to the global web and social media community.
Global Girl Media invests in girls to become their own agents of change in bridging the gender digital divide, providing concrete skills with which to improve their personal situations. We firmly believe that working with young women around the world to find and share their authentic voice is an investment in our global future.
GGM works to ensure that today's new media systems contribute to a better-informed citizenry. By reaching out to the most vulnerable of young women, our work seeks to promote freedom of expression and strengthen substantive journalism that addresses historically marginalized voices, while at the same time building self-esteem and leadership capacity that can change lives and transform communities. Launched during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa and Los Angeles, GGM continues to develop projects worldwide. Our model is unique in that it pairs U.S. communities with international cities, creating a peer-to-peer international network of girls that are trained to work with small-format video, shot and shared on cell phones.
This summer, we are very excited to be launching our second New Media Academy and News Bureau Program! We received a PEPFAR (The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) grant to work with 10 HIV-positive young women in Johannesburg, ages 16-25 from June 25-July 16. We also worked in conjunction with the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, from July 5-July 26, 2011 to provide training to high-school-aged girls from marginalized communities in Los Angeles. This is part of a program that will feature their work in an international exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center in October, focused on women and girls' rights globally.
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