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Author: The kNOw Youth Media
The kNOw works to support and equip young people with the journalism and advocacy skills they need to tell their stories and the stories of their communities.
In 2006, over 25 youth began participating in weekly after-school writing workshops where they congregated in the hallway of a two-story building in West Fresno and learned the essentials of creating media and telling their stories. The group evolved over the next five years and is now proudly recognized as The kNOw Youth Media.
Through our program, we create opportunities for our youth participants, who in turn create long-term positive change in their communities. Our approach weaves youth development and youth media innovation to produce our biannual youth publication, multimedia projects, and community forums.
The kNOw began as a project of New America Media, which was the country’s first and largest national collaboration and advocate of 2000 ethnic news organizations. In 2018 The kNOw became a project of Youth Leadership Institute.
On December 4, the West Fresno community came out to celebrate the official unveiling of a new mural, created by youth artists from Fresno under the guidance of New America Media’s own resident muralist, Josué Rojas.
Fresno youth discuss what they are doing to advocate for LGBTQ safety and acceptance at school such as standing up for their LQBTQ friends, joining the Gay Straight Alliance (GSA), and writing to high school principals asking what is being done to make schools safer for LGBTQ youth.
On Saturday, December 4, 2010, people from all over Fresno came to see the final result of a long awaited mural. The new mural, painted by a group of talented youth, graced the side walls of Louie Kee Market at Tulare and B Street, a family-owned business with more than 87 years of history and service to the residents of West Fresno.
Student Body President at Fresno State, Pedro Ramirez, recently revealed that he is an undocumented citizen who has been living in the United States since