[box_light]Facebook, school dances, and the latest fashion trend—you’d think that teenagers these days would spend most of their time obsessing over these things. But frankly,
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 Saturday August 28, 2010, a crowd of people stood in front of the Fresno Art Museum, waiting for the doors to open. Kick Knowledge: A Night of Poetry and Spoken Word by Fresno Youth, was to start in exactly fifteen minutes.
In a letter to themselves, youth writers share what they wish they had known when they were younger Dear Maria, I’m leaving this letter in
I have been in situations where either I was judged or I judged someone before I got to know them. Honestly, judging is a natural
West Fresno barber shop honored as Small Business Owner of the Year by Assemblymember Juan Arambula.