Youth Media Learning Network Director Joins The Team

We're thrilled to share the news that effective this week, Tim Dorsey has joined our team here at EDC as Project Director of the new Youth Media Learning Network (YMLN). YMLN is our new capacity building and professional development initiative, launched in partnership with Educational Video Center (EVC) in New York, intended to strengthen the practice and expand the reach of youth media. Tim is formerly the Managing Director at EVC (http://www.evc.org) and brings a great deal of project management and youth media expertise to this new effort.

Drawing upon the success of past youth media field building efforts, and informed by established professional development strategies in other fields, YMLN will include a fellows program that identifies and strengthens leaders within the youth media field, peer institutes that bring youth media, youth development and formal K-12 educators together to explore promising practices, and an online community that promotes the documentation and sharing of instructional methods and materials.

The project is a two-year pilot effort with initial funding from Open Society Institute and Kellogg Foundation. We'll continue to keep you posted regarding opportunities available for professional development through the Network.