Student Perspective: Amber Taylor

5/31/2016

I feel as if my experience with Youth Media Project will help me gain a more confident voice this summer. I know what it's like to always be cut off in the middle of a sentence or not being able to have people that understand I need a bit more time to carefully get out my words because of my anxiety and stuttering.

I want to reach out to the community of youth that goes unnoticed like the average kids who just so happen to live in bad situations. They may not feel as if their words or contributions to their community do not mean anything because they are not exceedingly gifted or a trouble maker.I want to prove them otherwise. It frustrates me that media sticks a stereotype on a group an individuals because where they are from and leave it at that.

I want it to be my mission this summer to take notice to the kids who are not the best nor the worst,but who are right in the middle yet unseen.I'm hoping to learn effective ways to find these lost stories and to capture beautiful moments of this via camera.

With learning these skills, I can go to college more knowledgeable and more confident in my own voice to help others.

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Major Sponsors and Supporters of YMP

Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB) is a leader in informational broadcasting. MPB has exhibited a commitment to educating and informing Mississippians. MPB has partnered with YMP to lend tech equipment and provide youth engagement and media specialists to train students.

E3, a project of Parents of Public Schools of Jackson (now Ask for More), supported YMP in summers 2016 and 2017 with stipends for students, and other resources.
The Community Foundation of Greater Jackson (now The Community Foundation of Mississippi) is the
fiscal sponsor for E3.

Podastery Studios in downtown Jackson offers a network of locally produced podcasts. Beau York, founder of Podastery, has generously donated his time to train YMP students in podcasting skills and allowed Youth Media Project students to borrow professional podcasting equipment to learn
production skills.

Dialogue Jackson, formerly Jackson 2000 Inc., is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to fostering understanding and building harmony between people of different races, ethnicities and backgrounds. The group became YMP's fiscal sponsor in 2017 and hosts youth dialogues for teens..

Choice Printing in downtown Jackson is an in-kind sponsor of YMP offering YMP copying and printing services from its Capitol Towers location.

Good Design & Code >>

Good Design & Co offers high-end UI/UX, web development, app development and branding services. Principal J.C. Hiatt is helping YMP students publish their own website for stories, video, podcasts and more.

Jackson-based Workplace Solutions by Barefield is a Steelcase authorized dealer offering high-end office furniture and technology solutions. Workplace Solutions has loaned chairs, mobile desks and mobile whiteboards to create a collaborative office for YMP participants.

Jackson-based Fuse.cloud (formerly Broadband Voice) offers Voice-over-IP phone systems, fiber Internet connections and technical services. Fuse.cloud has sponsored phones, VoIP phone service and technical assistance for YMP.

SPECIAL THANKS TO DR. GEORGE SCHIMMEL and NATALIE IRBY FOR THEIR GENEROUS DONATIONS OF PRODUCTION IMACS FOR THE YOUTH MEDIA PROJECT.
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