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Mary Kate Leidal is a School Librarian at Forest Avenue Elementary School in Hudson, MA What do you do? I am the librarian in a PreK-4 school with about 300 students. I see all the students in the school every…

Christine is a Librarian/Media Specialist with the Cranford Board of Education What do you do? At Cranford High School, I write curriculum as needed i.e. plagiarism and journalism. I prepare library budget, document resource needs, and projections. Write grants, create,…

Mireya Marsh is a junior at Florida Atlantic University studying Communications with a minor in Public Relations. She was born and raised in Fishers, Indiana but then relocated to Winter Park, Florida before her Freshman year of high school. I…

Carolina Cedraschi is a senior Journalism major at Ithaca College with a double minor in Italian and Media Literacy. She enjoys writing, editing, and producing different pieces that revolve around the news and modern society. In her past four years…

When did your organization launch and why? The News Literacy Project (NLP) launched in 2008. It was founded by Alan C. Miller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, after he visited his daughter’s middle school classroom to discuss what journalists do…

Amaris Yang is a High School Junior from Los Angeles, CA and a passionate advocate for media literacy, civic engagement, and social justice. She has created social media campaigns to empower Gen Z, and also worked on voter turnout projects…

Lucia Santiago is a freshman at Brown University. She has been an active member in youth journalism throughout high school, co-creating her high school’s first news website with over 200 monthly users as well as uploading weekly digital news on Reels…

Sadie Matt is a sophomore in New York at the North Salem Middle School High School. Her interest in media literacy began with an in-depth examination of navigating the media and identifying AI in her Freshman Seminar class. Sadie co-founded…

Maggie LeBeau is from Lombard, Illinois and is a freshman at the University of Missouri double majoring in journalism and history and minoring in political science. She became passionate about media literacy when she saw an increase in political, health,…