Free Spirit Media is a film and media organization based in
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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Illinois
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. With locations across the city, they focus primarily on the
West
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and
South
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Sides. Their mission is to provide education, access, and opportunity in media production to over 500 underserved urban youth every year.
Programs
Free Spirit Media currently comprises seven programs: Free Spirit Labs and Industry Pathways. While each program focuses on underserved and underrepresented young people in Chicago, the programs teach or develop different forms of media literacy and media creation in distinct ways.
Work
Suspension stories
Suspension stories is an initiative resulting from a collaboration between the Project NIA and the
Rogers Park Young Women's Action Team The Rogers Park Young Women's Action Team (YWAT) was a group of primarily African-American high school females in Chicago who took action on social issues. They started out as a group of high school females working to end street harassment. Their pr ...
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that collect stories about students involved with unfair
Suspension (punishment)#Academia, Suspension and
Expulsion primarily through videos. They have also filmed and gathered information from
teacher
A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching.
''Informally'' the role of teacher may be taken on by anyone (e.g. whe ...
s and other school personnel.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YRQpUtT4u8 Suspension Story: Anton M shares his story]
See also
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Project NIA Project NIA is an American advocacy organization that supports youth in trouble with the law as well as those victimized by violence and crime, through community-based alternatives as opposed to formal legal proceedings. This project is aiming to en ...
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Rogers Park Young Women's Action Team The Rogers Park Young Women's Action Team (YWAT) was a group of primarily African-American high school females in Chicago who took action on social issues. They started out as a group of high school females working to end street harassment. Their pr ...
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After School Matters
After School Matters is a non-profit organization that provides Chicago high school teens with after-school and summer opportunities. It offers project-based after-school and summer programs in the arts, communications and leadership, sports and S ...
References
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