FILMS Abortion: Past, Present, Future This documentary explores the history of abortion rights. LEARN MORE Breathing Easy: Environmental Hazards in in Public Housing EVC students focus their attention on the harmful impact that lead poisoning, mold, and pests and pesticides in low-come housing. LEARN MORE Cops Are(n't) Colorblind Our documentary film shows two main characters, Demitrius and Niaja, who experienced racial profiling as young teenagers. LEARN MORE Unequal Education Revisted More than twenty years later, the crew reunited to produce Unequal Education Revisited, bearing witness to the long-term impact that inequities plaguing our society. LEARN MORE

EVC STAFF We are a BIPOC-led and BIPOC-majority community of: Educators. Artists. Alumni. Changemakers. Ambreen Qureshi Executive Director Directora Ejecutiva LEARN MORE Cynthia Copeland Senior Media Education Specialist Especialista Superior en Educación de Medios LEARN MORE Dalia McGill Youth Media Instructor Instructora de Medios Juveniles LEARN MORE Margaret Sheble Archive Distribution Specialist Especialista en Distribución de Archivos LEARN MORE Mary Grueser Deputy Director, Programs Subdirectora de Programas LEARN MORE ALUMNI ADVISORY COUNCIL EVC’s inaugural Alumni Advisory Council was launched in June 2022 and helps EVC remain accountable to the populations it works with, and remain connected to the needs and goals of its alumni at all stages of their careers. The intergenerational Council serves as a sounding board for new directions proposed by EVC’s leadership, and advises on new directions for the organization that will honor the experiences of its members. The Council includes a Youth Committee, specifically for alumni aged 25 and under, in keeping with EVC’s youth-centered values and pedagogy. The Council advises on alumni relations and support, the ethical use of EVC’s film archive, and other matters related to EVC’s overarching mission and organizational goals. Alexus Stewart LEARN MORE Carol Román LEARN MORE Chris Caraballo LEARN MORE Christain Moore LEARN MORE Ines Morales LEARN MORE Isabella Araya LEARN MORE MJ Small LEARN MORE Madison Rivera LEARN MORE Maude Carroll LEARN MORE Raelene Holmes LEARN MORE Yhenni Vogue LEARN MORE EVC BOARD OF DIRECTORS Albert Bahar, Board Member Head of Digital Strategy, Travel & Hospitality, Adobe Mary Grueser, Non-Voting Staff Rep. Deputy Director, Programs Frances Ning, Board Member Citigroup Stacey M. Wright, Board Co-Secretary Staff Therapist, SUNY Downstate Student Counseling Center; Advanced Year Advisor, Columbia School of Social Work Colleen Devery, Board President Chief Strategy Officer, NAF Tiffany Harrington, Board Member HBO Max Campaign Asset Manager, WarnerMedia Ambreen Qureshi, Board Member Executive Director, Educational Video Center Torrance York, Board Member Artist/Photographer Marga Graves, Board Treasurer Deals Manager, PwC Jahaad J. Martin, Board Member Executive Director, Sub Complex Manager, Morgan Stanley Pam Sporn, Board Co-Secretary Director, Grito Productions; Member, New Day Films EVC FOUNDER Steve Goodman is the founding executive director emeritus of the Educational Video Center.... READ MORE

The Educational Video Center is an award-winning non-profit media organization dedicated to teaching documentary filmmaking to young people. EDUCATIONAL VIDEO CENTER: building a just and equitable world through the power of teaching, creating, and mobilizing youth-produced media. LEARN MORE CURRENT CAMPAIGNS LATEST EVENTS & NEWS We Are the Keepers Last week, the way our nation voted left us feeling punched in the gut. Like so many times during EVC’s 40 years... Nov 14, 2024 2 min read EVC Activism From EVC’s beginning in the 80s, our youth producers have created documentaries that ask critical questions about injustice... Nov 1, 2024 11 min read The 4 I's of Oppression: How Critical Literacy Is the Bedrock of Homeplace Living in childhood without a sense of home, I found a place of sanctuary in “theorizing,” in making sense out of what was happening.... Nov 1, 2024 6 min read PARTNER WITH EVC HOST A SCREENING IMPACT SINCE 1984 STORIES & SCOOPS Play Subscribe

Educational Video Center | Your gift supports our mission. Make a donation today. Educational Video Center The Educational Video Center is a non-profit youth media organization dedicated to teaching documentary video as a means to develop the artistic, critical literacy, and career skills of young people, while nurturing their idealism and commitment to social change. EVC’s vision is a just and equitable world created by young people and the power of their stories.

EVC’s Professional Development Program (PDP) gives PK-12 teachers the proven teaching strategies, practical skills and support they need to plan, facilitate, and evaluate student-produced video projects while meeting the Common Core Standards. Principals and teachers at EVC partner schools are eager to adopt our approa PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM Professional Development Programs (PDP) is EVC’s unique credit-bearing in-school youth instruction and teacher-training program, customizable for each classroom. In our Professional Development Programs (PDP), K-12 students and teachers learn how to collaboratively film, edit, and produce documentary films about social justice issues that are impacting their lives, communities, and society as a whole. Through experiential training institutes and in-class coaching, K-12 teachers learn teaching strategies and practical skills to integrate student-led media production into their classes. Educators can meet their professional learning needs, develop their instructional practices, and improve student learning by integrating media arts based projects into their curriculum. Young people find renewed purpose in their learning and develop stronger habits of reading, critical research, and creative expression as they connect the personal and political in their documentaries. Students can produce public service announcements, community inquiry projects, or longer documentaries. Individual teachers or schools can partner with EVC; we customize the length, timing and design of the program to best support each partner's individual needs. Want to learn more? Simply fill out the form below, or email Mary Grueser , Deputy Director of Programs PARTNER WITH EVC CONTACT US PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM AT A GLANCE LOCATION: We can offer PDP services at your location. SCHEDULE: Customized to best meet the needs of your students and teachers. CLASS SIZE: Flexible; groups of about 15 are ideal but we can work with multiple groups. FILMS: Youth produce PSA’s, short community inquiry films, or longer documentaries. FAQ’s: Learn more about PDP by downloading our Frequently Asked Questions. RECENT PROJECTS

< Back Unequal Education Revisted In 1992, EVC’s youth team produced Unequal Education for the national PBS series, “Listening to America with Bill Moyers.” Their film revealed the stark contrast in resources and opportunities offered to students in two Bronx middle schools — one in middle-class area and one in a low-income community — in the same district. More than twenty years later, the crew reunited to produce Unequal Education Revisited, bearing witness to the long-term impact that inequities plaguing our society — in education, justice and healthcare — have on those struggling to survive. A film produced by high school students who participated in EVC’s Youth Documentary Workshop, 2014. Project Gallery Previous Next

RAFAEL GELL Born & Raised: Dominican Republic and Harlem First EVC Project: Gender Power: Street Harassment in NYC (2014) Current Occupation: Studio Operator, CNN Education: AS, Theater Production, Borough of Manhattan Community College; BS, New York University, Media Culture and Communication Films: Gender Power: Street Harassment in NYC (2014) Rafael's Story Born in Manhattan, Rafael moved to the Dominican Republic when he was three to live with his grandmother. He returned to New York City when he was six, landing in the Bronx. Rafael found EVC at a critical time in his life: he had already been in and out of several high schools, and was worried he would never graduate. He woke up one day with the realization that if he didn’t graduate from high school he wouldn’t succeed in life. Attending City-As-School, he was grateful that he could learn about almost anything that he was passionate about by doing internships around the city. He was enthusiastic about film, theater, and communications, so he applied to EVC, and EVC accepted him as an intern in Youth Doc Workshop (YDW). He became a leader of his YDW production team. He went on to co-produce Gender Power: Street Harassment in New York City, which shed light on the causes of street harassment and solutions for creating more equitable gender power. Working on the film helped him not only gain artistic and technical filmmaking skills, but he also learned how to put them to use to make a film with a sociological perspective. As he worked hard editing the film and listening to the interviews, he came to realize how desensitized he had become to the ways young men objectified girls and women. The film premiered at the HBO Theater in Manhattan and won awards at three festivals. Inspired by his time at EVC, Rafael graduated high school in 2013 and was accepted to the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC). There he majored in theater and joined the film club, and eventually he was elected vice president of the club. He directed a short film that screened at Tribeca. He graduated from BMCC with an associates degree in Theater Production. The confidence he gained there led him to New York University, where he graduated with honors in spring 2019 with a bachelors of science in Media Arts Studies. After graduation and faced with the daunting task of finding work in the New York City media industry, Rafael again received critical mentoring, networking, and career-skills assistance from EVC. In addition to connecting Rafael to media professionals and his first freelance job opportunities, EVC offered Rafael an internship, enabling him to develop a film reel that both provided him work experience as well as his first work samples for a growing media portfolio. And EVC sponsored an internship for Rafael at Bloomberg News under the mentorship of Technical Director Alex Soto, another EVC alum. Rafael reflected, “EVC helped me get an internship at Bloomberg News, which literally changed my life because it led to a full-time contracted position. If I didn’t have the connection through EVC, I never would have had an ‘in’ to a job that I love and that has launched my career in media.” Rafael stays connected to EVC and periodically returns to participate in EVC screenings as an alumni guest speaker. He has full-time work as a studio operator for CNN, and he is working toward membership in a professional union. Favorite EVC Project: "Gender Power — my group’s documentary on street harassment. Interviewing Ronnie, one of my best friends, was a challenge for me. Because of the way he always bothered girls on the streets, I wanted him to change. That’s why I interviewed him the way I did. To get him to really think about what he was doing, and have the other boys who will watch our video think about it too." Proudest Youth Media Moments: "My proudest moment was when I was standing on the stage at HBO, screening our documentary, Gender Power. I actually felt that I had achieved something great. And I felt that I wanted more. That was a motivation for me to keep going at it and doing what I love. Which is film. And I know I wont stop till I achieve my goals. My dream is to win an Academy Award for best film."

IMPACT How do you measure social change? How do you tell the stories of communities transforming, opportunities unfolding, and individuals speaking out? A single statistic can’t show us the whole picture. That’s why EVC shows our impact in multiple ways. CHECK OUT OUR IMPACT 2020 IMPACT REPORT 2021 IMPACT REPORT 2022 IMPACT REPORT

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EVC’s New Media Arts Apprenticeship (NMAA) is an afterschool workshop that annually gives 180 high school students college and career preparation in digital media arts as they learn to shoot video and photography, remix archival social justice footage and design an interactive website. NEW MEDIA ARTS APPRENTICESHIP Created in 2012, EVC’s award-winning multimedia program New Media Arts Apprenticeship prepares young people for college and careers in new digital media arts. New Media Arts Apprenticeship (NMA) is a credit-bearing afterschool and summer program in which youth in high school create interactive websites exploring a community issue of relevance to them. This two-part program runs two afternoons a week for 15 weeks in the Spring semester, followed by a paid Summer internship for 6 weeks as an NMA apprentice. Youth learn to create interactive websites, update and remix an EVC archival social justice documentary, shoot and edit video and photos. Youth learn Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Wix, and other industry-standard software. The students’ final interactive websites are presented and celebrated at a public premiere and are broadly disseminated. Students who successfully present their portfolios at the end of the semester are eligible for high school credit. Youth gain industry-standard digital imaging and editing skills and NMA opens pathways to college-level media arts programs. Want to learn more? Enroll students from your high school? Simply fill out the form below, or email email Mary Grueser , Deputy Director, Programs. PARTNER WITH EVC CONTACT US NEW MEDIA ARTS APPRENTICESHIP (NMA) AT A GLANCE Young people build interactive websites, remix documentary films and gain industry-standard digital imaging and editing skills 15 weeks, 2 days a week, 5 hours a week (after school) + paid summer internship for 6 weeks Open to all public high schoolers citywide especially Transfer, International, Consortium, and District 79 schools. Part of the ExpandED network, and works with their partner schools for work-based learning. SEMESTER: Spring 2022 NEXT SESSION: March 1 to June 10 (15 weeks) SCHEDULE: Monday & Wednesday 4:00pm - 6:30pm or Tuesday & Thursday from 3:30pm - 6:00pm (5 hours/week) LOCATION: 16 Clarkson Street, 4th Fl, New York, NY APPLICATION: Closed RECENT PROJECTS

Isabella Araya (she/her) Alumni Advisory Council EVC Films: What’s Gender Got To Do With It (2020). Born and raised in New York City, Isabella joined EVC in 2020 as a high school junior at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Her collaboration on the film “What’s Gender Got To Do With It?” helped her examine gender identity, notably, how the under- and mis-representation of women in the media reproduces harmful biases. Isabella, who identifies as a queer Latina woman, is turning her new found awareness into action. She is a lead organizer at the YA-YA Network, where she leads campaigns to promote restorative justice in schools. She remains a leader at EVC, participating in community screenings, strategic planning, and as a member of the Alumni Advisory Council. (ella) Consejo Asesor de Ex-Alumnos Película de EVC: ¿Qué tiene que ver el género con eso? (2020). Nacida y criada en la ciudad de Nueva York, Isabella se unió a EVC en 2020 como estudiante de preparatoria al comienzo de la pandemia de COVID-19. Su colaboración en la película, ¿Qué tiene que ver el género con eso? le ayudó a examinar la identidad de género, en particular, cómo la subrepresentación y la tergiversación de las mujeres en los medios reproduce sesgos dañinos. Isabella, que se identifica como una mujer latina queer, está convirtiendo su nueva conciencia en acción. Es una de las principales organizadoras de la red YA-YA, donde dirige campañas para promover la justicia restaurativa en las escuelas. Sigue siendo una líder en EVC, participando en evaluaciones comunitarias, planificación estratégica y como miembro del Consejo Asesor de Ex-Alumnos.

OUR YOUNG PEOPLE Our young people are the beating heart of Educational Video Center. But who are they really? The majority of young people at EVC are Black and Brown. Most are in high-school. Many are living the realities of deep-rooted systemic injustice. Several are “under-credited” – in that their education outside of school has not translated into academic credits. But many of our young people are also “under-credited” because they have not received credit for their resilience, their hard work, their abilities, and achievements. Evidently, “under-credited” can mean different things. At EVC, we recognize that language is powerful. Problematic. And constantly evolving. So, we are committed to regular conversations with our young people to discuss and (re)define how they want to be described. This is a work in process. Rather than label our young people in categories, we see each young person as an individual, with complex intersecting identities, experiences, and connections to different communities. Each young person has their own story: their own journey to – and beyond – EVC. We seek to hold and honor all of this. And we invite you to join us in doing so. What labels do you embrace? What do you reject and why? Tell us how you would like to be seen, described, known. HOW DO YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF? TELL US