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  • ‘Everyone Has a Chance to Succeed in City Heights’: Photo Essay

    By Jena Olson The AjA Project’s PhotoCity class at Crawford High School has spent the last couple of weeks using abstract photography to showcase the negative and positive aspects of socializing in City Heights. Fernanda, 16, captured two images that she felt represented the positive and negative sides to social life in her neighborhood. “I…

  • The AjA Project Plans Day of Storytelling

    The AjA Project has provided photography-based educational programming to youth affected by war and displacement since 2000 in City Heights. Program participants think critically about their identities, develop leadership skills and become agents of personal and social transformation. | Photo Credit: Asha, 17, Kenya By Alicia Marvan When was the last time you took a…

  • ‘Waste No Water’: Teen Producers PSA

    Youth videographers in the Media Arts Center San Diego’s Teen Producers Project submitted the above video for a contest put on by the City of San Diego’s Water Conservation Program. The contest challenged San Diegans to create public service announcements on water conservation. This PSA and others created by the teen producers are now running…

  • ‘Get Help, Not Guns’: Teen Producers PSA

    As the nation cobbles together legislation to prevent tragedies like the Newtown shooting, youth in California are weighing in. Students throughout the state contributed to a video produced and circulated by The California Endowment that “demands a plan” to bring more social and mental health services to schools in an effort to solve gun violence.…

  • Tweet City Heights: Temporary Park Suggested for Stalled Redevelopment Site

    By Megan Burks A Quick Solution for Stalled Redevelopment Properties KPBS took a look this week at a plan by local architecture students to utilize vacant lots where redevelopment plans have stalled. The NewSchool of Architecture students designed a temporary park that could be moved when permanent projects move forward. They’d simply lease the land…