Category: Voices
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Voices: Maria Cortez
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Voices: United City Heights
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“Collective Voices” a blog post by AjA Project Interns Namu S. & Bethlehem D.
Collective Voices, a nine month AjA Project that highlighted the identities of eighteen young City Heights residents through photography, was done in partnership with Doris Duke and The United Women of East Africa. This blog post, written by AjA’s student interns, seeks to share some details and events from their nine month process and to…
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Youth Reclaim Public Space From Gangs With Mural
In partnership with the Karen Organization, The AjA Project ran a nine-month program with young Southeast Asian refugee women called Photographers for Change (P4C). During the program, 15 Karen participants, ages 13 to 18 years old,in City Heights and Los Angeles’ historic Filipinotown used photography to reflect on their experiences of migration and resettlement, explore…
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“We Were Strangers Once, Too”: The Current State of Immigration Reform for Youth in San Diego
By Kiran Mehta, Beto Soto, Famo Musa, Binti Musa and Karla Flores The YAC Youth Media Team has worked to understand and share the voices and stories of undocumented and unaccompanied minors in the region, as well as to identify resources and stakeholders who are currently working to assist and advocate for this population. What…