Tag: The AjA Project

  • The AjA Project Opens First Art Gallery in City Heights

    Gayle Lynn Falkenthal is a public relations specialist writing on behalf of The AjA Project and San Diego Gas and Electric, which supports AjA through its Excellence in Civic Leadership campaign. The initiative supports mentoring, leadership development, and college and workforce preparation for underserved students in San Diego and southern Orange Counties. Haga clic aquí…

  • Tough Choices: Young, Poor and Creative in City Heights

    How do you decide what to do with your money when you have very little? In collaboration with KPBS and Speak City Heights, Marketplace Money’s Wealth and Poverty Desk looks at the tough choices faced by families living in poverty. City Heights is one of the poorest neighborhoods in San Diego. But kids there are…

  • Map: Middle School Students Grade the Safety of Their Streets

    Above, students identify areas surrounding their school they consider to be safe (blue), unsafe (orange), scary (red), beautiful (pink) and ugly (green). Click here to enlarge the map. By Jena Olson The AjA Project runs photography-based educational programs for refugee and at-risk youth in San Diego. AjA ran an after-school workshop at Monroe Clark Middle…

  • Tweet City Heights: Obama Grants DREAMers Deportation Relief

    By Megan Burks Executive Order Grants DREAMers Deportation Relief, Work Permits The big news this morning: President Obama announced an executive order that could spare hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation. The new policy grants temporary legal status and work permits to immigrants younger than 30 years old whom were brought to…

  • A Park Mural Goes Up Without the Park

    [oqeygallery id=11] The AjA Project collected photos from City Heights residents and baked them onto tiles for a large-scale mosaic at 43rd Street and University Avenue. | Photos Courtesy of The AjA Project By Tom Fudge It’s an artwork impressive in scope: A tile mosaic of 1,000 photographs of the City Heights neighborhood that were…