Tag: Voices

  • For Amina Sheik Mohamed, Women’s Health is First

    2013 Women’s History Month honoree, Amina Sheik Mohamed | Photo Credit: Jim Spadoni By Monica Medina The following article appeared on the new KPBS blog, Hey Neighbor! Written by KPBS Director of Diversity and Engagement Monica Medina, Hey Neighbor! explores the people and places that make San Diego an extraordinary place to live. San Diego’s…

  • Class Sizes: ‘I Care Because Students Need to Learn’

    By Jena Olson As part of The AjA Project PhotoCity program, students at Crawford High School spent time using cameras to examine factors at their school that affect their overall health. This week we’re showcasing a photo essay by student Hawa, 18. She used her photo essay as an opportunity to highlight the issue of…

  • ‘Still Room for Improvement on School Lunches’: Photo Essay

    By Jena Olson Last year, school districts throughout the country and right here in San Diego revamped their school lunch menus to comply with updated nutrition standards. The new USDA guidelines call for less salt and fat and more fruit and vegetables. And students are now required to pick out a nutritionally complete meal as…

  • Photo Essay: ‘Graffiti is a Distraction in School’

    By Jena Olson Speak City Heights partner The AjA Project is helping students at Crawford High School add their voices to the conversation about community health in City Heights. Using photography and narrative, they’re examining health issues — physical, mental and social — at their school and speaking to the issues that most directly affect…

  • Meet Crawford’s New (and Only) Principal

    Crawford High School student and Media Arts Center San Diego teen producer Jose Uribe interviews his school’s new principal, Ana Maria Alvarez. Alvarez was brought on board to oversee Crawford’s transition from four small schools to a single, comprehensive high school. By Megan Burks Crawford High School students went back to their same campus yesterday,…