Radio Rootz interns spend the summer producing radio documentaries about pressing concerns in their communities.

Listen to the sounds of our summer youth internship produced by our teens working in collaboration with community-based organizations. Click on the links below to listen to the documentaries produced by our NYC-based youth.

Racial Profiling Still Prominent 9 years after 9-11
An On-going Look at Post 9-11 profiling of South Asians
A collaboration with South Asian Youth Action (SAYA!)

Interns: Reena Afridi (SAYA), Siobhan Sen (SAYA)
Radio Rootz Leaders-Trainers: Sidra Khatkhatay, Sean Bell


What Does Restorative Justice Sound Like
Education Reform and the School-to-Prison Pipeline
A collaboration with Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice (YMPJ)

Interns: Kim Wilson (YMPJ), Frankie Larios, Jian Jun Mo (Manhattan Comprehensive Day and Night High School)
Radio Rootz Leaders-Trainers: Kristal Graham, Jemima Williams

Not a Little DREAM
A young woman’s story about the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (D.R.E.A.M.) Act
A collabration with Youth Action Changes Things (YACT) and La Unión

Interns: Oscar Zampoalteca (YACT), Elizabeth Balbuena (YACT), Angela Heller (Brooklyn Theatre Arts High School)
Radio Rootz Leaders-Trainers: Nathaniel Robinson, Nawrin Shabnaz


More about our Summer Media Organizing Project (SMOP)

For most of the Radio Rootz summer interns, this is their first paid job where they are learning technological and media literacy skills that will help them tell stories about how immigration, education, and post-911 policies affect their communities. Hailing from schools where Radio Rootz has previously taught and youth organizing groups, the summer interns begin each year by analyzing the media that’s all around them.

They became aware of how different newspapers and TV news outlets target their audience and how this differs from community-produced media. They learn about the ethics of journalism, the craft of research, the art of interviewing. These pieces are aired locally and sometimes nationally and used by the organizations with whom these youth have worked. And when youth graduate at the end of the summer, they can apply to be a paid youth mentor assisting the following year!
Meet the New York City interns here.
Meet the New York City leaders and trainers here.

Radio Rootz interns spend the summer producing radio documentaries about pressing concerns in their communities.

Listen to the sounds of our summer youth internship produced by our teens working in collaboration with community-based organizations. Click on the links below to listen to the documentaries produced by our NYC-based youth; click here to listen to and learn about the documentaries produced by our DC-based youth.

Racial Profiling Still Prominent 9 years after 9-11
An On-going Look at Post 9-11 profiling of South Asians
A collaboration with South Asian Youth Action (SAYA!)

Interns: Reena Afridi (SAYA), Siobhan Sen (SAYA)
Radio Rootz Leaders-Trainers: Sidra Khatkhatay, Sean Bell

What Does Restorative Justice Sound Like
Education Reform and the School-to-Prison Pipeline

A collaboration with Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice (YMPJ)

Interns: Kim Wilson (YMPJ), Frankie Larios, Jian Jun Mo (Manhattan Comprehensive Day and Night High School)
Radio Rootz Leaders-Trainers: Kristal Graham, Jemima Williams

Not a Little DREAM
A young woman’s story about the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (D.R.E.A.M.) Act

A collabration with Youth Action Changes Things (YACT) and La Unión

Interns: Oscar Zampoalteca (YACT), Elizabeth Balbuena (YACT), Angela Heller (Brooklyn Theatre Arts High School)
Radio Rootz Leaders-Trainers: Nathaniel Robinson, Nawrin Shabnaz

More about our Summer Media Organizing Project (SMOP)

For most of the Radio Rootz summer interns, this is their first paid job where they are learning technological and media literacy skills that will help them tell stories about how immigration, education, and post-911 policies affect their communities.

Hailing from schools where Radio Rootz has previously taught and youth organizing groups, the summer interns begin each year by analyzing the media that’s all around them. They became aware of how different newspapers and TV news outlets target their audience and how this differs from community-produced media. They learn about the ethics of journalism, the craft of research, the art of interviewing. These pieces are aired locally and sometimes nationally and used by the organizations with whom these youth have worked. And when youth graduate at the end of the summer, they can apply to be a paid youth mentor assisting the following year!

Meet the New York City interns here.
Meet the New York City leaders and trainers here.

Members of
a , DC public relations firm, the DCI Group, attended the community
listening and dialogue event where the Radio Rootz DC’s summer
documentary, “What’s Next?” was debuted. Here’s the article they
published about it:

Radio Rootz and DCI Group Are Helping Students Find their Voice. . .

by Ted Kresse and Scott Schmidt

This past summer,  DCI Group sponsored the Radio Rootz Summer Media Organizing Program, which partners public schools and community organizations in Washington, DC to provide lessons in radio production, media creation, and media literacy to local youth.  This year’s program recently culminated at an event in Washington, DC with a packed house at the All Souls Unitarian Church in the Columbia Heights district of Washington, DC.

Operating under their parent organization, People’s Production House, Radio Rootz DC is a youth education and development program that uses media production skills to increase civic engagement among younger generations. Radio Rootz DC involves a long-term commitment to underserved youth, providing opportunities for their learning and leadership over a series of years.

Read more at here:
DCI Group’s Website

PPH
is currently looking for a hard-working, highly motivated, innovative
candidate that can help fulfill everyday duties and contribute great
ideas. Internship program includes work across various departments
including administrative, production, and promotion. Internship duties
include general office tasks, audio editing, web updating, digital
media, and promotion. Our hours are flexible. Experience with audio
and video software a plus! If you are the person we are looking for,
please email your resume to marisa (at) peoplesproductionhouse (dot) org