Kiran Yeh wants to be a journalist and currently writes for her New York high school newspaper.
“You have the power to use your voice, and to use your personal experiences and write about them so other people can hear your voice,” says this PS Brooklyn Technical High School student.
Of Chinese parents, she speaks and writes in several languages. Spanish is the way she communicates with Latino students in Brooklyn.
“If you can communicate between different languages, there is no language barrier and you can hear from other communities, from different experiences and you can talk to more people in NY and when you are communicating with other people you know more about their experiences,” adds Yeh.
That is exactly what the workshop or bootcamp organized by Press Pass NYC is about, which seeks to empower public school students who do not have access to training on how to write and edit a journalistic note, or have effective communication.
Lara Bergen, founder and director of Press Pass notes:
“There is great inequality for public school students, generally those courses are given in private schools and it creates a disadvantage. The idea is that everyone has tools to communicate assertively, both in their personal and work lives.”
Briant De Jesús is Dominican and wants to be a civil engineer. He is aware that knowing how to communicate well will be of great help in his profession.
“Engineering is very much like a scientist, but having the ability to communicate with people is very important for my career, how are we going to say if you want to act as a bridge, you want to communicate with the community because you don’t want to do something that affect”.
The program is sponsored by several academic institutions, including CUNY, Baruch College, The Inner Circle Foundation, and others.
This workshop is the first part of a year of journalism training. Maira Chuqui wants to write about her community, she was born in NY to Ecuadorian parents:
“I want to study journalism, but with a computer science concentration to be a technical writer, it’s very important for our generations to have the opportunity to learn to write,” says this East Bronx Academy for the Future student.
2023-08-06 22:40:00
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