This week the second group of our New Economics for Women (NEW) media makers took their digital video gear out into the field. On the left, Team Sandra and Daniel interviewed the owner of a small business in their Van Nuys neighborhood. Driven by her passion for animals, Media Maker Gabrielle visited the East Valley Animal Shelter to do a profile of one of the volunteers - Sherry Brewer. Gabrielle interviewed Sherry and got shots of all the creatures in the shelter - includin

Title: Digital News Producer Employer: KABC-TV (ABC) How Long: Nearly three years Education: BA from CSUN Born and raised in Oxnard, CA. "Digital content has become important because social media and the internet have made people want everything instantly." What got you interested in digital content - or content storytelling as we call it? It was sort of engrained in all of the journalism students, at least that's how it appeared to me. My mentor and the lecturer for our p

Meet the Media Makers busy adding their voices to the Great American Narrative. WIL PRADA Title: Filmmaker Employer: Various non-profits Education: UCLA Bachelors in Political Science, Additional Film classes at LA City College Where I’m from: Lima, Peru "...whoever controls the narrative, whoever dictates what messages come out, has a lot of power in shaping public perceptions, policy, and how certain people are perceived by the public." What got me interested in digital

Meet the Media Makers already reshaping the Great American Narrative. Oliver Quintanilla I am a: Filmmaker/Digital Producer I live in: Santa Monica I was born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico and moved to Los Angeles at the age of 22 with the purpose of making a movie. Latest Project: Three episode dog adoption drive for Honda. Working on: Digital projects specifically related to decentralized apps on the etherum platform, and learning to code c++ on my own. More of my work