Kayla Meyers is the Event Coordinator for the National Association for Media Literacy Education and the Programming Specialist for SXSW EDU. Prior to joining NAMLE, Kayla has been a part of the media literacy field as a researcher and teacher.…
Kayla Meyers is a Programming Specialist for SXSW EDU & Event Coordinator for NAMLE What do you do? At SXSW EDU, I collaborate with the rest of the programming team to support all conference and festival sessions and speakers for…
Trista Van Tine has worked in the entrepreneurial space since 2009. She most recently was the Global Marketing Director of Mootral, a biotech startup based in Switzerland. She was a founding member of AXA Venture Partners first $250 million venture…
Matthew Woods has served over 12+ years assisting students, educators, and schools in a variety of roles. His professional experience includes being a high school social studies teacher, middle and high school assistant principal, middle school principal, director of student…
When did your organization launch and why?KidNuz launched in 2018 as the passion project of four broadcast journalists who wanted to give kids a screen-free newscast all their own. It was born out of a love of current events… and…
Tiahna Creo is a Social Media Consultant for NAMLE & a student at Boston University What do you do? I am NAMLE’s social media intern. I have gotten the opportunity to operate both NAMLE’s Instagram and Twitter accounts. When I…
Sofia Sulek is NAMLE’s research fellow following current topics in media literacy. She is a senior at Georgetown University majoring in Culture and Politics with a concentration in Disinformation and Democracy. Sofia is from Slovakia, and in her free time…
When did your organization launch and why? The Center for Media Literacy was founded by Elizabeth Thoman in 1989. Elizabeth “Liz” Thoman was a pioneer in the media literacy field, who helped launch media literacy in the U.S. CML has…
Mikayla Brown is the Graduate Fellow and Resource Content Curator for the Cyber Citizenship Initiative What do you do? I am currently a Communication Ph.D. Student at Temple University, and the Content Curator Graduate Fellow for the Cyber Citizenship Initiative.…