COMMUNITY MEDIA 




Documentary History Project for Youth 2025:
Why We Dance, Where We Dance


Scribe Video Center
– Instructor



The Documentary History Project for Youth 2025 Participants:

Gabriella Alexander
Kenna Augustin
Kamani Bright
Talan Callicut
Bernard Cross
Braeden Cross
Grant Cusaac
Amina Frink
Ramon Gilmore Jr
Ayah Free Hapi
Bernard Stephens
“The Documentary History Project for Youth is an annual after-school, weekend, and summertime digital media production workshop for middle and high school students. Each year, youth participants create short documentary films as a way to explore some aspect of the social, political, and cultural history of Philadelphia.

The Documentary History Project for Youth is made possible by support from the People's Media Fund, Hamilton Family Trust, Rosenlund Family Foundation, Christopher Ludwick Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Adobe.” (Scribe Video Center)

I have worked with Scribe Video Center as a facilitator/instructor with their workshops and community projects. Most recently I co-instructed the 2025 Documentary History Project for Youth: Why We Dance, Where We Dance.




Precious Places Community History Project 2024:
Preserving the Past, Present and Future of West Philadelphia High School by The Justice-Oriented Youth Education Lab
– Production Facilitator




Executive Producers:
Jahyonna Brown
Haley Kowal

Producers:
Arania Goldsmith-Carter ‘69
Michelle S. Allen ‘71
Ronald Ray ‘73
Catherine Ann Nettles ‘87
Isaiah Lassiter
Ayana Allen-Handy, PhD

Production Facilitator: Sofia Reh

Humanities Facilitator:
Tanya Gardner, PhD

West Philadelphia High School Student Staff:
Juliano “Juju” Saint Fort, Editor
Mekhi Ware, Writer
Tiffeny Liu, Graphic Artist

“Through the Precious Places Community History Project, each group will plan, shoot, and edit a video about their “precious place” with the help of a filmmaker and a research scholar hired by Scribe.  While these facilitators will work closely with participants throughout the course of production, the work itself—the planning, writing, and filming—will be done by members of the community groups.

The Precious Places Community History Project is funded by the People's Media Fund, Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation, and The Alston Beech Foundation.” (Scribe Video Center)

I was a production facilitator for the 2024 Precious Places Community History Project: Preserving the Past, Present and Future of West Philadelphia High School by The Justice-Oriented Youth Education Lab.



Precious Places Community History Project 2021: Linking the Legacy: The Grand United Order of Tents – Production Facilitator


Producer & Director: Twyla Simpkins

Humanities Facilitator: NaOme Richardson, PhD

Production Facilitator: Sofia Reh

The Grand United Order of Tents, also known as the Tent Sisters, was a secret society of black women founded in 1847. For many decades they met weekly in the area of Chester PA to form strong community bonds, support and uplift each other, and sing church hymnals. Of the many Tent groups that once existed, only one remains today.