We have been very busy at GGM...getting ready for a busy summer in South Africa, Lebanon, Detroit and Los Angeles!!!
Some of the recent successes of GGM include:
1. Fast Company's Gregory Ferenstein identified GlobalGirl Media as one of the five most innovative models to inspire entrepreneurial journalists and most likely to win Google's $2.7 million journalism prize. http://tinyurl.com/6gssrp2
2. GGM Reporters Rocio from LA and Tebogo from South Africa participated in the International Women's Media Foundation Leaders Conference in Washington D.C. They got to speak with well-known journalists such as Judy Woodruff, Pat Mitchell, and Diane Sawyer. The GGM coverage is on the State Department's Office of Global Women's Issues website http://www.state.gov/s/gwi/
3. South African Reporter Lungile was interviewed by South African press organizations about her experience reporting from the Sundance Film Festival. A great article in South Africa's largest newspaper covered our work there: http://tinyurl.com/4u9oz4j
4. Rocio Ortega also just won a CONGRESSIONAL AWARD, "WOMAN OF THE YEAR" from Congresswoman Janet Napolitano, for her work as an unsung heroine in her community! Congrats to Rocio.
We are partnering this summer with the Skirball Museum and several Boys and Girls Clubs in Los Angeles, doing another training focused on inner-city youth and the use of mobile phones to report locally, culminating in the Skirball's new exhibit based on New York Times columnist Nick Kristoff's book, HALF THE SKY, www.halfthesky.org. The really exciting part about the program this year is that they will be linking with Beirut, Lebanon, creating a virtual classroom for the global girls in LA to link with their sisters in the Middle East. They will be reporting together on similar issues, while learning from each other.
GO GLOBAL GIRLS!
