Mentoring

When I'm not producing audio, I like to teach others how to. It's one of the best ways to evaluate and refine your skill. Since 2010, I've been lucky enough to participate in a few programs.

Next Generation Radio

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PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs

Next Generation Radio is a traveling series of one-week multimedia workshops, originating at NPR, aimed at ethnically and socially diverse students and early career reporters.

Professional journalists are paired with a student to teach and guide the participant through producing a four-minute, non-narrative radio story with online reporting components. Workshops are in partnership with university journalism schools and/or public radio stations.
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• Feb. 2014 and Feb. 2015 – University of Nevada at Reno (students)
• Feb. 2016 – KJZZ 91.5, Phoenix, AZ (early career professionals)
• Aug. 2016 – KUT 90.5, Austin, TX (students)
• Oct. 2016 – Capitol Public Radio, Sacramento, CA (students)

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The PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs places professional public media journalists in high school classrooms to promote civics, media literacy and train the next generation of journalists.

As one of the project’s first mentors, I helped establish a program at Austin High School working closely with the media arts teacher to develop curriculum that met the school district’s needs and grant requirements from the PBS NewsHour.

​I taught lesson plans in the classroom once a week. Student groups produced a TV news package on a preassigned topic such as the Supreme Court or climate change.