Rachell Arteaga is administrative coordinator for the Women’s Media Center. Before she joined the WMC, first as a volunteer, she worked on cultural and academic projects at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, CUNY—such as “assessment and Valuation of Puerto Rican, Chicano, Latino and Hispanic-Caribbean Art,” the first symposium of its kind. While earning her BA in media studies at Hunter, she interned at Sesame Workshop and the Jim Henson Company. She currently works weekends at the Paley Center for Media as an engineer for Recreating Radio Sound, helping children discover the rich history of “old-Time” radio while they re-enact a radio play.
May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. In our commitment to independent media and amplifying the voices of women and girls everywhere, we’d like to celebrate by highlighting the amazing work of our partners at Global Girl Media (GGM).
You may have heard about GGM’s amazing work in developing media training programs for South African girls [...]
This month, Women’s Media Center is excited to be counted as a partner with the Women’s Empowerment Campaign! Run by GreatNonProfits.org, the Campaign also includes Kiva, the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, Women’s News Network, and Women’s Philanthropy – Women’s Issues. Throughout May, the campaign aims to identify top-rated nonprofits focusing on women’s [...]
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
What better way to acknowledge it then a music video by a teen icon glorifying date rape:
This is former the Cheetah Girl Kiely Williams’s new music video, “Spectacular.” And in response to the concern and downright outrage to the video and its lyrics about drunk sex (“…I must have been [...]
I’m a HUGE fan of Media Literacy. But as Chloe Angyal of Feministing points out on The Huffington Post, literacy is not the sole cure for transforming how girls react to the damaging media messages that they are inundated with every day.
A recent study by the Girls Scouts Research Institute and the Dove Self Esteem [...]
In recognition of the 30th anniversary of Women’s History Month, Women’s Media Center is profiling 30 extraordinary women making history. Our goal is to raise $10,000 to support WMC Exclusives — every dollar raised will go directly toward hiring women writers to comment on major news stories and report topics often neglected by the mainstream [...]
March 16, 2010 – 12:58 pm
30 Women Making History
In recognition of the 30th anniversary of Women’s History Month, Women’s Media Center is profiling 30 extraordinary women making history. Our goal is to raise $10,000 to support WMC Exclusives — every dollar raised will go directly toward hiring women writers to comment on major news stories and report topics often [...]
Last week, the NCAA — the major governing body of college sports — yanked a Focus on the Family banner ad from its website due to the group’s homophobic agenda, which conflicts with the NCAA’s policy of inclusion. WMC President Jehmu Greene appeared on the O’Reilly factor last night to discuss and opened with “The [...]
30 Women Making History
In recognition of the 30th anniversary of Women’s History Month, Women’s Media Center is profiling 30 extraordinary women making history. Our goal is to raise $10,000 to support WMC Exclusives — every dollar raised will go directly toward hiring women writers to comment on major news stories and report topics often neglected [...]
“Give a girl a camera and watch a woman grow.”
- Kgomotso Matsunyane, T.O.M. Pictures, South Africa
Yesterday, Global Girl Media (GGM) Cofounder and Executive Director Amie Williams, Program Director Kamala Lopez and Director of Content and Distribution Therese Steiner organized an intimate brunch in New York City with Guest of Honor Julie Foudy in the lovely [...]
February 25, 2010 – 6:09 pm
Following a year-long investigation on colleges throughout the U.S., this week, the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) released three-part series titled, “Sexual Assault on Campus: A Frustrating Search for Justice.” Their findings expose how repeat offenders account for a significant number of sexual assaults on campus, contrary to the beliefs of those who adjudicate these [...]
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