digital youth network

RedEye Chicago recently featured our work at YOUmedia Chicago as providing a critical creative outlet and safe space for Chicago youth.
We're elated to see DYN's partnership with the Chicago Public Library still going strong after all of these years!
These kids are all right: YOUmedia provides the city's teens with a way to be seen and heard

Hadiya shined her light on us here at the Digital Youth Network as a student, a learner and a creative voice. Hadiya and her peers produced this PSA as a part of a project that sought to counter violence through youth produced media. The project exemplifies the critical importance of empowering our youth to find and share their voice. We are inspired by the passion Hadiya and the youth of Chicago have shown for sculpting a better future for themselves and others and will continue to support these efforts in any way we can. Our thoughts and prayers are with Hadiya's family at this time.

Check out our own Dr. Pinkard as she joins John Legend for the launch event for the Kennedy Center's "What's Going On...Now" initiative. The initiative challenges youth across the nation to use Marvin Gaye's classic album as a point of inspiration to create their own creative stories around what's going on in their communities. DYN is a partner in the initiative, providing curricular and social learning network supports as well as running the program locally in our Chicago sites.

Workshop - Graphic Design

With a background in theater and design, Niq comes to DYN with a passion for the collaborative artistic and education process. Working as the marketing chair for an educational theater company in Chicago, as well as on marketing committees for other theaters and filmmakers, Niq has learned to draft images that portray information, sell a product, and stand alone as their own art pieces.

Workshop - YouLit Magazine

Jennifer Steele is a native of Connecticut. She is a teaching artist for various organizations around the city of Chicago including Hands On Stanzas, Camp of Dreams, and Young Chicago Authors. In her previous lives she has also worked with the Hill-Stead Museum and the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, and served as co-editor for the Columbia Poetry Review 21. Her poems have appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, Caduceus, Warpland Journal, and Beltway Quarterly Online.