DACAmented Voices, Episode 2
Los Herederos staff teach the workshops and students learn to use key audio-visual equipment in a hands-on interactive setting. Participants emerge with: 1) a unique documentary piece that tells their stories in their own words and 2) the skills to replicate this type of work in their local community.
So often, the plight of immigrants is misrepresented by dominant media outlets or heavily curated by an outside source. This institute provides a first step in developing a group of DACAmented leaders who can play an important role in organizing other young people to advocate for the needs and rights of undocumented immigrants.
Los Herederos was blessed to work with an amazingly talented inaugural group of DACAmented students in February 2018. The 4-part institute produced in partnership with Cabrini Immigrant Services – NY, resulted in a variety of student produced multimedia documentation centered around the theme of “I’m not the only one.” By creating multivocal content that illustrates the diversity of youth immigrant experience while also nodding at shared rights of passage and self realization, the students set an important tone for future iterations of the program. It is our hope that sharing these compelling narratives can make ripples in the silence and fear that cloaks the undocumented experience in America.
DACAmented Podcast
A series of podcast style interviews with the 2018 DACAmented Voices student cohort, in which they discuss their personal stories of coming to the U.S., growing up undocumented in our city that never sleeps, and the advice they have for fellow DREAMERS facing similar struggles today. All interviews were student led and produced.
