There’s a great deal ahead for the Street Roots newsroom. They show that they are still human, they can still think, and they can still perform actions that everyone else is performing.” He likes to describe the people he works with as “heroes of their own stories.” He continues: “We just give them a microphone. “I am a miracle,” Barker says, “Still alive, still loving people” after surviving years on the streets himself. “That was my word of the day,” he explains of the word “miracle,” a practice in MoJo classes in which participants select a word for each class. He’ll push us at Street Roots, and he’ll push us in the city. Recent commentaries from Dan Newth and Carver have emerged from the MoJo Program, as well as one feature article Newth wrote on the People’s Market at Rockwood.īarker has many dreams for MoJo – a studio where people on the streets can produce their shows, housing that supports each person in a cohort. She comes most recently from OPB, where she served as an interim producer on "Think Out Loud." This week, we will begin our search for Editor in Chief. Likewise, Kanani Cortez has joined our staff. Rambo is committed to working with MoJo writers on their editing and development, and teaching skills such as public record requests. Rambo, our Zuhl Editing Fellow who is joining us as interim editor and staff reporter. The MoJo program has gotten a big boost from K. RSVP: The Street Roots annual breakfast, which will feature the MoJo program, will be broadcast Sept. We are featuring the MoJo Program this year at our annual breakfast, which will be broadcast Sept 30, 8 a.m. “We got a grant.” Barker is attuned to the fundraising necessary to grow Street Roots, always alert for grants. “We implemented what we call Laney Come Alive, in which we are live broadcasting on the radio,” Barker said. He strives to bring some of the excitement he felt as a Laney College student to Street Roots. We want to give them all the tools they need for writing, audio, photographs, video.
#FREE WORD MOJO FREE#
Just as it was for him, Barker wants journalism to be free for more people on the streets. He got involved with dance and theater too. I didn’t have to pay a dime to go to Laney College.” That was the 1970s in Oakland. “I was blessed when I was younger that I had a chance to get into journalism and broadcasting. This past spring, we were supported by Vanport Mosaic to pilot an effort in which Gary Barker, a former Street Roots vendor, and MaryAnne Funk, a multimedia instructor at Portland Community College, worked with three vendors, Marietta Louden, Bronwyn Carver and Scott Mattson.īarker is tailor-made for the position of MoJo Coordinator, which is supported through our partnership with Easter Seals. We’re starting small, but we have a lot of plans. So we’ve decided to dig in and start to build our own school at Street Roots.
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Media itself is a powerful force in democracy, and not everyone can go to journalism school. We could build educational structures around evaluating information with a critical eye, checking facts for accuracy, and finding sources.
#FREE WORD MOJO PORTABLE#
How could we at Street Roots better support people with the skills and tools to report their own stories, as well as the stories they witnessed? We could equip people with portable technology.