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Learn how media images impact our perceptions of beauty and our bodies.
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NMMLP announces Andrea Quijada as new Executive Director

Dear NMMLP Supporters,

For the past two years, I have been honored to work with the NMMLP staff to cultivate critical thinking and activism in our media culture to build healthy and just communities. I recently accepted a position at Albuquerque Academy to work with young people in a community service capacity. 

While I look forward to this new opportunity, I am saddened to be leaving the incredibly talented NMMLP team.  I share with great pleasure that Andrea Isabel Quijada is the new Executive Director of the project.  Andrea brings years of community activism, anti-oppression training and media literacy presentation skills to the position.  Please join me in welcoming Andrea into her new role!

With respect,
Paula Williams
Outgoing Executive Director
Our newest multimedia resource: Media & Body Image

Media & Body Image is a multimedia educational resource on media literacy and body image. It can help improve your ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and produce media messages, and to become an active participant in our media culture.

This interactive  DVD-ROM contains 38 selected media examples -- video and audio clips and images– accessed through a menu system. The media examples include television commercials, magazine ads and excerpts from TV shows. Optional SDH subtitles can be played with all audio and video clips.

While it can be used for individual study, Media & Body Image  is designed to be used in classrooms, community groups, and other group settings to:

- Teach media literacy concepts on the topic of body image
- Learn how to “deconstruct” media messages
- Access ideas and resources for making your own media
- Discover ways to improve impressions of body image and the media environment

Media & Body Image  offers printable presentation guides and handouts - including two presentations (basic and intermediate/advanced) you can use to lead a conversation about the media examples on the disc.  The presentation guides are available in Standard and Large Print versions.

This DVD-ROM can be used in any DVD player or in a DVD-ROM drive in a computer.  Media & Body Image is available for $49 and can be ordered at NMMLP’s Online Store or by calling 505-828-3129.
Lopez & McAuley teach Girl's Toolbox for Life summer class
The Girls’ Toolbox for Life summer class at Albuquerque Academy recently completed its third year. The class, for girls who will be entering 6th through 8th grade, is comprised of 3 sections: experiential education, media literacy and relationships. New Mexico Media Literacy Project staff Christie McAuley and Jessica Lopez taught the two-week media literacy portion of Girls’ Toolbox.

Topics included basic media literacy and body image. The girls also created counter-ads, made a class zine and produced their own digital stories (short videos using still images and narration).

Through the presentations and activities, the students received training in combining critical thinking skills, art and media production with a focus on issues that impact female youth.
Free presentations available: Smoking in Hollywood Movies
Did you know that nearly three-quarters of recent Hollywood movies portray smoking?  And that most movies with smoking are youth-rated G, PG and PG-13 movies that are intensively promoted to 12-17 year-olds – the age group that is most likely to start smoking? 

For decades, tobacco companies secretly paid Hollywood studios, producers, directors and stars to include smoking in their movies.  This practice is now prohibited, yet there’s even more smoking in Hollywood movies today than there was 20 years ago.

Extensive research proves that exposure to on-screen smoking is the primary cause of youth smoking. In response, health advocates and media activists – including New Mexico Media Literacy Project – have organized the Smoke Free Movies campaign to get smoking out of youth-rated (G, PG and PG-13) movies.

NMMLP speakers are available for free presentations on the topic in New Mexico.  The lively presentation analyzes clips from recent youth-rated movies, discusses the latest research, and presents the four goals of the Smoke Free Movies campaign.  Each participant receives a free copy of NMMLP’s DVD-ROM, Something Stinks in Hollywood!  

Contact Omar Ahmed at 505-858-8896 or speakers@aa.edu to schedule a presentation.

This project is supported by the New Mexico Department of Health’s Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Program (TUPAC).
NMMLP event calendar: Where we've been and where we're going

New Mexico Media Literacy Project continues to expand its reach nationally and internationally. Here is a look at where staff have been recently and where we will be in upcoming weeks:

NMMLP staff will host up to 30 people from across the nation for the 2008 Catalyst Institute on July 22-25 at the campus of Albuquerque Academy.

Andrea Quijada represented NMMLP at the annual Albuquerque Pride Festival on June 14th (see photo to the left).

Jessica Lopez and Christie McAuley once again taught the media literacy portion of the Albuquerque Academy Girls’ Toolbox class from June 16-27 (see story above).

Quijada represented NMMLP as she joined hundreds of grassroots media makers and social justice organizers at the 10th Annual Allied Media Conference, June 20-22, in Detroit.

At the REAL Experience 5, Quijada presented at an anti-tobacco summit for statewide youth in Honolulu, Hawaii on July 8th.

Check back with NMMLP to see if we are coming to a community near you, or invite a speaker to your school, organization or community.
Reduced prices for all multimedia and video

NMMLP recently announced new reduced pricing for all multimedia and video resources!

Other changes include the elimination of “New Mexico” and “University/College” pricing to create a single reduced price point for all customers. We hope the new, simplified price structure will serve you better.

NMMLP is committed to producing new resources that reflect current concerns and issues. We are discontinuing older resources to provide you with the most up-to-date and useful products. Watch for new resources that provide media literacy tools for your classrooms and communities.

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The New Mexico Media Literacy Project
The New Mexico Media Literacy Project, founded in 1993, is one of the largest and most successful media literacy organizations in the United States.  

Our mission is to cultivate critical thinking and activism in our media culture to build healthy and just communities. 

Media literacy -- the ability to critically consume and create media -- has become an essential skill for the 21st century. We no longer communicate only through the spoken and written word; these days, we receive most of our information from television and radio, the Internet, and a variety of other media, and we create our own media messages, too.

More about media literacy

NMMLP delivers dynamic multimedia presentations at conferences, workshops and classrooms across the country.  Our media literacy curricula and action guides, including DVD-ROMs, CD-ROMs and videos, are used in countless classrooms and communities in all 50 states and abroad.  NMMLP’s Catalyst Institute and other training programs have empowered thousands of people to be advocates and activists for a media literate society. 

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