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After eight weeks with 17 youth aged 14 to 16, we successfully wrapped up our 2024 summer Step Up – Youth Media Force program. This year’s interns, all from diverse BIPOC communities, brought a wide range of backgrounds and cultures to the table. At the outset, we introduced them to various media production tools, including

This year, Asian Media Access (AMA) has had several successful Stop Anti-Asian Hate initiatives and efforts to support the Asian community. We collaborated with community members to develop videos, postcards, and articles, as well as conducted various training sessions for Asian youth groups. There has been a history of Asian hate, xenophobia, and hate crimes

Asian Media Access’ Youth Media Force team has been working hard to utilize their newly learned Multimedia skills to create Gun Violence Prevention materials to engage their peers for further discussion of these concerned issues. Based on the number of murders reported by the FBI data and the number of residents living in the city,

Asian Media Access has collaborated with Hennepin County to bring the timely Blue Line Extension (BLE) information to our communities. The BLE project is very important to effectively address long-term regional transit mobility and local accessibility needs while providing efficient, travel-time-competitive transit service that supports economic development goals throughout BLE Route from North Minneapolis, Crystal,

A busy June for Asian Media Access, we have hosted non-stop capacity building opportunities for our communities – from Chinese/Vietnamese seniors’ vaccination safety training, Cambodian Monks nutrition food assessment, to encourage vegetable consumption with BIPOC youth, you see us at everywhere. The key messages we delivered to our communities have been – “How to Creating

Asian Media Access has supported the June 8th – June 9th Asian Street Food Festival with 3D Interactive Model to redevelop the Sears Site, Vaccination Clinic and Resource Table. Hosted by Asian American Business Resilience Network, with more than 20,000+ visitors, Asian Street Food Festival was a greta success in highlighting Asian cultural diets. If

Hosted by Asian Media Access and Phoenix Chinese Dance Studio, we has successfully presented “Between the Water and Clouds,” Take Two, this Multidisciplinary Dance Drama has illustrated the Chinese philosophy of simple and peaceful lifestyle to support environmental justice. The Show has interwoven through Chinese Classic/Folk Dances, Chinese Music, Poetry, and integrating into an outdoor

Asian Media Access has supported the May 18 – May 19 MN Songkran Festival with Vaccination Clinic and Resource Table. Hosted by Thai Cultural Council Of MN, with more than 50,000+ visitors, we could not have asked for a better weather, better crowds, more delicious food, amazing performances!!! Ms. Anna Sueangam-iam (Miss Universe Thailand 2022)

National anti-bullying nonprofit Act To Change, in partnership with Asian American news outlet NextShark and advertising agency Admerasia, has released the 2021 Asian American Bullying Survey Report that measures the impact of bullying, awareness, and prevention measures in the Asian American community, and found 80% OF ASIAN AMERICAN STUDENTS HAVE EXPERIENCED BULLYING. Survey findings highlight