Youth Media, Collective Action, Dinner, and The Future

Youth Media, Collective Action, Dinner, and The Future

A 'blogversation' by Jason Wyman, Myah Overstreet, and Wendy Levy

Introducing the 50-State Dinner Party Project!

Wendy: When I first started at NAMAC a little over a year ago, I had a long conversation with Board Member Kasandra VerBrugghen, the Executive Director of SpyHop in Utah. I was bowled over by the creative energy, solidarity and conviction around NAMAC’s National Youth Media Network programming and the collective desire for growth and change—especially around the inclusion of youth voices at every phase of the process.

The Beautiful Chaos of Creativity

The Beautiful Chaos of Creativity

By Katerina Cizek

With collaboration at its core, the challenge of Creative Leadership is the dance between the (beautiful) chaos of creativity and the (necessary) framing, organizational instinct of more conventional forms of leadership. Both "Creative Leadership" and "Leading Creatively" mean keeping wheels on both tracks, in parallel.