Jeannine Cook

Jeannine is a documentary filmmaker and works with African American and Hispanic youth between the ages of 3-17 teaching film and video technology, which they use to create alternative techniques for conflict resolution. She encourages her students to think critically about hip-hop music and television and familiarizes them with writing business proposals and conducting Internet research. Jeannine is the co-founder of the arts outreach programs Positive Minds and Education Through the Arts. In the future, she hopes to build a community-accessible media literacy center that will help bridge the digital divide by engaging undergraduate students from local colleges to give back to their communities by teaching media arts.