Dr. Yonty Friesem
Associate Professor of Media for Social Impact, Columbia College Chicago, U.S.
Yonty Friesem is the executive director of the Media Education Lab supporting the global community of media educators by providing an online space to explore new inclusive, interdisciplinary, and innovative pedagogies. Yonty’s work and research on youth media focus on social and emotional learning as part of an international effort to shape more equitable, trauma-informed and healing-centered practices. Yonty’s publications in academic and professional journals include the theory of inclusive dialogs via youth media they call digital empathy, the evaluation of youth media impact, and the explorations of digital and media literacy professional development. In 2022, Yonty co-founded the Illinois Media Literacy Coalition and co-edited the Routledge Handbook of Media Education Futures Post-Pandemic providing global survey of media education during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2023, Yonty started a 2-year tenure as the vice chair of the international steering committee as part of UNESCO Information and Media Literacy Alliance.
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