Jeremy Robins - Instructor and Supervising Producer

Ibis Productions Inc.

 

Jeremy has been working the past 15 years of adolescent development and the last 8 years as a documentary filmmaker.  After designing programs and curriculum for the Harlem Children’s Zone’s youth video program from 1998-2003, Jeremy switched gears and worked at POV editing and designing curriculum for their first web-based video “POV’s Borders.” Since then, he’s worked as a field producer for MTV’s True Life, and has worked as a Director of Photography on projects for PBS and the Hartley Film Foundation, created documentary projects on criminal justice for the Department of Corrections, and just completed its first feature documentary “The Other Side of the Water” which recently had a sneak preview at Brooklyn Academy of Music and a festival premiere at the Urbanworld Film Festival.   Throughout this time Jeremy has continued to consult for youth media organizations and lead documentary projects with high school students around NYC.

Danny Potts - Assistant Instructor

Danny Potts is an accomplished filmmaker, having come through the Educational Video Center and the Ghetto Film School.  His projects have been screened in festivals across the country, and recently at Obama’s Neighborhood Inauguration Ball.

Carolina Muñoz Proto – Instructor and Research Coordinator

Carolina Muñoz Proto is a youth educator and doctoral student in the Social Personality Psychology Program of The CUNY Graduate Center (GC). Her academic work explored the intersection between social justice and social research as well as young people's experiences with various forms of social exclusion. Her Masters thesis examines the social representations of adolescents with incarcerated parents and their process of identity formation. Other research projects include a study of cross-cultural mentoring as a site for alliance building and biculturalism, as well as Polling for Justice, a participatory research project that examines how NYC youth experience the education, health and criminal justice systems.  In the past, Carolina has served as a research consultant for the New York City Women’s Foundation and The Women of Color Policy Network of the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University. She has also designed and implemented youth development programs for a number of organizations, including a Cross-Cultural Mentoring Program for the Minneapolis Learning Center and a Youth Leadership and Expression Program for Pangea World Theater. Currently she teaches in the Psychology Department at Lehman College, CUNY.

The College Initiative - Production Partner

The College Initiative (CI) is a non-profit reentry education program open to all men and women in the New York City metropolitan area who want to begin or continue their higher education after release from prison or jail; during probation or parole; or while fulfilling alternative-to-incarceration commitments.  CI's free services include one-on-one guidance counseling; help with financial aid and college applications; preparation for entrance examinations; textbook stipends and on-going support and mentoring.

  The Participatory Action Research (PAR) Collective of CUNY

- Production Partner

The Participatory Action Research (PAR) Collective will serve as a production and research partner, bringing decades of formal research experience and innovative techniques.  The PAR Collective is a innovative social research body based at the CUNY Graduate Center.  In 2001, the PAR Collective produced highly influential “Changing Minds” study that documented the impact of college in a maximum security prison.  It is currently conducting the “Polling For Justice” research project, a ground-breaking youth-led comprehensive survey of youth experiences relating to education, health, and justice. Researchers from the PAR collective will train the youth producers in statistical analysis, the ethics of social research, interviewing techniques, and will help guide the content of the documentary so it might have the greatest policy impact.

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