Formerly known as the Youth Media Council, we've grown into a unique national media strategy and action center with a sharpened approach to movement building for racial justice and youth rights.

At CMJ, we're continuing to work closely with the Bay Area youth movement while expanding our work to an intergenerational constituency of disenfranchised communities and grassroots organizers nation-wide.  Driven by the communities we serve- the Center for Media Justice is working with youth and communities of color across age, sector, and regional boundaries to transform the public debate on race and poverty- and build a powerful movement for media justice.

CMJ is more than a training group or policy shop- we're a movement center that makes strategic communications and media activism creative, accessible, and relevant to organizers, journalists, artists, and the everyday majority whose voices are pushed to the margins.

As organizers, journalists, and artists- we are talking back.  At CMJ, we believe in community organizing and alliance building as primary strategies for change and are committed to innovating media work that builds grassroots media power in three key ways:

We work regionally and deeply with key sectors of the movement for racial justice and youth rights to create and implement the communications strategies they need to reach their organizing and movement building goals.

We develop the media skills and leadership of grassroots organizers and members to speak and strategize for themselves and on behalf of the communities they represent.