In the age of digital storytelling, who takes the microphone and who goes unheard? This session highlights a transformative, community-based approach to audiovisual empowerment and media justice rooted in the work of Loop Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Conducted in Spanish and English, this session shares how The Loop Lab empowers youth from underrepresented communities through an inclusive 16-week bilingual media and AV learning program. Our model combines hands-on training, job placement and ethical storytelling, all with a commitment to cultural dignity. We will explore how this model could be localized throughout Latin America: where community media, grassroots creatives and emerging AV professionals are redefining who has the power to shape narrative. Participants will become familiar with real success stories, receive a free bilingual toolkit to launch their own low-cost media training path, and leave inspired to build creative economies based on justice. This presentation focuses the creative brilliance of Latino, Indigenous and Afro-descendant youth, and invites them to invest in the sign of their future.

The session will be presented in English and simultaneous translation will be provided through the KUDO platform.

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