Are you a young person in Del Norte and Adjacent Tribal Lands? Do you have a story to tell? A message people need to hear? A creative digital masterpiece brewing in your mind? Interested in learning more about media production? Need equipment, training, or a push in the right direction? Redwood Voice wants YOU!
Our team at the Redwood Voice is looking for youth and young adults who have an interest in
utilizing multimedia production, creative expression, and/or community journalism to tell the
untold stories that need to be heard.
The Redwood Voice is a youth media organization in Del Norte and Tribal Lands with the
mission of providing a creative outlet for amplifying local youth voice and shining a light on
disparities as well as lifting up the great community work and the positive local stories that don’t
always make “the news.” We believe in the power of youth voice and its ability to ignite changes
in policies, ordinances, and the narratives of the community.
Redwood Voice is a mobile organization funded by Building Healthy Communities with work
stations currently residing within Coastal Connections: Youth and Young Adult Resource Center
and Wild Rivers Community Foundation. There are plans to expand these work stations beyond
Crescent City, with hopes of reaching Smith River, Klamath, and the Gasquet/Hiouchi areas.
We are in the early stages of our new beginning, being led by Makenzy Williams, who is now
working as the newly-hired Youth Media Coordinator with Building Healthy Communities, and
Jacob Patterson, youth journalist, social activist, and facilitator of Gender Talk.
Redwood Voice owns equipment that is available for youth working on projects to borrow,
including camcorders, DSLR cameras, iPads, tripods, audio recording equipment, lighting
equipment, a small green screen, and several iMacs with iMovie and Adobe Creative Cloud.
We are available for guidance and support to youth, groups, or organizations working on media
projects from brainstorming and storyboarding to publishing your work. If you have a media
production you would like to have shared on our website and social media pages, please share
it with us! We are always in search of great, local media that we can help uplift!
To keep up with us, please visit out website, www.RedwoodVoice.com and follow us on
Facebook at www.facebook.com/redwoodvoice.dnatl For more information, questions, to share
content, or if you are interested in joining, please contact Makenzy Williams, Youth Media
Coordinator with Building Healthy Communities at (707) 465-1238 x123, email
mwilliams@wildriverscf.org, or stop by Wild Rivers Community Foundation at 990 Front St. in
Crescent City.
