September - 2015

Changing the World: One Story at a Time

Youth Citizen Journalists Tell Their Stories

THE HUB is an online magazine and blog that features feminist articles and films by citizen journalists. The publication is a longterm project conceived by Advice Project Media, and its mission is to help lift the voices of youth, women, and indigenous peoples from around the world by sharing their articles and films about gender, the environment, intersectionality, and climate change.

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Gender and Conservation Issues in Cameroon

While in Cameroon to lead an Advice Project workshop and to be a speaker at the annual MEC conference, I spoke with hundreds of people to get their ideas about how gender-based violence and conservation issues are most impacting their communities. Along with two teen students, I took over twenty hours of video interviews, visited rural villages and markets, spent time speaking with journalists and leaders of NGOs, universities, and local businesses, and simply acted as a witn

2015 Millennial Empowerment Conference (MEC)

Melissa was invited to give a keynote talk at the first annual Millennial Empowerment Conference (MEC) in Bamenda. Organized and hosted by gender rights advocate Marie-Claire Nabila Kuja, over 500 participants traveled from all corners of Cameroon and the United States to talk about how to affect change among youth. Melissa’s talk was about how the power of a single word can change the course of history. Her story inspired many people, and she was invited to share excerpts