THE VOX PROJECT
PROJECTS
The VOX Project helps prepare at-risk youth for successful academic and vocational careers by leveraging the accessibility and enjoyment of photography. Through this medium, we're able to build real-world technical and life skills.
Learn more about ongoing and previous projects via the links below.
Developing Perspectives was based out of Boulder, CO and focused on working with various members of the Community of South Sudanese and American Women/Men (CSSAW). Our goals were to help acclimate newly arrived refugees as well as provide enrichment and education workshops.
The project concluded in 2014 with participants graduating high school and matriculating to the University of Colorado, Boulder.
The Visionaria's Perspective is a multi-year grant funded project undertaken in conjunction with the Visionaria Network as well as the Boulder Rotary Club.
We empower the girls to define and become leaders, to create sustainable, environmentally-friendly business solutions and, in the context of the The Visionaria‘s Perspective, we empower them to share their own stories.
This is accomplished by assigning a “documentarian“ role to a single Visionaria in each group and then working with her to capture the group‘s experience throughout the program. Not only does this method leverage critical thinking and visualization skills, but it allows the groups to represent themselves. From a research as well as monitoring and evaluation standpoint, we‘re taking any ethnocentric bias out of the equation while also embracing the level of access and cultural appropriateness that comes with working with a community rather than with a community in mind.
The TRY After School Program is an after-hours youth engagement and education program based out of Salt Lake City, UT and managed with the assistance of the UT Department of Workforce Services.. The mission of the program is to educate local members of the Bhutanese, Somalian, South Sudanese, and Ethiopian populations, amongst others. This project focuses on college and career preparations and has a heavy online learning component as well as a writing track that is managed through faculty at Westminster College.
Attention Homes is a safe resource for youth in crisis providing shelter, structure, and access to crucial services so that homeless and displaced youth can become stable, independent members of our community and achieve their potential. Attention Homes is based out of Boulder, CO.
This project focused on using photography as a means of art therapy, allowing students to conceptualize and then photographically realize the issues most present in their lives. Additionally, college and career skills were built into the curriculum.
The project was conducted in the Summer of 2014 and is ongoing through the Fall of 2014.
Due to privacy concerns and the nature of the participant population, all images from this project will remain private.
