Maria Gisella Ramirez
Si Se Puede GraduateGisella is a 23-year-old Mexican native raised in East L.A. She recently moved to Oakland to finish her BA at San Francisco State University. In her off time from school Gisella coordinates the Student Organizing and Leadership program, a joint project of East Oakland Community High School and the Youth Empowerment School.
Gisella participated in the 2006 class of YMC’s Si Se Puede Fellowship. Before the ink dried on her Si Se Puede diploma, Gisella made her mark on the media policy scene by testifying at an August 2006 FCC hearing in Los Angeles about the lack of community access, youth voice and substantive programming on local radio in the Bay Area. As a result of her fiery testimonial, she was invited to speak at a media reform conference in Hawaii, asked to conduct a youth media workshop for FUSION-LGBT People Of Color Film Festival in Los Angeles, and helped secure an October 2006 FCC hearing in Oakland.
November 14, 2008
Frontera Norte Sur
Local Community Radio Act will increase voices, choices
September 25, 2008
Jonathan Lawson, Reclaim the Media
Local Community Radio Act will increase voices, choices
September 25, 2008
Jonathan Lawson, Reclaim the Media
FCC Ruling Strip-Mines the Requirements of Data Collection on AT&T, Verizon and Qwest.
September 10, 2008
Bruce Kushnick
Invasion of the Policy Pushers: Interest Groups Spin Ballot Process
September 9, 2008
Matthew Hirsch
St. Paul in Hot Seat over Journalist Arrests
September 5, 2008
Timothy Karr
Delivery of 50,000 Signatures Demanding St. Paul Drop Charges Against Journalists
September 4, 2008
Nancy Doyle Brown, Twin Cities Media Alliance
CA Groups Say Freedom of the Press Should Mean "Free the Press" at RNC
September 3, 2008
Lori Abbott/Craig Eicher
Amy Goodman Arrested
September 2, 2008
Josh Silver
Radio host drops lawsuit
August 15, 2008
Bob Egelko