Clinton School student Hilary Trudell (‘12) has joined alums Judy Watts (‘11) and Sarah Leer (‘11) in being named Entertainment-Education Fellows by the New York-based NGO Media Impact.
The three students each partnered with Media Impact, which trains partners around the world to use entertainment-education to address critical social and environmental issues in their communities, for their Clinton School International Public Service Projects.
The Entertainment-Education Fellows program, established in association with the Social Justice Initiative in the Department of Communication at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), is designed to provide communications students in the United States hands-on experience while assisting in the development and implementation of entertainment-education programs in communities around the world.
Entertainment education is the incorporation of critical social messaging into entertaining media formats that simultaneously educate and amuse audiences.
Trudell is spending the summer in Dennery, St. Lucia, where she is helping implement the My School-My Community program, an initiative that educates secondary school students through media and dialogue, empowering them to create positive social change in their community.
Leer and Watts both completed Media Impact projects in St. Lucia last summer. Leer worked to educate children by developing school networks, both among the schools in St. Lucia and those on the other nine Eastern Caribbean islands. Watts helped create a radio program to educate St. Lucians about the effects of climate change.
Dr. Arvind Singhal, a visiting fellow at the Clinton School and director of the Social Justice Initiative at UTEP, serves on the board of Media Impact. He helped launch the Entertainment-Education Fellow program and advised the Clinton School students on their projects.
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