busy computer class which passionate and energetic civic leader community engagement strategist and social justice advocate and in addition to being an elected official i also wear a different head and i'm going to talk a little bit more about that today which is i have a business consulting company called community connection consulting community connection consulting was born out of my interest just principles and practices for everybody in the county and seattle also has a race and social justice initiative so we've got some really powerful efforts that are moving forward in our in our region  community connection consulting is a management consulting company that through equity and social justice lynn's does workshops retreats conferences presentations and i also do keynote speeches as well and fact one of the events that i have coming up in the next week and a half is called immigrant refugee integration successful strategies on welcoming our newcomers one of the reasons that i decided to start off with that particular topic is through my recognition of a very big gap what i perceive in our south county cities and how we reach out to our communities of color and engage them on a civic level on a social level public as well as economic levels and although there is wor being done sporadically throughout the different cities i think that there is opportunity for broader more comprehensive collective effort that can benefit those communities much more more so i have a workshop that is  targeting elected officials grassroots community organizers service providers and the goal is to teach them new outreach strategies and how to strengthen minute meaningful connections with newcomers and by our receiving communities communication how to better understand how to communicate on the level of our different communities and terms  will will build into that and then also to encourage participation from our mainstream community members to engage more effectively with our newcomers and i'm very excited about that by the way learning and i look at myself as a person with a voracious appetite to learn more about this issue and this conversation but what i do know is that there are barriers in terms of language there are barriers in terms of culture military political leaders spiritual leaders and that it becomes difficult in many instances to engage in to the communities or integrate right away especially when individuals gay when they have to worry about housing jobs education navigating all of the different systems that we have that can be quite a task for anybody and so i'm aware of those barriers being limitations on how much time or how much energy or how much desire one would have to get involved civically and that being said i would encourage those who can to do so because as taxpayers whether you are a citizen or not whether you are voter and not you are a resident and residents spend money and we collect those dollars as local municipalities county state and we do things we hire people we build infrastructure we make improvements and everyone needs to be a part of those decisions so i do recommend and challenge those who are able to get involved civically in community meetings get involved in leadership  roles if there are opportunities to serve on boards and commissions i think that's a very critical piece right there because by getting involved in some of the local boards and commissions in your area skills can be developed that you can take back into your community and enhance the strength and partnerships that some of the ethnic communities offer as well most importantly we've got an election coming up we've got an election coming  up in a few weeks local elections we're going to be voting for state representatives we're going to be voting for council people we're going to be voting for senators and and a new governor and also a president so it's important to be e informed on the issues there are websites that you can go to there are websites that you can check out the facts fact check dot com is a very good website for those who are on aware of whether or not the issues that one candidate is talking about is accurate or not locally there is a website called an organization called the muni league it stands for the municipal research league and what they  of the some of the local race candidates to complete questionnaires they schedule interviews with the candidates and they ask them a number of questions and then even after they've done that they will conduct you know some background research on the individual via checking out how they vote it finding out character statements about the individual and then they make recommendations on how the candidate rates from from being a poor candidate or on qualified candidate to being a very good candidate or be an outstanding candidate that is just another tool that you can use to help you to narrow down some of the insights you need to make that critical decision  and i do or everyone who is eligible to vote to vote and if you're not currently registered to vote but you are eligible it's not difficult all you have to do is go down to the county election center they're located on grady way in  renton and they can take care of getting you registered right away i think that now that we're within thirty days of the election or close to it it will be even more critical that you contact them right away there could still be a possibility for you to get a  vote by mail ballot if not you would have to go down to the county to vote so there it is getting engaged get involved be a voice for your community reach out  assets through participation on boards and commissions then you can take back into the community that you live in and that can be a resource for your community not only that i think that that type of involvement in engagement prepares one for a future leadership role and who knows you might one day decide that you want to want to run for public office be that on a school board or a local you know a government  body a council or even a mayor who knows i want to thank a boonie for having me here again today and my name is greg taylor and if you'd like to reach me i could be reached at area code two zero six five nine five one three six five and thank you for your time and thank you for listening to me hi my name is ra and i'm here from one america i have an important message for everybody this year is an election year and everybody that's a citizen that's over eighteen needs to vote we're going to be voting on a president we're going to be voting on a state governor senators representatives are also be going to be voting on public schools on marriage there  be so many things on the ballot that impact our community that everyone that is eligible to vote needs to boat in order to vote you need to be registered so if you're a citizen and you're over eighteen you need to fill out a voter registration form takes about two minutes fill this out and you will get a ballot in the mail your ballot is going to look like this you got to fill out your ballot you're going to sign it and then you're going to return it so if you're eighteen and if you're a citizen registered to vote before october eighth when you get your ballot fill it in completely and return it if you're not a citizen one america has citizenship help that we provide come to our citizenship day on october twentieth and you can have you get free legal advice and help filling it out a citizenship application so if you want any more information if you want to register to vote if you want to become a citizen if you need help with the voting process you can always call me again my name is raw you can call me a two zero six four three four six five eight four or two zero six eight five two eight four one zero good luck i hope that you vote this year like video editing camera work and photo journalism and overview of social media so that when you create a video you can learn how to promote it and then finally a class a new exciting class we're doing on kickstarter and kickstarter is a way that you can raise money for projects like videos or all kinds of things music books whatever you like but we're mostly focused on video and film here and my name is sam kelly i'm a seattle filmmaker i've directed and produced a number of short films commercials music videos and a couple of feature films and i will be the instructor for the kickstarter course so helping you find ways to create dynamic video content to share with your friends to help fund your next big project and then once our series of classes is over we're going to do a three hour workshop at the ethiopian community center and there it'll be a chance to learn more about essentially how you create a  film so it'll be just a short exercise to help you learn how to how to do some camera work how to do some video editing and how to bring it all together so we may even include kickstarter in that where we're figuring it out but that'll be after our classes so we'll look forward to seeing to be there with it so the class is going to be starting october thirteenth is going to be saturdays one p m to three p m for the following four weeks and the marquee guy has been teaching these classes over the last year we've taught classes on video production on social media camera work video editing digital storytelling so this is part of a series of classes that we've been teaching organization as you create video and share it with people and to get money to get money from people you know so it allows people to invest five dollars ten dollars fifty dollars anything they're able to to contribute towards your overall project goal  to raise money so you can complete your next big project thank you very much  program that roger for africa sponsors to do the summer league for the middle and high school boy they inspired me to do this project about basketball because i have seen that they have commitments cause and responsibilities my experiences with  gave me a lot of details to do and that's why i chose it so i hope you guys like the video friend my main reason for coming back here to coach is because i grew up in this neighborhood i had a lot of wonderful years playing basketball under great coaching myself and the biggest part is being a meant a mentor to the young youth here and try to lead them down the right path and so that's why i did i've been coaching for about six years now so i coached most recently eight and nine year olds and i've but i've coached all the way up to fifteen sixteen year olds and then also eleven twelve you've got to teach these kids more than what they what they already know about basketball and i've been playing bass well for like fifteen years i'm not really good but i understand basketball so makes a difference i know majority of the kids that i coach and i know that i can  give some pointers on them as well skills and help them and even with their self esteem and their self respect so i wanted to really help these kids on another level other than just being a regular person from y and i love best of all and i want to get better so i play well what kind of troubles me the most is what kind of a youth will be here after the redevelopment seeing how supposed to be mixed income housing and right now it's all low income and my target use are low income because more likely than not they're going to have more obstacles with wealth in their family or even a bit of money in there i think that's like the easiest way for me to give back are the way that i know best to give back because i'm basketball that's why i chose that the point of coaching is to kind of be a mentor to god for these kids more so on the court but they know me off the court too so you know i can play both parts of friend and a coach so you know so the strict part and the fun part so it's pretty cool grand i chose to be a coach actually so that we can have this many tournaments gone for these kids so they can have fun and be productive out of the and in the gym where safe and positive generally i trust most of the years here i think they're all doing well for themselves but it's just nice to have that grown up type role model to keep them on the right path i'm not taking any kind of credit for what they've been doing themselves but i come back after we development happens and there aren't too many use that grew up with trouble circumstances or more obstacles in their way i probably move to a different neighborhood that i need that needs more help so to speak some of these kids is hard headed but you've got to keep going you what i've learned is that hard and you have a future hi my name is claire group and i'm an assistant professor at seattle university in the finance department i teach for the father fee and i was fortunate the partner with m m r t i this year and rec tag along with you can focus to teach a summer youth media workshop project with thirteenth this year we hope to have eighteen next year we're teaching photography black and white in color digital and analog and we're teaching video of them as well as video editing sound and all of those amazing things i'm really happy about the way things are down i think that with a good six wonderful films we have an exhibition currently on campus as yale university in the fine arts building at the vashon gallery it has fifty eight or so photographs on the walls with text about the experience of the youth that has their films on view as well as computers that you can listen to interviews with youth about their experience this summer and with community members about yes the terrace and the future i think the photography and video and the arts in general are wonderful tools when you're working with you one of the purposes of this summer's youth media workshop was to engage youth in their own communities to understand their communities history and to understand that they themselves are capable of being a great asset as a voice for their community so to teach kids creative expression through the photographic arts and through video allows them to see themselves differently i think and they definitely allows them to explore their own environments and see their own environments and new ways so there's nothing but good things about them also it's a lot of fun i think also when you're working with a group of youth and with video expression but also photography and you're doing documentary work you learn that they need to rely on one another and they each recognise each other's strengths and they also each recognise their own strengths and they step in they learn to work as a team members and they step in to make a project happen so we really witness a lot of that was a lot of work we are expectations of of our of our participants were really very high in six weeks we needed to teach them photography we needed to teach them documentary and writing skills we needed to teach them the history of their neighborhood these guys had to learn all about video and video editing and creating narratives and they did it in six short weeks so that was really thrilling i think when you challenge young people and give them something interesting and then you respect that their abilities to excel then they always do that they tend to excel so that was really exciting one of the cool things for me as a faculty person working at c l university is where a very urban university we're right in the heart of capitol hill right now heart of the city and we're just a little bit north of like a ten minute walk from us the terrace and se university three years ago launched this great initiative called the youth initiative and the idea is that the university can use its educational resources its faculty its knowledge its knowledge base it's student body and that we can make a substantial difference in the life of the young people within the bailey gasser school district area of seattle so we've made this big commitment occulting action and there's several different i and working with rec tech and with you can focus with community partners who are already engaged with true riffing programs in their communities working with you to be able to work with them and to learn from their experiences  and to work with them and call their resources all together towards a similar goal it is just really exciting there's no way that i think the fine arts department or or i by myself could do anything like the summer program nor would i want to do that by myself but working with our community partners i think really allows our community partners to expand their programming because they're working with each other maybe in new and exciting ways and they're working with the university and university  students and mentors and faculty so i think everybody kind of benefits expect me hopefully the youth that participate in our programs so that's one of the things that the youth initiative is sort of about is connecting the university with communities and helping community partners who are already doing great programming to do even more of it to to help enable them to grow and to expand their program so that was pretty cool and yes a terrace of a project we really hope to continue with for many many years to