Steven Goodman

Steve Goodman is the founding Executive Director of the Educational Video Center (EVC) in New York City. (www.EVC.org) is a non-profit youth media organization dedicated to teaching documentary video as a means to develop students’ artistic, critical literacy, and career skills, while nurturing their idealism and commitment to social change. Trained as a journalist at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, he has produced independent documentaries and has written numerous articles about youth media, education reform, and civic engagement. He is the author of Teaching Youth Media: Literacy, Video Production and Social Change (Teachers College Press) and co-author of EVC’s Youth Powered Video curriculum and dvd. He has taught in New York City alternative high schools and designed and taught media education courses for teachers and undergraduate students at New York University, Ohio University/Ohio SchoolNet, University of Southern Maine, State University of New York at Old Westbury, and Lehman College at the City University of New York, among others.