2016
2015
2014
- imMEDIAte Justice workshop series with Advocates for Youth in Washington D.C.
- Accepted into the nonprofit incubator Change Better who assessed our strengths and weaknesses with a detailed diagnostic, developed stronger metrics in alignment with our mission, and designed a survey for our program participants.
- Reappropriate article about our anti street harassment music video "Catcall for What?!"
- imMEDIAte Justice premiere of our Anti Street Harassment Documentary and Music video at the Miguel Contreras Complex to family and friends.
- Executive Director speaks about imMEDIAte Justice on radio show "Pulling it Together" with Amanda Savage.
- Article in Feministing about Catcall for What Anti Street Harassment music video
- imMEDIAte Justice girls collaborate with Hollis Wong-Wear, singer on Macklemore's Whitewalls, on the Catcall for What?! Song.
- Partnership with Hollaback! International Anti Street Harassment Organization on Anti Street Harassment workshops.
- imMEDIAte Justice workshop at Models of Pride and production of film by queer youth.
- Cosmopolitan article highlighting the imMEDIAte Justice film for the organization 1 in 3 about Favianna Rodriguez's abortion story
- imMEDIAte Justice participates in Women Action and the Media's fight for Net Neutrality to speak about the importance of women of color's voices being heard online.
- imMEDIAte Justice workshop series in Oakland with 25 youth to create a documentary about open communication between caregivers/parents and young people about gender and sexuality.
- Planned Parent sexuality education PSAs premiere online
- Executive Director speaks on Media Activism Participator Politics panel about Media Activist.
- imMEDIAte Justice youth speak at the UN Women's Conference
2013
- imMEDIAte Justice workshop in India with Dalit teenage girls
- imMEDIAte Justice hosts screening of Fruitvale at the opening of The Los Angeles Film Festival
- Received sponsorship from the clothing company Feel More Better
- imMEDIAte Justice receives sponsorship from The Los Angeles Film Festival
- Huffington Post Article “Creating A Vision Through Her Lens”
- 10,000 grant from Planned Parenthood to create sex ed pixellation animation public service announcements
- 20,000 grant from Forward Together to create a sex ed music video and public service announcement in Oakland
- imMEDIAte Justice executive director speaks on KPFK Feminist Magazine
- Panelist at the 50th Anniversary of The Feminist Mystique Public Library ALOUD series
- Keynote speaker at the Sexual Health Summit
- imMEDIAte Justice Lecture at Women’s Leadership Practicum at Santa Monica University
- imMEDIAte Justice executive director joins Women, Action, & Media Board of Directors
- Workshop at the Women, Action, & Media conference in Santa Monica
- imMEDIAte Justice partners with Civic Center Studios
- imMEDIAte Justice benefit concert hosted by Issa Rae
- The Stories Behind The Start Ups
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2012
- imMEDIAte Justice partners with Catchafire
- imMEDIAte Justice releases the film “Not Your Mama’s Sex Ed”
- Accepted as one of the new organizations by Community Partners’ fiscal sponsor
- imMEDIAte Justice Summer Workshop
- Taught filmmaking to 100 youth in Beijing, China through the Royal Academy
- Taught documentary filmmaking, animation, and poetry to 50 Ugandan girls.
- Received 10,000 dollar grant from the United Nations to teach 48 girls from Kampala, Uganda filmmaking and sex education with AGYA
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“Virtual, Visual Voices: Technological Tools for Women of Color.” Roundtable. Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social Summer Institute, Univeristy of California Santa Barbara, CA; July 2012.
- “Not Your Mama’s Sex Ed: Queer Youth Media Making.” Invited Presenter. From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom, Amherst, MA; April 2012.
- “Not Your Mommas Sex Ed.” Film screening & Workshop. Chicana/o Graduate Studies Association Week of Community Workshops. CSU Northridge, CA; April 2012.
- “It Takes A Village to Rape a Woman.” Workshop. Take Back the Night, Wilmington, CA; April 2012.
- imMEDIAte Justice lecture at Feminism and Popular Culture CSUN
- imMEDIAte Justice lecture at Women’s Leadership Practicum Santa Monica Community College
- Launch film lab at Tahola high school and teach 20 youth on the Quinault reservation filmmaking through an ipod based curriculum.
- Margaret Cho joins imMEDIAte Justice advisory board
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2011
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“Queer Sexuality & Reproductive Justice.” Presenter. Super Queeroes Community Forum, Corazon Del Pueblo, East Los Angeles, CA; October 2011.
- ImMEDIAte Justice Co-Founder Tani Ikeda and mentee Paola Hernandez go on air with KPFK’s Flip the Script.
- ImMEDIAte Justice is invited on set of Margaret Cho’s music video “Asain Adjacent” (Summer 2011).
- Margaret Cho does a promotional sale, “The Sexting Bundle” and donates a portion of the profits to imMEDIAte Justice (Summer 2011).
- Aol.tv features Margaret Cho’s promotional sale to benefit imMEDIAte Justice, “The Sexting Bundle” (Summer 2011).
- Channel APA features “The Sexting Bundle” (Summer 2011).
- Laugh Spin features “The Sexting Bundle” (Summer 2011).
- Oregon LGBT News Magazine, Just Out promotes “The Sexting Bundle” (Summer 2011).
- The Laugh Button promotes ”The Sexting Bundle” (Summer 2011).
- imMEDIAte Justice takes part in an open mic at the 2nd Annual OutSpoken sessions (Summer 2011).
- imMEDIAte Justice Program three day Retreat in the woods with gender and sexuality workshops, leadership development ropes courses, and media literacy training (Summer 2011).
- imMEDIAte Justice mentors collaborate with COLOR and Branching Seedz of Resistance in a workshop, Not Ur Mama’s Sex Ed: Our Voz, Our Resistance at the Allied Media Conference (Summer 2011).
- imMEDIAte Justice takes part in Tuesday Night Project‘s open mic in Los Angeles (Summer 2011).
- imMEDIAte Justice mentors workshop Queer Media at the 3rd annual DeColores Queer OC community conference Mi Casa Es Su Casa: Empowering our Homes and Transforming our Communities (Summer 2011).
- Organized a political action network of over 10,000 people online to secure a $25,000 Pepsi Refresh Grant (Spring 2011).
- imMEDIAte Justice screen their films in Los Angeles during the OUT spoken Sessions (Spring 2011)
- imMEDIAte Justice mentors present a workshop on Media Litercy at Santa Monica College during Women, Action, & the Media’s WAM! It Yourself Los Angeles conference (Spring 2011).
- imMEDIAte Justice screen their films at the Echo Park Film Center during Feminist Media Night (Spring 2011).
- The Huffington Post features imMEDIAte Justice’s program “Check Out Past Pepsi Refresh Project Winners — And Vote To Fund The Next Inspiring Ideas!” (Spring 2011).
- imMEDIAte Justice mentors take part in the 30th Anniversary Reproductive Justice Conference at Hampshire College (Spring 2011).
- imMEDIAte Justice mentors workshop Media Justice and Health Workshop at Berkeley’s Empowering Women of Color Conference (Spring 2011).
- “Revolutionizing Sex-Education” blog features imMEDIAte Justice (Winter 2011).
- imMEDIAte Justice filmmaking and Sexuality workshop Sex Positive Long Beach Conference (Spring 2011).
- GOOD Magazine features imMEDIAte Justice’s program “Not Your Mama’s Sex Ed” (Spring 2011).
- Utne Reader feature’s imMEDIAte Justice director as one of the 25 Visionaries That Are Changing Your World (Winter 2011).
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2010
- Reproductive Justice and Filmmaking Workshop at the Chicana Feminist Conference (Winter 2010).
- Brink magazine interviews imMEDIAte Justice director about the program (Fall 2010).
- imMEDIAte Justice take part in Break the Silence, an open mic in Los Angeles hosted by One Imagination (Fall 2010).
- imMEDIAte Justice workshop on Youth and Social Innovation at TEDxYSE in Washington D.C. (Fall 2010).
- KPFK’s Feminist Magazine interviews imMEDIAte Justice (Fall 2010).
- Premiered four pixilation animation Public Service Announcement about their dreams of reproductive freedom to over 200 people at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (Fall 2010).
- Provided critical media justice and reproductive justice training to 40 women and TGQ youth of color during the fall program of imMEDIAte Justice (Fall 2010).
- Projekt NewSpeak interview imMEDIAte Justice director Tani Ikeda about organized desire, filmmaking, and the imMEDIAte Justice program.
- imMEDIAte Justice Program three day Retreat in the woods with gender and sexuality workshops, leadership development ropes courses, and media literacy training (Fall 2010).
- ImMEDIAte Justice mentors teach a Gender and Homophobia workshop for SUP Gee (Summer 2010).
- ImMEDIAte Justice mentors present the Photobooth of change workshop for SUP Gee (Summer 2010).
- NBC films ImMEDIAte Justice youth and mentors after winning the pepsi refresh contest (Summer 2010).
- Univision interviews imMEDIAte Justice members about the program (Summer 2010).
- CNN interviews immediate Justice youth filmmaker Espie Hernandez about her film “Mariposa” (Summer 2010).
- imMEDIAte Justice participants co-facilitated a workshop with Reel Grrls at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit (Summer 2010).
- imMEDIAte Justice is selected to receive training at the Do Something Boot Camp in San Francisco (Summer 2010).
- Chanel One News, broadcast in high schools nationwide, interviews immediate Justice youth filmmaker Espie Hernandez about her film “Mariposa” (Summer 2010).
- imMEDIAte Justice mentioned in The Wall Street Journal article (6/17/10) about the Youth Producing Change segment of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival (Summer 2010).
- imMEDIAte Justice and “Mariposa” profiled in the New York Gay City News article (6/2010) in regards to the Youth Producing Change segment of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival (Summer 2010).
- Youth Filmmaker Espie Hernandez creates video interviews for a Media Maker salon article posted on Advocates for Youth’s Amplify your Voice Blog (Summer 2010).
- Youth Filmmaker Espie Hernandez is interviewed by CNY Latino radio in regards to the Youth Producing Change segment of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival (Summer 2010).
- imMEDIAte Justice youth screened their documentary film “Mariposa” at the New York Human Rights Watch Film Festival ( Summer 2010).
- Pepsi features a story about imMEDIAte Justice in “Grantee Story: Yound Filmmakers Train Lens on Sex Ed” (Summer 2010).
- Daily Brink! features and interviews imMEDIAte Justice co-founder and filmmaker Tani Ikeda. (Spring 2010).
- Organized a political action network of over 10,000 people online to secure a $25,000 Pepsi Refresh Grant (Spring 2010).
- imMEDIAte Justice trains high school students in media justice at the Youth Media Education Conference at Cal State Dominguez Hills (Spring 2010).
- imMEDIAte Justice and CALIBODYPOLITIX workshop “What Does Reprodutive Justice Mean to You?” at the California Women’s Foundation Conference in Santa Cruz (Spring 2010).
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2009/2008
- The imMEDIAte Justice girls will be featured in the next Make/Shift Magazine edition (Fall 2009).
- “Youth Confronting Homophobia: I want to hold your heart.” Presenter. SUPG Collective High School Outreach, Inglewood, CA; August 2009.
- Wrote and received Clinton Global Initiative’s Outstanding Commitment Grant for $3,000 (Spring 2009).
- Organized a political action network of over 600 people online to secure a 10,000 Power in Numbers Grant from Do Something.org (Spring 2009). See more…
- Provided critical media justice and reproductive justice training to 15 women and TGQ youth during the pilot summer program of Immediate Justice ( Summer 2009).
- Premiered two films addressing queer issues and sexuality education to over 90 people at the Fannie Brice Theater at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts in later (August 2009).
- Established working relationships with the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, REACH LA, and the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (Summer 2009).
- Received $3,000 grant to work with youth in conjunction with the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy on short films addressing issues of Democracy ( Summer 2008).
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