New Media for Social Change
Nurture the next generation of women citizen journalists who will shape our world!
Are you a worldly soul who would like to use new media and citizen journalism to lift and unite voices for social change? Then join a global movement of women who are harnessing the power of new media to broadcast solutions-oriented news from the front lines of some of the most unheard regions in the world. World Pulse is seeking volunteers for our third annual Voices of Our Future program, an exciting online new media, citizen journalism, and empowerment training course for emerging grassroots women leaders from around the globe. Our goal is to provide these women with the tools, knowledge, and mentoring they need to vocalize and actualize their visions for change.
This fall, thirty women will be selected as Correspondents to begin the five-month Voices of Our Future training program which starts in November. World Pulse needs volunteers to act as Editorial Midwives for these Correspondents as they navigate the program. Each Editorial Midwife will be partnered with one Correspondent. Your role will be to support, guide and empower: You will act as a nurturing editor to help your Correspondent find her empowered voice, learn the basics of citizen journalism and discover how new media can be used for positive social change. As an Editorial Midwife, you will journey alongside your Correspondent to the frontiers of new media and women's empowerment.
The deep and soulful satisfaction of knowing you are participating in a program that will be life-changing for the women you will help support, as well as for yourself as you read and react to their inspiring stories. Also, the amazing opportunity to connect with women from Zimbabwe to Columbia, exchange ideas and laughter together and become friends. Gretchen Lee, an Editorial Midwife since 2009, wrote:
"As a Midwife, I was often overwhelmed with emotion while reading the Correspondents' assignments-it became so important to me to be kind, genuine and supportive to my new friends from Africa and Nepal. I would actually imagine my hand reaching out and holding their hand as they bravely went forward expanding their own lives in such a valuable way. Throughout the program, it became crystal clear that the entire Voices of Our Future community was on fire with a genuine outpouring of support, admiration and love for each other. It was a watershed experience of empowerment. It was incredible!"
