Youth Radio Needs Your Support  today and become a member of Youth Radio!!

Youth Radio's award-winning productions are the creative reflection of a generation defined by media and technology. Young people have stories to tell, stories about the joys of youth and stories about the challenges of youth...surviving mental illness, overcoming family breakdown, fighting and dying at war.

Youth Radio is the leader in the growing field of ‘youth media’ and a curator of young voices from around the country and around the globe. By joining today, you will help educate young leaders and support independent youth media.

Donate online or mail a donation to Youth Radio:

Youth Radio
1701 Broadway ave
Oakland, CA 94612

Here's how your donation can support Youth Radio:

$35 Media supplies for hands-on classes
$50 Teaching supplies for afterschool tutoring
$100 SAT preparation materials for our College Bound program
$200 Recording equipment for field producers
$500 A flash recorder for Online Production
$1000 A new editing computer for our Newsroom
$2500 A new encoding computer for our Web Radio stream
$5000 A new video computer for our Video Team
$10,000 Beginning of digital upgrade for production studios

Meet Youth Radio Participants

Ashley Jones, Peer Teacher
A senior at El Cerrito High School, Ashley originally came to Youth Radio in the summer of 2004 because of her enthusiasm for music. She quickly developed a new interest in radio and found herself writing and producing movie reviews and other cultural pieces.

Ashley recently traveled to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she met with other young people from around the country at a youth media evaluation conference sponsored by the Time Warner Foundation. She is currently a peer teacher helping new students develop their writing skills and formulate on-air roundtable discussions about issues impacting young people.

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Lauryn Silverman, Freelance Reporter
Lauryn is a 17-year-old high school junior from Berkeley, California. She has reported on a wide range of topics — from shopping for clothes at Thrift Town, to young voters, to college finances. Lauryn was recently recognized by American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) with a prestigious 2005 Gracie Allen Award for an unflinching piece on her struggle with anorexia. “Hunger’s Diary” aired on National Public Radio.

About her experience at Youth Radio Lauryn says, “I get to write stories that can turn into something that the entire nation could potentially hear. That’s powerful. When I won the Gracie Allen Award, I knew that I had achieved something, and that I, a young person, was being recognized. That is rare in this society.”