Indigenous Youth Media Workshop

Live and learn in Flagstaff, Arizona

Calling all Indigenous high school trailblazers, aspiring storytellers, and media makers! This 11-day comprehensive, hands-on, immersive media production workshop is your ticket to mastering multimedia broadcast journalism and unleashing your storytelling talent.

Join us this summer from June 22 to July 1, 2026 for the Indigenous Youth Media Workshop at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona!

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Dive into the vibrant world of broadcast media and journalism while you create documentary-style multimedia stories in our state-of-the-art Media Innovation Center and Television Studio!
• Collaborate with accomplished Indigenous filmmakers, journalists, and photographers, NAU Film and Journalism student mentors, and NAU Media Arts faculty to amplify the voices of your communities and shape the narratives that define our world!
• Immerse yourself in college life, dining in the student union and living in residence halls!
• Learn multimedia production skills and produce a live studio broadcast  using professional equipment!
• Explore exciting media careers at our media job fair

Open to students currently in grades 9-12, with special consideration for Indigenous high-schoolers.

Students are provided room and all meals during the workshop!

Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity!

Cost: Successful applicants will receive full scholarships valued at $3,300.

Travel to and from Flagstaff not included.

Ready to embark on your media adventure and unleash your storytelling potential?

Applications are now closed for Summer ’26, and will open again in February ’27.

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The Mission of the Indigenous Youth Media Workshop is to inspire Indigenous high school students to tell their own stories, attend college, and to consider careers in media.

For more information please contact: IYMW@nau.edu

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