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WHO WE ARE

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Jennifer Turner is the Executive Director and Founder of the nonprofit youth design agency and genius hub, JET Mode Media Academy. Born and raised in Dallas, TX, Jennifer began her career as a secondary digital media arts teacher shortly after graduating from Stephen F. State University with a BFA in Digital Media Communications. While a high school graphic design teacher, Jennifer noticed several problems with students taking her class.

  1. Students did not have enough time to create within a regular class setting.
  2. Students lack access to resources to create outside of class, such as software and computers.
  3. Students were not exposed to creative industry positions or professionals.

An even bigger problem she noticed is when she would take her students on field trips to design agencies within Dallas, and African Americans accounted for 1% of the company. Jennifer students did not see how they could work in an industry that was not representative of them. Since then, Jennifer’s lasting devotion to helping students of color find careers in the technology and digital media industry has been the inspiration for the creation of JET Mode Media Academy.

 

Our Vision: Provide under-resourced teens the key to self-sufficiency through paid employment in multimedia design and tech.

Our Mission: Create wealth-building opportunities for disconnected youth to be independent, creative, and employed in the digital media industry.

    Our Goal: Empower students to become creators of digital media rather than just consumers as well as enrich urban communities by introducing young people’s creativity to the business community.

Jennifer has began to garner community support to help launch JET Mode Academy’s first training workshop, which launched in the winter of 2019 prior to COVID. The rest of the story is up to all of us to define. Will we talk about diversity or will we act? Will we invest time and fiscal resources to programs that seek to inspire change? Will we mentor? Will we speak up and out? JET Mode Media Academy asks the same question to you, what will you do to create change, in our industry, in our community and our country?

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