Jonathan (Yonty) Friesem is a PhD student in the Education doctoral program at the University of Rhode Island. For the last fifteen years Jonathan worked with numbers of media youth organizations and colleges in Israel. As a graduate from the Camera Obscura Art School in Tel-Aviv, he became a reporter for the local news and a producer in the national network. His global feature production 'Yeladim Tovim" helped him to structure a powerful and effective program for youth media production in the educational system in Israel. Building two communication and cinema departments in high schools as well as teaching various populations of youth across the country, Jonathan became an advocate for the youth media movement in Israel. Jonathan received an M.A. in policy and management in education and continues to advocate for research on the impact of media production experiences of adolescent social and emotional development. Starting January 2012 Jonathan is thrilled to take the position of the Media Education Lab at the Harrington School of Communication and Media.