For the past four years, I have worked as an after school program coordinator at a technology center in North Minneapolis.
On March 12, and 13th, 2026, we gathered at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and Integrated Marketing Communications for the MediaEd Research Jam, and I am still feeling energized by everything that happened there.
In addition to being an international journalist and Fulbright Scholar (Latvia ’19; Albania ’24), Monika
has been designing and delivering media-literacy programs worldwide for teachers, librarians, and policy
makers, recently co-authoring a State-Department-funded MOOC that has been translated into ten
languages and reached 40,000 learners worldwide.
She also developed the Baltic Very Verified course with IREX. Her academic publications appear in
many journals and book chapters, and is an educator with the University of Washington’s Media Literacy
Interview with Faith Rogow, Ph.D., independent scholar and author of Media Literacy for Young Children: Teaching Beyond the Screen Time Debates (NAEYC, 2022). Faith is an internationally respected leader and curriculum developer who has been an innovator of media literacy education practices for more than 30 years.