Jacqueline Miller - Youth Producer
Jacqueline Miller is a 15-year-old freshman and cheerleader at John F. Kennedy High School. She currently resides in the Bronx. Jacqueline was drawn to the interviewer role because it lets her control the direction of the interview, and it also gives her a better connection to and understanding of the interviewee’s point of view. Jacqueline is very good at throwing daggers with her eyes, but also conducts sensitive interviews, and has learned that you have to apply listening skills and make the interview feel like a normal conversation. Jacqueline looks forward to seeing the finished project, and the impact it will have on the community.
Jerdel Gibson - Youth Producer
Jerdel is 14 years old. She has a free spirit and she is very friendly. She currently attends Wingate High School [I.A.B.S]. She is drawn to this project because she is interested in the topic and has experienced incarceration in her family. She focuses mostly on first camera skills. When she gets older she wishes to become a radio personality.
Fathama Ahmed - Youth Producer
Fathama currently lives in the Bronx, in her words "the dirty and depressing borough". After she graduates from Dewitt Clinton high school, she plans to take a break from the city and attend Ithaca College where she hopes to be on her way to writing for the New York Times. She’s interested in working with this project because in order to make a change, one must go out there and try to make it happen.
Farhana Hussain - Youth Producer
Farhana Hussain lives in the Bronx. She attends DeWitt Clinton High School; starting this fall she's going to be a senior. She plans on staying in New York City after high school, but not in the Bronx. She's quite undecided about what she wants to become, but most likely she wants to be a teacher for elementary school students. She is interested in this project because she feels that people don't really understand this topic as much as they should, and how incarcerated parents and families are treated throughout the process.
Lynise Williams - Youth Producer
Lynise Williams is 15 years old and attends International Arts and Business High School. She has also had experience with having a parent incarcerated and would like to advocate for others in similar situations as herself. She hopes that making this documentary will give awareness to others and make drastic changes to better life for families. From this experience she would like to have a future career in the film industry.
Michael Gardner - Youth Producer
Michael is a 17-year-old recent graduate of John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx, and is starting college in the fall. He’s already an experience director and editor and helps teach filmmaking skills to others as a part of this Student Digital Art and Cinema Committee in his school. He’s
interested in being involved in this project because he knows what its like have someone close to you incarcerated. He also make movies and feels it would be a good documentary.
Steven Gerardo Perez - Youth Producer
Steven, AKA Gerardo, AKA Graveheart lives next to a cemetery and loves to make people laugh (intentionally or unintentionally). He needs to finish his bio.
Original Crew / Research Team
Alisha Isabel Vierira - Youth Producer / Researcher
Alisha is a researcher and high school student attending Brooklyn Collaborative High School. She is 17 years old about to turn 18 on january 25. She excels in being a researcher, data analyst and much more. Her hopes and dreams are to become a criminal justice lawyer, making her way up to being a judge.
BJ Coleman - Youth Producer
BJ is a student, athlete, and camera man, with an interest in video editing. He’s hoping to attend Erie College in Buffalo and hopes to study one of three things: Psychology, Sociology, or Journalism. When he gets older he hopes to not be in prison (seriously) and hopes to play in the NFL. He attends Roosevelt High School in Yonkers, NY and turns 18 in June.
Dominique Ramsey - Youth Producer / Researcher
Dominique is a technical and camera wizard, and attends Brooklyn Collaborative High School.
