Tag Archives: Marie Acemah

Rafael Bitanga in his home, where he teaches students how to make crepes. (Photo by Kayla Desroches / KMXT) Kayla Desroches/KMXT A Kodiak high schooler just won a 2018 Spirit of Youth award for running his own crepe stand. Seventeen-year-old Rafael Bitanga is the owner of the Crepe Escape and teaches students to work the stand at events like Kodiak’s …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The award-winning Baranov Museum film intensive is gearing up for another year of youth-created documentaries, and it just won a Rasmuson Foundation grant for its technology needs. The program, which was founded in 2012, will now be able to hand its students professional-grade camera equipment. Program instructor and grant writer, Marie Acemah, says she learned they’d won the …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Some local kids are completing documentaries about the fishing industry. Educator Marie Acemah led the digital storytelling group last year as well, when they covered climate change. Other topics she and her students have explored in previous years include the Exxon Valdez oil spill and Filipino community stories. For this assignment, the kids sat down with members of …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT A local non-profit scored big this week when it picked up $119,595 in a grant from the United States Institute of Peace. Marie Acemah is the executive director and cofounder of Media Action .