What is the connection? YouthLAB and Open Youth Networks, of course.

Henry Jenkins, Director of the MIT Media Lab recently was in the audience when YouthLAB members, Ameenah Muhammad, Sadia Nawab and Zane Scheuerlein presented YouTube-Sized at the DIY Video Summit. Read Henry Jenkin’s February 13th post called From YouTube to WeTube.

Also, we just learned that Mindy Faber was quoted in a Mother Jones article about youth activism and the internet.

Last but not least, Cafe Catedral in Chicago’s Little Village not only serves up a wicked Chai latte, has free wireless internet, serves amazing food at reasonable prices and was the on location site for the filming of Stranger Than Fiction but it was also the site of our most recent Open Youth Networks blog and google multimedia map training for the youth activist team of Little Village Environmental Justice Organization. See for yourself.