Welcome Jordan Mitchell, our new Youth Media Fellow

Thanks to grant funding from the Canaday Family Charitable Trust, the Vermont Folklife Center is pleased to welcome our first Youth Media Fellow for the 2022-2023 academic year. This position will support the objectives of the Vermont Voices pilot program, whose main objective is to integrate humanities-centered training and skills practice at career and technical education (CTE) centers. Jordan will collaborate with the VFC education team and digital media lab educators at Burlington Technical Center and Windham Regional Career Center to design creative presentations of archival sound and interviews, create instructional content on interviewing and storytelling skills, and mentor students leading projects on community perspectives and cross-cultural understanding. This fellowship will also support Jordan’s independent media projects that contribute to the mission of the Vermont Folklife Center: to deepen our understanding of each other by engaging with communities across Vermont to document and share expressions of tradition, innovation, and culture.

Jordan Mitchell (she/her) is an Associate Producer and Digital Archivist at CCTV/Town Meeting TV, where she routinely works with born-digital and archival footage. She manages a unique media collection of 41,000 analog programs dating back to the 1980s, and she is responsible for digitizing materials to ensure accessibility to the public. She holds a B.A. in Film and Television Studies from the University of Vermont.

She is a filmmaker and visual storyteller who has been working in the greater Burlington community since she moved to Vermont in 2017. She has been producing on-the-ground, interview-driven work for organizations such as the Center for Research on Vermont, the Community News Service, the University of Vermont, and the Vermont Cynic. She has created dozens of short-form and long-form videos detailing the stories of local researchers and community members.

Originally from Upstate New York, she chose to pursue higher education in Vermont for the fruitful opportunities to seek adventure. On the weekends you can often find her in the mountains someplace (usually skiing or hiking)!

She looks forward to using the skills that she has acquired in her previous experiences to advance the mission of Vermont Folklife Center this academic year as the Youth Media Fellow.