W. 基思-海夫纳 记者和教育家

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W. Keith Hefner
Journalist and Educator | Class of 1989
Title
Journalist and Educator
Location
New York, New York
Age
35 at time of award
Area of Focus
Communications and Journalism, Education and Training
Website
Youth Communication
Published August 1, 1989
ABOUT KEITH'S WORK
Keith Hefner, a publisher and an educator, helps urban teens learn to write through Youth Communication, a youth development program he founded in 1980.

Hefner’s group selects New York City public high school students to write for two magazines: New Youth Connections and Represent.  New Youth Connections is a monthly magazine read by 200,000 New York City teens and is widely used in schools to spark reading, writing, and discussion.  The second, Represent, is a national, bimonthly magazine for teens in foster care.  Thousands of teens have contributed to these publications, which treat issues including race relations, child and substance abuse, and sexuality.  Youth Communication also provides college and career counseling to its high school writers and alumni, and trains high school teachers to teach journalistic writing and produce school magazines.

BIOGRAPHY
Youth Communication has published several anthologies of magazine articles, including The Heart Knows Something Different: Teenage Voices from the Foster Care System (1996) and The Struggle to be Strong: Teens Write About Overcoming Tough Times (2000).

Hefner published a magazine and a series of books on youth issues prior to founding Youth Communication.  He was a Revson Fellow on the Future of New York City at Columbia University (1986).

RECENT NEWS
Keith Hefner is executive director of Youth Communication (YC). YC helps educators develop the skills they need to engage the hardest-to-reach teens and provides teen-written anthologies and curricula educators can use to help teens strengthen their social, emotional, and literacy skills. YC’s intensive writing program has nurtured more than 2,500 teens, including MacArthur Fellow Edwidge Danticat. YC’s two teen magazines—YCteen and Represent—were named 2011 and 2013 Periodical of the Year, respectively, by the Association of Educational Publishers. Hefner is the co-author of several award-winning Youth Communication curricula on masculinity (Real Men: Urban Teens Write About How to Be a Man, 2010), social and emotional learning (Real Stories, Real Teens, 2007), and resilience (The Struggle to Be Strong, 2000). He also helped launch YouthSuccessNYC, a resource for staff who work with teens who are in transition from foster care to adulthood.

Updated July 2015



W. 基思-海夫纳
记者和教育家 | 1989级
标题
记者和教育家
工作地点
纽约，纽约
年龄
获奖时35岁
关注领域
通讯和新闻, 教育和培训
网站
青年传播
发表于1989年8月1日
关于基思的工作
基思-海夫纳是一位出版商和教育家，通过他在1980年创立的青年交流项目，帮助城市青少年学习写作。

海夫纳的小组挑选纽约市的公立高中学生为两本杂志写作。新青年联系》和《代表》。 新青年联系》是一本每月有20万纽约市青少年阅读的杂志，在学校被广泛用于激发阅读、写作和讨论。 第二本杂志《Represent》是一本全国性的双月刊，面向寄养的青少年。 数以千计的青少年为这些出版物投稿，这些出版物处理的问题包括种族关系、儿童和药物滥用以及性行为。 青年通讯还为其高中作家和校友提供大学和职业咨询，并培训高中教师教授新闻写作和制作学校杂志。

传记
青年通讯社出版了几本杂志文章选集，包括《心有灵犀：来自寄养系统的青少年之声》（1996年）和《奋发图强：青少年写下克服困难的故事》（2000年）。

海夫纳在创办《青年通讯》之前出版了一本杂志和一系列有关青年问题的书籍。 他曾在哥伦比亚大学担任关于纽约市未来的Revson研究员（1986年）。

最近的新闻
基思-海夫纳是青年通讯社（YC）的执行董事。YC帮助教育工作者发展他们所需的技能，以吸引最难接触到的青少年，并提供青少年写的文集和课程，教育工作者可以用来帮助青少年加强他们的社会、情感和识字能力。YC的强化写作计划已经培养了2500多名青少年，包括麦克阿瑟奖获得者埃德温-丹蒂卡。YC的两本青少年杂志《YCteen》和《Represent》分别被教育出版商协会评为2011和2013年度期刊。海夫纳是几个获奖的 "青年通讯 "课程的合著者，这些课程涉及阳刚之气（《真正的男人：城市青少年写下如何成为一个男人》，2010年）、社会和情感学习（《真实的故事，真实的青少年》，2007年）和复原力（《坚强的斗争》，2000年）。他还帮助发起了YouthSuccessNYC，这是一个为那些与从寄养到成年的青少年打交道的工作人员提供的资源。

2015年7月更新