Steven Goodman

Founding director, Educational Video Center, NYC

Steve Goodman is the founding director of the Educational Video Center in New York City. For nearly 35 years, he has offered award-winning social justice documentary workshops for students from underserved communities and professional development for teachers. Trained as a journalist at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Goodman has taught in New York City transfer high schools and at NYU, University of London Institute of Education, and other universities. Goodman writes extensively on youth media, critical literacy, civic engagement, and education reform for numerous publications and is the author of Teaching Youth Media: A Critical Guide to Literacy, Video Production, and Social Change (Teachers College Press, 2003).