Resilient inside my hijab

The Teen Producers Project at San Diego's Media Arts Center profiles Yasmin Hamud, whose 'Emerging Leaders Program' empowers Muslim refugee young women growing up in two worlds: "When they're at school they have to blend in, when they are at home they are just themselves." The young women in this video ask us to question, is a woman who covers herself with a headscarf less free than a woman who exposes her body for all to see?[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PfTgFznYc0&tracker=False &w=320&h=240]Refugee Voices is a year-long digital storytelling project designed to record and preserve the stories of East African refugees living her in San Diego.  This project is a partnership between the San Diego Central Public Library and the Media Arts Center San Diego.  Local teens learn high tech media skills and use library research in order to produce two short documentaries that focus on the lives of East African refugees and their experiences living in the United States.