Action for Media Education

  • A Girl Scout works on a laptop computer, in a photo released June 21, 2017. Girl Scouts of the USA/Handout via REUTERS
  • Nick Pernisco gives Gov. Jay Inslee a copy of Nick’s book Practical Media Literacy. Pictured left to right: Dennis Small, Educational Technology Director, Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, Sharyn Merrigan, Teacher-Librarian, Olympia School District, Gov. Jay Inslee, Jessica Vavrus, Washington State School Directors’ Association and Nick Pernisco, Action for Media Education.
  • Gov. Inslee gives the bill signing pen to Sen. Marko Liias, the primary sponsor of the bill. Pictured left to right: Marilyn Cohen, NW Center for Media Literacy, College of Education, UW, Evan Smith, Legislative Assistant, Sen. Marko Liias 21st District-Lynnwood, Carolyn Logue, Washington State Library Association, Gov. Jay Inslee and Sharyn Merrigan, Teacher-Librarian, Olympia School District.
  • Pictured left to right: Curt Kohlwes, Executive Legislative Assistant, Marilyn Cohen, NW Center for Media Literacy, College of Education, UW, Evan Smith, Legislative Assistant, Sen. Marko Liias 21st District-Lynnwood, Carolyn Logue, Washington State Library Association, Governor Jay Inslee, Sharyn Merrigan, Teacher Librarian, Olympia School District, Dennis Small, Educational Technology Director, Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, Nick Pernisco, Action for Media Education, Jessica Vavrus, Washington State School Directors’ Association and Barbara Johnson, Action for Media Education.
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  • AME member Marilyn Cohen
  • AME members Linda Kennedy, Marilyn Cohen, Claire Beach and Barbara Johnson meet with Senator Marko Liias (center) in Olympia.

Action for Media Education

We strive to educate and equip children, youth and adults with the skills needed to make sense of our digital world by asking the question “What does media mean to you?”

In 2016 Washington was the first state to pass media literacy legislation, followed by further successes in 2017, 2019, 2021, and now in 2022.  We are delighted that starting in 2019 our legislative mandates were accompanied with funding that have made a Media Literacy Grant Program possible and will now support a new Media Literacy Ambassadors Program.  We are also proud to now have the nation’s first Media Literacy Supervisor in our WA State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Celebrating Washington’s Legislative Successes!