Other CCI alumni have also had success with the Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund.

Amin Muhammad’s project, Youth Eye Citizen Journalist, was one of the winners of the 2013 Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund. As a 2010-11 CCI participant, Amin Muhammad studied at Madison Area Technical College where he worked with community access television stations and became inspired to pass on what he had learned to his home community in Pakistan.

The purpose of his project, Youth Eye, was to train and engage proactive youth in Citizen Journalism through a two week long course. By getting local citizens to collect, share, and analyze local news and information, the Youth Eye project aimed to create engaged journalists and active citizens. Aside from providing visual communication to Hunza valley (an area that does not have access to mainstream media), another goal of Youth Eye was to train local youth about how to develop television content that addresses issues related to inequality and social injustice, among other topics. Some of the participants in Amin’s course have even gone on to become contributing reporters for local news outlets.