Grassroots DC provides a space for media production and training to community members, individual activists and progressive nonprofits in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area. Through our training programs, Grassroots DC students learn marketable skills that help to sustain themselves and their families.

Through the distribution of news media, such as radio segments, short videos, public service announcements, digital stories, etc., Grassroots DC producers and contributors report on issues important to their communities, educate policy makers and the public at large, and advocate on behalf of public policies designed to improve their lives and the lives of their neighbors.

The production and distribution of high-quality media that tells authentic stories from underserved communities, how individuals are affected by public policy AND provides strategies for impacted residents to follow is Grassroots DC’s first priority. Our productions are distributed on the Internet, public radio, public access television and any distribution outlet willing to work with us. Our plan is to flood the market with so much community journalism that no politician or public official will make a move without consulting underserved community members directly for fear that they themselves will be portrayed negatively by an increasingly potent activist media.