About Student Voices
Student Voices is a partnership between Butler students and middle and high school students in the Indianapolis area to work on journalism and creative media projects. After the coaching and collaboration of the students with mentors, the projects that are created will be showcased on the Student Voices website and potentially on further mediums such as the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Lab program.
Donna Griffin
I help kids and teens connect with the world and people around them, creating books and programs to give young people a voice.
Leading Professor
Donna Griffin
About
Master Journalism Educator and Author Donna Griffin has four decades of experience running community newspapers and as a veteran journalism and language arts educator in classrooms across the country. Now she is working with both of her alma maters, IPS and Butler, to connect young media creators to their communities.
- Journalism/English Teacher | 1997
- Dani’s Dreams Innovation in Education, Founder and CEO | 2007
- Author | 2014
- Owner & Founder, Griffin Media + Publishing | 2018
- University Professor | 2021
FAQs
- What kind of work will students do?
- After the coaching and collaboration of the students with mentors, the projects that are created will be showcased on the Student Voices website.
- Who is involved in this organization?
- The initiative is a collaboration of the Eugene S. Pulliam School of Journalism & Creative Media at Butler University. Programs take place in IPS Schools and after-school programs in the Fall and Spring semesters for grades 3-8.
- What have previous semesters been like?
- Nearly 50 Butler students have impacted the lives of IPS students while earning their Indianapolis Community Requirement credit with a journalism course since the program began in the spring of 2021. In the 2023-24 school year, more than 25 elementary students created media and developed relationships with their Butler coaches through Student Voices at the Butler Lab School, IPS 43, and the MLK Center. In-the-field events have been held at Butler Esports, Butler’s Baseball Field, Holcomb Observatory, and WISH-TV.
Spring 2025
Meet the Coaches
