About

The Center for Media Justice is a media strategy and action center that uses strategic communications and media activism to build a powerful movement for racial justice, economic equity, and human rights. Through two program areas and fee for service projects, CMJ strengthens the communications effectiveness of grassroots groups and builds a powerful, integrated movement for media justice and communication rights.

A Unique Movement Center
At CMJ, we provide training, resources, and support to grassroots community organizing groups in the Bay Area and across the country to develop creative, effective, and participatory communications and media activism strategies that support the fight for racial and economic justice. Driven by the communities we serve, the Center for Media Justice works across age, sector, and regional boundaries to transform the public debate on race and poverty—and the media rules and conditions that push youth, people of color, poor people, women, and queer communities to the margins of public debate.

Our Principles
CMJ is more than a communications intermediary or media policy shop—we’re a communications movement center with an agenda and a staff that reflects the social change goals and constituencies of the organizations and communities we work with.

We work in long-term partnership and through strategic initiatives to develop comprehensive and accessible communications and media activism strategies that can be evaluated over time.

We believe that communications and media activism are cornerstone components of community organizing, and that community organizing is a core strategy for social change.

At CMJ, we understand that people learn about the world—about power, and about justice—through stories. The ability to tell, hear, and interpret the stories that define our communities requires communications skills, strategy, and power.