Miriam Verburg

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Matt: High School Sucked

"I think my initial motivations were um that I think if I, when I was in high school if I had that program, my, the decision-making I, well the decision I made about my schooling would have been different and I probably would have had a much better experience with high school because I had a really terrible high school experience."

Miriam: Work as Research

"My job as a researcher isn’t just to make sure that the camera is functioning and that the batteries are charged, but it’s also to observe what’s happening between Matt and his students, and find out if there’s things I can draw from there."

Miriam: An "Average" Day

"I think nothing ever got done 100% so this research is kind of half-done. The fundraising definitely didn’t get done to the best of its ability. If there’s only one person doing 5 things, then everything gets done 1/5 of the possibility that it could get done."

Miriam: Funding and Fitting In

"There is never ever a place that we landed and thought, this is a place where we could get some money!”

Miriam: Not a Hypodermic Needle

"I have a beef in the way that youth are represented in media, and also in media literacy. I think in both cases, their agency’s kind of compromised."