"The International Center for Journalists' (ICFJ) Disarming Disinformation initiative is a three-year program, supported by the Scripps Howard Foundation, that aims to slow the spread of disinformation through multiple programs such as investigative journalism, capacity building and media literacy education. ICFJ partnered with MediaWise from the Poynter Institute to develop and deliver media literacy programming. The media literacy training of trainers program accepted global participants for two different cohorts."
"As an immigrant, Mona Awwad knows how daunting it is to start over in a new country. The promise of a better future collides with the fear of acceptance. That vulnerability stays with Awwad to this day and sparked her curiosity when she saw the chance to become a media literacy trainer. Awwad's journey spanned most of her childhood. Born in Kuwait to a Jordanian family of Palestinian origins, she fled the Gulf War at 5 and returned with her family to Jordan."
"Later, she moved to the United States, only to feel unwelcome after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Back in Jordan again, Awwad felt torn between cultures and countries that she had called home - "too American" for Jordan, yet "too Jordanian" for America. In 2015, she arrived in Canada, where she finally felt at home. Now a freelance print and broadcast journalist, Awwad draws on those experiences in her work with journalists and immigration policy researchers in the Middle East and North Africa."
ICFJ's Disarming Disinformation initiative is a three-year program supported by the Scripps Howard Foundation that aims to slow disinformation through investigative journalism, capacity building, and media literacy education. ICFJ partnered with MediaWise at the Poynter Institute to develop and deliver media literacy programming, including a training-of-trainers program with two global cohorts. The program trained 27 trainers who reached more than 3,200 people. Participants are community leaders who teach media literacy skills and real-life application. Mona Awwad, an immigrant and freelance journalist, uses personal experience of displacement and cultural tension to train immigrants and work with journalists and immigration researchers across the Middle East and North Africa.
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