Josh Schachter

Josh Schachter is an educator, visual storyteller and social ecologist. He is currently the Founder & Executive Director of CommunityShare, a nonprofit that engages students and educators in real-world learning experiences through community partnerships. For 25+ years he has facilitated community-based media projects with youth, teachers, and nonprofit organizations in places ranging from New Delhi to Nigeria. He co-founded VOICES Inc., a nonprofit organization that hired low-income youth to work as journalists to tell the stories of their lives and communities. He co-founded Finding Voice to support the literacy, multimedia storytelling and civic leadership skills of refugee and immigrant students. As a visual storyteller, he has photographed issues ranging from urban revitalization to food security, and his work has been published in venues ranging from the New York Times to the Navajo Times. He earned his master’s degree in environmental management from the Yale School of the Environment, where he explored the role of youth-produced media in supporting personal and community transformation. You can learn more about Josh’s work at  www.communityshare.org, www.creativenarratives.net and  www.joshphotos.com.