Malkia Cyril is the Director of the Youth Media Council in Oakland, California. She is a Brooklyn native who has worked with youth, community ativist groups in the SF Bay Area for the past nine years. Malkia’s writing was recently featured in the anthology The Future of Media: Resistance and Reform in the 21st Century. She has authored numerous articles and reports including “Young People and Decent Wages” (Winning Wages, 2004), “The Power in Our Hands” (Context Magazine, 2005), and “Speaking for Ourselves” (Yes Magazine, 2005). Malkia was also featured in the documentary film OutFoxed (2004), and her creative work has been published in sources from Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café (1994), to Tea Party magazine (2006), to Afrekete, an anthology of Black lesbian writing (1994), and In the Tradition, an anthology of young Black writers (1995). Malkia has a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in New York.
