Cara Lisa Berg Powers is the author of By Any Media Necessary: how young people of the Hip Hop generation can use media to organize for a more just and sustainable future. She has given presentations and lectures nationally, including at MIT, UMASS Boston, the Women, Action and the Media Conference, the Be the Media Conference, the BEST Initiative’s Youth Work Intensive, the Power of Words Conference, Simmons College, Clark University, and Oxfam America.

She is currently a candidate for her doctorate in Educational Leadership and Change and Media Studies, and holds an MA in Transformative Media Arts and a BA in Screen Studies with a focus on Urban Development/Social Change. Currently a Co-Director of Press Pass TV, a youth video journalism organization in Boston she has previously spearheaded youth media programs in Boston, Lowell and Worcester.