Minorities need more relevance in the news

If Marty McFly were to stumble upon the #OZMediaSummit, he would have been amazed at the many differences between the rights of ethnic minorities and how they have developed.

In the #BackToFutureDay everyone was thinking about how the present is not how he predicted it but it is getting closer. With minorities no one thought it would change as much as it already had. Every day we get closer to have and equality while having diversity.

SUNY Oswego’s Media Summit has grown throughout eleven years and it´s obvious that one of them this topic should be the main one. No one wanted to miss the opportunity

President Deborah F. Stanley started it. Student Christopher Collins-McNeil moderated the panel formed by Michelle Garcia, Identities Editor at Mic.com; Kendis Gibson, ABC News National Correspondent; Dave Longley, Chief Meteorologist, WSYR-TV and Jennifer Sanders, News Anchor at WSYR-TV.

Some of the speakers were uplifting for the students, like Dave Longley. Samantha Puckhaber said, “He is just an inspiration for anyone facing an illness.”

But not everything was serious, they knew how to treat the topic in a funny way. As Steven Nespolini, student of SUNY Oswego said “ sense of humor from the moderator and panelists worked well. Audience responded with laughter”

This topics are relevant for a lot of people like student Mallory Bower, who “ loved that Michelle Garcia talked about importance of intersectionality in the media.”

As Garcia said, “The more we talk about it the better off we will be.”

All of this with a spectacular staging at Sheldon Hall thanks to all the students and workers that gave everything they could for this Media Summit to leave a trace in the students.