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Olga Polites was a frustrated educator: her students just didn’t know what to do with news and information. So she decided to do something about it. Her interest in media literacy education began as a search for better ways to prepare students to navigate our complex media world and become more civically minded citizens. This led to her involvement with Media Literacy Now, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring all K-12 students are taught media literacy skills so that they become confident and competent media consumers and creators, as learning these skills is an essential part of the solution for supporting young digital citizens to engage in a global media environment and to protect children against manipulative information. Olga Polites taught high school English from 1982 until 2022 and has taught college composition at Rowan University since 1999. She is at the forefront of the movement to encourage mandatory media literacy education for all school pupils in the United States at the state and federal levels.
