CMA BA × JGCC × KQED: Youth Digital Well-being Beyond the Headlines

🎟️  IMPORTANT: Please rsvp via our partner's link to secure your spot:

Join fellow Children’s Media Association Bay Area members in attending a panel discussion “Beyond the Headlines: What Parents and Media Makers Can Learn from Digital Well-Being Research and Youth Engagement” co-hosted by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and KQED. CMA and Cooney Center invite professionals working in the kids’ media and tech space to stay after the panel for a networking cocktail hour in the beautiful KQED event space.

📅 When

11/17/26 | 5:30 pm doors open, event is 6-7:30 pm PT. Reception to follow

📍Where

KQED, 2601 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 (near 16th St. Mission BART). 

Limited parking available for attendees with accessibility needs- please email avaba@kqed.org if you’d like to park at KQED.

💡 Topics 

What challenges do families encounter when trying to encourage their children’s digital well-being? What does the data say, and what have we learned from real kids and families? How can we design technology products to keep kids’ well-being in mind? Come hear about these important topics from the perspective of researchers, media makers, and youth themselves.

👤 Panelists

Panelists include: 

• Elizabeth Rood (Joan Ganz Cooney Center)
• Priyansh Nigam (Verizon)
• Randy Depew (KQED)
• Vicki Harrison (Stanford Center on Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing) 
• Dorothy Hofen Bowers Wu (Stanford School of Medicine)
• Youth representatives