How are media-making millennials influencing journalism, information exchange, and the job market? Five millennial women join forces - and their international experiences - to tackle this question. ...
Costanza Maio
Costanza Maio was born in Italy and raised in the US. She is a 22-year-old undergraduate senior at New York University, majoring in Global Liberal Studies and minoring in Arabic. She is an independent documentary filmmaker and aspires to be a foreign correspondent in North Africa. She is currently interning with documentary production company Ark Media and is working on her senior thesis — a documentary installation exploring the cyberworld of two women Muslim YouTubers living in the US and the UK. While studying abroad in Abu Dhabi during her junior year, she interned at the CNN International bureau there and reported for The Gazelle, the first independent, student-run newspaper in the UAE. As part of her work at The Gazelle, she also launched and hosted the YouTube series TGTV: new voices, real talk, which connected guests across the globe. Costanza also brings her passion for media to her communities, being a core member of the NYU Divest: Go Fossil Free campaign and NYU Global Media & Creative Productions club.