The New Mexico Media Literacy Project, founded in 1993, aims to cultivate critical thinking and activism in a media culture to build healthy and just communities.

NMMLP delivers multimedia presentations at conferences, workshops and classrooms across the country.  Its media literacy curricula and action guides includes DVD-ROMs, CD-ROMs and videos.  NMMLP’s Catalyst Institute and other training programs empower educators and community members to be advocates and activists for a media literate society.
       
The project recognizes that media literacy has become an essential skill for the 21st century. The public no longer communicates only through the spoken and written word -- we receive most of our information from television and radio, the Internet, and a variety of other media, and we create our own media messages, too.
       
Curricula include Media & Democracy, which examines the media's impact on US politics and government.

Designed for grades K-12, more than 40 lesson plans help students deconstruct media messages, challenge conventional wisdom and become more informed, active participants in our democracy.

It contains over 100 printable pages of lesson plans, handouts, extension activities and helpful resources, and more than 75 media examples (TV commercials, print ads, video clips and newspaper articles).