Launched in January 2006 with support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Global Kids’ Digital Media Initiative (DMI) is a series of interrelated programs designed to encourage and support teenagers in thinking critically about the role of digital media in their lives, promote constructive use of new media forms, and document their experiences. Within this multiyear program, from 2006-2009 Global Kids used an afterschool machinima production program, a digital media youth advisory, a series of online dialogues, a public blog with over 10,000 monthly visitors, a digital literacy portfolio program, and related activity to gather valuable feedback and views from young people about their relationship with emerging media. These voices were used, in part, to advise the MacArthur Foundation’s fledgling Digital Media, Learning and Education Initiative.