McCrae A. Parker has 15 years of experience in the youth, workforce development, education, and media policy fields. McCrae is currently the Director of Strategic Initiatives at Youth Radio, a national youth media education and production organization based in Oakland, CA. Prior to work with Youth Radio McCrae was a consultant for a number of media education and community-based organizations. As a Senior Associate at Children Now McCrae was the principal author and coordinator of the Fall Colors, a comprehensive examination of race gender and class are portrayed in primetime time television. While at Children Now he also authored reports on local news coverage of youth and youth policy issues, race and gender in video games and developed policy recommendations for comment to the Federal Communications Commission regarding public interest obligations of commercial broadcasters to children. Currently, McCrae's professional interests include developing cross cutting program models in converged media production, social communications, education, community building and workforce development.