In January of 2007 Galería de la Raza launched the first cycle of its onsite after school youth program, the Youth Media Program at Galería's new state-of-the art Media Lab. Youth attending John O'Connell High School participated in the program.

The Spring program included weekly classes and workshops, which were aimed at introducing the youth to the history and imagery of social movements throughout the world, while training them in the basics of new media design programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and I-Movie.

These workshops were conducted by professional artists Julio César Morales and John Leaños. Students were introduced to the history of the Chicano Civil Rights movement, the Native American movement, and various social justice movements.  Classes focused on discovering and analyzing the means by which individuals transferred ideas into visual narratives that would later form the iconography of a cultural movement. 

The images now on display at Plaza 16 Public Gallery form a collaborative piece composed of individual works created by each student.