Overview

VII Academy is a program of The VII Foundation. The VII Foundation is made up of its educational programs (VII Academy, VII Community, and VII Insider), as well as the foundation's long-form, visual journalism projects, and the recently acquired VII Photo. The academy provides tuition-free courses in visual journalism to practitioners in the Majority World and underrepresented communities in G20 countries. VII Academy is democratizing the information narrative and giving communities the tools to narrate their own stories in regions where media education is poorly resourced. In the last four years, VII Academy has trained over 1,000 people from 100 countries in nine languages. To date, approximately 51% are women, and 43% are men (the remainder identify as genderqueer/nonbinary or prefer not to say). This training is done either online or in person on our own campuses or at partners' venues based on geographical needs.