BDC Focus
Published June 2025
BDC Focus
Published June 2025
In this issue of FOCUS the BDC’s HS1 class investigated the rise of teen vaping in local schools, focusing on how marketing, flavored products, and easy access have contributed to growing addiction. Many other BDC students, some as young as 12-years-old, explored personal and community stories—photographing autism in their families, housing insecurity, and the role of small businesses in daily life. Students from Immaculate Conception School—closing this year after 175 years—produced a photo and interview series documenting their final months in the building. The BDC’s high school film-making class directed, shot and produced Día, a short documentary following three street vendors at the Hub as they navigate informal labor and shifting city enforcement.
MASTHEAD
Editors-in-Chief
RICARDO J. PARTIDA + PAMELA Y. ROZON
Copy Editors
MIKE KAMBER + TERRY SHTOB
Writers
PAMELA Y. ROZON + ITZEL ROBLES + DULCE CORTES + BRIGITTE CELIS + ITZEL LOPEZ
Photographers
BDC YOUTH PHOTO LEAGUE STUDENTS + IGNACIO LEONIDAS + ARWEN MARIEL POLANCO + LENNY MEDINA
High School Teaching Artists
IGNACIO LEONIDAS + NATCHA WONGCHANGLAW + CARLOS DE LA SANCHA
RICARDO J. PARTIDA + MIKE KAMBER + GIACOMO FRANCIA + DANIELA LÓPEZ AMÉZQUITA
Middle School Teaching Artists
JOANA TORO + SARAH ALVIRA + ALEXA PACHECO + PASINEE PRAMUNWONG + ITZEL ROBLES
Printer
PAMELA Y. ROZON
Designer
KATIE KHOURI
Cover Image
ADRIAN SANTOS
Back Page Images
LENNY MEDINA
• A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO MARTY ROGERS, COMMUNITY LEADER AND FRIEND •