Andrews, Allison (Producer, Director). (2024). The Discovery Education Channel. Identity, Empathy, and Belonging.
Helena is featured in a topic series for the Discovery Education platform. The series features the stories of three different students, and Producer Allison Andrews believed Helena represents the character quality of empathy. Discovery Education is the worldwide EdTech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. Through its award-winning multimedia content, instructional supports, and innovative classroom tools, Discovery Education helps educators deliver equitable learning experiences engaging all students and supporting higher academic achievement on a global scale. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 million educators and 45 million students worldwide, and its resources are accessed in over 100 countries and territories.
Heffelmire, Katherine (Producer, Director). (2023). Disney’s In the Nook’s Black history month’s young African American changemakers: Helena Donato-Sapp, 13-year-old activist and scholar. Burbank, CA: The Disney Channel.
Helena was invited to be highlighted as a young African American changemaker on The Disney show’s “In The Nook.” Helena was interviewed by Disney starts Danielle Jalade and Jermaine Harris on set at The Disney Studies in Burbank, California. They highlighted her work for Disability Justice. They referred to Helena as “young, gifted, and Black.” Helena was one of four young changemakers featured and the other three were Jaylen Smith – the 18-year-old mayor of Earle, Arkansas, and the youngest mayor ever elected in the United States, Momo Pixel – the creator of the viral web game Hair Nah…the object of which is to swat away the grabby hands of people seeking to touch a Black woman’s hair, and Alena Analeigh Wicker – who is the youngest Black person to be accepted into medical school in the United States. February 25, 2023.
Becker, Emily. (2023). 8 Young People Who Are Changing The Future Of STEM: Meet the young trailblazers of STEM that we’re currently obsessed with. DoSomething.com.
Becker writes, “When it comes to representation, STEM fields are seriously lacking. Hewlett Packard states that less than 1% of computing jobs in the US are held by Black women, and that’s just one of the many statistics demonstrating the STEM gap.” This article goes on to name Helena as one of the 8 STEM trailblazers paving the way to equitable STEM access for all. Becker goes on to say, “Helena shows us that we are all so much more than the challenges we face.” She refers to Helena as a “multi-talented queen” whose story is inspiring for neurodivergent folks and anyone who is facing challenges or barriers to their STEM dreams. Read the piece here.
Ayyoub, Loureen. (February 18, 2023). New Youth Poet Laureate Program Encouraging Young Activists. Spectrum News, Long Beach, CA.
The city of Long Beach launched its first official Youth Poet Laureate program and this news story featured Helena and her hopes to expand her passion around disability justice if she is selected as the winner. See it here.
Fensterwald, John. (August 3, 2022). Best and Brightest in STEM Under 16 Includes 3 California Students. EdSource, August 3, 2022.
Fensterwald notes that the 16 Under 16 panel of judges who awarded Helena as one of the 16 Under 16 in STEM used the following three criteria for the awardees: creativity – “the ability to design something new and disruptive”; change-making – “the capacity to inspire change in others within their community”; and resilience – “the ability to persevere by using challenges as opportunities for growth and move forward despite difficulties along the way.” Read the piece here.
My Daddy reviews all kinds of books for professional journals and magazines and gets to keep the books after the reviews. His office if so full of books that he wanted to clean it out. I asked if we could donate all of the children’s and young adult novels to my school because it is building a new library. Giving is a Donato-Sapp family value!
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