CINCINNATI – Kids as young as 12 could have a chance to be a disc jockey, when a radio host opens her own media school.

What You Need To Know

  • Radio host Ebony J. Wynn says she wanted to be on the radio since she was a kid

  • She studied communications and soon became an instructor herself 

  • Fifteen years later, she launched the Ebony J. Media Learning Center in Cincinnati for kids as young as 12 to learn everything from being a DJ to a podcaster 

Radio host Ebony J. Wynn knows how to do a show and mix music. 

“It started as me five years old, listening to the radio station and telling my mom that I wanted to be on a radio,” said Wynn. 

What she didn’t know was that music would become her saving grace. 

“I would be experiencing trauma. You know, I experienced a lot of abuse and a radio would be on. That was my safe place,” said Wynn. 

It soon became her passion, but it was her education and an opportunity in radio that got her to the next level. 

“I went to the communication program and learned about magazines, photography, theater. We were doing, like reenacting movies, like it was so much fun,” said Wynn. 

She then became an instructor herself. Fifteen years later, she was ready for more, and will soon open a media school in her name, the Ebony j. Media Learning Center in Cincinnati.

“If they love music, we have the piano, we have the beat machine for them, they can mix their sounds live,” said Wynn. “Once they get in here and they get the speaking, the lights go with their voice, so they’re able to again and create.”  

Kids as young as 12 can learn what it takes to put on a podcast, mix music, or become an on-air personality. 

“Because I have that information and the resources, what makes us different from everybody else is when our students come, they’re not just learning that day, they’re learning, but this week they’re doing it,” said Wynn. 

She said in the next couple weeks she and her team hope to help more than 100 students enroll. 

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