About Us

At META, we teach collaborative and leadership skills through Media Arts and Dramatic Arts. Moreover, we find creative means to aid in the education of subjects such as Social Studies and Language Arts through the use of drama and media to enhance comprehension of the subjects. This method is called Arts Integration and in our program we align our lessons with National Common Core standards.

Crystal Johnson

Crystal Johnson is the co-owner of M.E.T.A, a passion project. She is enthusiastic about bridging creativity of media arts into education. Her professional experience includes working in front and behind the scenes in television in addition to teaching media arts for nearly a decade. She is a trained teaching artist by the Actor's Fund of Los Angeles, trained in Dramatic Arts by PS Arts and has a masters degree in English Literature/Screenwriting. Crystal has worked with CBS News, Fox News, Major League Baseball, and MTV Networks.

Marc Fajardo

Marc Fajardo is co-owner of M.E.T.A. A double major in Film and Community Studies at UC Santa Cruz, his life long aim was to create a voice for the underrepresented through media and the arts. He has taught Video Production to elementary school kids for 10+ years around Los Angeles all the while professionally acting and dancing in T.V. and film. He hopes to empower the kids of today to make them realize they're the leaders of tomorrow.