Who We Are
About MYP
MYP is a professional production company driven by a higher calling: to shape young people into confident, grounded, and purpose-driven adults. Inside MYP, students do not learn about responsibility — they live it. They manage budgets, solve real problems, meet real deadlines, collaborate under pressure, and create work that stands before real audiences. In doing so, they discover their capacity, their voice, and their strength. Our productions matter, but our students’ growth matters more. The real vision lives in the young people themselves — in who they become long after the lights go down. Whether volunteers or paid team members, every student who works within MYP leaves with more than experience. They leave with discipline, resilience, judgment, leadership, and the quiet confidence that comes from having carried something significant.Our vision is to launch young men and women into any field — business, medicine, law, ministry, entrepreneurship, public service, or the arts — not merely prepared to succeed, but ready to contribute with integrity and purpose.We create powerful productions.We cultivate purposeful lives.
Meet our Team
Philip Rohkohl
Founder of Miracle Youth Productions
Over the past three decades, Philip has served as a mentor, guardian, and advocate for youth, driven by a belief that traditional education often fails to prepare students for real world work and purpose. Under his leadership, students at MYP manage every Aspect of the organization- from accounting and marketing to legal complacence, project management, and live productions.
Philip’s work focuses on one core idea: when young people are trusted with meaningful work, they will rise to it- and change their lives in the process
Steve Browne
MYP Academy Director
Adrian Valdez
Tech and System Lead
Adrian one of the Co-Founders of MYP. At MYP, Adrian serves as the Technology and Systems Lead, where he helps keep operations running smoothly. He is an automotive and business major with a strong hands-on approach to learning. He enjoys understanding how things work and solving problems by fixing them. Looking ahead, he hopes to one day own and operate his own automotive repair shop.
Gabriel Valdez
Director of Media & Communication
Gabriel is a Co-Founder of Miracle Youth Productions and has been working with the nonprofit for the past 5 years. He currently attends San Diego State University and is studying political science with a hope of joining the field of politics when he graduates. He serves as the Director of Media and communication as well as working as a lead for the livestream team.
Diane Kate Vicente
Director of Student Success & Impact (Psychologist)
Diane is a senior psychology major, graduating with her bachelor’s in December 2026. She is MYP’s success coach and designs systems that improve motivation and growth for our students. In the future, she aspires to become a licensed therapist. Besides that, she enjoys making art, reading, and acting.
Disclaimer: We are not running therapy. We operate at the level of learning psychology, culture, and development – not clinical treatment.
MK Soares
Director of Film and Video Production
MK Soares is a filmmaker based in San Diego, and currently a senior of the Television, Film, and New Media major, centralized at San Diego State University. Through Miracle Youth Productions, he serves as the organization’s director for its video and film production division. His interests are based purely in films and their artistry, as well as the behind the scenes development of motion pictures, especially in directing. He hopes to provide a growing resource for young filmmakers alike, through Miracle Youth Productions, as a means of manifesting their projects into an eventual reality.
Dalton
Director of Student Films
Dalton loves theater lighting and films. He writes and produces films for MYP. His goal is to connect to people emotionally through film.