Transcript for the Piece Audio version of The Migration Project: A Youth Radio Special from KUOW and Generation PRX
SEGMENTS:
1. "The Cruz Azul" by Claudia Villa for KRCB's Voice of Youth.
DESCRIPTION:
Edgar Medina walked from Mexico to California to see his father, who'd been a voice on the phone for years. Then Edgar walked into a California radio station, wrote down his story, and disappeared. Cruz Azul is his favorite soccer team.
ABOUT THE PRODUCER:
Claudia Villa translated and produced Edgar's story when she was 19. Voice of Youth produces a weekly radio program on KRCB in Sonoma County, California.
2. "Roberto: We don't live in Huts" by Crystal Johnson, Fiona Meinert, and Allison Kolowich for Uniquely Spoken and the National Youth in Radio Training Project. With help from Blunt youth radio.
DESCRIPTION:
Roberto Cartwright grew up in the Bahamas. He thought American streets were paved with gold. Now he lives in Baltimore and gets asked if he grew up in a hut. Roberto says 'that's a very dumb question.'
ABOUT THE PRODUCERS:
Crystal Johnson, Fiona Meinert and Allison Kolowich are high school students. They participated in the National Youth in Radio Training Project. Uniquely Spoken teaches media skills to at-risk young people in Baltimore, Maryland. Blunt is a youth radio training program in Maine.
3. "Party Chinese People" by Pui Chau for Curie Youth Radio
DESCRIPTION:
It's 2 am. Who are those drunk teenagers outside Pui Chau's window? 'Don't they have school tomorrow?' Pui is Chinese. She doesn't drink, and she's never met any crazy loud Chinese people before.
ABOUT THE PRODUCER:
Pui Chau lives on the south side of Chicago. She made this story when she was 16. Curie Youth Radio is a class at a public high school in southwest Chicago.
4. "Trading One Tongue for the Other" by Malaya Timawa Dima'api for outLoud Radio
DESCRIPTION:
Malaya Timawa Dima'api creates a time lapse audio history of his shifting relationship to language. Filipino, standard English, bad boy slang. Malaya has many tongues.
ABOUT THE PRODUCER
Malaya Timawa Dima'api was born in the Philippines. He was 23 and lived in Oakland, California when he made this story. outLoud Radio in Berkeley California works with queer and transgender youth.
5. "Translating" by Carlos Guzman for WAMU's Youth Voices
DESCRIPTION
Carlos Guzman moved to the U.S. from El Salvador when he was 13. He learned English quickly and his parents didn't. So Carlos is their live-in translator. He knows a lot of other kids like him.
ABOUT THE PRODUCER
Carlos Guzman made this story when he was 17. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. Youth Voices at WAMU Radio in Washington, D.C. teaches high school students to create radio feature stories. The stories air on WAMU.
6. "Paula: A passion for language" by Tatevik Aprikyan for the Migration Project.
DESCRIPTION
Paula Zapata's first American teacher thought she had a learning disability. Actually, Paula had just moved from Colombia and didn't speak English.
ABOUT THE PRODUCER
Tatevik Aprikyan lives in Woodinville, Washington. She made this story when she was 18. She participated in KUOW's Weekday High in 2006. Weekday High is a summer training program for teenagers at KUOW Public Radio in Seattle.
7. "Leaving the Mountains" by Machlyn Blair for the Appalachian Media Institute and Youth Radio.
DESCRIPTION
Machlyn Blair was born and raised in Jeremiah Kentucky. He can count 23 family members who have had to leave town to find jobs. He doesn't want to be number 24.
ABOUT THE PRODUCER
Machlyn Blair made this story when he was 19 years old. Appalachian Media Institute is a media training program for teenagers and teachers in Whitesburg, Kentucky. Youth Radio in Oakland, California helps young people produce radio stories for local and national broadcast.
8. "Legal Status" by Veralyn Williams for Radio Rookies
DESCRIPTION
Veralyn Williams moved from Sierra Leone to the Bronx when she was a baby. Her dad has a green card but she doesn't. Veralyn's legal status has always been a mystery to her, and she wants some answers.
ABOUT THE PRODUCER
Veralyn Williams reported this story when she was 18 years old. Czerina Patel and Miguel Macias at Radio Rookies produced it. Radio Rookies is a youth radio program at WNYC, New York Public Radio.
