Hear Us Speak

About Hear Us Speak

Welcome to our podcast series, Hear Us Speak. Your hosts are Michelle Alas and Caroline Welch, two high school students in the Bay Area who seek to illuminate youth opinions on social issues that matter to us. We want our views to be heard by members of our community with the intent of enacting real change. Featuring a variety of guest speakers, spanning multiple contemporary social issues, and discussing the topics that need to be discussed, we could not be more thrilled to bring this project to you. We hope you listen and learn something new.

Publisher

Michelle Alas and Caroline Welch

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Jun 2020

Latest episode

27 Dec 2020

Latest episodes

3 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Dec 2020

   HEAR US SPEAK EP. 3 (Discussion w/ Keisha Nzewi: running for school board, Covid inequity, and BLM)

   In episode three of Hear Us Speak, we interview MDUSD School Boars Candidate*, Keisha Nzewi. Our conversation surrounds the importance of voting, the pandemic and schools, and being a Black womxn in the professional world. *At the time of publication, Keisha Nzewi has taken the Oath of Office and is now sitting on the MDUSD Board.

2. 

   30 Jul 2020

   HEAR US SPEAK EP. 2 (Discussion w/ Tiana Day: activist work, protest organizing, and nonprofit)

   Content Warning: discussion of sexual abuse. In episode two of Hear Us Speak, we interview BLM protest speaker and founder of Youth Advocates for Change, Tiana Day. Our conversation covers recent BLM protests in the Bay Area, and Tiana’s experiences with sexual abuse and being Black in a predominantly white community.

3. 

   27 Jun 2020

   HEAR US SPEAK EP. 1 (Discussion w/ Eden Broussard: activism, allyship, and uplifting Black voices)

   Welcome to Hear Us Speak, a podcast series by students, for students. Our goal is to uplift youth voices in our community and discuss issues that matter to us and the world. This first episode features local Black activist, Eden Broussard, as we have an open discussion about the current BLM social momentum and how us as adolescents can turn this into a long-term movement.

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