S1 Ep.07 MiKayla McKasy interviewed by Elena Sgouros & Catherine Bennis

Penn State BA of Theatre Studies junior Elena Sgouros and Penn State BFA Acting Program junior Catherine Bennis interview Penn State graduate of the MFA program MiKayla McKasy. They discuss how her upbringing affected her views on her own race, her activism, and how blackness is perceived in society (I was adopted from Chicago into an an affluent white family in the middle of nowhere Minnesota kind of grew up as the only, one of the only [...] people of color in suburbia.); the changes needed in the education system so that kids don't grow up with the same lack of support, knowledge, confidence that she did (It makes me upset that no adults have time to step in when those incidents were recurring in classes or like when teachers would say slavery wasn't that bad,); the protests in Minneapolis and how that affects the different people that live there, and how defunding the police affected the city of Minneapolis and if it is the direction the whole country should move towards (There's not many of them. And so what that means is that now there's tons of money for programs in other places that we need to be filled instead of police taking on all of these roles that was not originally a part of their job description).