Our Stories, Our World: A community-driven podcast series
8 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAs part of an innovative collaboration between two nonprofits focused on narrative change and community building, Chicago youth produce “Our Stories, Our World,” a series of community-centered narratives about public safety, public health and public education.
The collaboration connects Chicago’s own Public Narrative, a longtime advocate for broader, more accurate and more authentic community representation in media, and A Picture’s Worth, a nonprofit focused on strengths-based storytelling for community change. To be released in 2021, the complementary nonprofits’ first project will combine audio stories and photography to create a series of citizen-centered podcasts that add depth and context to stories about Public Narrative’s three thematic pillars: public safety, public health and public education.
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Episodes
S1:E6 Public Health in Chicago with Shyam Prabhakaran
December 16, 2021 06:00 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MBIn our sixth and final episode, we once again focus on Public Health, from the perspective of Dr. Shyam Prabhakaran, an internationally recognized leader in vascular neurology and stroke research and treatment. Prabhakaran, who grew up in New Jersey and moved to Chicago in 2006, currently serves as principal investigator of the Chicago regional coordinating center in the National Institutes of Health’s stroke trials network (NIH StrokeNet). He is also an active community-engaged health resea...
S1:E5 Public Health in Chicago with Taneka Jennings
December 02, 2021 06:00 - 10 minutes - 9.68 MBIn our fifth episode, we introduce our final topic, Public Health, as seen through the eyes of Taneka Hye Wol Jennings, an adoptee and immigrant rights activist. Jennings was born in Cheongju, South Korea. As a Korean American and a transracial, inter-country adoptee, she is dedicated to adoptee and immigrant rights work, as well as building authentic solidarity with others who have been marginalized by systems and structures that perpetuate injustice. She is a Campaign Director with Adoptee...
Public Safety in Chicago with Tynetta Hill-Muhammad
November 18, 2021 06:00 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBChicago community organizer and abolitionist Tynetta Hill-Muhammad grew up in Louisiana. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, as thousands of residents waited to be rescued, they watched police arrest, shoot, and in some cases kill residents seeking basic supplies from local stores. That was the only spark Hill-Muhammad needed to envision a safer world without police. After moving to Chicago, they encountered the work of Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100), a national, member-b...
Public Safety in Chicago with Vanessa Westley
November 04, 2021 05:00 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MBRetired officer Vanessa Westley spent 25 years working within the Chicago Police Department. She has played an active role in Community Policing initiatives since 2004 and managed the CPD and Metro YMCA’s “Bridging the Divide” program before her work with the Youth District Advisory Councils (YDAC). She also served as project manager for the Mayor’s Office of Faith Based and Community Partnerships. Westley is currently a restorative justice practitioner and trainer. Interviewer Andrea Hern...
Public Education in Chicago with Rossana Rodriguez
October 21, 2021 05:00 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MBIn our second episode, we focus again on the critically important topic of Public Education--this time with a distinctly different perspective. This episode features teen story-gatherer Kaylen Brandt in conversation with Chicago alderwoman Rossana Rodriguez, a teacher and community organizer by training. Running as a Democratic Socialist, she won her first political campaign in 2019, when she was elected to represent the city’s 33rd Ward on the Chicago City Council. She was born and raised i...
Public Education in Chicago with Shohn Williams
October 07, 2021 06:51 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MBIn our first episode, we focus on the topic of Public Education. This episode features teen story-gatherer Daniel Animashaun in conversation with Shohn Williams, the Dean of Students from Lindblom Math & Science Academy. Williams has deep connections at Lindblom. He attended the school and graduated as its highest-scoring basketball player; he grew up in the neighborhood. He went to college on a basketball scholarship and brought his administrative and inspirational talents home to Lindblom ...
Our Stories Our World: Public Education in Chicago with Shohn Williams
October 07, 2021 06:51 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MBIn our first episode, we focus on the topic of Public Education. This episode features teen story-gatherer Daniel Animashaun in conversation with Shohn Williams, the Dean of Students from Lindblom Math & Science Academy. Williams has deep connections at Lindblom. He attended the school and graduated as its highest-scoring basketball player; he grew up in the neighborhood. He went to college on a basketball scholarship and brought his administrative and inspirational talents home to Lindblom ...
Our Stories, Our World Podcast Trailer
September 23, 2021 05:00 - 1 minute - 1.28 MBEPIOSODE SUMMARY After working for half the year, we're releasing our long-awaited trailer for the Chicago community-led podcast series, Our Stories, Our World! This collaboration connects Chicago’s Public Narrative, a longtime advocate for broader, more accurate and more authentic community representation in media, and A Picture’s Worth, a nonprofit focused on strengths-based storytelling for community transformation. Our Stories, Our World combines audio stories and photography to create...