RadioActive
Stories produced by students participating in our youth media program. Meet the current youth producers, and learn more about the intensive, fun and free introductory radio journalism workshops we offer throughout the year.
Episodes
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'We built this together.' The 20-year legacy of KUOW's RadioActive
Late last month, KUOW announced the station was ending its RadioActive Youth Media program. For 20 years, RadioActive brought listeners the stories and perspectives of young people in the Pacific Northwest. Soundside producer Noel Gasca reflects on what the program has meant to the over 6,000 youth who participated - and what will be lost.
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'We built this together.' The 20-year legacy of KUOW's RadioActive
Late last month, KUOW announced the station was ending its RadioActive Youth Media program. For 20 years, RadioActive brought listeners the stories and perspectives of young people in the Pacific Northwest. Soundside producer Noel Gasca reflects on what the program has meant to the over 6,000 youth who participated - and what will be lost.
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An hour of 'choose your own adventure' radio by Seattle teens
Nine stories of teenagers navigating high-stakes decisions and forks in the road.
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RadioActive showcase: Nine stories by Seattle-area teens
In this hour of youth radio, hosts Gavin Muhlfelder and Phillip Zhou present nine RadioActive Youth Media stories produced in 2023. They also talk with some of the youth producers about the time they spent at KUOW, what they learned, and what their stories mean to them now.
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As a teen, they found belonging at this LGBTQ+ youth center. Now, they're paying it forward
Soundside revisits a story produced by RadioActive alum Avery Styer back in 2016. Eight years ago, Avery took us to a space in Capitol Hill that had a special spot in their life - Lambert House, a community center for LGBTQ+ youth. Since that original story, Avery has aged out of the youth programs Lambert House currently offers, but that doesn’t mean they’ve moved on.
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Why one young Marine refused to fight in Iraq
It’s been more than 20 years since Darren Fisher said 'no' to fighting in the so-called war on terror.
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Building community is 'an act of social justice’ at the Seattle Fandango Project
RadioActive’s Vivi Cardenas-Habell says the Seattle Fandango Project played a key role in her upbringing. But she didn’t fully appreciate it until Covid took it away.
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At 16, my grandma had an abortion. At 18, I’m telling her story
In the summer of 1972, the year before Roe v. Wade made abortion legal nationwide, Elaine Fichter was 16 years old and eight weeks pregnant.
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My grandfather’s 'Little Story': A journey through war and prison in Vietnam
My grandparents and their children lived comfortably in southern Vietnam. But everything changed on April 30, 1975.
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Separated from his family in Eritrea at 7, this Seattle man now mentors East African kids
When Habtom Hagos was 7 years old, he was separated from his family.
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The First Night Project makes cancer ward stays a little easier for teens
A cancer diagnosis "sucks." And the hospital stays that follow don't make it any easier.
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'I thought Columbia was going to save me': The realities for first-generation college students
When Khanh Doan got into their dream university, they quickly realized going to college wouldn't end their struggle with depression.