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From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Summer 2018

My story is about the Mixed/Biracial experience in America (specifically Chicago). I chose to do this because I am mixed race. I identify as Black ...

Juvenile Lessons

From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Summer 2018

My story is a narrative of a girl talking about her experience in Juvie and how it changed her.

Syniya

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

My advice for kids, for losing someone you love: Just remember the good times, and remember those big hugs and big kisses you always got.

Bought by PRX Remix

Episode 13: The Girl Who Dug Up Dinosaurs

From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here

A 12-year-old girl in blue jeans probably isn’t the first thing you picture when you hear the word paleontologist. But in 1979, young India Wood di...

Big dreams for a small-town rapper

From: Brenna Daldorph

Caption: Tracy Howerton raps about both the struggles and joys that he's experienced growing up in Mashpee, Massachusetts., Credit: Brenna Daldorph

Even if you grow up in a hip hop hotspot like New York or LA, it’s not easy to make it as a rapper. It’s even harder if you’re from a small town li...

Bought by PRX Remix

Choose Your Own Adventure

From: Rendered
Series: Rendered

Caption: Journey Under the Sea was the second book in the series.

We dig into the history of the beloved Choose Your Own Adventure series and the interactive stories kids are reading today.

Bought by WABE, KALW, and PRX Remix

Minor Key: A Teenage Composer at a Crossroads

From: Mary Quintas

Caption: Bryson Alexander playing one of his compositions, Credit: Mary Quintas

Bryson Alexander is a Contemporary Classical music composer. At 16 years old, he’s composed nearly 40 pieces...all without knowing how to read or ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix

Strummer and Me

From: Eric Winick

Caption: Kari in front of the Joe Strummer mural, Niagara Bar, East Village, NYC, Summer 2013

Spending the summer in California while her mother convalesces from a grave illness, a 12 year-old finds herself suddenly alone at a rock concert o...

Searching for Sasha Krizhanovsky

From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Generation Putin

Caption: Sasha & Jessica, Credit: Sarah Stuteville

Armed with a letter from 1990, producer Jessica Partnow goes in search of her childhood Soviet pen pal.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix

American Dream - Minus My Mom

From: Radio Rookies
Series: Radio Rookies: McBurney YMCA 2012

Rebelling against your parents is the norm for most teens in America, but for some young people who immigrate to the U.S. without one or both of th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

American Heaven

From: Radio Rookies
Series: Radio Rookies: McBurney YMCA 2012

18-year-old Radio Rookie Reporter, Danielle came from the Congo when she was 13 years old, leaving her mother and the life that she knew behind in ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix

Children of Refugees

From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Refugees in Puget Sound

Caption: Liz Peter takes her siblings swimming in Seattle., Credit: Chantal Anderson

Once a refugee family has been here for a while, the children often become ambassadors to the outside world. It's the kids who have to translate fo...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio

I Didn't Know That (You Were a Muslim)

From: Tali Singer

A portrait of how a recent college graduate came to Islam, and the story of what happened when her parents found out she'd converted. This piece wa...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WTIP, KSFR, YouthCast, KUOW and more

Bayoji Akingbola - "The Victim of Circumstance"

From: Learning Matters
Series: The Real World of Teach for America

Meet Tulane graduate Bayoji Akingbola. On paper, he was the perfect Teach for America candidate. But even the best teacher needs support. Was Bayoj...

Home Alone

From: Radio Rookies

Krystle loves her mom very much and she feels guilty about how hard her mom has worked to provide a good life for them, but Krystle sometimes wonde...

Bought by The Story, KUT, and KUOW

Lindsay Ess, Becoming Whole, Pt. 1

From: Charles McGuigan

Lindsay Ess was a fashion model, a designer, a stunning beauty. And then at the age of twenty-four, just two years ago, doctors had to cut off both...

Khadija's Dream Routine

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Khadija Hussein is fourteen, and a Somali refugee living in Lewiston, Maine.

Bought by WMPG

Quincy Dean's Radio Diary

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Quincy Dean is trying to decide whether she should quit being home-schooled.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

A Young Birder's Field Guide

From: Gretta Cohn

Luke Seitz is a 14-year-old birder with a lot on his mind- life lists, nemesis birds, and how to balance his secret passion with the confusing worl...

Bought by The Nature Podcast

Tree Body: Radio Ephemera submission

From: Alix Blair

my submission to Third Coast Festival's public audio challenge

Pick Up 101

From: Berkeley J-School

pick-up artists on how getting lucky isn't about luck

Guatemala's Indigenous Girls: At the forefront

From: UNICEF

This Story is Free! English and Spanish versions available. Guatemalan girls suffer lower rates of education and poorer health indicators - UNICEF ...

Bought by Radio Catskill