
RadioActive
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Stories produced by students participating in our youth media program. Learn more about the intensive, fun and free introductory radio journalism workshops we offer throughout the year.
RadioActive
4M ago
Nine stories of teenagers navigating high-stakes decisions and forks in the road.
Episode webpage: https://www.kuow.org/stories/choose-your-own-adventure-radio-nine-stories-by-seattle-teens
[RadioActive Youth Media was KUOW's journalism and audio storytelling program for teenagers. It ran from 2013-2024 ..read more
RadioActive
4M ago
When you think of hula, you might picture dances you’ve seen in Disney movies, or on a summer trip to Hawaiʻi. But that’s just scratching the surface of what hula is. There’s so much more. And RadioActive Youth Media’s Terina Papatu is here to show you.
Episode webpage: https://www.kuow.org/stories/the-story-of-one-kumu-keeping-her-hula-lineage
[RadioActive Youth Media is KUOW's radio journalism and audio storytelling program for young people. This story was entirely youth-produced, from the writing to the audio editing ..read more
RadioActive
5M ago
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.
Episode webpage: https://www.kuow.org/stories/an-hour-of-stories-from-radioactive-summer-2023 ..read more
RadioActive
9M ago
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 ..read more
RadioActive
9M ago
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 ..read more
RadioActive
9M ago
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 ..read more
RadioActive
10M ago
It’s been more than 20 years since the U.S. invaded Iraq. For Darren Fisher, it’s been more than 20 years since he said, "No" to that invasion.
RadioActive’s Olivia Asmann has the story of one young Marine’s objection to fighting in the so-called war on terror.
This story discusses the realities of the military and war.
Episode webpage: https://www.kuow.org/stories/why-one-young-marine-refused-to-fight-in-iraq
[RadioActive Youth Media is KUOW’s radio journalism and audio storytelling program for young people. This story was entirely youth-produced, from the writing to the audio editing ..read more
RadioActive
10M ago
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.
Episode webpage: https://www.kuow.org/stories/building-community-is-an-act-of-social-justice-at-the-seattle-fandango-project
[RadioActive Youth Media is KUOW’s radio journalism and audio storytelling program for young people. This story was entirely youth-produced, from the writing to the audio editing ..read more
RadioActive
11M ago
Aaron Ton's grandparents and their children lived comfortably in southern Vietnam. But everything changed on April 30, 1975.
Episode webpage: https://www.kuow.org/stories/my-grandfather-s-little-story-a-journey-through-war-and-prison-in-vietnam
[RadioActive Youth Media is KUOW’s radio journalism and audio storytelling program for young people. This story was entirely youth-produced, from the writing to the audio editing ..read more
RadioActive
11M ago
Seattle is home to 10% of the Eritrean population in the United States.
Many Eritrean immigrants found political asylum in the U.S. in the 1980s and 90s due to the Eritrean War of Independence.
For some young first-generation Eritrean Americans like RadioActive's Alex Mengisteab, this history feels both close and slightly out of reach. So to better understand it, Alex talked to his family friend Habtom Hagos about his experiences growing up as a child during the war.
This story discusses the realities of war and thoughts of suicide.
Episode webpage: https://www.kuow.org/stories/separated-from ..read more