RadioActive

May 24 2024 100 ep. 7 mins 493

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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.

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'We built this together.' The 20-year legacy of KUOW's RadioActive

May 24 2024 24 mins

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.

'We built this together.' The 20-year legacy of KUOW's RadioActive

May 22 2024 24 mins

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.

'We built this together.' The 20-year legacy of KUOW's RadioActive

May 22 2024 24 mins

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.

An hour of 'choose your own adventure' radio by Seattle teens

May 15 2024 56 mins

Nine stories of teenagers navigating high-stakes decisions and forks in the road.

RadioActive showcase: Nine stories by Seattle-area teens

May 08 2024 53 mins

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.

As a teen, they found belonging at this LGBTQ+ youth center. Now, they're paying it forward

May 02 2024 12 mins

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.

As a teen, they found belonging at this LGBTQ+ youth center. Now, they're paying it forward

May 02 2024 12 mins

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.

Why one young Marine refused to fight in Iraq

Apr 25 2024 9 mins

It’s been more than 20 years since Darren Fisher said 'no' to fighting in the so-called war on terror.

Building community is 'an act of social justice’ at the Seattle Fandango Project

Apr 18 2024 4 mins

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.

At 16, my grandma had an abortion. At 18, I’m telling her story

Apr 11 2024 4 mins

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.