RadioActive Youth Media Training Program Contributors

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RadioActive trains the next generation of public media makers. Our workshops empower youth through storytelling. Tune in every month to hear a new collection of stories by RadioActive journalists about the people and issues that matter to young people in the Northwest.

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2012 RadioActive Workshop Participants:

Alexandra Brooks:

I love to spend my time singing, writing, playing musical instruments (including guitar and piano), and making people laugh. You will not find me playing sports, for I am extremely uncoordinated. I am a bit cat–obsessed and I have two of my own that I love dearly. I am also obsessed with tea and I cannot go a day without drinking a nice warm cup of it. Traveling and journalism are two of my favorite things, and what I want to pursue in my life. I view the earth as a beautiful place. I want to be able to see all of it. I am thrilled to be a part of this program.

Vanessa Chidester:

I've lived on three islands, so I've always grown up in a small town. The problem with small towns is there aren't very many opportunities. I love to write, and getting the stories I write out to an audience while living in a small town is hard. I've been seriously writing since I was in seventh grade. I never had really considered journalism until I heard about RadioActive, and now I'm thinking more and more about what I want to do when I go to college. This might just be it!

Mawusi Kudu:

I'm a Ghanaian foreign exchange student, spending ten months away from my normal life in the United States. I love to read, sing and play the piano. What better way to realize my dreams of either working in the UN or at the BBC than being a part of RadioActive? My experience here in the United States has already been seasoned immensely by trying different foods, sight–seeing with my wonderful host family, getting lost in Seattle and discovering from my piano teacher that semibreves are full notes and quavers are quarter notes. I'll have such an interesting story to tell when I go back to Ghana! God bless Ghana, God bless America!

Clare Martin:

I doodle on almost every piece of paper put in front of me. If this bio were a cartoon, I would draw a freckled girl simultaneously playing lacrosse, reading a book, listening to the newest Childish Gambino song, traveling around the world and probably eating a red velvet cupcake. I love television — both good and bad (but mostly good) — and would do just about anything to keep the NBC show "Community" on the air. I have an incurable case of the travel bug, and would love to live and write in Europe. Listening to and telling stories is a passion of mine that I hope to explore at RadioActive.

Katie Rolnick:

I have been the scooting baby, the princess, the gymnast, the short one, the easy laugher, the dancer, and the thinker. But above all of this, I am Katie, and I am a writer. I think Ultimate Frisbee is just about the best sport in the world, and I could probably eat Nutella every day for the rest of my life. I am a locally grown Seattle girl, and have yet to find any place in the world that compares to this city. In my 16 years, my house has held no fewer than three pets at a time, and has thankfully been abundantly stocked with bagels. My world is often framed by headphones, as I am never far from my music; the genre of which is constantly under revision. I can't wait to see how KUOW will shape me, my story, and my perception of journalism.