Kristin Leong
Community Engagement Producer
About
Kristin Leong is KUOW's community engagement producer and the editor of our Seattle Story Project series. She is the creator of Curiosity Club, KUOW's nerdy supper club testing the possibility that a shared meal and compelling stories can transform a group of strangers into a community (KUOW.org/CuriosityClub). She was also the producer of KUOW's post-Covid lockdown web series Are We Going To Be Ok? (KUOW.org/OK), and she led the Station's community engagement for our Biggest Carbon Loser "reality radio" contest (KUOW.org/loser).
As one of 30 international TED-Ed Innovative Educators of 2017, Kristin founded RollCallProject.com, a global portrait and storytelling project humanizing the culture gaps in schools. ROLL CALL is used in classrooms around the world to fuel conversation about equity and representation.
Her portrait project, HALF: Biracial + Bicultural in America, was nominated for USA Today's Outstanding Academic & Intellectual Endeavor Award.
As a senior at Sarah Lawrence College, the New York Times called her a "graduate already in the driver's seat."
She is a 2018 Citizen University Fellow, a recipient of The Slants Foundation's 2020 Countering Hate Award, and a 2020 Seattle Mayor's Arts Award nominee.
Her latest adventure is ROCK PAPER RADIO (RockPaperRadio.com), a weekly newsletter for misfits and unlikely optimists.
Stories
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Engage
Meet the Newsmaker: Kristin Leong on Asian representation in schools, Feb 11, 2:00 PM PST
Is the "minority myth" still alive today? Let's talk about it.
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Engage
Whitewashing of Asian Students and the Report that Launched a Reckoning
A school district sparked fury after grouping Asian and white students together. The message was clear: 'person of color' meant underperforming.
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Engage
Bellevue School District responds to questions about Asian student equity
The majority of students in the Bellevue School District are Asian.
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Curiosity Club
Film: Curiosity Club Turns Strangers into a Community Following a Fraught Election
KUOW brings together ten strangers for a virtual dinner party to talk about pandemic roller skating, the #MeToo movement, and Seattle's shifting political landscape.
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Curiosity Club
Empathize with Trump voters? A Progressive and a Libertarian agree to disagree
Two multiracial Biden voters in Seattle meet at Curiosity Club and learn that a political disagreement can be the start of a conversation instead of the end of one.
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Speakers Forum
Bridging the American divide: A search for civic responsibility
An exploration of unsettling shifts and signs of hope in word and song
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Seattle Story Project
With marriage and a gender transition behind them, they dined at Canlis
After Maura Hubbell transitioned, her wife Lisa Jaffe couldn't find her "inner lesbian." This is the story of their marriage and the queerness of connecting after getting divorced.
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Curiosity Club
After a tense election, ten strangers come together for a nerdy dinner party
KUOW's 4th cohort of Curiosity Club will reflect on the last four years and imagine what's next for 2021.
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Seattle Story Project
KUOW calls for bold essays on life and resilience
Seattle Story Project is seeking brave storytellers.
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Engage
Protest Book Club: Great reads for change with Seattle's hip-hop professor
Dr. Daudi Abe along with KUOW's Ross Reynolds and public radio listeners explore recommendations for revolutionary reads.