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

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.
- Libby Denkmann
An hour of 'choose your own adventure' radio by Seattle teens

Nine stories of teenagers navigating high-stakes decisions and forks in the road.
- Aaron Ton
RadioActive showcase: Nine stories by Seattle-area teens

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.
- Gavin Muhlfelder
Why one young Marine refused to fight in Iraq

It’s been more than 20 years since Darren Fisher said 'no' to fighting in the so-called war on terror.
- Olivia Asmann
Building community is 'an act of social justice’ at the Seattle Fandango Project

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

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.
- Natalie Lahr
My grandfather’s 'Little Story': A journey through war and prison in Vietnam

My grandparents and their children lived comfortably in southern Vietnam. But everything changed on April 30, 1975.
- Aaron Ton
Separated from his family in Eritrea at 7, this Seattle man now mentors East African kids

When Habtom Hagos was 7 years old, he was separated from his family.
- Alex Mengisteab
The First Night Project makes cancer ward stays a little easier for teens

A cancer diagnosis "sucks." And the hospital stays that follow don't make it any easier.
- Sidh Shroff
'I thought Columbia was going to save me': The realities for first-generation college students

When Khanh Doan got into their dream university, they quickly realized going to college wouldn't end their struggle with depression.
- Jana Le

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