{"id":317,"date":"2017-10-17T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-political-science\/sylvia-thomas\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T20:19:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T20:19:31","slug":"sylvia-thomas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/studentopportunities\/chuck-green-fellowship\/past\/2013-2\/sylvia-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvia Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sylvia Thomas\u20142013 Fellow<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/589\/2013\/08\/sylviathomas.jpg\" alt=\"Sylvia Thomas\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Year: Class of 2014<br>Major: Geography <br>Waite House and Twin Cities Community Radio<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I worked with Twin Cities Community Radio and Waite House to encourage and apply for a new community radio station in the Phillips neighborhood. I worked with over 75 youth in Minneapolis creating podcasts about their neighborhoods and perspectives and facilitating interviewing and podcasting sessions. Ethnic minorities are largely under-represented in mainstream media and my project gave me an opportunity to work with local people in a diverse neighborhood and have their perspective shared on the air. The most powerful part of the project was working with the youth mural project to put on a radio show at the end of our sessions together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chuck Green was an incredible experience that allowed me to turn my passion and interest of community radio into a job working with community members. It was an incredibly challenging experience but I grew tremendously, and I am so thankful to the fellowship structure and my wonderful cohort for supporting and challenging me through this process.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sylvia Thomas\u20142013 Fellow Year: Class of 2014Major: Geography Waite House and Twin Cities Community Radio I worked with Twin Cities Community Radio and Waite House to encourage and apply for a new community radio station in the Phillips neighborhood. I worked with over 75 youth in Minneapolis creating podcasts about their neighborhoods and perspectives and [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":913,"featured_media":0,"parent":270,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-317","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1845,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/317\/revisions\/1845"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}