This is the first episode of the Newest Americans podcast. Since October 2016, we’ve been working with a group of students at East Side High School, the most diverse public high school in Newark. Led by Dr. Shana Russell, five students meet weekly to learn audio recording and editing and to explore the stories that emerge from a multilingual, multicultural, urban high school.
East Side High: Episode 1
East Side High: Episode 1
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Destiny (Imani) Thomas
Jonathan Marecos
Dayana (Deedee) Cabrera
Jennifer Melchor
Photo by Ruddy Roye
Podcast:
Host: Dr. Shana A. Russell earned her PhD in American Studies from Rutgers University-Newark. She is a scholar of black women’s labor and the daughter of four generations of domestic workers. She is inspired by black women who write, sing, shout, disrupt, and persevere.
Executive Producer: Tim Raphael
Associate Producer: Rachel Dennis is a core contributor to Newest Americans.
Music & Audio Design: Guillermo E. Brown is an artist and immigrant son whose practice is based around music, making new sounds, singing and drumming.
Students: Dayana Cabrera, Destinee Holmes, Jonathon Marecos, Jennifer Melchor, Imani (Destiny) Thomas
Visuals:
Ruddy Roye is a Brooklyn based documentary photographer specializing in editorial and environmental portraits and photo-journalism. Ruddy is inspired by the raw and gritty lives of grass-roots people, especially those of his homeland of Jamaica.