Meet Liberato Kani, a hip hop artist in Lima, Peru—or as he says, “the Andean Bronx”. At his concerts, a typical call and response you hear is "Quechua es resistencia": Quechua is resistance. Though Quechua is spoken by nearly ten million people, Peru's native language is at risk of dying off because of anti-indigenous prejudice. Liberato and other musicians like Renata Flores are here to save it—and restore a country's pride while they're at it.
Roles: reporter and co-producer
Development workers have ambitious goals. Navigating how to reach them can be especially challenging and in a fast-moving digital world. Yet, keeping up with the latest digital communications tools can feel like another full time job. Who has time for it?
Throughout this podcast series, we speak with United Nations Development Programme personnel around the world, while in the field and in the office, about their digital communications needs, challenges, and ideas, and we ask digital communications experts all the questions you were afraid to ask. Wherever you’re coming from, we have your back. The digital revolution is here, but you won’t be left behind.
Role: lead producer
Everyone has their own understanding of the meaning of digital communications. Eva Appelbaum, a London-based digital strategist, tells us how we can reach a shared understanding to get our message across.
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Phoenix is one of the fastest growing cities in the U.S., an example of urbanization shaped by generations of immigrants. An Arizona native, journalist Alisa Reznick gives a tour of the old and new Greater Phoenix through the eyes of her extended family, who came three generations ago from Mexico, and new migrants struggling to get asylum.
Roles: producer, editor, and sound designer
When indoor dining shut down during the pandemic, food delivery apps thrived. But the people delivering the food – workers celebrated as essential – faced risks to their safety and unfair working conditions.
Producer Oscar Durand tells the story of Cesar, a delivery worker from Mexico who found a cause and a community while organizing his fellow delivery workers in New York. We also speak with Hildalyn Colón Hernández from Los Deliveristas Unidos, a group that advocates for delivery workers in New York City.
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Cuenta el padre Fabián Arias que la parroquia donde está destacado está llena de inmigrantes solicitantes de asilo que han llegado en los últimos meses a la ciudad. La comunidad ha dado ayuda pero se necesita urgentemente que la ciudad y los gobiernos estatal y federal aporten mucho más recursos. Es una emergencia que vive Nueva York ante los miles de inmigrantes que han llegado y siguen llegando. El padre Arias conversa en el Podcast de Inmigración de NY1 Noticias con Carlos Rajo y el abogado Luis Gómez Alfaro.
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Turkey hosts the largest number of refugees in the world, but they are facing a brutal backlash from Turkish society. In February 2020, during the onset of the pandemic, the Turkish government misinformed refugees that they could leave Turkey and enter Greece. Turkish photojournalist Özge Sebzeci boarded a bus from Istanbul to Greece filled with migrants headed to Europe, and she tells the story of their journey. Then she weaves in the Turkish narrative by getting to know an anti migration politician and a pro-refugee activist to understand how they shaped their opinions.
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Fabi reacciona a la crisis política en su natal Perú, donde el Presidente Pedro Castillo fue destituido luego de tratar de disolver temporalmente el Parlamento. Carlos y Fabi también discuten los controversiales cambios que el magnate Elon Musk está implementado en Twitter. Además, conversan con la reportera del Washington Post Sabrina Rodríguez sobre la segunda ronda electoral en Georgia, en la que los Demócratas lograron fortalecer su mayoría en el Senado. Por último, nuestros presentadores analizan la manera en la que los Republicanos han respondido al llamado de Trump a eliminar la constitución para permitir su regreso al poder.
Role: audio editor