Friday, May 21st, 2010
Victoria Garcia explains the complex reasons she and her younger sister, Ashley, began shoplifting. We come from a low-income family that my mother can barely support with her minimum wage salary, Garcia said. The need for necessities was strong but when we fulfilled those needs, the desire for things and objects [...]
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Pedro is a kid who doesn’t quite fit in, so he decides to mix things up a bit and become a boom box. See how things work out as he goes about life as the “Boom Box Kid.”
Watch the video short on KUAT here:
and on our youtube here
Pedro Reyes, 17, Amphitheater High School: Greetings and [...]
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Michael Ortiz discovers the true meaning of courage.
VOICES Ortiz Courage
(VOICES Photo/Marena Priday)
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
KXCI: Radioactivism:
Bryan Walker discusses growing up in an interracial family.
VOICES Walker BlackSister
(VOICES Photo/Marena Priday)
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Attempted Harmony: the trials of starting a high school choir club
Story by Kelsey Grace Marie Gates
I placed my hand gently on the cold, shiny doorknob and slowly rotated my wrist to ensure a silent entrance. But I tripped on my foot and ended up stumbling into the crowded classroom, pens falling out of my purse [...]
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Marena Priday, 17, a junior at Sahuaro High School, shares how she learned that the seven signs of Suicidal Ideation – the detailed thoughts and plans to harm oneself – fit her. She sought, and received, help and is now working to make others aware of the warning signs.
Click this link to view Marena’s photo [...]
Friday, April 16th, 2010
Cleopatra Caperón Mendoza, 15, a freshman at Sunnyside High School, writes about the person the financial cuts to the current adult GED programs in Arizona will really affect: her mother.
Click here to go directly to the story on the Tucson Weekly’s website.
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Nina Foushee, 17, a student at University High School, writes about the complex reasons that motivate her to volunteer at the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation (SAAF).
Click here to go to story on the Tucson Weekly’s website.
Friday, February 26th, 2010
Natalee Dawson on KUAZ
Natalee Dawson, a junior at Salpointe Catholic High School, speaks about her family’s growing bird collection. “There are birds, small trilling creatures, and then there are Birds with a capital ‘B’ – the ones whose beaks are uncomfortably large in comparison to your fingers.”
Friday, February 26th, 2010
VOICES Youth Apprentice Fabian De Le Pena Montero, 16, a junior at Tucson High Magnet School, investigated the spiritual, cultural and artistic aspects of altars created to remember lost loved ones during Day of the Dead celebration. Montero interviewed five people as a way to explore the different ways that people turn the grief of [...]
