Story Archive
Below you’ll find a sampling of recent work by Voices Youth Staff. You can see work of specific types by clicking on the links to the left.
August 12, 2010
A day in the life of a Podcaster. Written, Directed and Photographed by Jose Morgan.
more on Jose:
Jose Morgan, 18, Edge High School (Just graduated!)
I had acquired an interest in journalism and I thought Voices was the perfect opportunity to get a head start. I have always had a passion for all things having to do [...]
August 3, 2010
Wealth
Yvette discovers that moving into low income housing improved her and her family.
Photography by Lilliana Lopez
Yvette Cruz, 18, Tucson High Magnet School:
I want to pursue a career in Journalism/Mass Communications and have been practicing since the third grade. I knew that by getting hired at VOICES, I would be expanding my horizons in the publishing [...]
August 3, 2010
RideOrDie
Charlie talks about how relationships differ in the hood.
Photo by Lilliana Lopez
Christina “Charlie” Estavillo, 19, Pima Community College:
I have been through a lot growing up and in my attempt to be different. Before VOICES, I hadn’t yet found a place where I felt at home. But I can walk in here after a bad day [...]
August 3, 2010
Truth
Nick discusses how the truth was never held from him as a child and how it’s benefited him as an adult.
Photo by Lilliana Lopez
Nick Cashman, 18, Tucson High Magnet School:
I found out about VOICES from a friend who was in it and was interested right away. I’ve had more fun here and become a much better writer [...]
May 21, 2010
Viva la Vegan!
Story and photos by Katie Tarter, 18, a senior at Tucson High Magnet School
After spending the holidays of 2008 stuffing my face with rich, delicious foods, I felt as bloated as a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade balloon. My love for good food had led me to struggle with my weight for years, and [...]
May 21, 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 [...]
May 12, 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 [...]
May 12, 2010
Michael Ortiz discovers the true meaning of courage.
VOICES Ortiz Courage
(VOICES Photo/Marena Priday)
May 12, 2010
KXCI: Radioactivism:
Bryan Walker discusses growing up in an interracial family.
VOICES Walker BlackSister
(VOICES Photo/Marena Priday)
May 12, 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 [...]
April 21, 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 [...]
April 16, 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.
March 17, 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.
February 26, 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.”
February 26, 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 [...]
February 19, 2010
The Spring 2010 VOICES Magazine staff participated in their first photo competition during their training on the basic concepts of rhetoric: Logic, Passion, and Character. VOICES uses rhetoric as a tool to develop stories that explore, challenge and appeal to the logic, passions and character of readers. Working in teams of three, the staff had [...]
February 18, 2010
VOICES Photo: Krystle Marie Chavez, Brian Hernandez, Cassandra Valadez
January 8, 2010
Written and Directed by Jose Morgan, Edge High
Vidcaps of De Anza story:
More about the film-maker:
Jose Morgan, 17, Edge High School
I hope to go to college right after high school. I had acquired an interest in journalism and I thought Voices was the perfect opportunity to get a head start. I have always had a passion [...]
December 4, 2009
Jazz Solos and Social Skills
By: Brigette Dumais, 16, Tucson High Magnet School
The coffee shop at the Idyllwild Arts Academy in the mountains of southern California had several round tables that could sit four or five people at once, wooden floors and big windows that faced the forest. It smelled like rain and freshly brewed [...]
December 3, 2009
Click here to read the story on the Tucson Weekly’s website.
Guest Opinion: I am a proud sister of a U.S. Army veteran
by Stephanie Fleming
When I was young, my brother Patrick and I were always close. We would play Zelda together, or eat buttered tortillas and watch The Emperor’s New Groove.
In 2005, all of that changed. [...]
November 24, 2009
Lewis Dawley-Hill, 15, Canyon Rose Academy
Lewis, a “self-described all-around nerdy teen,” shares his adventures in cosplay, in which he dresses up as his favorite villain from a video game and prepares for his first major cosplay convention.
AZSpotlight_2009_11_20_Voices_L_Dawley-Hill.mp3
(VOICES Photo/Lilliana Lopez)
November 24, 2009
By: Dylyn Shapiro, 17, City High School
My cheeks were as hot as fresh Hamentaschen cookies. I was up on a podium, reciting from the Torah at my Bat Mitzvah, the traditional rite of passage for most 13-year-old Jewish girls. My eyes, wet with salt water, gave me a blurred view of the Hebrew texts. I [...]
November 2, 2009
In honor of Halloween, the entire Youth Apprentice staff of VOICES Documentary Arts Program participated in a “Spooky Photo Shoot-out” photo competition in which youth apprentices were divided into two groups – Magazine & Radio, Photography & Video. Within these two groups, youth apprentices were paired into teams for a timed photo exercise. Each duo [...]
October 30, 2009
Christina Lopez, 17, a student at City High School, recounts her frightening experience with the spirit of “La Llorona”, The Weeping Woman, on a dark night along the Santa Cruz River.
KUAZ: Christina Lopez on La Llorona
(Photo by Lilliana Lopez)
October 19, 2009
RadioActivism 10.12.09 Voices Charlie Franco Godzilla
(Photo/Lilliana Lopez)
August 12, 2009
The members of VOICES Summer Photo 101 workshop created a video comprised of sequenced still photographs. Four weeks of technical photography training and many hours of shooting and editing by more than 20 teenagers created this slide show. If you are interested in learning more about photography, enroll in VOICES Photography workshops!
