Radioactivism is a production of Voices: Community Stories Past and Present in association with 91.3 KXCI. VOICES, Inc. is a Tucson nonprofit that mentors low-income youth to tell their personal and community stories so they can strengthen their cognitive, artistic, emotional, leadership, and higher education skills.
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 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)
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.”
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)
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)
November 12, 2008
Check out Zack Khalil’s Radioactivism piece: The Quagmire of My Head: Looking Beyond Perceptions in the Search for Understanding
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October 28, 2008
Alex Noelke (3:19) 2008-09-01
28 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT
Alex Noelke: A Random Gesture of Goodwill: Finding Trust in an Untrusting World
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October 27, 2008
Sharika Vales (2:37) 2008-08-25
27 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT
Sharika Vales: Finding Home
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