Rising journalists once again took over RadioACTive for a Voices Amplified edition of the show, a collaboration between Salt Lake Community College, Amplify Utah and KRCL. Diversity, stories that matter, the things you care about — amplified.
Host Zay Angel Alvarez first spoke with poet Ashley Finley, a California native who lives in Salt Lake City. Ashley is a poet, activist, and educator whose passions lie in the liberation of all colonized and oppressed people and in the facilitating of a return to sacred, ancestral knowledge that bloomed before colonization and capitalism. As an introduction to a discussion about the natural world, Ashley shared a poem.
- Zay then engaged in a conversation about the Great Salt Lake (GSL) Collaborative – a solutions journalism project consisting of Utah news, education and media organizations that are banding together to not only report on the problems but also on potential answers to a shrinking lake. Guests included:
- Heather May, project manager of the GSL Collaborative
- Jaimi Butler, coordinator of the Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster College and member of the GSL Collaborative
- McCaulee Blackburn, a SLCC student who will be working as an intern for the GSL Collaborative this summer
- Amy Maestas, region collaborative manager for Solutions Journalism Network – the group sponsoring the GSL Collaborative
