Storytellers of Color Archives - KGNU Community Radio

  On today’s episode of Storytellers of Color, KGNU’s Rossana Longo-Better speaks with journalist Jaisal Noor. They discuss solutions journalism, immigrant voices, language access and why the future of media depends on serving communities where they are. This story aired on A Public Affair, KGNU’s weekday morning show featuring in-depth discussions [...]

On this month’s Storytellers of Color, KGNU’s Rossana Longo Better speaks with Tania Hogan, executive director of CU Boulder’s BUENO Center for Multicultural Education, about language justice, bilingual education and what it means for students and families to be seen through their full identities. Hogan was born in Acapulco, Mexico, [...]

The Colorado River is entering another dangerous season. After a dry winter and weak snowpack, the seven basin states still have not reached an agreement on how to use less water, raising the chances of federal intervention as the river continues to shrink. The stakes are especially high for tribes, [...]

  In this month’s episode of Storytellers of Color, KGNU’s Rossana Longo Better sat down with Stephanie Abdalla, a Brazilian researcher,  journalist and human rights activist. Her work concentrates on alternative human rights discourses, feminist media practices and traditional identities. “ I wanted to pursue and cover the stories I was [...]

In this edition of Storytellers of Color, we hear from choreographer Nate Weng, an artist whose work explores identity, migration, and the body as a living archive. Through movement, and through his work with The Hair Collective, he brings together personal history, cultural memory, and contemporary dance to ask what [...]

On this episode of Storytellers of Color, host Rossana Longo-Better is in conversation with Leticia Abajo Torrijos, founder of Deshaciendo Nudos, an educator, interpreter, life coach, and longtime community connector who has worked alongside Spanish-speaking and immigrant families in Boulder County since the late 1990s. At the heart of this conversation [...]

  On this episode of Storytellers of Color, host Rossana Longo-Better speaks with climber, author, and community leader Felipe Proaño Iturralde about mountains, migration, identity, and representation in the outdoors. Felipe began climbing in Ecuador in 2003, expanding across the Andes before taking on iconic routes in the United States, [...]

This month on Storytellers of Color, KGNU’s Rossana Longo Better sits down with Renée Chacón, an influential Indigenous leader, educator, artist, journalist and environmental justice advocate from Commerce City. As co-founder of Womxn from the Mountain, Chacón works at the intersection of cultural preservation, land and water protection, community healing, [...]

In this episode, Pedro Silva joins KGNU’s Rossana Longo to talk about what he calls “the story of stories” the idea that our stories don’t need to compete, and that they carry the most power when we embrace their full complexity. Pedro has lived many lives—Air Force veteran, pastor, community [...]

Latinx dance artist and percussionist Jesús David Muñoz blends Indigenous, Mexican, and Afro-Cuban traditions with ballet and contemporary forms to create spaces where movement tells the story of a people. On Storytellers of Color, he shares with KGNU’s Rossana Longo how Tumbao Social and community collaborations — from Denver’s Five [...]