Can You Hear Us Now: Inclusivity in the Media

From the Guests “It's important to have those central messages if you're trying to push for change through a system that's already in place. Because a system that's already in place, likely has the power that you don't as an activist group. You're trying to gather people first to make change in the system. But if you don't have clear and concise control over your message, then you have no ability...

From the Guest “As DEI officer, I think it’s important to give people those tools and to be as transparent as possible because these things did happen, and we can only grow if everyone knows that they happened.”

“Just having a diversity course should be like a core requirement. You are not leaving the Hussman school until you are educated on how to be an effective reporter or PR person for all these different communities that you are gonna interact with.” -Alexis Jamison 21:29

From the Guests “To be able to make a decent living, you have to find a niche that you can plug yourself into. Our niche here is that we went completely Asian produce, and rice, and Asian fruits. That’s our niche here in this community; it’s something that no one else is doing.” - Chue Lee

From the Guests “Eventually, I realized how unique my culture was and how it is something very valuable.”--Gwen  (10:30-10:36)    

From the guests “It's interesting to see with the last couple movies that have come out how things are changing.” -- Emily Thoreson, Journalism Student at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media  “At the time, as a kid, I didn’t think that much about diversity, you know, I didn’t think much about race. I knew Spiderman looked different than me.” Chase Cofield, Journalism Student at the UNC...

From the guests “There aren’t a shortage of people of color who want to play these games, it’s just a matter of actually casting them. I hope mandates like the one at CBS show other networks that having more diverse casts only make the shows better so that the change is about to come about organically on other networks and platforms.”  — Naeha Prabhu “I think the word mandate just adds this elemen...

From the guests... “I think that good and quality representation should obviously be nuanced. As for characteristics I definitely think if you’re going to represent some identity that there should be someone who identifies as that involved in the production. I think a lot of the time good representation can give you insight into a different facet of that person’s lived experience that you wouldn’t...