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What’s It Like to Be a Middle School AAPI Activist?

Mina Fedor, a middle school student and activist, founded AAPI Youth Rising to amplify the voices of AAPI youth and fight anti-Asian racism and xenophobia.

Faviola Leyva

Video Producer

Jessica Fregni

Writer-Editor, One Day

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Episode 6: Rooted in Relationship

Staff and students at Todd County Middle School in Mission, South Dakota discuss how they are building healthy student-staff relationships that center Lakota culture and values.

Hosted by Jonathan Santos Silva

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Culturally Inclusive Books Inspire Students to Become Change Agents

Georgia students participating in a Read Woke book club, founded by Cicely Lewis, are empowered to create and lead programs that promote social change in their high school.

Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz

Managing Director, Film + Video Projects

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Episode 5: Better Together

Staff and students from West High School in Denver, CO, talk about how they mobilized and partnered with their school district to successfully reunite and rebuild their high school years after it was split in two.

Hosted by Jonathan Santos Silva

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Students Combat Air Pollution in ‘Asthma Alley’

Three teachers designed a series of classes that teach high schoolers about environmental racism, pollution and climate change.

Jessica Fregni

Writer-Editor, One Day

Desiree Rios

Photographer

Student Juan Grullon wears a flannel shirt and sits in a courtyard with a mural in the background

Episode 4: Young Changemakers

Students from Kendall-Whittier Elementary in Tulsa, Oklahoma, share how the Tulsa Changemakers program is helping them find their voice and their role as leaders in their community.

Hosted by Jonathan Santos Silva

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Episode 3: Culture, Community, and Care

Hear how students at DreamHouse ‘Ewa Beach in Hawai‘i are finding their voice as leaders, and building strong connections within their community.

Hosted by Jonathan Santos Silva

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Episode 1: Microschool, Major Changes

Jonathan Santos Silva takes us to the North-Phillips School of Innovation in Tarboro, N.C.—a school reimagined from the ground up by leaders and students.

Hosted by Jonathan Santos Silva

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Changing Course for Students’ Future

Changing Course is a new podcast that explores what’s possible when students take the lead on their own educational paths.

Michael Kress

One Day Editorial Staff

The Crushing and Inequitable Burden of Student Debt

What would it take to solve the $1.6 trillion student debt crisis?

Jessica Fregni

Writer-Editor, One Day

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Photographer

Manuhe Abebe, a Black male college student stands in front of a campus building wearing a blue suit.