David Seitz
David Seitz learned his audio writing skills in the third Community Voices class. Since then he has produced many stories on music, theater, dance, and visual art for Cultural Couch. Some of these stories have won awards from the Public Media Journalists Association and the Ohio Associated Press Media Editors. He is deeply grateful that most of his stories address social justice issues in a variety of art forms, whether it be trans gender singing, the musical story of activist Bayard Rustin, or men performing Hamilton in prison.
For 25 years, David taught academic, nonfiction, and business writing in all kinds of genres to Wright State students from first year students to graduate students. In his last years at WSU, he also taught audio writing for creative nonfiction and podcasting for professional and technical writers. In his classes, he expanded on what he learned at WYSO to help students create podcast series, feature stories, and audio essays. He is teaching the current 2024 cohort of ComVox.
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Artist and musician Michael Bashaw has created a new sound sculpture that now stands by the Great Miami river in Dayton, Ohio. Community Voices producer David Seitz visited Bashaw’s studio to learn the evolution of this new work. -
Wright State University professor Alan Knowles sees AI leveling the playing field for students with disabilities. He embraces AI to improve writing and teaches a new skill called "prompt engineering." -
The first time you hear the music of jazz composer and bass player Charles Mingus, it can change your life. That happened to two jazz musicians in the Springfield Jazz Orchestra. The band is celebrating the centennial of Mingus’ birth with a concert this week. David Seitz tells us the story of these two musicians and the Mingus effect. -
Musical collaboration was reinvented during the pandemic. A lot of work was done over zoom. Michelle David, a classically trained composer in New York and hip hop artist Tronee Threat in Yellow Springs created a new choral work together. -
Twenty-five years ago, Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was murdered in Laramie, Wyoming. To mark that moment, Wright State theatre is reviving The Laramie Project. -
Recently, a small group of people in Yellow Springs and Miami township received their first check of unconditional cash as part of a two-year pilot guaranteed income program. -
Mention Maurice Sendak, and people think of Where the Wild Things Are. Max and his sailboat and those giant creatures. A new exhibit at the Columbus Museum of Art aims to show that Maurice Sendak was much more than a beloved children’s book author. He is a great American artist of the twentieth century. David Seitz talked with two people who knew Sendak well, and they told him about his creative process. -
Two women who have a strong connection to the house where Paul Laurence Dunbar lived in West Dayton reflect on the poet's 150 year legacy. -
Marc DeWitt - program coordinator and Daniel Peoples talk about the African American Male Initiative at Sinclair Community College in Dayton. -
We meet Aisha and Nico Ford - who had to rely on each other for mentoring through their school years – when they had very little support from adults.
