The Eichelberger Center For Community Voices At WYSO
The Eichelberger Center For Community Voices At WYSO Public Radio is a collaborative space for audio training, production, and storytelling. Have a story to tell? Learn hands-on audio production and digital storytelling skills from public radio professionals in a supportive studio environment.
Our mission is to amplify community voices. We welcome storytellers of all ages, backgrounds, and experience levels. Scroll down to listen to some of the stories produced by WYSO's Community Voices producers. For information on upcoming Community Voices training opportunities, email email communityvoices@wyso.org
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Ohio plans to give $3.5 million to rehabilitate and reopen a second runway at the Wilmington Air Park. WYSO aviation commentator Dan Patterson recounts that there is historic precedent for that.
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In this episode, we talk with three American Indian historical interpreters about the Shawnee lifeway in the Ohio River Valley, walking through each season.
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From Blue Jacket's adoption to where Tecumseh was born, there's a lot of false mythology about Shawnee history in what we now call southwest Ohio. This episode explores the region’s narrative through a more accurate, inclusive lens.
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Kevin McGruder, professor at Antioch College, and Steve Schwerner, the brother of Mickey Schwerner (an activist murdered by white supremacists) talk about Freedom Summer on its sixtieth anniversary.
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In this episode, we meet a visionary leader from the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma working to reconnect her community with their homelands.
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In our upcoming series, we will provide a perspective on the history of the region we now call Ohio that very few of us learned in school. We'll put the experiences of Miami, Shawnee, Wyandotte, and other American Indian people at the center of a refreshed version of the state’s complicated past and undecided future.
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Dayton Contemporary Dance Company will announce its 2024-25 season schedule on Juneteenth this year.
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This year is the 100th anniversary of the U.S. Army’s first around-the-world flight. Some preparation for that flight happened here in the Miami Valley at McCook Field.
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Community Voices Producers Truth Garrett and Mary Evans have a conversation about the stigmatization of the phrase "second chance" in the incarceration system-impacted community.