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 communityvoices@wyso.org
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Trae Elzy/ContributedWhen WYSO Producer Trae Elzy goes hiking in the Miami Valley, she notices that people who look like her are absent. This makes her ask, "Where are all the Black folks?" -
Contributed/Luckens Merzius, Virginelle Jerome, and Miguelito JeromeHaitians in the Heartland presents the voices and reporting of Haitian Americans in Springfield, Ohio, with stories of resilience, cultural identity, and adaptation. -
Contributed/Family of Leonora & Orlando BrownThe Brown v Board of Education decision concluded that racial segregation had no place in public school. Leanora Brown taught at Dayton Public Schools when that happened. -
Long before there were air ambulance companies like CareFlight, and TV shows like 'China Beach' and 'M*A*S*H,' Valérie André was flying rescue missions in combat zones.
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The arts community is located in three 150-year-old manufacturing buildings at Front Street east of downtown. It's known for its monthly First Friday open studio events. -
Black Korean War veteran Joe Lewis stood up to a racist bus driver in the Jim Crow South when he was working at Keesler Air Force Base in the 50s in Biloxi, Mississippi. -
Once the Wright Brothers had invented a practical and consistently flyable machine (what we now call an airplane) in 1903, they began developing the aviation business. -
Rachel McMillian at the University of Illinois partners with the Ohio Innocence Project to invite exonerees to her class to educate students about wrongful incarceration. -
Robert McLendon spent two decades in prison for a crime he didn't commit. He says the Ohio Innocence Project and 'The Columbus Dispatch' paved the way for his release.
