Will Coley: Recent Episodes
Will Coley
Will Coley is an independent radio producer, social media strategist, trainer and videographer based in Queens, NY.
I’ve been an advocate and organizer with immigrants and refugees in Charlotte, New York/Newark, and Los Angeles, as well as in Zimbabwe and Great Britain, for organizations including Catholic Charities, American Friends Service Committee, Jesuit Refugee Service and Homies Unidos. Through Aquifer Media, I design social campaigns and digital storytelling that cultivate community and civic participation, most recently for Freedom from Fear Awards, Detention Watch Network, Rights Working Group and Public Interest Projects.
Created for Audio Playground assignment: https://www.audiofestival.org/audio-playground-prompt
Today, thanks to the internet, we’re not so alone during our lives in lockdown. Numerous international art projects are harnessing the crowdsourcing power of the internet to curate art about life in quarantine.
Clip from Dec. 22, 2018 episode "The Art of the Gift" https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3cswp71
Nelson Molina finds treasures in trash. During his thirty year career with the New York Sanitation Department he has discovered some amazing objects amongst the rubbish including cameras, jewellery, photos and a framed letter from a former President. Now he exhibits his collection in a special garage at the sanitation department. Reporter Will Coley went for a tour. (Picture credit: Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images.)
Audio portions of a breakout session at the 2016 Facing Race conference. See more here: http://bit.ly/podcasting4racialjustice
Omar Nur left his native Ethiopia more than 35 years ago. He landed at New York's JFK and took his first steps in his new country. In the decades since, he's helped others arriving at the airport. Photo: copyright Stad Gent
"Creative & Innovative ways to best show APPRECIATION to persons, places, and things. Starting with you."
SPIN Academy Tactic Team: LLuis Aguilera Garcia: El Cambio, Boonville, NC Laura Cahue: SC Immigration Coalition, Columbia, SC Francisco Chavez: Uniting NC, Raleigh, NC Pamela Gomez: Hispanic Services Council, Tampa FL Luis Romo: Border Network for Human Rights, El Paso TX
Edited by Will Coley, Aquifer Media
SoundCloud launched the Audiobiography project earlier this month to get to know you better, to find out who you are and what’s important to you in a punchy 90 second upload. If you would like to be featured in the next round, share your audiobio. Find out how here
Produced by Marianne McCune for WNYC and NPR http://www.npr.org/2012/11/01/164129883/low-income-new-yorkers-struggle-after-sandy
It's been more than three days since power went out across large swaths of the city and beyond. And some New Yorkers haven’t ventured out of their apartments since the power went out. In multi-story public housing complexes like La Guardia Houses on the Lower East Side, getting in and out of the building can be daunting.
Recorded at the baptism & naming of Leo Hunter Solomon-Wang at El Coyote Restaurant in Jackson Heights, Queens, NY. Here's the link to the studio version of the song on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/alejandro-ingkavet/id285991188
Hear in the City: Radio Realities from the Urban Landscape A Tuesday magazine on KPFK, 90.7FM, broadcast at 2:30pm, in Los Angeles, hosted by Sara Harris.
Sara's show focuses on local environment, arts, education, and culture in and around Los Angeles. Our goal is to map the city through sound-rich profiles of people living and working toward creative social change and solutions. Check out Sara's work at http://soundcloud.com/hearinthecity
Proposal for the SoundCloud Fellowship: http://blog.soundcloud.com/2012/07/03/fellows As alumni of the Transom Story Workshop (http://transom.org), our idea is to create and share stories about the working lives of people today in the US and around the world. We also want to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the book “Working” by oral historian/radio producer Studs Terkel. The book is about “a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday though Friday sort of dying.” To honor Studs and his legacy, we want to re-introduce his methodology to a larger audience through a SoundCloud Fellowship demonstration project. We also want to help strengthen the “spoken word” community on SoundCloud and encourage others to make “radio stories”. Follow the project here: http://soundcloud.com/workingnow
San Francisco's SoundCloud Hero Nicole Carter visited Los Angeles this week and met up with Will Coley and Matthew Flynn.
In a corner of Santa Monica, CA, residents of the Village Trailer Park face an uncertain future.
Created for the Third Coast & EveryBlock ShortDocs festival: http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/competitions/shortdocs/2012 The challenge: Produce a short audio story (2 -3 minutes) that features at least two of your neighbors, includes a color in the title, and contains three consecutive seconds of narrative silence.
Syd Ahlstrom makes realistic metal sculptures of sea life. His neighbors in Orleans are snapping them up. But Syd says he’d rather make another kind of art, something that’s a tough sell on Cape Cod. For WCAI’s Creative Life series, Will Coley reports.
From our recent grocery shopping show on Hear in the City, we bring you contributor Will Coley's audio essay on why he likes Costco so much, "warts and all". The warehouse store chain has proven to weather the recession well, perhaps by not accepting credit cards other than American Express, but Will asked recently, "Can I take back my Costco love?" when he read about the company's agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to screen employees with the E-verify system for legal immigration status. The voluntary social security data scanning system has drawn criticism for its intrusion of privacy and because one in 25 entries are flawed or misspelled, resulting in termination of employment or declining to hire qualified job applicants.
The fishing industry in New Bedford, MA has always attracted sailors and workers from Europe, West Africa and beyond. The city is home to one of the largest Portuguese communities in the United States. But in recent years, more and more Spanish speakers are arriving from Central America. Will Coley reports on how New Bedford’s police are trying to adapt to the change.
This piece was created as part of the Transom Story Workshop: Fall 2011 http://transom.org/?page_id=21849