Queen City Stories: Recent Episodes
Nicole Collins
In each episode of Queen City Stories, we explore Charlotte's narrative through interviews with community activists, organizations, citizens, and city officials who support community uplift. If you are passionate about social justice and your community and want to make a change, this podcast is for you. Join us from your car, home, work, or anywhere you can!
This episode is our first show involving students. Jennifer and I interview Alli Burt, a senior at Providence Day School who spent her summer interning with the Echo Foundation here in Charlotte, North Carolina. We are also lucky to have Kaila Dawkins, also a senior at Providence Day School, assisting our middle school Librarian, Corley May with the recording process.
Today's guest is Andrea Downs, a Middle School Art Teacher at Providence Day and the artist behind the "Airing Out the Dirty Laundry" Movement, an ongoing collaborative traveling art exhibit.
Today's guest is Erin Brighton, Director of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Food Policy Council and local food advocate.
Today's guest is Braxton Winston, a community activist, citizen-journalist, and Charlotte City Council Representative.
Today's guest is Josh Burford, an award winning historian, archivist and educator with over 20 years of experience creating stronger communities for Queer and Transgender people across the U.S. Josh has worked to preserve and make accessible the Queer history of the American South through the development of archival collections and oral histories, and his work has been displayed at the Levine Museum of the New South here in Charlotte.
Today's guest is Janeen Bryant, an inter-sectional educator, facilitator, nonprofit leader and founder of Facilitate Movement, an organization that moves ideas to action and is a catalyst for building innovate solutions with a community center focus.