Youtholegy - A Youth Led Podcast: Recent Episodes
Youth Rising Up
Vaynesia Kendrick, a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a suicide prevention advocate focusing on suicide prevention and awareness. She is employed with the City of Milwaukee Health Department where she serves as a Community Outreach Specialist-Adolescent Suicide within the Office of Violence Prevention and the Strong Babies Program. She is a proud alumni of North Division High School in Milwaukee, WI and she received her Bachelors of Science in Accounting from Alabama State University and her Masters of Science in Management-Change Leadership from Kaplan University (now Purdue University Global).
Yvonne McCaskill tells us about her experience as a student at North Division High School, about the Alumni Association, the school's legacy and much more.
Mothers Against Gun Violence, Love and Lost and Johan Hopes all join us today to share the losses of their sons and loved ones. They talk about hope and pain and how it pushed them to help others.
Lauryn Cross is a social justice activist and student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Lauryn is a member of Freedom Road Socialist Organization and co-chair of Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.
Mandela Barnes serves as Wisconsin’s 45th Lieutenant Governor. He is the first African American to serve as a Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin, and the second African American elected to statewide office.
Born and raised in Milwaukee, Lt. Gov. Barnes is the son of a public-school teacher and a manufacturing assembly line worker, a proud product of Milwaukee Public Schools, and a graduate of Alabama A&M University.
At the age of 25, Lt. Gov. Barnes was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly, where he served two terms. Now, as lieutenant governor, he serves as the Chair of the Governor’s Task Force on Climate Change and also serves on the Governor’s Health Equity Council, Governor’s Council on Financial Literacy and Capability, Wisconsin Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, Wisconsin Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Task Force, and the statewide 2020 Census Complete Count Committee.
The lieutenant governor uses a platform of sustainability and equity to fight for solutions that invest in opportunities and fairness for every child, person, and family in Wisconsin, regardless of zip code.
John Fleissner is an Artist and Organizer who uses Murals and prints to communicate political ideas and empower students and workers. John teaches in Milwaukee Public Schools and teaches students about art’s ability to change the world for the better and challenge authority.
Wilneisha Smith is Reflo’s administrative coordinator. She brings years of experience working with the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District’s residential green infrastructure program. Niesha holds an applied science degree in Environmental Health and Water Quality Technology from the Milwaukee Area Technical College. She coordinates the high school internship initiative and supports all of Reflo’s programs.
Hope has been a Youth Organizer at the ACLU of Wisconsin since July 2019. She graduated from the University of Mississippi with a Bachelor’s Degree in African-American studies with an emphasis on Social and Political Systems, writing a thesis focusing on the reasons why and how Black women persist at predominantly White educational institutions.