UR Rising is a Campus Times podcast featuring the student activism on our campus and in our city, today and in decades past. Learn about the passion and work they’ve dedicated to not only inspiring change, but also setting it into motion.

Our first episode, “Two Sit-ins: A bird’s eye view of Black student activism,” is coming September 2021, available on all the major podcast platforms as well as the Campus Times website.

 

VIDEO TRAILER:

 

Podcast Production Team: An Nguyen, Sanghamitra Subba, Michael Vilakazi, Haven Worley, Efua Agyare-Kumi, and Wil Aiken

Video Production: Haven Worley

Protest Footage: Efua Agyare-Kumi

Artwork: Jane Pritchard

 

Instagram: @ur.rising

Facebook: UR Rising Podcast

 

Interested in how a podcast gets made, from research and interviewing to script writing and audio editing? Join our team! Email us at ur.rising@campustimes.org.



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