Lila Shroff
Stories
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Oh, the places you’ll go! On Zoom, in your living room...
Graduation is a time of great fanfare in the United States, but this year, because of the coronavirus pandemic, students had to find other ways to celebrate. RadioActive’s Meghana Kakubal and Lila Shroff documented their graduation from Mercer Island High School for KUOW, chronicling intimate moments with friends, as well as the logistics of a drive-through graduation.
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Law & Courts
Inside Girls Court, Washington State’s first therapeutic court model for girls
Over the past two decades, while juvenile incarceration rates have been decreasing, rates of incarcerated girls have either stayed the same, or increased. In response, the Kitsap County Girls Court opened in June 2019 as Washington State’s first court system providing service just for girls. A few months ago, RadioActive's Lila Shroff went to see Girls Court in action.
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Arts & Life
'Happiness is the most rebellious act.' Stories of resilience and connection for families during Covid-19
Two teens share an hour of stories about family, resilience and self-discovery, all produced by young people in the Puget Sound region.
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Politics
How to be a feminist, and other lessons from my grandma’s badass friend
In recent years, modern movements like the Women’s March and #MeToo have garnered widespread momentum. Ninety-year-old Alene Moris started fighting the battle for women’s rights long ago.
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Education
Pressure, insomnia and hospitalization: The new normal for students applying to college
"If you had asked me if I would chop my leg off if it meant admission to Stanford, I would say yes in a millisecond."
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Government
How my 90-year-old neighbor, a Holocaust survivor, sees America today
One of the world's biggest cities was once a safe haven for Jewish refugees. During World War II, more than 18,000 Jews sought refuge in Shanghai. They witnessed the war from a perspective that often goes unheard. My neighbor Werner Glass is one of them.
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Arts & Life
'We're not supposed to feel unsafe:' back to school in the age of school shootings
The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida sparked a youth movement for change across the nation. In part two of our...
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Back to school in the age of school shootings
The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida sparked a youth movement for change across the nation. In part two of our School Shootings in America podcast, we speak to teens in Seattle to see how they’ve been inspired to take action, and why this event was different than the ones before. Why now? What inspired these students to get involved in one of the nation’s most controversial policy debates, and what keeps them going?
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Six months after Parkland: 'Even to this day, it doesn’t feel real'
School shootings have been a horrifying reality in the United States for far too long. However, after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High...