Engage
This is what community engagement means at KUOW.
Our Community Engagement team ensures that KUOW has a meaningful and interactive relationship with the dynamic communities of the Puget Sound region, and beyond. We are committed to amplifying your voice, listening to your feedback and ideas, and creating innovative opportunities to connect you to our newsroom.
We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all of our endeavors. Read more about our equity policies.
Here are a few examples of our projects:
The Community Feedback Club is a way to connect you to our newsroom by sending you periodic texts (about once per week) asking for simple feedback on stories and story ideas.
Pre-pandemic, we engaged in the following programs, to which we hope to return:
Ask A... is our series of gatherings which build empathy through one 1-on-1 conversation at a time.
Curiosity Club is our nerdy supper club which investigates the possibility that great food and compelling storytelling can transform a group of strangers into a community.
Meet The Newsmakers is our series of free public conversations with KUOW reporters at the University Bookstore and libraries across the region that invites listeners to ask questions, offer feedback, and share ideas for what our newsroom should be covering.
We're eager to hear from you! Please don't hesitate to reach out by emailing us at engage@kuow.org.
Top Contributors
Stories
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Bridging the American divide: A search for civic responsibility
An exploration of unsettling shifts and signs of hope in word and song
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With marriage and a gender transition behind them, they dined at Canlis
After Maura Hubbell transitioned, her wife Lisa Jaffe couldn't find her "inner lesbian." This is the story of their marriage and the queerness of connecting after getting divorced.
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He was 16 when a cop kneeled on his neck in Spokane. He’s still making sense of it.
He thought the police were going to kill him on the lawn of his friend's house. Now he's teaching the next generation that Black lives matter.
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After a tense election, ten strangers come together for a nerdy dinner party
KUOW's 4th cohort of Curiosity Club will reflect on the last four years and imagine what's next for 2021.
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I thought I was a model activist. Then #MeToo called me out.
Editor's note: This story has been taken down while we look into pertinent recent allegations.
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KUOW calls for bold essays on life and resilience
Seattle Story Project is seeking brave storytellers.
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Protest Book Club: Great reads for change with Seattle's hip-hop professor
Dr. Daudi Abe along with KUOW's Ross Reynolds and public radio listeners explore recommendations for revolutionary reads.
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8 Tips for navigating the perks & problems of love in lockdown
Drs. John and Julie Gottman join KUOW to explore the challenges and adventures of coupledom during Coronavirus.
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Trouble concentrating? Forgetting things? Our brains are doing strange things during this time of crisis.
Leading brain experts talk with KUOW's Ross Reynolds and Deborah Wang to explore tips for well-being as we move into the acceptance phase of this "new normal."
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Ep. 10: Are We Going To Be OK? For Black journalists on the frontlines of the #BLM movement, objectivity does not mean neutrality
Award-winning duo Tonya Mosley and Phyllis Fletcher of 'Black in Seattle' talk protests and journalism in the midst of an uprising and a pandemic.
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'Service is also action': An imam, a pastor, a rabbi and a philosopher on faith and radical change
Three faith leaders and a philosopher talk with KUOW's Ross Reynolds about service and responsibility as we face COVID-19, systemic racism, and economic catastrophe.
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Ep. 9: Are Our Schools Going to Be OK? At 16, cops kneeled on Jerome Hunter's neck. Now he's a teacher.
As the U.S. reckons with the Black Lives Matter movement, Seattle School For Boys co-founder Jerome Hunter says the time is now for Problem Based Learning and listening to youth.