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 welcome diversity in all of its forms in all of our endeavors.
Here are a few examples of our projects. Ask A is our series of gatherings building empathy one one-on-one conversation at a time. Curiosity Club is our nerdy supper club that is investigating 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 Book store 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 so don't hesitate to reach out. You can email us at engage@kuow.org and connect with us on Twitter at @KUOWengage.
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Stories
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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.
After a friend shared a painful memory on Facebook about how he hurt her, this Seattle man resolved not to be "another Trump or Cosby."
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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.
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Attention white people: Your #BLM memes are not enough
Biracial lesbian Mellina White has a few things to say to her good liberal white friends in Seattle.
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Ep. 8: Are We Going to Be OK? Cartoonist Ellen Forney says bipolar disorder prepared her for the Covid-19 pandemic
As many struggle with anxiety and depression during lockdown, some with a history of mental health challenges are putting to work tools they relied on well before coronavirus.
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Ep. 7: Are We Going to Be OK? James Beard Award-winning Seattle chef says the community is his bailout
Chef Edourado Jordan turns Salare into a community kitchen and finds that being a big name doesn't protect his small businesses from the economic crisis of Covid-19.