Heidi Shin
The WorldHeidi Shin is a public radio + podcast producer based in Boston, who is especially interested in the stories of immigrant communities and the inevitable connections between stories from abroad and our lives here in the US.
Heidi Shin is a public radio + podcast producer based in Boston, who is especially interested in the stories of immigrant communities and the inevitable connections between stories from abroad and our lives here in the US.Among many adventures, she’s been diving with elderly mermaids on Jeju Island, trailed a group of Catholic nuns that reunites families separated at the US Mexico border, and interviewed a North Korean film director with his leading lady. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, The Washington Post, California Sunday Magazine, Snap Judgment, 70 Million, the BBC, and PRX The World. She also co-created and produced WGBH/The Ground Truth Project's "The New American Songbook," a podcast about immigrant musicians whose awards include an ONA, a Webby, and an Edward R. Murrow Award. Heidi also teaches at the PRX Podcast Garage and Harvard University’s Sound Lab and organizes Boston’s Sonic Soiree.
A new way to help Asian American teens handle college admissions stresses
Teresa Hsu and Michelle Garcia noticed teens and young adults in their Asian American community struggling with anxiety, particularly around school-related pressure. So the two have started a program to train Asian American high school students to help one another manage their mental health and understand the role history has played in shaping the pressures they currently feel.
This 9-year-old brings hope to his grandmother, a genocide survivor, by dancing
After the genocide of Cambodian people, thousands of Cambodian Americans were resettled in the US as refugees. Three decades later, the public schools in Lowell, Massachusetts, are teaching kids how to play traditional Cambodian music — which is an art form that was almost once lost.
