This episode also features a conversation with Nina Compton and a reflection on #IAMNEWORLEANS from the students attending the 2024 NOLA Future Fest. 

Be Loud was on the scene as over 100+ young people gathered at the LA Capitol to advocate for their rights. Hear their interviews with leaders from organizations like Daughters Beyond Incarceration, Puentes and The Covenant House.

DJ DeMarcus Cousin the 3rd Jr. attended the Just Been Served workshop, a workshop dedicated to learning the importance of jury service and how you can serve.

BIG shout out to New America Foundation for making this experience and production possible! 

Our DJs learned some survival skills, explored City Park and interviewed some of the workers at LOOP NOLA. 

Our DJs also share some insight on how they've grown on AND off the mic so far this year. 

But, we also wanted to give youth an opportunity to share their own perspective. Be Loud DJs recorded insights into their digital lives. Exploring the highs and lows of social media engagement. So tune in and listen to our next segment on social media and what the digital world means to Be Loud Teens.

BIG shout out to New America Foundation for making this experience and production possible! 

In this episode, we talked with 8th graders from Bricolage Academy about what it means to grow up in their community and what they associate with being an American. The energy and enthusiasm of these 4 brave students really cemented the larger purpose of this project. Young people have a lot to say and we need to listen.

Big shout out to our new friends from Bricolage Academy and we are grateful for these students for joining us in the studio and to their teacher Té Smith for leading the way.  

Also, thank you to our partner the New America Foundation for inspiring and investing in this work. These experiences have pushed us to re-imagine what it means to listen to and record with young people. We hope you will continue to tune in to these conversations.

In this episode, students from The Net discuss what "America" means to them and realizations they've had as they navigate life and school. 

Big shout out to our new friends from the NET Central City and especially to their teacher Erin Lierl for coordinating, preparing, and inspiring this conversation. 

Also, thank you to our partner the New America Foundation for inspiring and investing in this work. These experiences have pushed us to re-imagine what it means to listen to and record with young people. We hope you will continue to tune in to these conversations. 

For this episode, DJs connected with Lede fellows and learned more about their reporting on the impact of prison on our local community. With their help, DJs also heard from leaders FFLIC LA as they shared more about their work in transforming the systems that put children at risk of prisons.

Incredibly grateful to these two organizations for coming through to talk to Be Loud, inspire new questions and ideas, and to listen to what they had to say about their own experience.

We will be sharing these conversation on an upcoming episode of our podcast. Stay tuned.

It was an awesome conversation that covered everything from his day to day schedule to podcasting to how to deal with the hate. Super impressed by the energy and focus of the DJ crew and of course- big shout to JP Morrell for sitting down to talk with DJs about his life in and out of politics. 

To start the show, DJ spent a beautiful Saturday morning recording @tremefest and interviewed the many different artists, musicians, and vendors that made this year's festival a huge success.

We are super impressed by Be Loud DJs. Pushing themselves to mic up and talk to someone new. Working on their interview skills. Making follow up connections. Chasing down second lines. Even figuring out how to record segment introduction in a bounce house.

These things are not easy and DJs show up every week to get better on and off the mic.

Thanks for listening, and remember to Be Loud!

Thanks for listening, and remember to Be Loud!

Thanks for listening, and remember to Be Loud!

Thanks for listening, and remember to Be Loud!

Thanks for listening!