A Peek Into The Lives Of Four Bay Area Teens

Bay Curious

KQED

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4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

As part of Youth Takeover Week at KQED The Bay and Bay Curious have teamed up to collaborate with four high school students who live in San Pablo, Fremont, Walnut Creek and San Jose. For several months, these teenagers — two juniors and two seniors — have shared what’s going on in their lives, what’s got them worried, what’s making them excited and what they're passionate about. Additional Resources Read the transcript for this episode Check out more from Youth Takeover Sign up for our newsletter Enter our Sierra Nevada Brewing Company monthly trivia contest Got a question you want answered? Ask! Your support makes KQED podcasts possible. You can show your love by going to https://kqed.org/donate/podcasts This episode was produced by Alan Montecillo, Jessica Kariisa, Ericka Cruz Guevarra and Katrina Schwartz. Bay Curious is made by Katrina Schwartz, Gabriela Glueck and Christopher Beale. Additional support from Mel Velasquez, Kyana Moghadam, Olivia Allen-Price, Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Maha Sanad, Alana Walker, Holly Kernan and everyone on Team KQED.

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1:05.3	Hey, I'm Erica Cruz-Gavar from the Bay. And I'm Katrina Schwartz from Bay Curious. And today we've got something special for you.
1:14.6	It's Youth Takeover Week here at KQED, and that means we're handing the mic over to Bay Area
1:21.3	Youth.
1:22.0	In this special collaboration between the Bay and Bay Curious, we asked four high school
1:26.6	students to send us audio diaries over the last few months to kind of bring us into their worlds for a little bit.
1:32.8	And Katrina, we wanted to know what's on their minds these days. What's getting them excited? What's getting them worried?
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