So when I was a little girl, I used to watch the evening news every single night with my family.

They called it the March on Washington for jobs and freedom.

We would all be getting ready to have dinner.

It was six of us on the south side of Chicago.

Mom was always making a meal for us.

And I loved watching the news, the television news. The message to the country

is free yourself by freeing us. So much was happening. Man finally has visited the moon after all

the ages of wishing and waiting. And we watched all the time. But the thing is, is that I never saw anyone who looked

like me or my family. I never saw people like us in all of the television news that I was

consuming. And of course, that made me think, like, how many other people are out there

whose stories aren't being told, right?

I kind of planted a seed in my head.

So fast forward from that to getting to New York,

going to Barnard College,

and becoming a part of the college radio station,

creating my own show called Nueva Cancion and Demos. This song of the college radio station, creating my own show called Nueva Cancion and

Demos.

We would play Silvio Rodriguez, Pablo, from Latin America.

We talked Latin American politics. We talked Latin American politics.

And I was a kid behind a microphone right here in New York City,

and I was reaching into people's homes with my voice on the radio.

And it always made me think, like, am I reaching a little kid just like me?

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