Producer Appreciation Weeks: Monica Morales-Garcia

The Takeaway

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🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

As part of our goodbye to The Takeaway, Melissa Harris-Perry sits down with the beautiful folks behind the scenes who make the show happen every day! Today, we're highlighting the work of producer, Monica Morales-Garcia, by listening back to a few of her favorite segments: "Black Maternal Health Week Comes to an End""Hospice Care Is Plagued by Exploitation""Brittney Johnson is Spellbinding""Keyla Monterroso Mejia is Taking the Lead""Now, Who Speaks [non-English]? " Monica joined The Takeaway in 2022, after a year-long audio fellowship at the Peabody Award-winning show Latino USA, the longest running national Latino news and cultural public radio program. Where she produced long-form narrative stories like, "Chisme: An Ancestral Language," and "The Little Black Dress: A Hidden History." As an independent journalist and producer Monica has worked on, 30 Años: An Oral History of Latino USA, and has produced and fact-checked at Our Body Politic, the public radio show created and hosted Farai Chideya.

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0:00.0	I'm Melissa Harris Perry, and this is The Takeaway.
0:07.4	A happy Memorial Day to all the families and communities remembering friends and loved ones
0:12.7	who lost their lives in service of our nation.
0:16.7	Now, today is also the start of the final week of the takeaway.
0:21.2	After having been canceled by executives at WNYC Public Radio,
0:25.1	our last show will broadcast on Friday, June 2nd.
0:28.9	And we're grateful to all of you who've been hanging with us right up until the end.
0:33.8	In these final days, we've been highlighting the fantastic work of our producers here on the show as part of our producer appreciation weeks.
0:43.4	And today, we're spotlighting Monica Morales-Carcia.
0:48.3	Now, Monica is the entire West Coast contingent of Team Takeaway.
0:53.0	She's been producing content for us every single weekday,
0:57.3	despite 3,000 miles and a three-hour time difference from the rest of the team. What's up, Monica?
1:04.6	Hi, Melissa. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to talk about some of my work. Okay, and of course,
1:09.8	just like in our editorial meetings,
1:11.3	you're joining us via Zoom today. So what do you have for us for this show? Yeah. So today,
1:17.2	I'm sharing some stories. And I think the theme throughout what we're about to listen to is really
1:23.4	my point of view and approach to storytelling. Ooh, I love that. What is it? All right. So I didn't go to
1:30.6	J-school. I'm not really a trained journalist like that. I got my master's degree in American Studies,
1:36.5	which is an interdisciplinary study where you study the U.S. and try to understand its past and present
1:42.3	through the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality.
1:47.0	But one of the requirements of the program is to take classes outside of the discipline.
1:51.8	So I decided to take an art class that was called video art and the moving image,
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