It's Notes for America, I'm Kai Wright, and I want you to meet Phalacidae Olatunde.

She's part of WNYC's Radio Rookies program, which is this incredible award-winning program

that gives young people in the city the tools and the training to tell audio stories about

their own communities.

Phalacidae spent the last year recording audio diaries about a relationship with her

dad.

And this is a pretty challenging thing for her to talk about.

The relationship, it's been tough, because her dad has been incarcerated since she was

two years old.

She's 25 years old now.

Phalacidae was too young to know what happened the night that law enforcement came and took

her dad.

So, she asked her mom what went down that night.

I heard a boom at the door.

So I jumped up, ran in the room, and told them that somebody is at the door.

And as she got to the door, it was about maybe like 10 or 12 of them came in the house.

And they ransacked the whole apartment.

I mean, it took clothes, everything.

Look all in your drawers, everything, and just throw everything on the floor.

Do you remember where I was and what I was doing?

They took you out the bed and brought you in the living room, and you were just standing

there, crying because you don't know, you confuse, you don't know what's going on.

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