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Inside White Center
by INSIDE WHITE CENTER
All Things White Center
Episodes
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Passing of the Torch
The outgoing Evergreen HS ASB President Felix Koontz and the new ASB President Richy Ramirez are in the studio with Christian Tautua reflecting on the 2023-24 school year went and revealing their thoughts for what is coming in 2024-25! These bright, young leaders are visionaries, mountain movers...
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What's Up White Center?
Rasheed Smallwood and Peanutt Ngeth are the perfect people to talk to about What's Up in the community. Through their work at the Log Cabin and with Highly Hated, they continually create space that empower young people to discover and become their absolute, awesome self...and they're gonna have…
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We Want You to Meet Gary Longley!
A conversation with an old friend, a fun friend, a wise friend. Also, a great friend to community. Gary is a fantastic story teller, one of my favorite, in fact. So many stories about growing up in the neighborhood, race car driving, some interesting life choices, staying on his toes at home,...
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Interview with King County Council District 8 Candidate: Teresa Mosqueda
“Throughout my career, I have brought diverse coalitions together to pass landmark policy changes. I want to bring that progress to the King County Council so that all working families can be healthy, housed and resilient. Together we can invest in behavioral health and public health, expand...
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Interview with King County Council District 8 Candidate: Sofia Aragon
"I’m the result of the diversity, challenges, and promise that the county has to offer. I want King County to be a safe, healthy, and inclusive community that families can call home for lifetime. With 20 years of experience in state legislative advocacy, as a Burien City Council member and Mayor,...
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High School and Homecoming: Nothing Has Changed but Everything is Different
IWC's Pat and Christian reign in the fall and Homecoming season with Evergreen HS ASB president Felix Koontz! Listening to Felix reflect about belonging and what it might take to change school culture is truly inspiring! Felix is a smart, wicked funny, thoughtful, strategic leader who is…
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Behind the Creators of Inside White Center Series; Part 2
A little bit ago, Lisa, Christian and Frank, the Youngers of the IWC team, sat down together and were chop'n it up in Studio B! Sharing their reflections and perspectives from being raised and living in White Center and also, their hopes about our community's future, too.
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Behind the Creators of Inside White Center Series; Part 1
Zack, Kimnang and Pat, the elders (soon to be card-carrying AARP members) of the IWC team, went into the studio to have a very real and sometimes raw conversation about their lives in White Center.
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State of the Union at Evergreen HS with Kevin Hoang
Our guest is Kevin Hoang, senior at Evergreen High School who is Evergreen's A.S.B. President for the 2022-23 school year! Kevin is fun, good natured, creative and light hearted but is also equal parts, serious, intelligent and determined as you will find in his conversation with Christian Tautua...
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Getting to know Ranny and the important work of Family Law CASA in King County
We learned a lot from Ranny Nguyễn who visited with IWC's Lisa Nguyen and Zack Hamilton to share about the important work of Family Law CASA! Family Law CASA advocates for local children in high-risk custody cases so they have a chance for a safe, secure home life, significantly reducing the risk...
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Young Voices, Fresh Perspectives
Isaiah Slattery and Kiya Cornelius are sophomores at Evergreen High School. Listening to them share their reflections about community, that "10th grade life", the construction of a new school and what it might take to get the bond passed in November is both, humbling and encouraging! We were all...
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Ep 13 From Mexico to Shorewood Elementary to School Board President Part 2
Pt. 2 - picks up where we left off in Pt. 1, IWC Hosts Lisa Nguyễn and Christian Tautua in a sit down with community leader, mentor, colleague and friend, Aaron Garcia for this episode to share childhood stories and hear his reflections about growing up in White Center, leaving the community to…
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Ep. 12 From Mexico to Shorewood Elementary School to School Board President Part 1
Lisa Nguyễn and Christian Tautua sit down with community leader, mentor, colleague and friend, Aaron Garcia for this episode of IWC to share childhood stories and hear his reflections about growing up in White Center, leaving the community to go to college and then coming back to build a life in...
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Ep. 11 Highly Hated: How Youth Can Overcome Adversity To Serve Youth with Henok and Rasheed
Henok and Rasheed tell us about their experience with community advocacy and support as youth in the White Center area frequenting the Boys and Girls Club and Log Cabin, to adults leading programs through Southwest Youth and Family Services. Tune in to hear more about their event next week, GO...
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EP. 10 Connecting communities through people’s experiences, story and art with Patrick Robinson.
The Inside White Center crew got the chance to speak with Patrick Robinson, who has been a journalist in the White Center/West Seattle for the past 50 years. In this episode, Lisa and Frank ask Patrick about the history of local journalism, issues that affect our local community, and his...
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EP. 9 How you can use $3.7 million to help transform White Center with Gloria Briggs
When government determines how to allocate budgets for a city or neighborhood, marginalized communities can become the least represented in these processes. We sat down with Gloria Briggs Manager at King County overseeing what is called a Participatory Budget (PB) to understand how this unique...
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EP. 8 Championing the voices of our youth with Jennifer Fichamba
Frank and Lisa sat down with Jennifer Fichamba, who they’ve known since her time at Evergreen HS as College & Career Specialist and Mentor. In this sit down with her former students, Jennifer shares about her life as a mom, an educator, a cheerleader for Evergreen, Highline and Foster HS students...
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EP. 7 Shaped and raised by White Center, now sharing their experience through music with Glendal and Cham
In this episode, IWC host Lisa Nguyen sat down with music artists and producers, Glendal Tautua and Cham Ba, to talk family, friendship, Bonnie in Greenwood and music videos! Glendal and Cham are both sons of White Center. Their partnership was forged while growing up together and discovering a...
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Ep. 6 How a family search for survival later turned into a community staple with Janice Young
Young's Restaurant, a hood known White Center staple, has been a cornerstone of the White Center Community since 1982. Our neighbor Janice Young joins the Inside White Center Team to talk about cooking thru the pandemic, winning the Westsider of the year award, and how the restaurant was founded....
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Ep. 5 The path that lead to running for Burien City Council with Hugo Garcia
Hugo Garcia, Burien City Council Candidate visited Frank and Lisa of the Inside White Center podcast team to share about his decision to run! He’s a fantastic story teller and he regaled us with story after story about his family’s move to Burien from Guadalajara, his upbringing, doing...
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Ep. 4 How to build and nurture relationships with WC families with Darlene Sellers
We sat down for a conversation with a true White Center treasure! Darlene Sellers has been Program manager at Steve Cox Park for 20+ years and has seen a lot over her years of building and nurturing relationships in our community! We aren’t exaggerating when we say that every kid in the White...
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Ep. 3 Reversing the decline of the Khmer community in WC with Thyda Ros and Stephanie Ung
For over 40 years White Center has been home to many Cambodian refugees. Over the last few decades we've seen Khmer families and businesses flourish and build roots here. Within the last 15 years due to redevelopment in our community, we've seen the Khmer population diminishing yearly. We talk to...
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Ep 2. From WC BLM march to WC hoop program for youth w/ Justin Cox
“We’re very excited to bring Justin Cox to Inside White Center! Justin works for King County Superior Court, helping kids who are on probation get back into school and get a job! This conversation with Justin was as much fun as it was inspiring! It’s impossible not to be moved by his passion for...
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Ep 1.Teaching in WC during COVID with Christian Tautua
We get to hear from Christian Tautua today! Christian’s family moved to White Center when he was a youngster. He attended Cascade Middle School where he teaches 7th grade English today! In addition, he is head coach for the Evergreen HS Wrestling team and serves as Middle School Rep With the...
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The Dropkick Eps. 5 ft Pulemau Savusa
The Dropkick fifth episode! Interviewing Pulemau Savusa.
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The Dropkick Eps. 3 ft Tony Vo
The Dropkick's third episode! Interviewing Tony Vo
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The Dropkick Eps. 2 ft Keilah Paul
The Dropkick second episode! Interviewing Keilah Fanene.
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The Dropkick Eps. 1 ft Kimnang Seng
The Dropkick's first episode! Interviewing the one and only Kimnang Seng!
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