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This Person I Met
by Kayla Fu
Stories of anybody who has one to share. "This Person I Met" is a podcast devoted to giving everyone in the community a voice, and allow an opportunity for learning. Email: [email protected]
Episodes
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Between church and state
Welcome back to This Person I Met! My name is Kayla, and I’m the host of this podcast. Especially within my generation, I can feel a divide forming; one that has always existed but is becoming especially apparent as politics and society continuously exacerbate it. That divide being the debate of...
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God, happiness, and alcohol
Welcome back to This Person I Met! My name is Kayla, and I’m the host of this podcast. I could feel Linda’s eyes on me as I packed up my podcast equipment, hurrying to leave the dim-lit room for my next endeavor. At 83-years-old, Linda had been sober for over 40 years after near decades as an...
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Love is Love™: The New Business of Queer Representation - Pt 2
Welcome back to This Person I Met! My name is Kayla and I’m the host of this podcast. A few weeks ago, I got the chance to sit down and talk with Joe Halsch, the director of the Jim Toy Center in Ann Arbor, a community for queer folk and allies, as you might recall from our previous episode. In...
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Love is Love™: The New Business of Queer Representation
Welcome back to This Person I Met! My name is Kayla and I’m the host of this podcast. Since the release of Heated Rivalry, a show commissioned by Canada’s Crave and distributed by HBO Max originally written by Rachel Reid, queer media has had some of the greatest visibility I’ve personally ever...
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Why didn't you just leave?
Welcome back to This Person I Met! My name is Kayla and I’m the host of this podcast. Tucked in a quiet corner of Ann Arbor, Michigan, The Safehouse is a refuge for any who may be facing intimate partner violence. At the head of the Safehouse is Christine Watson, who has long been an advocate for...
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The Weight of Invisible Things: Bearing Witness To an Eating Disorder
Welcome back to This Person I Met! My name is Kayla, and I'm the host of this podcast. Following Judith, the founder of Center for Eating Disorders in Ann Arbor who starred in the previous segment, it seemed as if new perspectives could be incorporated in order to gain a better understanding of…
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More than the mirror
Welcome back to This Person I Met! My name is Kayla, and I’m the host of this podcast. About 28.8 million Americans are currently affected by an eating disorder. That’s about 9% of the entire US population. And yet, nobody seems to truly understand what they are unless they actually struggle with...
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Lived, learned, survived - Part 2
Welcome back to This Person I Met! My name is Kayla and I’m the host of this podcast. If you don’t know, this is the second part of Nikki’s story, where she dives into how she turned a past of abuse and trauma into what she describes today as “intentional living.” Nikki doesn’t hide from her…
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Lived, learned, survived
Welcome back to This Person I Met! My name is Kayla and I’m the host of this podcast. When I approached Nikki, the first thing I noticed was how well spoken she was. Words flowed from her mouth so naturally and so coherently that I found it hard for me to keep up. However, behind her demeanor was…
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Living in the After: A talk on grief - Part 2
Welcome back to This Person I Met! My name is Kayla, and I’m the host of this podcast. A few weeks ago, I got the opportunity to sit down with Uzochi Nwauwa to talk about a topic that most of us avoid despite its inevitably: grief and the concept of death. Specifically, we talked about the scary,...
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Living in the After: A talk on grief
Welcome back to This Person I Met! My name is Kayla, and I’m the host of this podcast. On my first snow day of the season, I drove 30 minutes to Ele’s Place, braving the iced highways to sit with Uzochi Nwauwa. Uzo, the bereavement coordinator for Ele’s Place, talked to me for nearly an hour…
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On the Other Side of the Fence: A Reflection on Living Homeless
Welcome back to This Person I Met! My name is Kayla, and I'm the host of this podcast. Jaenika, like many others in the Delonis shelter in Washtenaw County and shelters around the country, never had a chance to run from unstable housing because she was born into it. The homeless issue within the...
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The Business of Being- Part 2
Welcome back to This Person I Met! My name is Kayla, and I'm the host of this podcast. As you may have inferred from the title, this is the second part of "The Business of Being," our segment dedicated to a certain member of Unlock Highest Dimension, a nonprofit for "gathering people with spirit...
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The Business of Being
Welcome back to this person I met! My name is Kayla, and I’m the host of this podcast. Recently, I had the chance to meet up with a close family friend. Upon first meeting her, it was easy to make assumptions in my head. She graduated from MIT with a degree in business. She’s worked with one of…
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Journals, Jello, and the Psych Ward
Welcome back to This Person I Met! My name is Kayla, and I’m your podcast host. I’ve known Salem for around two years now. Our shared trauma of endless marching band rehearsals and similarities with flute led to a quick, close friendship. You’ll hear in this interview that it’s clear Salem is one...
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Why choose education?
Welcome back to This Person I Met! My name is Kayla, and I’m your podcast host. There are more similarities between an electrician and a professor of mechanical engineering than you may think. In our interview, Solomon Adera told me of his parent’s lack of education, and how their lack would...
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Risking Scientific Extinction
Welcome back to this person I met! My name is Kayla, and I'm the host of this podcast. The voice you just heard is professor Allen Liu from the University of Michigan. As you may have heard from the news, the scientific pipeline is facing a major crisis. Since January, the federal government has...
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40 to Life- Part 2: Embracing Humanity
Welcome back to this person I met! My name is Kayla, and this is the second part of Johnny Walker's story. As you may remember from the last episode, Johnny served 46 years and 13 days in jail for armed robbery, and a second charge, murder. Now, as the reentry specialist for A Brighter Way, he...
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40 to Life
Welcome back to this person I met. My name is Kayla, and the voice you just heard is Johnny walker. He's the community engagement specialist from A Brighter Way, an organization serving formerly incarcerated people, assisting them in the tedious process of reentering society. Johnny and I sat…
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The Little Hand on my Heart
Welcome back to this person I met! You might notice something new in this episode, or someone new. As you all may know, Maya, the host of this podcast, is off to college. And that means someone new has to take over. My name is Kayla, and I, coincidentally, am her younger sister! For the next few...
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. . . and Justice for All
Hi, and welcome back to This Person I Met! Today’s interviewee is Jen Peacock, the policy director for the Michigan Center for Youth Justice, which is an organization focused on ensuring that youth in the juvenile justice system have equitable access to qualified legal representation. To give you...
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In Spite Of
Hello, and welcome back to This Person I Met! Continuing on with our series relating to the public education system, today’s guest is Sara-Beth Badalamente. She is the advisor for Huron High School’s newspaper (called the Emery), which I write and edit for! She’s also the advisor for the yearbook...
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The Hidden Opponent
Hello, and welcome back to This Person I Met! This episode is the second part of my interview with Mr. Sumerton, one of the principals at Huron High School. In this episode, we discuss some surprising effects of technology on students’ mental health, and other pitfalls of high school. It’s funny…
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Surviving High School 101
Hello, and welcome back to This Person I Met! Today’s guest is Mr. Sumerton, one of the principals at Huron High School. This episode marks the start of a series I’m hoping to do, which will cover common challenges that high school students in my generation face, from mental health issues, to...
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Ready, set, Go!
Welcome back to This Person I Met! In today's episode, Jamie Tang talks about her relationship with the game of Go, an ancient Chinese board game that juxtaposes strategy, tactic, and culture. Music: "Music Is" by Pryces.
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Ready, set, Go!
Welcome back to This Person I Met! In today's episode, Jaime Tang talks about her relationship with the ancient Chinese game of Go, a timeless board game juxtaposing strategy, tactic, and culture.
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The People Behind the Words
Hello, and welcome back to This Person I Met! Last episode, Linsay Calka – the managing director of Groundcover news – spoke about how her newspaper is an incredible way to help low-income and homeless individuals in our community, juxtaposed with excellent journalism. This episode will showcase...
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Underground Superheroes
Hello, and welcome back to This Person I Met! In today’s episode, Lindsay Calka will be talking about something that you might’ve seen in action for yourself in the streets of downtown Ann Arbor. Groundcover News, the newspaper that she has managed for the past three years, works to provide a...
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Angels' Work
Welcome back to This Person I Met! As this podcast approaches its 40th episode (this being the 38th), I only get more and more amazed by all the incredible people I’m able to talk to. On June 26th, 2015, the US Supreme court struck down all state bans on same-sex marriage, which legalized it in…
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Paving the Way
Welcome back to This Person I Met, and if you celebrate, Happy Thanksgiving! Now a physician scientist with a focus in breast cancer and women affected with aggressive breast cancer phenotypes, Sofia Merajver was once the only female out of 52 in her science class. But since then, she has become…
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Another Year Passed
Hello! It's around the two year anniversary of This Person I Met now, and I just wanted to take some time to thank you for all your support, discuss some things we've been working on the past few months, and also introduce a new member to our team! We hope to keep doing this podcast for many…
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Draw, draw, draw!
Welcome back to This Person I Met! I’ve known Ari for quite a while now, but a few years ago, they moved to Indiana, while I stayed back here in Michigan. Ari is an amazing person and incredible artist, and has known that art is what they want to pursue since elementary school, which is something...
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On a Positive Note
Welcome back to This Person I Met! If there’s anything I’ve learned while doing this podcast, it’s that preconceptions are almost always wrong, and this interview was no exception. Cindy Zheng, an advanced lung cancer patient for the past decade, was nothing like I’d imagined. Despite the brutal...
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That's What a War Is - Part Two
Welcome back to This Person I Met! This episode will be part two of our conversation with Ms. Anna Krushelnitskaya, a teacher, translator, blogger, and author. She has written three books, including one called Cold War Casual, a compilation of interviews translated from Russian to English,...
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A Brighter Way - Part Three: A Light in the Dark
Welcome back to This Person I Met! Did you know that out of the more than 650,000 ex-offenders in the US who are released from prison every year, almost 44 percent return to prison within their first year out, and approximately two-thirds will likely be rearrested within three years of release?...
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A Brighter Way - Part Two: Adam and Katie
Welcome back to This Person I Met! We are so honored to have Mr. Grant back for a second interview sharing his loving relationship with his wife, Katie. If you were with us for the first episode, you know that Mr. Grant served a jail sentence for 27 years for an armed bank robbery. And now he is...
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A Brighter Way - Part One: Those 27 Years
Last summer, as we were planning our podcast for the new school year, an organization called “A Brighter Way” caught our attention. This organization provides help to individuals who were formerly incarcerated in Washtenaw County. As our podcast grew, we became more and more interested in...
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That's What A War Is - Part One
November 8th, 2022, We met Ms. Anna Krushelnitskaya in the Ann Arbor Public Library. It was the election day. Ann Arbor Public Library was full of voters casting ballots for all the issues and concerns in people’s minds- inflation, abortion rights, student debt, you name it. On the other side of...
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The Price of Plasma
Each year, about 13.6 million units of whole blood are donated in the U.S. Another 53.5 million units are collected in the form of plasma — a liquid element in human blood containing vital antibodies and proteins. Through some privately owned manufacturers, American donors provide 94% of the…
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The Sky Is the Limit - Part Two
Thanks for coming back for the 2nd part of Mr. Zach Damon’s story. I first learned about cerebral palsy through reading a book in elementary school, called Out of my Mind. The main character was a little girl who was born with the disorder and was also incredibly bright, most likely a genius. The...
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The Sky Is the Limit - Part One
To start our new season, we invited a very special guest. He is a broadcaster, actor, public speaker, media project manager, supervisor, director, filmmaker, and producer. He hosts “Ann Arbor Tonight”, Michigan's first late-night live audience, televised show. Born with Cerebral Palsy, he is also…
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The Sky Is the Limit
To start our new season, we invited a very special guest. He is a broadcaster, actor, public speaker, media project manager, supervisor, director, filmmaker, and producer. He hosts “Ann Arbor Tonight”, Michigan's first late-night live audience, televised show. Born with Cerebral Palsy, he is also…
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Cheers!
Our podcast is one year old! We are thankful for our wonderful guest interviewees to share their stories, and each one of our listeners and every download that makes our work so worthwhile! Special thanks go to the Fifth Ave Studio from Ann Arbor District Library for being our backbone. Mrs.…
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Mr. Gossage and Independent Living
Do you know July of each year is Disability pride month? 32 years ago, on July 26th, the Americans With Disability Act was signed into law, and since then, discrimination against people with disability was prohibited, and more and more people with disability find advocacy and support from…
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Victoria's Sommerfrische
Half of the summer is over. We had so much planned, but so far nothing has been accomplished. Our friend Victoria sure had a better summer. She spent three weeks in Germany as an exchange student, with host parents and host siblings. Right after she landed back in Ann Arbor, we kidnapped her to...
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What Makes Me A Person?
Have you ever wondered: what exactly makes me a person? We’d never questioned this before we came in contact with Professor Peterson, who introduced the concept of personhood to us. Not until June 24, 2022, when Roe Vs. Wade was overturned, did we start to realize how the concept of personhood…
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For Whom the Bell Tolls - Part Two: "A Part of Me Died There Too"
I hope you were with us two weeks ago and heard this voice from Melania. Melania is a Huron High School student in Ann Arbor, who came from Ukraine two years ago. On February 28th, 2022, war suddenly broke out in her hometown, and her life was turned upside down. Everything changed. From afar,...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls - Part One: "That's Kyiv, My Hometown"
Her name is Melania, and she came from Ukraine. Melania is a junior at Ann Arbor Huron High School. Recently, she wrote an article for the school’s newspaper about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Later she was told to remove a portion of her writing due to the censorship policies that the school...
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Day 56: Shanghai Quarantine
Do you still remember the 2020 lockdown? Masking and social distancing policies became the norm while businesses, schools, and offices went quiet…more than two years into COVID, we have now learned to live with the virus, somewhat. However, in the Chinese city of Shanghai, the definition of...
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15 Years, My Wonderland - Part Three: Finale
In the last two episodes, we had a special guest sharing some of his past, difficult experiences, as he left home and landed in the UK all by himself at age 17. He spoke no English at the time. We wish we were able to give you a brief recap, but his story is so captivating and beautifully told....
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Stories of anybody who has one to share. "This Person I Met" is a podcast devoted to giving everyone in the community a voice, and allow an opportunity for learning.
Email: [email protected]
HOSTED BY
Kayla Fu
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