The Promise, Season 2 As an intern with Nashville Public Radio, I worked on season two of The Promise, an award winning podcast that in its first season explored life in public housing in Nashville, and in its second dove into the persistent segregation of Nashville schools. I conducted archival research and used my academic […]
Originally published Dec. 23, 2020 for Nashville Public Radio. Architect Alan Hayes was driving home from his Brentwood office when he noticed something lighting up the downtown skyline. “It was probably the fall, and the daylight saving time had happened, and all you see is this bright flashing … lights that look like movement on […]
Originally posted April 14, 2020 for WPLN Randy Nash is bracing for the day the virus inevitably ends up in his office. He runs Sumner County Funeral and Cremation Services. From his office, he says, he can see the Gallatin Center for Rehabilitation and Healing, where nearly 100 patients recently tested positive for COVID-19. “Every […]
Originally posted March 20, 2020 for WPLN Kirsten Bailey is a Vanderbilt senior currently living on the university’s mostly empty campus. She’s staying there as long she can – she has an internship in Brentwood, and her parents, back in Cincinnati, are immunocompromised. She worries about putting them at risk. She requested to remain on […]