We produce a quarterly digital magazine featuring work from our Bridge media students, interns and assistant producers.
Issue contributors
Audio
- Laly Vasquez | Assistant Producer
- Luke Thomas | Assistant Producer
- Ava Maurizia | Intern
- Sam Schweitzer | Intern
- Alexandra Covey | Intern
- Clarissa Castro | Bridge Student
- Ali Tanoli | Bridge Student
- Lorenzo Aruajo | Bridge Student
Design
- Anya Dominique Francisco | Intern
- Anya Dominique Francisco | Intern
- Killian Soltero Walker | Intern
- Aashir Khan | Intern
- Xayvion Brown | Bridge Student
Journalism
- Sydney Wanguhu | Production Assistant
- Ana Valdes | Production Assistant
- Andrea Garduno | Intern
- Kami Bataclan | Bridge Student
- Esther Omolola | Bridge Student
- Isabella Altamirano | Bridge Student
Video & Photography
- Onessa Sharufa | Production Assistant
- Kimi Andre | Intern
- Vincent Jones | Bridge Student
- Jarrett Feinstein | Bridge Student
Bart Stories
By Pele Scher-Levin What’s the strangest thing that ever happened to you on Bart? Audio Vox Pop featuring voices from the rails.
The Future of Love
By Juliana Li In this podcast, Juliana talks about the trials and tribulations of dating in the current era
Where is my money?
By Naomi McBride Have you ever had a time when you’ve gone to the store, pulled your phone out to pay and all your money is just missing? I mean, that feeling of regret from buying that $40 Wingstop really be kicking in at these moments. Once I was at lunch and was so excited…
The Value of Vinyls
Sonali Mascarenhas-Swan I have fond memories of growing up and watching my dad play and mix records on his turntable. The music filled our house with rich and complex sounds and I remember being so excited when I got to place the needle carefully onto the record and watch it spin. It was like magic…
To breathe deeply
Sonali Mascarenhas-Swan “Just breathe” like me you might have heard these words from someone before. Even though I’ve heard this countless times it took me a while to grasp the importance of breathing. Taking a deep breath can often seem pointless, but the effects of taking the time to breathe deeply and with purpose can…
Nausicaa: reconnecting with my childhood favorite movie
by Gigi Cotter Studio Ghibli’s 1984 film Nausicaa: Of the Valley of the Wind was my favorite movie as a child. When I was too little to read, I went to see it in the theater with subtitles which you don’t even have to pay attention to because of how beautiful it is. Nausicaa is…
The Danger of Politicizing Education: Antisemitism in the Classroom
The politicizing of classrooms by teachers has led to legal action and firings in the US. Instances include a teacher in Berkeley High promoting anti-semitic ideas and pressuring students to protest the Israeli invasion of Palestine, and a Florida teacher hanging Black Lives Matter flags and rewarding activism. While supporting movements, the practice of incentivizing…
Debunking Myths: The Value of Community Colleges
“You’re planning on going to Chabot? Bro, why are you thinking of going to community college?” This caught my ear as I was listening to a conversation during break. At the time, I was taking a class at Chabot, a community college. My professor was nice; The class was hard, or maybe I just sucked…
Peoples park
By Pele Scher-Levin Growing up in Berkeley, there is no way to avoid seeing People’s Park at least a few times in your life. At least for me, it was an image that stuck with me for a long time, a wild place in the middle of a gentrified city. It represented something different and…
Into the Rabbit Hole: Unpacking the Unpredictable Episodes of Rick and Morty
By Moss Le Since the dawn of its creation, Rick and Morty has dominated the adult animation floor. Why is it though? For a show where nearly nothing changes, it seems to make up for it with sheer uniqueness. Rick and Morty revolves around a mad scientist (Rick) and his grandson (Morty), who go…
La Cultura De Mexico
Film by Graciela Orozco A beautiful outlook to Mexican culture from the perspective and description of Mexican American people.
Treasure Hunting + Secondhand Culture
By Oona Poirier The history of thrifting, why some people prefer shopping secondhand, and learning about the people interviewed and their perspectives on secondhand shopping.
A Letter To Home
By Isha Smith A love letter to the first place I’ve lived that feels like home. This short documentary shows two sisters experiences moving to the bay area, and learning how to establish roots for the first time.
Mixed Together
By Teresa Lopez This documentary is based on the life insight of Rebecca Sefa that represents two communities, Guatemala and Ghana. It showcases her exposure to both sides of her communities culture, personal struggles and resolution in her experiences. How beautiful it is to not only cultivate into one culture, but two!
Bacchetti 3
By Jack Probst-Bacchetti A short documentary about my family cabin in the Sierras. The origin’s of it and what it is like now.
Audio & music production bridge fall 2023 sound packs
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Climate Change and How it Affects Us
by AJ Ramos Climate change is a very real thing that has irreversible consequences. We are seeing with our own eyes. History is the recorded passing of time that we, as people, use to judge current events and our actions. Global warming has been a part of geologic history, but not on a huge scale…
Insight of a trans highschool student
By Charlotte Green Cover art by June Freedman My friend Eddie is a transgender highschool student who is planning on officially getting gender affirming surgery in June 2024. A few weeks back, he was talking to me about his process for the surgery. Honestly I was shocked but at the same time unamused about the…
5 Transphobic Comments
By Charlotte Green Currently, there are 85 anti-trans bills passed right now, and 380 that are in the process of being passed in the US. Even though the trans movement has improved trans visibility and civil rights over the past generation, this shows that there are still transphobic acts happening in our world today. Especially…
5 Best Chest Workouts For Development
By: Quincy McQueen As the new generation is developing, so are more popular activities like going to the gym. I started going to the gym for about a year and a few months and have grown mentally and physically. Going to the gym is for personal development and with that I believe these 5 workouts…
Student Gives Insight On How Mental Health Is Perceived In Schools
By Quincy McQueen Illustration by Binx Mental health is a rising concern as over time even though it’s become more recognized it’s affecting many people even as young teenagers in high school. Going into 2023 mental health is at an all-time peak including anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts. Many young adults and teenagers can relate…
Top 4 Books Banned from Libraries due to Controversial Content
Sol Garcia-Terrazas The notion that something is banned has always been very alluring to a society obsessed with what’s forbidden and why. Now more than ever censorship has become prevalent in many parts of the world and at the same time so has the outrage following. As a voracious reader living in what feels like…
POSTER REIMAGINED: August 2023 My approach to this project was to redesign the Sol Blume poster, which is a music festival aimed towards all music enjoyers but primarily neo-soul, hip-hop, and rnb. These genres are created and largely contributed to by Black artist. In the past Sol Blume’s poster designs haven’t really showcased that aspect…
The big kids table!
By Sehinne Yohannes Hi, this is Sehinne Yohannes, and you’re listening to YR Raw. For those with siblings, have you ever found yourself wishing you were the youngest or the oldest child? As the oldest sibling of four sisters, I consistently found myself wishing I were the youngest child almost as soon as my sister…
Aarohan’s Design Portfolio
Goetia Tour This piece was a fake tour poster for an artist, who was inspired by the face of a women I generated with AI. Terraformation This piece was inspired by Breezewood Pennsylvania, a real place. I made this piece to poke fun of how a lot of beautiful nature and scenery is replaced by…
June’s design portfolio
Emergence // We’re Still Here This piece was made for another Youth Radio student in the journalism track. It is cover art for their article about a trans man receiving top surgery. Tenants Pretty self explanatory. I took the most corny dad joke I could think of, and turned it into a three-panel comic. LUVFEST…
Top Skate Parks in the Bay AREA
By: Craig Sterba As someone who has been skating in the Bay Area for around 4 years and started to get pretty advanced, I am going to share with you my top 3 favorite skate parks to enjoy for all levels of skateboarders. This is based on only my opinion and the results could vary…
Slow Strides In Fast TImes
By: Sol Garcia-Terrazas The classroom scene before me moves 100 miles a minute, but I am slow, my classmates nervously scribbling answer after answer as I begin to count the beats of my heart. Pressing my fingers to my veins I count. One. Two. Three. FourFiveSixSeven! Time is running out for me and I sprint…
Bart’s COOKED
By Quincy McQueen “Look at what bro’s doing!” My friend Julian exclaimed as he noticed a man pissing into a cup right in the middle of the Bart train. At this moment I’m thinking where are the actual bart resources like cops when needed. I regularly take bart for multiple reasons like being a student…
Don’t be a Cyberbully
By Craig Sterba Have you noticed kids in school starting to struggle with mental health issues recently? Well I have and at Oakland tech I’ve noticed that the 2023 year is starting off a lot different. I have seen an instagram account that’s anonymous and people can send texts that do not show names, and…
Community Organizer Gives a New Perspective on Creating Change
An interview with a senior organizer within an organization based in the Bay Area that seeks to alleviate and challenge social issues and more through unifying with communities.
My Top Nine Lesser Known Deities from Around the World
My name is AJ and I am a nerdy highschool girl with a major fixation on mythology, and while you may know big names like Zeus or Thor, I doubt you’ve ever heard of Xipe Totec, the Flayed One from Aztec mythology, or even thought of any other saints besides Nick, so I decided to…
An Ode to the Brown Kid Navigating A White World
By: Sol Garcia-Terrazas Illustration by : Allie Miller Education has historically been used by the system as an exclusionary tool against black and brown people to discredit, disarm and actively shut out people of color from white spaces. From a straight ban on education to segregated schools of the Jim Crow era and more recently…
Elijah: Religion and Community
As someone with a White Jewish father and a Filipino-Mexican Christian mother I never felt community or reassurance in religious communities.
5 MOVIES That Unpack The AI Apocalypse
AI has been developing at an unprecedented pace with many claiming this will bring on a new technological revolution while others say it will be humanity’s doom.
5 WAYS TO BECOME AN ACTIVIST OUTSIDE OF SOCIAL MEDIA
___ By Kamryn Bataclan INTRODUCTION The murder of George Floyd caused an uproar across the nation during the summer of 2020, especially throughout the media. Back then, the Black Lives Matter movement was at its peak as everyone reposted tweets, participated in “Black Out Tuesday,” and created posts on various platforms in which they would…
Voices of Immigration Vol 1
My mom describes her life before and after immigration to the United States, detailing some of the contrasts between her birth country and the United States. Keylan Abadia
ROSS KENNEDY: BEHIND THE CLAY
Ross Kennedy is an artist and stop motion animation filmmaker based in the Bay Area. I met him in his studio to discuss his in-progress film: Shrine of Abomination. Piper Stuip
Finals Week or My Final Week?
A short vlog-like documentary about the experience of academic burnout in high schoolers. Sehinne Yohannes
Melodic Ether
An introspective short documentary about ones connection to music. Siah Brawley
Skating In The Bay
A short documentary about the skateboarding experience in the Bay Area. Jack Probst-Bacchetti
Family Cruise Life
An interview with my mom and dad about their life and experience working on a cruise ship. Amit Dahal
not actual project, just assorted sounds
Top 3 popular Y.A. fiction that romanticizes abusive, unhealthy, and toxic relationships
By Hanna Docampo Pham With romance being one of the most popular genres in young adult fiction, I wanted to explore 3 bestselling books of this genre that have been very popular ever since they were released, even though they romanticize themes of abuse and unhealthy behavior that may often go unquestioned by readers. Instead…
how to be a writer
Interview by Hanna Docampo Pham When I signed up for Enriched English, a class with an advanced curriculum, I expected that I would be reading classics and hoped that I would come out of the class a better writer. Never during my time in the class did I consider that my English teacher, Mr. Magness,…
5 female celebs who train jiu-jitsu
By Mo Kaba Many celebrities live busy lives that we only see a part of on social media. There is a dark side to all the fame and busy schedules like the toll it takes on their mental health, or the physical risk of having expensive assets or sensitive information. What would celebrities do without…
audio & music production bridge spring 2023 sound packs
By Audio & Music Production Spring 2023 Bridge Cohort yaquelin martinez YR Media Media Ed Audio & Music Production · Yaquelin's Sound Pack kekele tse tse YR Media Media Ed Audio & Music Production · Kekele's Sound Pack giovanni ramirez YR Media Media Ed Audio & Music Production · Giovanni's Sound Pack bruce selke YR…
5 Coming of Age Rom-Coms that buck the Status quo
By Ayushree Dahal When we think of Rom-Coms we think of classic boy meets girl, enemies to lovers, or other iconic tropes. These are well loved and rightfully so. But rarely do we see stories about LGBTQ youth or female empowerment in these Rom-Coms. The ones that do appear are so few and far between…
Top 3 Shows for Aspiring Entrepreneurs
By Ebenezer Alemayehu Are you an aspiring entrepreneur eager to learn more about the business world? I’ve got something exciting to share with you! I recently conducted research by watching three highly recommended shows for people like us. My goal was to gain valuable insights, get inspired, and gather practical advice to fuel our entrepreneurial…
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