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East Side High

Inside the most diverse high school in Newark, listen to a group of students as they try to make sense of the world around them.

Project Credits and Info

Podcast:
Host: Dr. Shana A. Russell earned her PhD in American Studies from Rutgers University-Newark. She is a scholar of black women’s labor and the daughter of four generations of domestic workers. She is inspired by black women who write, sing, shout, disrupt, and persevere.

Executive Producer: Tim Raphael

Associate Producer: Rachel Dennis is a core contributor to Newest Americans.

Music & Audio Design: Guillermo E. Brown is an artist and immigrant son whose practice is based around music, making new sounds, singing and drumming.

Students: Dayana Cabrera, Destinee Holmes, Jonathon Marecos, Jennifer Melchor, Imani (Destiny) Thomas

Visuals:
Ruddy Roye is a Brooklyn based documentary photographer specializing in editorial and environmental portraits and photo-journalism. Ruddy is inspired by the raw and gritty lives of grass-roots people, especially those of his homeland of Jamaica.

East Side High

Inside the most diverse high school in Newark, listen to a group of students as they try to make sense of the world around them.

This is the first episode of the Newest Americans podcast. Since October 2016, we’ve been working with a group of students at East Side High School, the most diverse public high school in Newark. Led by Dr. Shana Russell, five students meet weekly to learn audio recording and editing and to explore the stories that emerge from a multilingual, multicultural, urban high school.

East Side High


This project has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor