In the FIRST-EVER episode of Megaphone, Fiona Drenttel joins Mark to talk about her piece, "Getting to the point," about an effort to document New Haven's homeless population, published in the Yale Herald on February 2. You can read Fiona's piece here: yaleherald.com/getting-to-the-point-662d8389cbaf

Megaphone, Season 1

Megaphone S.1, Ep.1 - Fiona Drenttel

(CW: sexual violence) There are 5,300 people on Connecticut's sex offender registry, and over 850,000 on registries nationwide. In the cover story of The New Journal's February issue, Rachel Calnek-Sugin investigates the challenges faced by people on the registry - and explores ongoing efforts to reform Connecticut's sex crime laws. In episode two of Megaphone, Rachel joins Mark to talk about her piece. You can read it here: http://www.thenewjournalatyale.com/2018/02/but-its-you/

Megaphone S.1, Ep.2 - Rachel Calnek-Sugin

Kamau Walker, a member of WORD, "Yale's Oldest and Hypest Spoken Word Group," came on the show this week to talk poetry. In this episode, Kamau recites an original poem, "My Temple Worth Praying To," and discusses writing, trees, lizards, DMX, and vegetarianism, among other topics. Towards the end, he even gives us a look inside his notebook.
More about WORD: https://wordatyale.com/

Megaphone S.1, Ep.3 - Kamau Walker

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- Megaphone (Mondays 4:30-5)
- After Dark (Sundays 11-12)
Writing at thenewjournalatyale.com

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