Live interview with award-winning author Ai-jen Poo on her book “Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America”. In this interview we explore how communities of color experience aging, both as elders and caretakers of the elderly.

Aging and Elder Boom Interview Ai-Jin Poo

Anti-vaxxers are often considered conspiracy theorists; however, the intersection of race and class within the healthcare system presents a reasonable distrust by communities of color and immigrants. Live interview on these complexities with Monica Hurtado, healthcare advocate | Voices of Racial Justice and Ramla Bile, new mother and community activist.  

Anti Vaccination in Immigrant Communities

The Underground - Profile

Reflections of New Minnesotans is a weekly hour-long radio show on AM950 at 2pm on Saturday. 

Through interviews, profiles and news reports Reflections of Minnesotans looks to provide a platform for Minnesota’s diverse immigrants. Our conversations will also look at how immigrants impact the state, and how Minnesota through legislation, media and the general population are responding to its newest inhabitants. 


It is produced and hosted by Julia Nekessa Opoti. The show broadcasts weekly out of the AM 950, the Progressive Voice of Minnesota, in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. 

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