Why are so many young people getting COVID-19 lately? What does an epidemiologist need to know from the young people in San Antonio for her research? We recorded our first Town Hall to find out!  GET It co-hosts Roy Aguillon, Ryan Thompson, Andrea Ramos Fernandez, Chad Hankins, and Queen Bella Willis are joined by our first Zoom audience and special guest Dr. Cherise Rohr-Allegrini, an infectious disease epidemiologist, to GET some answers. More from Dr. Rohr-Allegrini in Episode 20. [ Music by Mr. Composition] 

 

In this first episode of a special two part series, we bring four Black community leaders together to discuss the significance, history, and personal impact of systemic racism in America. GET It cohosts Ryan Thompson and Queen Bella Willis talk candidly with special guests J Maurice Gibbs, NAACP Board Member, and Kimiya Factory, a leader of recent San Antonio protests following the murder of George Floyd. Thank you for hearing them.

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Co-hosts Roy Aguillon, Ryan Thompson, and Andrea Ramos Fernandez talk about the difficulties experienced within the undocumented community during the COVID-19 pandemic. Guests are Viridiana Carrizales and Maria Rocha of Immschools, who launched a major community fundraising effort to help several dozen undocumented families through the crisis.   Music by Celia Cruz.    #Undocumented, #GETITpodcast, #GrowingEmpoweredTogether, #COVID-19, #youngvoters, #Iamessential

 

Co-hosts Roy Aguillon, Ryan Thompson, Chad Hankins, and Andrea Ramos Fernandez talk with Dr. Jane Appleby, Chief Medical Officer for several major hospitals in San Antonio, about the front line fight against COVID-19. Together, they introduce #MasksNotCapes, a new community service effort to acquire donated N95 masks from the community and deliver them to the healthcare professionals who need them the most.     Music kindly provided by: Mr. Composition ("Face Mask") & The Foreign Arm ("Alight")   #frontline, #GETITpodcast, #GrowingEmpoweredTogether, #FaceMask, #COVID-19, #youngvoters

Co-hosts Roy Aguillon, Ryan Thompson, Chad Hankins, and Andrea Ramos Fernandez talk about the homelessness experience before, during and after the pandemic. GET to know two young women, Stephanie Escovar and Nina Lockwood, who serve on the Youth Action Board SA in order to make youth homelessness a brief and rare occurrence. You’ll learn what it actually means to be homeless, what the experience is like, how people end up homeless, and some of the actions being taken to fix the problem.

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Co-hosts Roy Aguillon, Ryan Thompson, Chad Hankins, and Andrea Ramos Fernandez talk with three community leaders about their online outreach programs and centering sources of inner peace during the pandemic. GET to know Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson, San Antonio's first black poet laureate, and Zet Baer and Rudi Harst of the popular Celebration Circle. Calming songs, poetry and a guided meditation await you in this episode!

Music by: Foreign Arm

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Co-hosts Roy Aguillon, Ryan Thompson, Chad Hankins, Queen Bella Willis, and Andrea Ramos Fernandez all came together on March 25th, 2020 to talk about how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted their jobs, their families, their daily routines, and their love lives in amazing ways. We didn't cut much of their late night raunchy humor for this one, because we know you need more of that now too. Enjoy!

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 GET It co-hosts Roy Aguillon and Ryan Thompson joined our newest co-host, Queen Bella Willis, for this necessary conversation about San Antonio's COVID-19 pandemic experience with special guest Dr. Cherise Rohr-Allegrini, an infectious disease epidemiologist. Episode 20 is our first remotely recorded episode, and it's just what the doctor ordered for you. So, chill out safely at home and listen!

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GET It co-hosts Roy Aguillon, Ryan Thompson and Andrea Ramos Fernandez make it easy to decide which Democratic and Republican candidates you think should compete against each other for Texas state and county offices in November 2020! You'll learn which races are hotly contested and why, and even be able to explain what the heck a Railroad Commissioner actually does. Of course, with this pod crew, you can count on plenty of chisme and jokes too!

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GET It co-hosts Roy Aguillon and Ryan Thompson introduce Andrea Ramos Fernandez, our newest cohost. GET READY - It's time to decide which Democratic and Republican candidates should compete against each other for the presidency and other national offices in November 2020, and our nonpartisan guide is here to help! You'll learn where/when to go vote, what ID to bring, who's on the ballot and how they want to address some of the issues that matter most to young people.

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