Radio Pulso

In this episode of Radio Pulso, we explore the key issues shaping the 2024 elections through the voices of our Boyle Heights community. Join hosts Jaret Chavez and Ismerai Calcaneo as they share insights from local residents about their concerns and priorities. We’ll also dive into the contentious CD-14 election, featuring thoughts from our dedicated Boyle Heights Beat reporters. Tune in to hear how your neighbors are preparing for this pivotal moment in our democracy.

Boyle Heights Beat is a bilingual community news project produced by youth, offering “noticias por y para la comunidad,” or “news by and for the community.”

Koreatown Storytelling Program is an intergenerational, multilingual and multiethnic oral history and digital media program that teaches high schoolers how to document, investigate, and interpret the stories of marginalized members of our community for public benefit.

BHB and KSP students are recent high school graduates heading off to college. We are collaborating on this podcast to share and process their thoughts as they embrace new beginnings at college.

After being accepted into UCLA, Janelle Quintero was in utter shock and beyond grateful but after those emotions settled, creeped in the anxiety and uncertainty. As a first generation college student, she had no idea what to do. After some thinking, she decided it would helpful to reach out to an academic counselor at UCLA and speak with a UCLA alumnus to alleviate some of her fears.

In this episode we talk to Roosevelt High School student, Ismerai Calcaneo, about her experience being featured in the Oscar -Winning Documentary Short Film, "The Last Repair Shop." The film highlights Los Angeles as one of the last American cities to provide freely repaired musical instruments to its public schoolchildren, a continuous service since 1959. In the documentary she tells her story about being a musician and shares the importance of this repair shop for public schools.

For this episode, we’re going to be talking about how the pandemic affected us (high school youth) in our academics and what we could have done differently.  Radio Pulso is partnering with the Latino Equality Center, a non-profit in Boyle Heights who advocates for equity, safety, and wellness of the Latinx LGBTQ+ community. 

The Rainbow Education Coalition of Los Angeles (RECLA) is a grassroots campaign that focuses on advocating for safer and more inclusive resources for queer and trans students in the Los Angeles Unified school district. In collaboration with Boyle Heights Beat, in this episode RECLA will be discussing the current LAUSD school climate and how LGBTQ+ students are being affected.

On today’s episode we’re excited to have Felipe Esparza… Felipe is an up-and-coming comedian from Boyle Heights and grew up in Pico Gardens. Winning the last comic standing in 2010 was a major milestone. Felipe has gained a lot of attention since then. He’s currently on tour all over the country and also has his own podcast called, What’s Up Fool, with over 450 episodes.

Growing up in Boyle Heights in the late 80s and early 90s, Daisy Chávez-Mendez found herself coming of age in a less accepting community. Now in her early 40s, she’s spent the past two decades using her experience to work with others creating a more welcoming environment for all in the barrio.