Student Stories

Season 5 Episode 5 

Title: Being our Barbie Selves  

Summary: UAlbany students, Sarai Lewis and Alyssa Roman discuss their leadership positions and roles at UAlbany. The conversation centers around the Barbie movie and how patriarchal standards and norms impact Sarai and Alyssa in their leadership positions. Furthermore, the conversation surrounds women’s empowerment in society and highlights the harmful effects of the patriarchy within society. Alyssa and Sarai dive into the conversation in a multifaceted way discussing gender prejudices, issues of race, mental health, and beauty standards and how they combat these issues. 

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Time Stamps: 

0:00 - Introduction to our Barbie’s 

1:43 – Toxic femininity vs Toxic masculinity? 

11:57- Fear of women’s power 

21:53-Combatting toxic masculinity 

46:26- Race as a factor in being our Barbie selves 

58:37- Being women leaders 

1:04:02- Recruiting for Orgs 

1:06:21- Saying Goodbye

Contributors:

Sarai Lewis (StoryTeller), Alyssa Roman (StoryTeller), Ryan Pare (Host, Editor), Sophia Smith (Host),  Bianca Zazzarini-León (StoryTeller/Marketing), Carmen Serrano (Editor/Executive Producer). UAlbany Student Stories, Season 5, Episode 5 [podcast]. Music from El Pañuelo de Pepa by Javier Colina and Pepe Rivero. José Cruz, Executive Producer.

Special thanks to Ryan C. Clow, Digital Scholarship Center Training Specialist, for allowing us to use the equipment and recording studio.

Email Carmen Serrano: [email protected].

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Season 5 Episode 4

Title: How disability friendly is UAlbany?

Summary: In this episode, UAlbany student Sasha Chattergoon tells her

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Time Stamps:

0:00- Introduction

0:37- Sasha’s disability

1:18- Transition from Guyana to the U.S

2:21 - Stigmas Sasha faces

4:07 - Put some respect on Sasha’s name

7:17 - Sasha’s transition from SUNY Schenectady to SUNY UAlbany

8:52- How accessible is UAlbany?

14:50- Housing and classroom accessibility on campus

16:30 – Inaccessibility of professors and classes

20:04 – Navigating accommodations for teachers?

23:40 – How to make UAlbany more accessible

26:39- Excluded by clubs and people

29:16- Sasha just rolls with it

30:42 - Positive and negative highlights at UAlbany

31:57 - Future goals for Sasha

33:07  - Goodbye’s

Contributors:

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Season 5: Episode 3

Title: The Libros/arte and Cartonera exhibit: What is a book?

In this Episode,

Museum Hours: Monday

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0:00-

0:30- The

1:40- The

6:05- What is

8:03-Behind

9:47- Libros/Arte is resistance

11:39-Yerbas Poderosas

14:39 - The

21:26-

23:27-

29:24 - A

32:02- What

36:10-The

40:30- Go

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Season 5: Episode 2

Summary: 

In this episode, UAlbany students Sophia Smith and Bianca Zazzarini-Leon discuss what it was like to grow up in a multicultural household. Sophia and Bianca delve into how their identities have evolved and what hardships come with negotiating identity. Both students discuss how violent being multicultural in the U.S can be, centering stories of racism and prejudice. However, they also highlight the benefits of having a multicultural background,

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Time Stamps:

0:00- Introduction

0:31 – Find

1:40 –Ancestry and me

2:34 -Gloria, Gloria!   

4:36- Sophia’s family and their cultures

6:11-Bianca’s heritages!

7:47- We all love potatoes!

9:05- A plate of sancocho and pastelitos will always wait for you!

9:52-What culture does Sophia identify with?

14:15–Argentine and Dominican fusion

16:11- Dialects are hard

16:31-Latin America does not equate to Spanish

17:13-Don’t impose identities on others.

17:26-Sophia’s identities

21:44 -Bianca’s identities 

25:38- A perspective on Belize’s reality 

29:41- A perspective on the Dominican Republic’s reality

35:35- Sophia and Bianca’s future household

41:05-  Bye, thanks for listening!

Contributors:

Sophia Smith (StoryTeller/Host), Bianca

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Season 5: Episode 1

Title: Hola and こんにちは (Konnichiwa) Come

In this episode, UAlbany students Casey Navin, Sophia Smith and Bianca Zazzarini-Leon discuss their studying abroad experiences. Casey, Sophia and Bianca discuss how they prepared for their new adventure, which includes preparing before, during and after study abroad and the anxieties and worries that came with this new journey. Each of the storytellers discuss how they handled finances, culture shocks, and the education systems in their respective countries. These culturally immersive experiences have broadened and shaped news perspectives that they will carry with them for the rest of their lives.

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:00 Introduction

:17 Find out where we studied abroad!

2:06 The smoothest study abroad process

6:25 Sophia’s money exchange process

7:42 Sophia’s living situation

8:20 Casey’s financial process

9:22   How we each dealt with our

10:51 They’re all called pesos but they’re different pesos

11:10  How all 3 of us prepared

21:12  Experience the cultures we

38:51 Our education in different cultures

46:09 Language ideology against Dominicans

47:30 Saying our goodbye’s

54:39 Our favorite memories

Contributors:

Casey Navin (StoryTeller), Sophia Smith (StoryTeller/Host), Bianca Zazzarini-León (StoryTeller/Marketing) Ryan Pare (Host, Editor), Carmen Serrano (Executive Producer). UAlbany Student Stories, Season 5, Episode 1 [podcast]. Music from El Pañuelo de Pepa by Javier Colina and Pepe Rivero. José Cruz, Executive Producer.

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Season 4 Episode 6  

Season 4 Finale: Meet the Podcast Team!  

In this episode: Season 4’s podcast team introduces themselves. They talk about why they decided to join the team, and what this opportunity was like for them. Each podcast member explains what their plans are for the future, and they all discuss how studying abroad and pursuing graduate education are things they consider for their next steps in life. Lastly, to wrap up the episode, the podcast team is asked to describe their podcast experience in one word and elaborate on why they chose it. 

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00:00 Intro   

01:09 Why did we join the podcast team?  

02:50 What do we do for marketing?  

03:36 How was being part of the podcast this semester?  

07:22 Our future: What are our plans?  

23:07 What were our favorite episodes? 

29:28 Describing our podcast experience in one word  

32:27 Wrapping up season 4!!! 

Contributors:  

Yesenia Melo (Host), J-Lyn Thomas (Host), Brandon Lemus (Storyteller/Editor), Yehara Gutierrez Rodriguez (Storyteller/Marketing), Christopher Miller (Storyteller/Marketing), Carmen Serrano (Editor/Executive Producer). UAlbany Student Stories, Season 4, Episode 6 [podcast]. Music from El Pañuelo de Pepa by Javier Colina and Pepe Rivero. José Cruz, Executive Producer.  

Funding provided by the UAlbany Faculty Research Awards Program (FRAP).  

Special thanks to Ryan C. Clow, Digital Scholarship Center Training Specialist, for allowing us to use the equipment and recording studio.  

Email Carmen Serrano: [email protected] or the Podcast team: [email protected]   

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Title: Authentically Thoroughly Really, Me, Jalibeth Tells All

Joining us this week is our dear classmate, friend, and Vice President of the Spanish Club, Jalibeth. In this episode, she talks about her background and identity as a Dominican woman. She describes her challenging life in New York City and then reveals how moving to Albany brought her freedom. She then discusses how she has recreated herself and the issues with her academics that have arisen from that experience. To wrap it up, Jalibeth, Yesenia and J-Lyn talk about the culture of hanging out with other individuals with similar linguistic backgrounds in Spanish classes, and the pressure to compete with the graduate students in the program.  

If you have any questions for Jalibeth, follow her Instagram - @jalibeth.s  

00:00 Intro 

00:30 Jalibeth’s Intro  

01:10 “I am Dominican” 

02:01 Spanish is my first language  

03:49 Colorism in the Dominican community 

08:06 Moving from NYC to Albany  

12:08 “Let me tell you how I ended up here”  

13:44 Take the risk! 

16:29 My college experience 

17:19 Take care of yourself  

18:46 “Bills don’t stop”  

20:14 Communicate with your professors  

22:21 Spanish Classes: Non-native vs. Native speakers  

23:50 Grad students vs. Undergrads  

26:20 Different Spanish dialects  

28:03 Wrapping up  

Contributors:  

Jalibeth Sepulveda (Storyteller), Yesenia Melo (Host), J-Lyn Thomas (Host), Brandon Lemus (Editor), Yehara Gutierrez Rodriguez (Marketing), Christopher Miller (Marketing), Carmen Serrano (Editor/Executive Producer). UAlbany Student Stories, Season 4, Episode 5 [podcast]. Music from El Pañuelo de Pepa by Javier Colina and Pepe Rivero. José Cruz, Executive Producer.  

Funding provided by the UAlbany Faculty Research Awards Program (FRAP).  

Special thanks to Ryan C. Clow, Digital Scholarship Center Training Specialist, for allowing us to use the equipment and recording studio.  

Email Carmen Serrano: [email protected] or the Podcast team: [email protected]  

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Season 4: Episode 4  

Title: Latin Lessons in Daily Life 

In this Episode, guest Colin Mance, a senior at UAlbany,

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00:09

00:20

02:10 Experience

04:39

08:16

09:36

11:41

12:16

12:49

13:13 Track

15:37 Going

16:36 What

21:59

23:08

26:14

Contributors: 

Colin Mance (Storyteller), Yesenia

More about

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Season 4: Episode 3 

Title: UAlbany Student Stories - The Power of Storytelling  

In this episode, UAlbany Student Stories’ Executive producer and editor, Dr. Carmen Serrano, along with Season 4 co-hosts, Yesenia Melo, and J-Lyn Thomas, are interviewed by hosts Dr. Eric Hardiman and Alyssa Lotmore on the Social Workers Radio Talk Show. They talk about how in 2019, armed with a $6,500 University StAR grant, the Director of the Spanish program in Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LLC) department and the Associate professor, Carmen Serrano set out to establish the largely student-run podcast; UAlbany Student Stories. This podcast was created to help amplify the voices of underrepresented and marginalized UAlbany students and alumni, with storytelling that would prove both instructive and inspiring to others.  

00:00 – Intro  

00:15 – Social Work month – Events coming up.  

02:48 – Carmen Serrano’s Intro  

03:12 – Creation of UAlbany Student Stories  

03:52 – Yesenia Melo and J-Lyn Thomas intros 

04:26 – How did the idea for this podcast series come about? 

06:27 – COVID’s impact on the podcast 

06:43 – Sound notes recorded during the pandemic. 

07:03 – What are sound notes?  

07:43 – Topics shared on UAlbany Student Stories  

08:01 – How’s the process of preparing for podcast participation?   

10:12 – Was the podcast something we had an interest in before? 

11:44 – How are students selected to tell their stories? 

12:29 – What is the response to the podcast? How do we navigate it?  

14:36 – UAlbany’s rich diversity and student background  

15:24 – What are the most important aspects of storytelling? 

18:20 – Did we expect the podcast’s success? 

20:32 – What’s the notion of discourse a podcast gives you? 

23:03 – Practical skills of interviewing. 

23:54 – How the Social Workers Radio Talk Show started. 

24:12 – Guest’s authentic stories and expertise.  

25:22 – Next steps and expectations for UAlbany Student Stories  

28:30 – Where can you find UAlbany Student Stories? Our platforms and social media  

31:13 – Outro  

Contributors:  

The Social Workers Radio Talk Show: 

Eric Hardiman (Host), Alyssa Lotmore (Host)  

UAlbany Student Stories:  

Carmen Serrano (Storyteller/Editor/Executive Producer), Yesenia Melo (Storyteller/Host), J-Lyn Thomas (Storyteller/Host), Brandon Lemus (Editor), Yehara Gutierrez Rodriguez (Marketing), Christopher Miller (Marketing). UAlbany Student Stories, Season 4, Episode 3 [podcast].  

More about the Group: https://www.albany.edu/news-center/news/2022-indigenous-students-host-vigil-honoring-residential-school-survivors 

Funding provided by the UAlbany Faculty Research Awards Program (FRAP).   

Special thanks to Ryan C. Clow, Digital Scholarship Center Training Specialist, for allowing us to use the equipment and recording studio.   

Email Carmen Serrano: [email protected] or the Podcast team: [email protected]   

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Season 4: Episode 2

Title: Through Food and Protest: Celebrating Indigenous Heritage

In this episode, guests Jillian Benedict, and Ryleigh John tell the history behind their founding of the Indigenous Student Association at UAlbany. They dig deeper into the extraordinarily successful events their group has held so far, including an indigenous food tasting, and a vigil for the victims of the Residential School system founded by the US and Canadian governments. Jillian and Ryleigh explain the history behind the schools, and their lasting impact. Finally, they discuss some of the future events being held by ISA that listeners can support and attend.

00:00 Intro

00:20 Jillian’s Intro

00:24 Ryleigh’s Intro

00:31 How did ISA start?

01:31 Where are the indigenous communities?

02:05 ISA’s inclusion and acceptance on campus

02:47 How have you been exposed to the culture?

03:58 Seneca language

05:07 NYS Language curriculums do not help

05:30 Life growing up on reservations.

06:18 Cultural shock coming to UAlbany

06:52 How far away are reservations?

07:18 What is something you miss?

07: 47 What is Native American Heritage Month?

08:00 ISA food event

10:01 Residential school survivors’ event

10:22 Residential schools’ background history

11:19 Personal impact of the event

14:20 Upcoming ISA events

14:47 Shout-out

Contributors:

Jillian Benedict (Storyteller), Ryleigh John (Storyteller), Yesenia Melo (Host), J-Lyn Thomas (Host), Brandon Lemus (Editor), Yehara Gutierrez Rodriguez (Marketing), Christopher Miller (Marketing), Carmen Serrano (Editor/Executive Producer). UAlbany Student Stories, Season 4, Episode 2 [podcast]. Music from El Pañuelo de Pepa by Javier Colina and Pepe Rivero. José Cruz, Executive Producer.

More about the Group: https://www.albany.edu/news-center/news/2022-indigenous-students-host-vigil-honoring-residential-school-survivors

Funding provided by the UAlbany Faculty Research Awards Program (FRAP).

Special thanks to Ryan C. Clow, Digital Scholarship Center Training Specialist, for allowing us to use the equipment and recording studio.

Email Carmen Serrano: [email protected] or the Podcast team: [email protected]

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