UR Home Stories Podcast

Our UR Home Stories writer Quinn Humphrey comes on the show to discuss life in Hillsdale, New York. He details his interactions with community members, relocating from one of the worst hot spots in the world and what it is like living through the pandemic with Diabetes.In the second half, Sarah Goldberg, a store manager at a Sarasota Starbucks, joins the show. She discusses a near run in with COVID-19 at work, the decision to close, and eventually re-open, her store and the internal struggles she had to deal with through the pandemic.  If you like what you're hearing, make sure to follow/subscribe and give us a five-star review on Apple! Also follow the pod (@URHomeStories) and Noah (@noahgoldberg10) on Twitter for more UR Home Stories content!

Donna Mueller is a photographer from Westchester County, New York who was inspired to join the Front Steps Project after reading an article on a Boston photographer.  She has been taking family portraits, free of charge, from a socially distant 10-20 feet away on the front steps of fellow community members.  All she asks for in return? That the families buy a gift card to a local business/restaurant or donate to another organization. Lindsay Emery, one of our writers with the UR Home Stories project, wrote a great piece on Donna in her local newspaper, which you should definitely check out before or after you give this a listen! (https://t.co/I3NXplCmnc?amp=1)Our website for the UR Home Stories project is now live! Make sure to go check it out to see all the great work you've been hearing us talk about! https://blog.richmond.edu/walkingrichmond/If you like what you're hearing, please follow the show on Twitter (@URHomeStories) and Noah (@noahgoldberg10) for more #URHomeStories content! Make sure to hit that follow/subscribe button!

Caterina Erdas (@caterinaerdas) joins the show to discuss how her family dynamics have changed dealing with their immunocompromised grandmother.  She also details how her relationship with her Popo has developed, what it's like facing a language barrier with each other, varying ideologies and faiths within her household and much more! Make sure to look out for all her work on Twitter and the UR Home Stories website soon!Owen Grady is a sophomore at the University of Richmond and a recovered COVID-19 patient.  He joins the show to share his experience with the virus physically and mentally, as well as the convolution involved in testing and information gathering.

Nina joins the podcast from our Slow Journalism course to discuss the current situation in Michigan plus how her family dealt with the possibility of her mother being called to the frontlines as a nurse. Dr. Michael Goldberg has been the president and director of Child and Family Psychological Service Inc. since 1994 and is a past president of the Massachusetts Psychological Association. He joins the program to discuss taking care of your mental health during social distancing and how telehealth is playing a major role.

My first guest from our Slow Journalism course, Alex Rodríguez Muñoz, joins to discuss his experience living with a host family in Maryland while his own family remains in Spain. We tackle what the adjustments have been like to the UR Home Stories project and creating his first dispatch. Make sure to follow him on Twitter @alex_romu1 to keep up with his work! In the second half of the show, Matt Sullivan joins to discuss how he raised over $2000 in just a week through his Instagram to donate to food pantries as the Coronavirus outbreak grew.

Noah sits down with Don Belt, the former chief foreign correspondent with National Geographic and a professor at the University of Richmond. We discuss the UR Home Stories project that his Slow Journalism course is creating, its origins with Paul Salopek's Out of Eden Walk, a National Geographic project, the current media landscape during the COVID-19 pandemic and much more. Belt draws from his experiences traveling to more than 80 countries as a writer and editor to help explain the current crisis and why Slow Journalism is more important now than ever. Make sure to follow the podcast on Twitter (@URHomeStories) and Don (@dbelt50)! You can reach us at [email protected] as well!