Voices Amp'd

Lora Wilson - In our first in person interview, Lora shares about her work as a Movement Therapist, healing through dance, her work with our current project, Bodies Amp'd, and her many adventures in mountain climbing. 

Ellie & Vanessa - We are back and can't wait to share out Season Two guests! In this short introductory episode we give a shout out to our Season One guests as well as reflect on the continued effects of the pandemic including burn out, grief, taking space for self care and finding the motivation to keep fighting the good fight as we move forward with Voices Amp'd Season Two into 2022. 

Voices Amp'd is back for Season 2 with Ellie Clark and Vanessa Becker Weig. Throughout the season they will be joined by special guests and the Voices Amplified Team. Visit us at www.VoicesAmplified.net.

Vanessa Davis - On her musical influences, coaching and teaching young artists in Kentucky, the best piece of advice she's ever been given and where you can search and listen to her new extended play album, Pretty Little Cabin: A Quarantine EP. Jumping from piano to guitar, Vanessa shares several of her songs to wrap up Voices Amp'd Season One including the Voices Amp'd theme song I'm Doing Okay. Follow her @songwritervanessa

Tanyqua and Lexie - On their writing process, how their writing is informed by the trauma they have experienced in their lives, and other techniques outside of their writing that they use for self care when it all gets to be too much. Both Lexie and Tanyqua share their writing in our campfire segment.

Jen Joplin - On her upcoming one-woman show The Prime of Miss Jen Joplin (premiering June 4 at the Cincy Fringe Festival), her 30 year career as an artist, the church she bought to transform into a creative community right before the pandemic hit, and how she navigates being an artist, a wife, and a parent who homeschooled her son and nephew throughout the pandemic...and still managed to write a show! Online and live, you can buy tickets to The Prime of Miss Jen Joplin at CINCYFRINGE.COM.

ACTivate - ACTivate students share about the premiere of their upcoming show Cabaret for Change, fundraising for partner organizations in the community, their student led podcast ACTivate On Air, navigating being young artists throughout the pandemic, as well as their creative writing centered around Amanda Gorman's inauguration day speech The Hill We Climb. Rylie Sudduth, Sophie Hill, Maeve Denton, and Brodie Blair 

Jessica Greene - On her work with TEACH (Theatre for Equity, Accountability, Community, and Healing), being Artistic Director of Distilled Theatre Company, administrating the all girls Rise STEAM Academy in Lexington, KY during a pandemic, and her journey with infertility and the community support that gave her Lucas, her beautiful baby boy.

Rena Childers - On her work in the political arena with the Jon Osoff campaign (Georgia) and the Charles Booker campaign (Kentucky), her volunteer work with Planned Parenthood, the challenges of transitioning from high school to college to entering the workforce in a pandemic, as well as insight into the importance of mental and physical health and why she prioritizes relationships over everything.

Dr. Chamara Jewel Kwakye - A womanist scholar-educator with interdisciplinary interests at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnography, performance and pedagogy, Dr. Chamara Jewel Kwakye, talks about her work of elevating stories of Black women and girls that examines their power and agency in oppressive spaces, her work on Wish To Live: The Hip-hop Feminism Pedagogy Reader and (SOLHOT) Saving Our Lives, Hear Our Truths. Chamara inspires us with her stories of family, resilience and claiming your creative self.