Intersections Radio

Hosted by: 
Sarika Mehta
Produced by: 
KBOO
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Aiming to connect communities through unique and unexpected stories

Greetings! A new show is coming to KBOO Community Radio and it is Intersections Radio! This show is hosted and produced by me, Sarika Mehta, with my partner-in-crime - Liz Rogers - engineering (that is, making us sound great!). Liz and I were a part of the amazing APA Compass collective at KBOO!

Intersections Radio starts from an Asian Pacific American perspective, and aims to connect communities through unique and unexpected stories. I've always wanted to collect these kinds of stories after a collective career working with linguistic minorities: from my early days in Bilingual Education to my current days as a Sign Language Interpreter. This idea was inspired by stories from theDeaf South Asian American community, at the intersection of race, ethnicity, language and deafness. 

**Intersections Radio airs at a new time: First Fridays from 11-11:30 am on KBOO! Tune in at 90.7 FM or stream live at kboo.fm

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Topic tags: 
Asian Pacific American, History, Race, Arts/Culture
Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
Program status: 
Retired

The Beat is Dead: Nina Diaz

Airs at: Wed, 06/28/2017 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  Intersections Radio
  Sarika Mehta welcomes Nina Diaz to the KBOO studio to talk about her music and her life. Almost two decades ago, on January 9, 1998, musician Nina Diaz was heartbroken to learn her grandmother had passed away. Exactly 15 years later, on that same date, Nina was writing ... Read more

ON COMMON GROUND

Airs at: Tue, 06/27/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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  Guest host Sarika Mehta will be LIVE in studio for this Intersections Radio episode, with Subashini Ganesan (New Expressive Works) and Amna Mawaz Khan (Theatre Wallay). Both are Bharatanatyam dancers - Suba is local, and Amna is from Pakistan. They'll be chatting up this... Read more

Four Weeks Five People by Jennifer Yu

Airs at: Wed, 06/14/2017 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  Intersections Radio
  Sarika Mehta welcomes Jennifer Yu to KBOO to discuss her novel Four Weeks Five People...Obsessive-compulsive teen Clarissa wants to get better, if only so her mother will stop asking her if she's okay.  Andrew wants to overcome his eating disorder so he can get back to h... Read more

Vieux Farka Toure from the KBOO studio!

Airs at: Mon, 05/29/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Intersections Radio
  Vieux Farka Toure visits the KBOO studio! He talks about how music chose him (rather than him choosing music) and that his music is his service to his country (he comes from a family of soldiers, traditionally. Except his extraordinarily gifted father, Ali Farka Toure, w... Read more

Gaby Moreno: Live on KBOO!

Airs at: Wed, 03/29/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Intersections Radio
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  Since moving to Los Angeles from her native Guatemala, singer-songwriter Gaby Moreno has achieved remarkable success as a musician. She has been nominated for an Emmy and won a Latin Grammy for Best New Artist. She has released four albums, toured with singers Tracy Chap... Read more

"We Too Sing America" with racial justic activist Deepa Iyer

Airs at: Fri, 12/04/2015 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Intersections Radio
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Host Sarika Mehta speaks with Deepa Iyer about her new book "We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future." They talk about recent racial flash points and the hate crimes directed at South Asians, Sikh Americans and Muslim... Read more

Having a Passport without a Country: Novelists Celeste Ng and Sara Novic

Airs at: Fri, 11/06/2015 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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It's another great episode of Intersections Radio - the monthly show where we geek out on all things intersectionality. This time we're talking about having a passport without a country. Tomorrow's episode features interviews with two debut novelists:    Chinese America... Read more

Walkable Communities and Social Justice, Health Privacy, and a Deaf South Asian American Story

Airs at: Fri, 10/02/2015 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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It's another episode of Intersections Radio! This month we talk health with: **United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthy talks about his call to action on walkable communities and social justice **Deanna Fei, author of "Girl in Glass" joins us live to talk about health priv... Read more

September 2015: Minority Perspectives from India

Airs at: Fri, 09/04/2015 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Intersections Radio
It's the September episode of Intersections Radio! This month we look at under represented voices from minorities in India! Featuring: Michele Friedner, Medical Anthropologist and author of Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India. She'll talk about the various kinds of value Bang... Read more

Featuring Lennard Davis and Haben Girma

Airs at: Fri, 08/07/2015 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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Tune in to another episode of Intersections Radio! We're continuing the #ADA25 celebrations featuring leaders in the field!     Lennard Davis: scholar of Disability Studies and author of Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the La... Read more