Radio Shows

Melanie Brown, Kelsey Balcazar, Maya Ríos, Catalina de Onís, Bryanda Quevedo, and Arturo Sarmiento tour the Radio Poder station in Woodburn, July 2023.

Learn about El Sonido de la Ciencia y la Justicia (The Sound of Science and Justice) program on Radio Poder. This Spanish-language reporting project brings together Radio Poder station director Arturo Sarmiento, BBC News journalist Melanie Brown, University of Oregon students, and Dr. Onís.

Members of Willamette University’s La Chispa environmental justice coalition visit the KMUZ radio station in Salem, Oregon, during a September 2017 training session. Pictured collaborators are (left to right): Diana Marquez Guerrero, Dr. Catalina de Onís, Brelynn Hess, Michelle Hicks, and Sky Blaw.

The Worldviews Wednesday weekly KMUZ program engaged themes and topics to communicate a just, equitable, and sustainable Salem-Keizer community and aired September 2017-August 2018. Dr. Onís and Willamette University students co-hosted interviews and also prepared reports on a variety of social justice and sustainability topics.

Senior seminar class members also generated videos and podcasts for airing on local TV and radio. A sampling of these topics included food communication and Latinx identities, flight shaming and corporate messaging, and the role of xenophobia, racialization, and scapegoating in shaping COVID-19 discourses in the United States.