I, along with two other students, Hanan Daher and Samadi Bryan have spent the past months creating a podcast called ‘GEN Z: Let’s Increase Visibility’ discussing social issues affecting us and many others. This podcast has been sponsored by America’s Promise Alliance. Our goal for this podcast was to inspire others in our community to talk about the world around us. We wanted to both educate and inspire intellectual conversations amongst our peers about social issues today. By understanding these social issues, we can know how to be better allies toward others in our community and work to build a better society. In our podcast, we speak on topics of racism, sexism, homophobia, etc.

All of our episodes are linked below!

My group’s PSA is an air pollution warning in the format of an apocalypse. We chose this topic because we originally wanted to study the harm of fast fashion brands, i.e., SHEIN. However, that wasn’t a large impact on our country. So, we decided to settle for air pollution. I did well with planning the outline of the video. When we were given class time to work on the project, I remained diligent to complete the task at hand. I also served as a reporter within our PSA. In terms of doing things differently, I should’ve tried better at keeping my group on task. During class time, my group members were off task. In addition, we didn’t feel an urgency to complete this project. So, maybe we should’ve spent more time brainstorming how we could’ve made the PSA the best it could possibly be. The most meaningful part about creating the PSA was that this could be real life if we don’t take action now. Even though we tried to add humorous elements to the video, it could all happen in a matter of years. Overall, this was a fun project to make, and I’ll miss doing creative projects like this after graduation.

Global water crises are an environmental justice issue because having access to clean and safe water is a basic human right. It’s essential to survival for all species on earth.