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Unaccompanied

Within the past couple of years, there's been aninflux of unaccompanied child migrants arriving in the United States (including to Kansas) after fleeing violence and poverty in Central America. We check in on those kids with two local immigration lawyers and a reporter who has investigated the placement of young immigrantsin unsafe homes.

Guests:

  • Angela L. Williams, local immigration lawyer
  • Michael Sharma-Crawford, local immigration lawyer
  • Garance Burke, investigative reporter, Associated Press

 

Copyright 2016 KCUR 89.3

Gina’s background combines print and broadcast journalism, live event hosting and production, creative nonfiction writing and involvement in the arts. Early in her career, she followed a cultural beat for The Pitch, where she served as an editor and art writer in the early 2000s.
Matthew has been involved in media since 2003. While hosting a show on his college radio station, he quickly realized the influence, intimacy and joys of radio. After graduating from Kenyon College he had a brief stint as a short-order cook in exotic Gambier, Ohio. He then joined Murray Street Productions as the marketing manager. At Murray Street he also conducted interviews, produced podcasts, wrote scripts for Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio, and made the office computers hum. In addition to working at Murray Street, Matthew has done freelance radio production and his work has been featured on Chicago Public Radio’s local news program Eight Forty-Eight. He has also worked as a marketing assistant at WBGO in Newark, NJ, where he helped to grow audience through placing advertisements, managing the station social media, improving the website, building email campaigns and doing in person promotion at jazz events throughout New York and New Jersey. Matthew has won several awards for radio production including a Gold and Silver from the Kansas City Press Club in 2017. You can find Matthew bicycling around the city and the globe.