Inherited

Inherited

We don't choose the world we inherit. But we do choose what we do with it. Inherited uplifts compassionate, sound-rich climate storytelling by, for, and about young people across the globe, particularly those from marginalized communities.

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July 6, 2020 4 mins
Meet the young people who are powering an earth-shaking climate movement in this sneak peek of the upcoming series.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Today, leaders of the Sunrise Movement are advising on climate policy up and down the ballot, and helping to secure elections for politicians committed to acting on climate. But back in 2018, they were just a small group of activists, disillusioned by the failures of the adults in Congress to fight the climate crisis. It took collective action, and decentralized movement-building, to gain power. This is the story of the inciting in...
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September 21, 2020 26 mins
In October 2012, a 15-year-old girl named Jenna watched as Hurricane Sandy devastated her beachside community. Ever since, she’s witnessed its struggle for recovery. As climate disasters become increasingly familiar to the average American, Jenna’s story offers an inside look at precisely what happens when the crisis comes to call. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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September 28, 2020 28 mins
The climate isn’t only changing our oceans, glaciers, fires, and storms. It’s changing the very fabric of our minds. Today, we hear from activists whose mental health has suffered as a result of this unprecedented existential crisis — and discuss how we can lighten the load. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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October 5, 2020 32 mins
Listen, 2020 has been rough. Between the pandemic, climate fires, police brutality, and the election, this year has felt like we’re hurtling down a highway to hell. But today, we’re taking an exit. In the final episode of Inherited’s pilot season, we ask the question: what if, in the face of despair, we choose hope? What if, through collective dreams of a better tomorrow, we can save ourselves? Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...
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September 7, 2022 3 mins
Inherited is back! This season, we put out a call for climate pitches from young storytellers—and they delivered. We were blown away by more than 70 submissions from over 20 countries worldwide. Of these, we selected 9 incredible stories to bring you this fall. Stay tuned for the season premiere on September 21st! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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September 21, 2022 37 mins
Georgia and Jules recap the last couple years of changes for the show and the climate movement, with help from climate activists Racheal Baker and Nik Evasco. Then, storyteller Jasmine Butler invites listeners into an immersive, Afrofuturist short story about humanity’s new relationship with other organisms. About the Storyteller: Jasmine Butler (they/them) is a queer southern cowboi who finds connection and purpose through storyt...
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September 28, 2022 31 mins
Storyteller Maggie Wang reflects on silence, noise pollution, disability, and empty climate promises. Then, storyteller Jasmine Hardy reports on the environmental racism poisoning Oakland public schools. About the Storytellers: Maggie Wang is a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. Her recent writing appears in Harvard Review, Poetry Wales, and bath magg. She is a Ledbury Emerging Poetry Critic, a Barbican Young Poet, and the reviews...
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October 5, 2022 45 mins
Mukta Dharmapurikar visits her grandparents’ sugarcane farm in western India to report on the young farmers affected by drought. Kenia Hale recounts a climate-fueled windstorm decimating her family’s yard in Cleveland, Ohio. About the Storytellers: Kenia Hale (she/her) is a writer, artist, and researcher from the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio. A grandchild of the great migration, Kenia graduated from Yale University in 2021, where sh...
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October 12, 2022 30 mins
Neil Luczai invites us to join him in an experimental, embodied environmental movement meditation. Tife Sanusi interviews young African activists who have been excluded from the climate conversation as they witness its consequences play out at home. Plus, a special treat at the end. Neil Luczai (he/him) is a recent graduate based in New England making audio work around the threads that connect the arts, culture, and the environme...
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October 19, 2022 40 mins
Denali Nalamalapu talks with queer parents of color about their decision to raise children in intentional, chosen community. YR Media Newsroom staffer Shaylyn Martos speaks to fellow CHamoru language learners from Guam and the Micronesian diaspora on reviving their Indigenous tongue and their personal connections to their island home. About the Storytellers: Denali Nalamalapu (she/they) is a queer, South Indian American writer, ar...
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July 5, 2023 2 mins
Welcome back to Inherited, a critically acclaimed climate storytelling show made by, for, and about young people. We share beautifully written, sonically immersive, and empathy-forward stories from within the youth climate movement and beyond.  This season, you can expect eight moving narratives from youth storytellers across the globe. From Taiwan, to Romania, Nigeria, Australia, Dominica, and the United States, our cohort of yout...
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July 19, 2023 33 mins
In the Season 3 premiere of Inherited, host Shaylyn Martos introduces us to storyteller Camara Aaron, who shares a personal story of family loss, structural resilience, and survival in an era of climate change.  Camara, now 25, was only a child when she visited her grandmother’s unique house on the island of Dominica, in the West Indies. But when Hurricane Maria devastated the Caribbean in 2017, her grandmother died in the storm, l...
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July 21, 2023 13 mins
In the first of a series of behind-the-scenes bonus episodes, Inherited host Shaylyn Martos sits down with storyteller Camara Aaron, the creative force behind Season 3, Episode 1, “Mama’s House.” Together, they talk about her creative process, growth, and next steps.  [STORYTELLER] Camara Aaron is an Aries. She is also a writer and researcher, based in New York City and working in documentary film. Outside of documentary, Camara pr...
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Today, storyteller Paloma Moreno Jiménez conjures a folkloric audio fiction about the cross-cultural, agricultural importance of corn, and its relationship with humanity. Her experimental, sound-lush story anthropomorphizes the “three sisters” crops – Maíz (Corn), Calabaza (Squash), and Frijol (Bean) – as real sisters, and follows the eldest, Maíz, as she shares the story of a fantastical journey into the spirit world with her gran...
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July 28, 2023 16 mins
Inherited host Shaylyn Martos sits down with storyteller Paloma Moreno Jiménez, the creative mind behind Season 3, Episode 2, “Maíz es Vida.” Together, they talk about Paloma’s real-life inspiration for her fantastical story, as well as the joys and challenges of entering the audio industry as a young producer.  Paloma Moreno Jiménez (she/they) is an audio storyteller and a queer immigrant from the Tijuana-San Diego borderlands. Pa...
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In today’s episode, storyteller Mo Isu traces the repetitive cycle of loss and rebuilding in the rural Niger Delta region of Nigeria as the country weathers extreme seasonal flooding. After meeting a flood survivor in his hometown of Lagos, Mo travels twelve hours to Lokoja – the town where Nigeria’s largest rivers converge – to explore how directly impacted flood survivors endure the region’s relentless cycle of damage and repair....
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August 4, 2023 14 mins
Inherited host Shaylyn Martos sits down with storyteller Mo Isu, who dove deep into flooding patterns in his home country of Nigeria for Season 3, Episode 3: “Loss is on the Calendar.” Together, they talk about data-driven journalism, Mo’s growth as a writer and producer, and how his story came together.  Mo Isu is a writer and audio producer based in Lagos Nigeria. He covers stories that are human-led and guide people to moments o...
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In today’s episode, storyteller Emma Schulman explores the effects of climate-fueled natural disasters on already-susceptible domestic violence survivors in Colorado. She meditates on the nature of trauma, embedding with the team at SPAN, the Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence, to investigate how the 2021 Marshall Fire impacted the nonprofit’s most vulnerable clientele and staff.  Inherited is a critically acclaimed cli...
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August 11, 2023 15 mins
Inherited host Shaylyn Martos sits down with storyteller Emma Schulman, who traced the effects of natural disasters on survivors of domestic violence for Season 3, Episode 4: “One Day at a Time.” Together, they talk about Emma’s reporting process and growth in the YR Media newsroom.  Emma Schulman (she/her) is a Production Assistant in the newsroom at YR Media. In the newsroom, she writes a variety of different pieces on different ...
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