VOA – CONNECT
EPISODE # 325
AIR DATE: 04 05 2024
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((Title))
3D Printed Cars
((SOT))
((Kevin Czinger
Divergent 3D Founder))
This car symbolizes the transition from a built world, like physically human built world that’s analog to a completely new much more efficient world, a world that is much more in harmony with nature because it minimizes material and energy use, maximizes the efficiency of the product.
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((Title))
Legalizing Lowriders
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((Lorraine Quinones
Community Activist))
Overall, the emotions are exciting and victorious because we helped change law. That’s not easy, especially for people like ourselves, coming out of areas like East LA, and getting heard in such a big way statewide.
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((Title))
Electric Vehicles
((SOT))
((Mel Hsieh
Tesla Roadster Owner))
I think about the evolution of the automobile, electrification in the future and the self-driving aspect. EVs are more prevalent. Teslas are more prevalent.
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((Title))
Women Auto Mechanics
((SOT))
((Dana Greenstreet
Automotive Mechanic))
Everybody told me that I couldn't do it, that girls can’t be mechanics. I said, “Okay, let's see. I want to do it.” And here I am.
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((TITLE)) 3D CAR PRINTING
((TRT: 04:42))
((Reporter/Camera/Editor/Producer: Genia Dulot))
((Map: Los Angeles, California))
((Main characters: 0 female; 2 male))
((Sub characters: 0 female; 0 male))
((Blurb: Los Angeles based automaker Kevin Czinger and his son Lucas are introducing digital manufacturing, that will change how we make cars and save the environment))
((NATS))
((Lukas Czinger
Divergent 3D Co-founder))
Automotive manufacturing is 100 years old. It is very much so locked in design-specific tooling and is very much so has a large negative impact in terms of emissions produced from that manufacturing process.
((Kevin Czinger
Divergent 3D Founder))
The traditional way of making cars was just broken. It took too much time, and too much capital, and was too risky because all of that time and capital went into a set of industrial cookie-cutters that couldn’t be changed. They could only cut the same cookie, no matter what the market said, no matter what innovation came. And so I said, “Do away with a cookie-cutter and create a system that’s a full digital system. Idea in, product out. Different idea in, same system, different product out.”
((Lukas Czinger
Divergent 3D Co-founder))
We came onto this idea of, okay, we can engineer a part more efficiently, because we have computational power. We’re not making full use of it in auto today, but it exists. We can compute many variables, you know, using machine learning and AI [Artificial Intelligence] to actually optimize a perfect, efficient structure.
((Lukas Czinger
Divergent 3D Co-founder))
Look at this part for example. You know, this is one from our rear subframe for the 21C. Typically, you would cast this part. You wouldn’t 3-D print this part. This is a fully printed part. If you were casting this part, you would never have these actual geometries. You could never have these internal geometries. So in the end, you would be creating a part that is much heavier and is actually not perfectly optimized for its load cases. Not only would it be heavier, but if you want to change that part, you’d have to make a new casting mold, so re-engineer your entire casting mold just to make one design change. In our process, we just re-optimize with the software. We print it on our 3D printers in metal, perfectly optimized, wasting no material. And if you want to make a design change, within days we can have a new part to you.
((NATS))
((Kevin Czinger
Divergent 3D Founder))
So this is the most powerdense production, powertrain internal combustion engine ever designed and built. It’s designed and built by Czinger as well. It has an output of 998 horsepower with the two EV motors upfront. The total horsepower is a little under 1400 horsepower.
((Lukas Czinger
Divergent 3D Co-founder))
When you look at this engine bay, and you understand really that this is from the cross brace here, the rear frame to the exhaust system, a perfectly Prado optimized structure, meaning there’s not a single gram more material on that structure today than you need.
((Kevin Czinger
Divergent 3D Founder))
This car symbolizes the transition from a built world, like physically human built world that’s analog, to a completely new, much more efficient world, a world that’s much more in harmony with nature because it minimizes material and energy use, maximizes the efficiency of the product by making it much lighter while being just as safe and higher performing, so it uses less fuel and other resources. And all of the structures that we print are made of materials that are completely recyclable.
((Lukas Czinger
Divergent 3D Co-founder))
And then start with an application like this that is low volume, gets people’s attention, gets by and proves the tech, but then show it and evolve it into mass scale. And that’s where we ultimately want to go. We want to see the majority of vehicles, ten years from now, manufactured with this system. We want to see global CO2 levels associated with vehicle manufacturing reduced, and reduced based on this manufacturing system that we’ve invented and commercialized.
((Kevin Czinger
Divergent 3D Founder))
And then the final part is democratization. If someone no longer needs to spend money to design something, and then they’ll need to build a factory to manufacture it,
((Courtesy: Czinger Vehicles))
but they can simply have a set of tools that’ll allow them to design anywhere on the planet, and then the facility to do that is digital, and then they can just send their design and have it printed and assembled,
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then you’re democratizing the ability of people to create.
((Courtesy: Czinger Vehicles))
And so the end vision is: have a built world that’s digitized, so that it can become much more material and energy efficient. Therefore, it becomes environmentally sustainable, and then creating a permanent localized community of creation.
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People then design locally, manufacture locally, use locally, and the materials flow locally.
((Courtesy: Czinger Vehicles))
((TITLE)) LOWRIDING IS LEGALIZED
((TRT: 04:40))
((Reporter/Camera/Editor/Producer: Genia Dulot))
((Map: Los Angeles, California))
((Main characters: 1 female; 1 male))
((Sub characters: 0 female; 1 male))
((Blurb: Lowriding has been a part of Mexican-American culture in the U.S for many decades, this year the state of California repeals the laws from 1958 and 1986, that were prohibiting lowering the cars and cruising.))
((NATS))
((Lorraine Quinones
Community Activist))
My husband and I were cruising in our Bel Air, and then we were refused access to the public street, Whittier Boulevard, which is our community. We wanted to cruise the public streets and we were told, "No lowriders allowed" by the sheriff's department.
((NATS))
((Joe Ayala
Legislative Attorney))
((SKYPE logo))
The laws that regulated cruising and really lowriders in general, first started off in 1958, when the legislature passed a bill that limited how low you could operate your vehicle on the public highways. They said you couldn't operate it if the bottom frame of your vehicle was lower than the lowest part of your rim of your tires.
The second one was when in 1986, they passed another law that allowed cities and counties in California to adopt local ordinances that would ban cruising.
It was kind of in response to, I guess, I'd say a lot of stereotypes were about lowriders in general. There was a lot of movies at the time that came out that depicted lowriders as equating to gangs and crime and violence, which I’m sure happens, but I'm sure that happens with a lot of different kinds of car club enthusiasts or any kind of activity for that matter, where you have a big crowd.
((NATS))
((Joe Ayala
Legislative Attorney))
((SKYPE logo))
As the state law got passed, cities and counties started enacting ordinances that prohibited you from cruising, which was defined in the state vehicle code as going around, kind of like in a circle between two stop signs or stop lights three times or more in a given period of time.
((SKYPE logo))
It targeted us. There's no other state that has that limit on how low a car…there's no public safety reason, there's no mechanical reason that the city or a county should care or that the state should care for that matter, other than the type of people who lower their cars tend to look like me.
Yeah, I tend to have cars that are a little bit more customized, and if you want to keep them out of your neighborhood or your city or you want to penalize them, make a law and have the cops start enforcing it.
((NATS))
((Lorraine Quinones
Community Activist))
As an educator, as a community activist, as a Chicana, it’s a political statement and we felt like that that law was unjust. It’s discrimination. And seeing those “No Cruising” signs along the boulevard was not okay. So, we decided to stand up and fight back.
I started that local petition on Change.org to see if other people agreed with repealing the ordinance and getting rid of that ban.
It took off. A lot of people were supporting it. On Friday the 13th, October 13, 2023, Governor Newsom signed it. You can cruise. You don't have to worry about how many times you pass in one area. How low your vehicle is.
((NATS))
((Lorraine Quinones
Community Activist))
Overall, the emotions are exciting and victorious because we helped change law. That’s not easy, especially for people like ourselves, coming out of areas like East LA, and getting heard in such a big way statewide.
((NATS))
((Big Rob Moreno
Lowrider Owner))
I got a phone call, a text from my daughter, stating that they got pulled over around the corner. So, we went over there. I started telling them, you know, "Why are you pulling them over? They’re not doing nothing. They’re not hopping or anything else." The way you see it, that’s the way it was.
((Joe Ayala
Legislative Attorney))
((SKYPE logo))
Just because you have hydraulics doesn’t mean it’s legal. You could violate other code sections by driving your car with, you've seen, I don't know if you've seen anywhere they have their car that’s basically just on three tires and the fourth one raised up. That could be dangerous. Now, that can be an unsafe vehicle.
So, they can still give you a ticket for that. But the idea about the hydraulics was to lift the front or lift the back and kind of show your car off, show off maybe some of the lower suspension or your tires kind of just like a parade.
((Big Rob Moreno
Lowrider Owner))
They could have said, "Okay, lower your car." or "Okay, I'm going to give you a warning." A warning would have been fair. But getting a ticket, how much is this going to cost?
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Electric Vehicles
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((Mel Hsieh
Tesla Roadster Owner))
Tesla’s approach to self-driving is machine learning. It’s a camera-based system to recognize physical objects on the road. Whether it’s cars or pedestrians or like a ball that goes in the road or something like that, the car knows what every object is, what needs to be avoided.
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((TITLE)) FEMALE BOXER
((TRT: 1:02))
((Original Reporter/Editor: Faiza Elmasry))
((Original Camera/Editor: Mike Burke))
((Social Media Producer/Editor: Lisa Vohra))
((Blurb: Meet Tori "Sho Nuff" Nelson, a boxer who has earned the title of 13-time World Champion boxer while also juggling the responsibilities of being a mother of two kids.))
((Tori Nelson
Boxer, 13-time World Champion))
I didn't choose boxing. Boxing chose me.
((Tori Nelson
Boxer, 13-time World Champion))
I started boxing at like age 29.
((Tori Nelson
Boxer, 13-time World Champion))
Most people started like in their teens but I started very late. But that's to let you know, it's never too late to do anything you want to do.
((Courtesy: Tori Nelson))
Excited crowd here at the Turning Stone Resort. And here comes Tori Nelson.
((Tori Nelson
Boxer, 13-time World Champion))
The walk to the ring, I call it the walk of death because my anxiety would take over so bad, that most of the time I would throw up before a fight.
((Tori Nelson
Boxer, 13-time World Champion))
Once I get hit the first time, I'm like, “Okay, it's on now. Let's get it.” Like I'm smiling. I'm happy because I'm like, I'm up now and it’s fight time.
((NATS: Coach))
You’re trying to chop with those punches. Extend your arms.
((Tori Nelson
Boxer, 13-time World Champion))
You think about it, boxing is like life. You fight. You have to fight to get through life sometimes. I love boxing.
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((TITLE)) ELECTRIC VEHICLES
((Previously aired July 2023))
((TRT: 06:22))
((Topic Banner: Electric Vehicles))
((Producer/Camera/Editor: Jeff Swicord))
((Map: Arlington, Virginia))
((Main characters: 0 female; 1 male))
((Sub characters: 0 female; 1 male))
((Blurb: The Tesla Roadster
It’s known as the car that sparked the electric automobile revolution. The Tesla Roadster debut in 2006 just three years after the company was formed. It was a collaboration between British automaker Lotus and early Tesla engineers. What was most notable is that it changed the perception of what an electric car is and could be. Today, no longer serviced by Tesla, they are collector’s items with an extremely passionate fan base.))
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((Mel Hsieh
Tesla Roadster Owner))
I’m a tech worker. I’ve been in, you know, software development my whole career. I became interested in Tesla, which is around 2002 after all the dot com stuff. The Tesla Roadster, I guess, it was a light-bulb moment. The main thing that grabbed me initially was kind of this futuristic looking sports car. The idea that you power a vehicle without gasoline. When it came out, it was quicker than the Ferrari 430, you know, latest Ferrari at the time. The Roadster is truly the vehicle that sparked the EV [Electric Vehicle] revolution and it’s first car that, sort of, opened the door to all the other possibilities to come.
((MUSIC))
((Courtesy: WIKI Media))
The first Tesla Roadsters, they started the production dates I think from 2008 I think were the first ones to 2011 I know were the final ones.
((Mel Hsieh
Tesla Roadster Owner))
You know, I think it was like $90,000 or something like that. For the entire world, there were about 2,500 original Roadsters made because they had a contract with Lotus [the British automaker] to produce that many bodies for them. From my understanding, there’s maybe 1,500 surviving.
((MUSIC/NATS))
((Mel Hsieh
Tesla Roadster Owner))
Charge port connector.
So you can see, so up in the front, there is no storage like a, you know, frunk. But when you open it up, you can see there’s cooling fans with the AC [Air Conditioner] up in front and some electronics. So that’s about it. And there is a trunk for storage. And, I think, they designed it specifically to fit golf clubs because a lot of people in California play golf. This part is actually the battery, and it’s kind of L shaped, so it goes underneath here. This one they call the Power Electronics Module, sort of like the whole brains of the whole car. And then here, it’s an active cooling system. All Teslas have this active cooling system, so you can see this green liquid is constantly swirling throughout the battery pack to keep moderate the temperatures.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Mel Hsieh
Tesla Roadster Owner))
I believe that, you know, it’s eventually going to be a true collectors’ item.
((Mel Hsieh
Tesla Roadster Owner))
So, that is just the exposed carbon fiber. It’s a, you know, like a rolling work of art. That’s it.
Elon’s also involved
((Courtesy: WIKI Media))
in Space X. It was, I believe, one of his original
((Mel Hsieh
Tesla Roadster Owner))
Tesla Roadsters, and they put a dummy in a flight suit,
((Courtesy: WIKI Media))
colloquially known as Starman, and they shot the rocket into space. I mean, we assume
((Mel Hsieh
Tesla Roadster Owner))
it is still out in space and didn’t get hit by an asteroid or something like that.
((NATS))
((Mel Hsieh
Tesla Roadster Owner))
Tesla Model 3 came out in 2018. I think about the evolution of the automobile, you know, just as basically electrification in the future and also the self-driving aspect.
((MUSIC))
((NATS: Car’s GPS))
Now turn right onto North Queen Street.
((Mel Hsieh
Tesla Roadster Owner))
Tesla’s approach to self-driving is machine learning. It’s a camera-based system to recognize physical objects on the road. Whether it’s cars or pedestrians or like a ball that goes in the road or something like that, the car knows what every object is, what needs to be avoided.
((MUSIC/NATS: Car’s GPS))
Now turn right onto 20th Street South.
((Mel Hsieh
Tesla Roadster Owner))
Right now, the state of the software is, it’s definitely not a 100 percent, where I would not pay attention and trust that it will get me there. But I can see, for example, from 2018, the amount of progress that they have made and the trajectory it is going, I think it really is a matter of time, maybe, five to ten years ballpark. ((NATS/MUSIC))
((Mel Hsieh
Tesla Roadster Owner))
Cars & Coffee, you know, car enthusiasts, they like to meet up and show off their cars and talk about the latest, you know, upgrades they made. They have Cars & Coffee in California and Texas, everywhere.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Kurt
Tesla Roadster Owner))
Sorry, I’m late.
((Mel Hsieh
Tesla Roadster Owner))
But I do notice that, you know, now EV’s are more prevalent. Teslas are more prevalent.
((MUSIC/NATS))
((Kurt
Tesla Roadster Owner))
The driving, the charging, the battery maintenance.
((Mel Hsieh
Tesla Roadster Owner))
So I met Kurt. He got a Roadster, I think shortly, yeah, maybe about ten years ago or something. He had a different Roadster that he did get into unfortunately an accident, and…but then he replaced. He got a second Roadster after that.
((NATS))
((Kurt
Tesla Roadster Owner))
I happened to be on rotation in the Bay Area [San Francisco] in 2006 when they unveiled the car. And it was very easy back then to get into their press events because nobody knew who they were. And I was hooked. I was ready to go.
((Mel Hsieh
Tesla Roadster Owner))
You get hooked. But I remember thinking to myself, very, it was a very clear moment that, holy cow, this is the future. This is the way driving should be. This is the way transportation should be.
((MUSIC/NATS))
((Mel Hsieh
Tesla Roadster Owner))
I think, it will be probably a matter of time before gasoline cars will be for enthusiasts. Maybe they go to the racetrack, and they race real cars and stuff like that. So it’s kind of like, you know, if you’re like a horse owner, you know, you do that for fun, right?
But most cars, generally that you see on the road, will be electric. ((MUSIC/NATS))
((Mel Hsieh
Tesla Roadster Owner))
I take a lot of these pictures.
((NATS))
((TITLE)) WOMEN AUTOMOTIVE MECHANICS
((Previously aired July 2023))
((TRT: 06:40))
((Reporter: Faiza Elmasry))
((Camera/Editor: June Soh))
((Map: Chantilly, Virginia; Gainesville, Virginia))
((Main characters: 2 female; 0 male))
((Sub characters: 0 female; 0 male))
((Blurb: Forty-six-year-old Virginia Tire & Auto (VTA) is one of the largest women-owned car repair businesses in the DC area. VTA’s Co-CEO, Julia Homes, is leading the company’s efforts to attract more women to the business.))
((NATS))
((Dana Greenstreet
Automotive Mechanic))
My name is Dana Greenstreet. I am an automotive mechanic. I've been doing this for about 10 years now. I have two kids. I'm engaged.
((NATS))
((Dana Greenstreet
Automotive Mechanic))
I’m checking to see if I see any coolant leaks at the moment. My pressure is going down, but I don't see any leaks. I guess when I start, when I get tickets like this that are leak checks, I get curious because you can't see them all the time immediately. And it’s, can always be different as to what failed this time. So, it's a bit of a different puzzle every time that you're trying to solve.
((NATS))
((Dana Greenstreet
Automotive Mechanic))
I started with Virginia Tire in 2014. So, I've got on and off, but this has been my home base.
((NATS: Julie Holmes with employees))
((Julie Holmes
Co-CEO, Virginia Tire & Auto))
I think it matters to have a good work environment. It's something…yeah, yeah. Do you feel any difference?
((Employee))
Oh, yeah.
((Julie Holmes
Co-CEO, Virginia Tire & Auto))
Virginia Tire & Auto was founded in 1976 by my parents, but here we are in 2023 and I like to call us a 46-year-old startup. I have so many memories of growing up in this business with my parents running it. We have…are operating about 17 stores throughout Virginia, auto repair. So, we fix everything under the hood, do tires and really handle all aspects of car care.
((NATS: Julie Holmes with Dana Greenstreet and other employees))
((Julie Holmes
Co-CEO, Virginia Tire & Auto))
So, I want to introduce you all to Dana. She is one of our star technicians at Gainesville. She's the real deal. And what's really cool is that she also teaches as one of the lab teachers at NOVA [Northern Virginia Community College] in auto tech program in the evenings. And…
((Employee))
That’s cool.
((Julie Holmes
Co-CEO, Virginia Tire & Auto))
It's cool. I love your story.
((Dana Greenstreet
Automotive Mechanic))
Which part?
((Julie Holmes
Co-CEO, Virginia Tire & Auto))
The part where someone in your family told you, you couldn't do this.
((Dana Greenstreet
Automotive Mechanic))
Everybody told me I couldn't. Everybody told me that women didn't belong in a job, that I couldn't do it, that girls can’t be mechanics. I said, “Okay, let's see. I want to do it.” And here I am. ((NATS))
((Dana Greenstreet
Automotive Mechanic))
I was first interested in cars when I was a little girl. I would start to help my dad out and changed the oils in the cars and things like that. Then when I was about 25 [years old], I moved back to Northern Virginia so that I could go to college, so that I could become an automotive mechanic, so that I could learn to work on cars, so that I could learn to rebuild an engine if I wanted to or a transmission if I wanted to.
((Dana Greenstreet
Automotive Mechanic))
When I came here, I think initially, probably people were kind of apprehensive. Is she going to last? Is she going to be able to do her job? Is there going to be a whole bunch of problems? And we all just kind of meshed together really well. They're used to me now. They don't have anything, really. They won't say anything to me that they won't say to one of the other guys.
((NATS: Dana Greenstreet))
Okay.
((Julie Holmes
Co-CEO, Virginia Tire & Auto))
Our industry of auto repair is dominated by about 95 percent of the workforce is male.
((Julie Holmes
Co-CEO, Virginia Tire & Auto))
And I've come into this, I have the benefit of being an attorney in my former life and being really exposed to a lot of different careers and companies. And I really noticed this is an anomaly. And it's something that I've seen as an opportunity to change. And it's really, I think it's been over the years, is being influenced by being a mom. I have four daughters, five children, and four of them daughters. And I've really seen that there's so many opportunities and there's so much that could lie ahead to them, if only the door is open to them. And I've noticed just through, not consciously but unconsciously, doors have been closed to women in this industry.
((NATS))
((Julie Holmes
Co-CEO, Virginia Tire & Auto))
It's a tough industry. It's been a dirty industry. The equipment has been challenging to use. In the past, there was a lot of physicality with the machinery. It was not conducive for someone unless they were a certain size or had a certain level of strength. But so much of that has changed. So, it’s really comes down to a mind game. And I know women are just as capable as men.
((NATS))
((Julie Holmes
Co-CEO, Virginia Tire & Auto))
It's a STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics] job and career. There's a ton of mathematics involved, doing calculations and conversions, and you really need to have an engineering mindset in order to be able to visualize and figure out all the parts and how to fit it all together.
((NATS))
((Julie Holmes
Co-CEO, Virginia Tire & Auto))
Women have all the skill set to be experts in the auto repair industry. There's really two sides of the business. There's the front of house, interacting with customers and management, and there is also the back of house, which is actually repairing the vehicles.
((NATS))
((Julie Holmes
Co-CEO, Virginia Tire & Auto))
I really do believe if you want to see change, you have to help make that change. And so, we have created a scholarship for women in auto care to train, help, encourage, give another avenue for women who might want to come into our industry.
((NATS: Julie Holmes))
((Julie Holmes
Co-CEO, Virginia Tire & Auto))
So, we have a $2,500 per semester scholarship and where we would love to see more applicants to it. So, if you know of any girls in high school who might be interested in pursuing some sort of auto tech program, send them our way, and we’d love to talk to them.
((NATS: Julie Holmes))
((Courtesy: Julie Holmes))
((Julie Holmes
Co-CEO, Virginia Tire & Auto))
At whatever you're doing, work hard on it, gain these skills because they open up so many avenues for you.
((end Courtesy))
((Julie Holmes
Co-CEO, Virginia Tire & Auto))
I really almost see it like a tidal wave starting to happen in terms of getting the opportunities to speak with girls who might be interested in a career in the auto repair industry. You can talk to them and motivate them and encourage them to, maybe, step out of their comfort zone and try an industry like ours and really tell them the opportunities. Because there aren't as many women in it, there's real opportunities. You can really make a mark here. I feel like there's been a great reception and excitement.
((NATS))
((Dana Greenstreet
Automotive Mechanic))
Always learning. There's not a day that goes by that I don't see something new that I haven't seen. We're going from internal combustion engines to a lot of electric vehicles now and that is a huge major, major change in the way everything works. There is always that opportunity, and there is always that chance for you to prove yourself, and there is always a reason to go try if you're interested. Just go try.
((NATS))
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((TITLE)) CONNECT AMERICA
NATURE: SEA OTTERS IN HOMER, ALASKA
((TRT: 02:00))
((Reporter/Camera/Editor/Producer: Gabrielle Weiss))
((Location: Homer, Alaska))
((Description: Once nearly extinct, sea otters do flourish in icy harbors. They must eat as much as 25% of their body weight each day to stay healthy and warm. daily in Homer.))
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In coming weeks…
((Title))
Rejuvenating Urban Forests
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((TITLE)) PHOTO JOURNALIST
((TRT: 01:00))
((Original Producer: Kathleen McLaughlin))
((Original Camera: Aaron Fedor))
((Original Editor: Kyle Dubiel))
((Social Media Producer/Editor: Lisa Vohra))
((Blurb: We travel with a photojournalist who captures the humanity of people caught up in major events around the globe.))
((NATS/MUSIC)
((Adriana Zehbrauskas
Photojournalist))
I always wanted to be a storyteller.
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((Adriana Zehbrauskas
Photojournalist))
I did not choose to be a photojournalist.
Photojournalism chose me.
((NATS/SE))
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Adriana Zehbrauskas
Photojournalist))
There are many, many challenges.
((Courtesy: Adriana Zehbrauskas))
You have to be ready to jump out of bed and fly to Haiti because there was an earthquake.
((Adriana Zehbrauskas
Photojournalist))
As a photojournalist, you cannot interfere with what's happening in front of you. And that means, I'm not going to stage anything.
((Courtesy: Thomas Fuller))
I'm not going to ask people to do what they're doing.
((Courtesy: Adriana Zehbrauskas))
((Adriana Zehbrauskas
Photojournalist))
It's important for me to take a step back and understand what is my position. To try to be a truthful observer as I can possibly be. ((Courtesy: Adriana Zehbrauskas))
((Adriana Zehbrauskas
Photojournalist))
I think it's a huge privilege to be able to witness and
share stories of other people.
((NATS))
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