1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: Alright, it worked. It worked, this little voice memo straight 2 00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 1: into the podcast feed boom. Who needs a studio and engineers? 3 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 1: Well sometimes we do, but this is quick and dirty. 4 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 1: So Hi, it's Barretonday again and welcome to how the 5 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:21,279 Speaker 1: citizen Ish, at least this week of Citizen Stories, citizen 6 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 1: ing stories. So you heard the launch uh announcement in 7 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: the previous item in the feed Today Monday, April fourteenth, 8 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 1: we launched the first actual story and it's a topic 9 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:37,839 Speaker 1: near and dear to my heart. It's libraries. I have 10 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: a an audio that you'll hear that sets up the 11 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 1: story and then yeah, you're gonna hear the story of 12 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:47,280 Speaker 1: the Innovator and Residence program at Cosst Library in Memphis, Tennessee, 13 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 1: and a woman named na Esco uh who took a 14 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:52,920 Speaker 1: library that we think of as a quiet place, a 15 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: place to consume stories, and helped turn it into a 16 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: much louder place, uh, place for people to tell their 17 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: own story or come together to do so. And this 18 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 1: is very Black America whose stories are being erased right now. 19 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 1: So find these stories on my Instagram. Baratunde on how 20 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 1: the citizen Instagram spelled like that. On the Citizens Guide 21 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 1: that's John Alexander, and you can also find them on 22 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:24,319 Speaker 1: my LinkedIn or John's LinkedIn. All of that out I'll 23 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:27,039 Speaker 1: have in the show notes on this episode, and you 24 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 1: can sign up to get the daily emails about this 25 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: as well as the summary of what we all did together. 26 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 1: If you go to stories dot howdocitizen dot com right 27 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 1: at the tone, the tariff will be five jillion percent boop. 28 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 1: Enjoy the audio of these videos make some noise. If 29 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 1: you love your local library, they have palaces for the people, 30 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 1: places where democracy is actually an action truly open to everyone. 31 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: I've even served on the board of the Brooklyn Public Library, 32 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 1: That's how much I love them. So when I think 33 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 1: of citizen as a verb and where we citizen, libraries 34 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:08,360 Speaker 1: are literally first on the list, which is why I 35 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 1: want to share this story first, the story of a 36 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 1: library in Memphis, Tennessee, that is showing up for the people. 37 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 2: When you think of library, you think of books, librarians 38 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:28,399 Speaker 2: somewhere quiet. This is not that library. My name is 39 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 2: na Esco and I am the innovator in residence for 40 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 2: podcasts programming at Kasid Library, a woman who at Memphis 41 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 2: is majority African American. Right, we do have high poverty 42 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 2: rates as well. So COSCID is positioned in downtown Memphis 43 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:52,160 Speaker 2: where a lot of the poverty is going on. This 44 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,800 Speaker 2: is a place for innovation. So you'll come and see 45 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 2: my podcast studio. On the opposite side of me, you 46 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:02,959 Speaker 2: will see the Fatiography videography lab. There is an entire 47 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:06,920 Speaker 2: performance space. Oftentimes you hear patron say, I didn't know 48 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 2: a library had things like this, So that one thing 49 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:14,239 Speaker 2: that they thought that they could never do or participate 50 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 2: in it is available and no cost to them. Here. 51 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 2: I mean that just opens the door for someone to 52 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 2: really create a pathway. We live in an era right 53 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 2: now when a lot of people are being silenced and 54 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 2: I'm so proud to really sit down mentor someone and 55 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 2: they actually feel like they can say what they really 56 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 2: want to say.