THE NON-OBVIOUS SHOW · EPISODE 14
with Priya Vulchi & Winona Guo
How do you get people talking about race? Imagine taking a year off to travel to every state in America, sleep on the couches of strangers and tap random people on the shoulder to start a dialog about race. If that's hard enough to picture, now consider doing it while you're still a teenager. This unique journey inspired my next guests Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo to create a new curriculum for racial literacy and a book inspired by the experience called Tell Me Who You Are. In our time together, squeezed between two classes, we talk about the original inspiration for their trip, what answers surprised them and what they both plan to do next now that they are graduating.
Priya Vulchi: Co-founder of CHOOSE, co-author of Tell Me Who You Are | Winona Guo: Co-founder of CHOOSE; co-author, Tell Me Who You Are
Priya Vulchi co-founded the racial literacy nonprofit CHOOSE, co-wrote Tell Me Who You Are, and is a PhD student in African and African American Studies at Harvard. She and Winona Guo gathered stories from all fifty US states to help people talk about race. Winona Guo is a co-founder of the racial literacy nonprofit CHOOSE and co-author of Tell Me Who You Are. They started CHOOSE as a high school sophomore with Priya Vulchi and interviewed people across all 50 states about race, culture and identity.
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