Tema Kaiser Silk
Commentary Editor/ReporterTema Silk is the editor for NEPM's award-winning commentaries, which she’s been involved with since 2010. A contributing reporter, she has also been involved in launching a couple of news-related special projects for the station: Media Lab, our youth radio project, and Words in Transit, the PRNDI award-winning collection of narratives of immigrants, refugees, asylees and undocumented people living in NEPM's listening area.
The various hats she’s worn at the station have allowed her to take advantage of earlier jobs she’s had teaching both as a middle school English teacher and — long, long ago — working as a licensed independent clinical social worker. Sometimes, and only when the coast is completely clear, she sings songs from the American Songbook and classical works in the NEPM hallways.
She can be reached at tema_silk [at] nepm.org.
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We hear an essay on DACA from an undocumented immigrant profiled in episode 2.In this episode, Angelica Merino Monge who came to the U.S. from El Salvador…
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Survival includes two stories from refugees from Burundi and the Congo that escaped violence in their homeland.
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Vira Douangmany Cage and Sovann-MalisLoeung came to the United States as children from south-east Asia-Vira from Laos and Sovann-Malis from Cambodia.…
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The story of two Iraqi refugees who were granted political asylum to come to the United States.
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For many immigrants education is important to their transition and future. In episode 3, Heap Sin, from Cambodia, and Woodlyn Joachim, from Haiti, talk…
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Stories of two young people that came from El Salvador as children. They talk about their journeys here and the challenges of being undocumented.
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John Voci, Executive Director of Programming and Content at New England Public Radio, introduces Words in Transit, a podcast of personal stories of nearly…