Applications for the 2024-2025 program year are now closed.
However, you can still get involved! The team is currently looking for people who'd like to be interviewed for their oral history project.
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We’re interviewing both environmental activists in the region as well as long-time residents with no specific background in air quality other than years of breathing our air here.
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Interviews are not a quiz! Interview subjects do not have to prepare anything before their interview. The conversations will be casual and hopefully an interesting opportunity to reflect on your experiences over time.
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The team will collect the interviews to share with the public as an educational resource and develop multimedia work based on the recordings to highlight interviewees’ voices.
Are you a high school student in Allegheny County?
Join GASP's new cohort of Fresh Voices for Clean Air as we work together on an oral history project focused on people’s real-life experiences with air quality! Learn all about local environmental issues while developing skills related to interviewing, editing, story-telling, media, research, and more.
Application Deadline: September 23, 2024
First Meetings:
Thursday, October 17 - 6:00PM-7:30PM
Saturday, November 9 - 1:00PM-3:00PM
Once enrolled, the team will determine a recurring meeting schedule based on their availability. Expect to meet twice a month, usually for 1 - 1.5 hours. Most months we'll meet once in person and once virtually via Zoom.
Students who actively participate throughout the program (October 2024 - June 2025) will be eligible for a $100 award at the program's end.
Here’s how Fresh Voices for Clean Air works:
Throughout the 2024-2025 school year, the group will gather twice per month via a mix of in-person and virtual meetings.
Our group will participate in discussions with each other and guest speakers, both to learn more about air quality and to build skills that will help participants become more effective environmental advocates.
2023-2024 Fresh Voices Cohort
This cohort chose to focus on air quality and urban green spaces, especially the value of trees. Visit their website page to see the full project!
2022-2023 Fresh Voices Cohort
The team decided to focus on the East Palestine train derailment and the Moody landfill fire, both incidents with major air quality implications that happened during their program year. Visit their website page to see the full project!
2021 Fresh Voices Cohort
Here's a sample of some of the content produced by the 2021 Fresh Voices Cohort as part of their project.