HOW YOUTH TRANSFORMS CULTURE: A GENERATIONAL EXCHANGE
We are exploring the theme of Childhood through our tagline, “How youth transforms culture: a generational exchange.” We interviewed important local figures through the lens of music, faith/religion, and culture to understand what influenced them and how they transformed the Milwaukee community. We see this give and take relationship as a generational exchange.
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Alberto Kanost
Alberto Kanost is a Shorewood High School alumnus and currently attends the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Alberto is a local singer and songwriter who is passionate about his music and impacts the music scene in the Milwaukee and Madison community. Alberto brings authenticity to his music conveying messages about the environment in his songwriting, and stays true to something that he feels passionately about even if it isn’t what his audience expects of him or other musicians around him are doing.
Jennifer Nordstrom
Jennifer Nordstrom is the senior minister at the First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee. Through religion she has found community, balance, connectedness, and a purpose. Her work with religion transforms the lives of others in her congregation, in the Milwaukee community, and beyond through her work with young adults for climate justice.
Chris Her Xiong
Chris Her Xiong spent her childhood as a refugee in Laos until the age of 10 when she immigrated to the U.S. and became a Hmong American. Chris Her Xiong is the director of the Hmong American Peace Academy (HAPA) in Milwaukee which she founded in 2004. She strives for the students at her academy to transform the community by becoming servant leaders and creating possibilities for the future.
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