On this episode, we're joined by Dormiya Vance. Dormiya is a multimedia reporter for WABE, the NPR and PBS affiliate serving Atlanta, Georgia. She's been with them for almost 3 years.

Dormiya is a graduate of an HBCU, Fayetteville State University with a masters from Georgia State. She's part of Report for America, a non-profit that provides and helps pay the salaries of journalists at newsrooms across the country.

Dormiya talked about taking on a radio job without having experience in radio and how she learned what to do on the job. She gave examples of the reporting she did and explained how she gets her story ideas. And she talked about the value of both an HBCU education and of working with Report for America.

Dormiya's salutes: Journalists of Color at WABE (including Marlon Hyde, Julien Virgin, Rahul Bali, Jasmine Robinson) and also Ethel Payne, The First Lady of the Black Press

Story examples

Blighted properties in South Dekalb

https://www.wabe.org/whos-responsible-for-south-dekalbs-blighted-properties/

Atlanta's LGBTQ rappers and hip hop artists

https://www.wabe.org/queering-the-mic-lack-of-representation-in-hip-hop-creates-challenges-for-lgbtq-atlanta-rappers/

Atlanta's transgender basketball league

https://www.wabe.org/how-a-transgender-basketball-league-is-creating-space-for-trans-people-in-atlanta/

Black Women Mayor's Roundtable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS95Xnhdio4

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