SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – “As a millennial, I think I’m the last generation that kind of straddles before the internet and after,” said comedian Aparna Nancherla. “And I do think these days – and especially since the pandemic – I’m… more and more drawn to in-person contact versus just like having these conversations online.”
In person community is important for many reasons, but is it disappearing in the hustle and bustle of modern, post-COVID life?
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This week on Audacy’s podcast “It’s Generational”, our panel dove into what community means to them.
Nancherla, author of the upcoming book Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself and Impostor Syndrome, joined the multi-generational panel, along with baby boomer journalist Dorothy Tucker, President of the National Association of Black Journalists; Gen X journalist Hugo Balta, former President of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and Kim Saira, a Gen Z content creator focused on inner healing and community care.
Nathaniel Viets-VanLear, director of Youth Development for the My Block My Hood My City organization in Chicago, joined the show for this episode about community.
“I think it involves getting to know people for the sake of getting to know them,” he said of how we can build community today. “Just get to know people, say ‘hi,’ to your neighbor, make eye contact, do small talk, which is completely being lost.”
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