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Valerie Rubin-RaShaad Crutcher is the Executive Director for the Youth and AIDS Projects, located in Minneapolis. Partnering with the University of Minnesota, YAP serves young people either at-risk for or living with HIV, helping with housing support, medical case management, substance abuse recovery and more.
KFAI’s Ryan Dawes spoke with Rubin-RaShaad Crutcher and filed this audio portrait.
You can learn more about YAP’s services at YAPmn.org.
From its roots serving hot meals to those with HIV in the 1980s to its present-day comprehensive offering of social services, the Aliveness Project has expanded its ‘person-centered-first’ approach throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Matthew Hoppe and Dylan Boyer from the Aliveness Project spoke with KFAI’s Ryan Dawes in this audio portrait. Listen here:
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This summer on the MinneCulture Podcast, it’s all about Minnesota history.
The Twin Cities was never a hot zone for HIV/AIDS. But for Minnesotans living the disease, the struggle was the same: to stay alive and to fight the homophobia that wanted to ignore an epidemic dismissed as a gay man’s disease. This is their story, reported and narrated by KFAI’s Britt Aamodt, hosted by Ahanti Young.
Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, PodMN and SoundCloud here:
Photo: Bruce Brockway and Rene Valdes
Support for the MinneCulture Podcast on KFAI comes from the Minnesota Arts and Cultual Heritage Fund. Support also comes from Hennepin History Museum.
Originally aired March 30, 2021
Ian starts off the show, joined by writer John Medieros, by diving into a conversation about the pandemic that swept the world before COVID: the HIV-AIDS crisis. Medeiros and his identical twin brother participated in a gene therapy study in which the HIV-positive twin was infused with billions of genes from the HIV-negative twin, as detailed in his memoir, Self, Divided.
After the break, Liz brings out her music chops and welcomes Bill Schnee on air to discuss his fascinating experiences doing audio production and engineering for such brilliant minds as John Lennon and Ringo, Whitney Houston, Barbara Streisand, and many more. These magic yarns and more can be found in his new book Chairman at the Board.
