The Mic'd Up Students podcast is the latest episodic series that was introduced by the students of Sacramento State and designed to appeal to the student body interest. This new platform is hosted by Nahom Semere '22 (Business), Malachi Powell '22 (Economics), and Ayra Nunez '21 (Communications).
Their content embodies exciting and engaging topics that students can relate to by addressing sensitive events that go on throughout the world. Semere states, "In doing so, we are building a platform where students can express their questions or concerns to any of my team members or myself. This allows the Mic'd Up team to organize an episode that goes in-depth as to why the selected topic may be an issue that needs to be discussed. We also do research before recording, and discover new possible ways that the university community can go about fixing the issue."
The Mic'd Up Students team trusts that their presence on campus has tremendous potential in positively informing, entertaining, and uniting their Sacramento State audience. Their goal is to create a relationship between faculty and students. Episodes such as Media Influences, Music, Code-switching, and the Black Lives Matter movement are a few of the recordings that have been released to the public. "We are a very dynamic trio; we find ways to make all our topics interesting and engaging with comedic relief. There is not one episode that is a bore to listen to," stated Semere.
Their podcast is now streaming on many podcasting services currently available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Podbean. To date, season one of the show is complete, and they are currently working on recording season two. "Share it with your friends and let us work together to bring positive changes to our campus and our campus community," added the Mic'd Up team.
By Ayra Nunez '21