Jia Lian Yang
We Live Here Host/Lead ProducerJia Lian Yang holds a Master of Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis and a Master of Divinity from Eden Theological Seminary. She is the co-founder of the St. Louis-based Who Raised You? podcast, which explores culture and family with a focus on stories from people of color. The show won the Arts & Education Council of St. Louis’ 2018 stARTup competition and was named the best local podcast of 2019 in St. Louis Magazine. Jia brings her experience with LGBTQ advocacy, mental health, workers’ rights, mutual aid, anti-racism and the arts to her coverage.
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In this episode, we wanted to take some time to share two interconnected and inspiring stories about healing and community in the face of xenophobia and COVID-19. -
States across the country have announced shelter-in-place orders but for many, that is not an option. The challenge for St. Louis and elsewhere is how to curb the spread of the coronavirus among people who are unhoused. -
We wanted to understand how anti-Asian xenophobia has impacted Asian Americans and Asian American-owned small businesses here in St. Louis. -
The shift to online learning for many schools can also reveal the deep economic and racial inequities that characterize schools in our hometown and yours. -
We’ll be putting a racial and economic equity lens on the outbreak of COVID-19… and recovery from it. We don’t know how this is going to play out, but what seems certain is that this crisis will hit those with the least in our society the hardest. -
After spending the last mini-season discussing how municipal divides impact racial equity, we wanted to examine equity from another angle… design. Because if racism is designed, what does it mean to design toward racial equity? -
We wanted to make sure that in all the talk about reorganizing St. Louis City and County, there is also a conversation about racial equity. So We Live Here teamed up with Focus St. Louis for a public forum on Racial Equity and the Board of Electors, often referred to as the Board of Freeholders. -
St. Louis is home to the longest-running school desegregation program in the country. For generations, it has shaped the students’ lives and how they see race in one of the most segregated places in America. -
We tell you how Mayor McGee went from sharecropping in the deep south to help a group of mostly black mayors share resources in the fractured system they inherited. -
Historian Colin Gordon explains how St. Louis was divided by design, how its municipal divides impact public goods and services, and what can be done about the policies that perpetuate segregation today.
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We tell the story of the rise and decline of a small municipality in north St. Louis County called Kinloch and how Alana Marie is working to preserve the history of Missouri's first all-black town. -
We tell the story of how black people now hold significant political power in a town that was explicitly created for racist reasons.