by Ericka Guevarra | Jan 8, 2016
When I first talked to my mentor on the phone, I was a little nervous. I had whitening strips in my mouth and was embarrassed that she would think that I had some kind of weird lisp. (I imagined her being like, good luck in radio, kid.) The conversation was a little... by Ericka Guevarra | Jan 6, 2016
When you ask Emma-Li Thompson to introduce herself in Mandarin, she uses a different name. Lǐdōngyīng 李冬英 was what they named her at an orphanage in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, a town situated in Northeastern China. Li was the last name of the orphanage’s director. To her,... by Ericka Guevarra | Jan 5, 2016
At three years old, Emma-Li Thompson was adopted from Jingdezhen, Jiangxi in northeast China. She spent the next 18 years 7,050 miles away in Arizona. Trenae Nuri Trenae V. Nuri is a multimedia journalist. Since 2010, Trenae has written articles and produced news...