Sanda Htyte is Radio Rookies Associate Producer. She has been with Radio Rookies since interning at the Elmhurst workshop in summer of 2005. She is also a freelance video producer, director, editor and a CUNY Professor. While interning at Radio Rookies, Sanda was completing her MFA in documentary producing. Having studied both video and radio production at her Alma Mater, Brooklyn College, CUNY, she was asked to teach introduction to radio production as Adjunct Professor in Fall of 2006 as well as Spring 2007.
It was by chance that Sanda enrolled in a radio production class. She had no idea just how fulfilling this would turn out to be. This one class had made a remarkable impression, and led her to pursue a career not only in video, but also in radio. Video did not kill the radio this time. She lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Sanda Htyte appears in the following:
American Heaven
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Danielle was 13-years-old when she left her home and her mother in the Congo. She came to New York hoping to pursue the American dream, but she wound up living in a shelter. Hear why Danielle keeps the truth about her life in America to herself - even though it means lying to her mother.
My Education, Uninterrupted
Monday, December 10, 2012
New York state has the worst four-year high school graduation rate in the country. But when you zero in on New York City, the rates are even worse, especially for black males, with only 28 percent graduating from public high school in four years in 2010. Radio Rookie Mike Brown, 18, is a young black man growing up in Harlem and being raised by a single mom.
Rookies: On Your Marks, Get Set, GO!
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
This fall, we began a new broadcast workshop in Flushing, Queens in partnership with the Flushing YMCA. During the past month, the Rookies have started to roll through their lessons, putting their new skills to practice. They are well on their way to making their radio documentaries.
10 Year Anniversary Party
Saturday, December 12, 2009
One of the Rookies asked me 'why is it that we have to throw the party on a brick cold day?' But, despite the arctic temperature and the wind chill factor Rookies from past and present showed up. We all came together and celebrated being a part of the Rookies family for the past 10 years and looking ahead to many more years.
I Stand Corrected...
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
I felt like such a hypocrite. Here I am in Queens, challenging the teens to find a sense of connection to their community, possibly eradicate their assumptions, and change their views about the place, while I think to myself 'me? Start a radio workshop in Queens? How dreadful! Love the kids, just not Queens - it's my least favorite borough.' Come on! Can Queens really be anyone's favorite borough? But after the 5 weeks long workshop, these kids and their stories about flushing made me reevaluate.
Radio Rookies Short Wave Queens Mapping Main Street Project
Thursday, November 19, 2009
The third round of Short Wave Rookies comes from Queens, NY. We collaborated with Mapping Main Street, a documentary project that set out to tell the stories of all the Main Streets in the United States.
Burmese Community in New York Watches Events in Myanmar
Sunday, October 07, 2007
Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, was renamed by the military regime that's been in power for over forty years. In the last few weeks, news reports about this Southeast Asian country have captured the attention of the world as thousands of Buddhist monks took to the streets to protest the ...
