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Amina Tariq

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I am 18 years old and I go to Clara Muhammad School, it is an Islamic private school. I love playing any sort of music and downloading it. I also love reading, dancing and going to SAYA! (South Asian Youth Action), which is an organization for all Asian youths to learn and just have fun.
Winter 2006

Interesting Fact: I always have dreams that end up coming true or something like it happens. When I tell my friends that and it happens, they get freaked out and so do I.

Story Description: We have stories to tell!
Amina isn't proud of it, but she readily admits that she gossips a lot. Like the girls in the movie Mean Girls, Amina and her friends do it all the time ­ she jokingly says it's like "Muslim Girls Gone Wild." But even though everyone is doing it, Amina starts to feel conflicted about the amount of time she spends talking about other people. She sees that even with the microphone out and minidisk rolling, she and her friends don't stop. She also comes to realize that she herself is a target. Amina sets out to find out what it all means.

Amina's Mentor:

Brenna Farrell is an Assistant Producer for WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show. She graduated from Harvard with a degree in History and Literature in 2002. Brenna got her start in radio as a blues DJ at college. Captivated by the plotlines of obscure murder ballads from the 1920s and 1930s, she began thinking more about how stories can be told using radio. She’s spent the past two years working at WNYC, learning as much as she can about live and produced radio.

Interesting Fact: I grew up in a very rural part of upstate New York, in a town with only 1500 year-round residents. Growing up there, I acquired an unusual set of talents—from shellacking fish heads to stacking wood­that hasn’t quite translated over to life in Manhattan yet.