Radio Rookies 2023: Learning What it Means to be Tibetan

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 14, 2023

Carolina Hidalgo, senior producer for WNYC's Radio Rookies, introduces the new class of Radio Rookies while WNYC Radio Rookie Saldon Tenzin shares her story on her experience of growing up as a first-generation Tibetan and learning to be proud of a home she's never visited.

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