In this BONUS podcast, AKIN host Ruthie Ofrasio sits with the founder of SHE Creates, Lizzy Jarrett from Make/Shift NYC, to get an inside scoop on the founding of SHE Creates! They discuss the conception of the event & how it's only grown since

Episode 11: SHE CREATES 2020

Mar 7th, 2020 20m 14s

AKIN host Ruthie Ofrasio is back with a new season of SHE Creates! SHE Creates is a yearly festival that features the work of female and genderqueer artists. She sits down with artists Aarushi Agni & Serafina Ha to talk about the journey they t

Episode 11: SHE CREATES 2020

Mar 7th, 2020 20m 14s

Episode 10: The Gaysian Project

May 29th, 2019 28m 20s

AKIN sits down with new friend Maya Reddy founder of The Gaysian Project! Where we talk about the intersectionality of the queer and asian experience, mental health, and the future of queer asian/Gaysian representation. Follow them on instagram

Episode 9: Asians in Sports

May 5th, 2019 13m 16s

Friend of ThisisAKIN Chris Kondracki is back with his brother Sean Kondracki, to talk about being Asian/Asian-American in the sports world. As players and spectators there something to say about how the representation in the professional league

Episode 8: The Veteran Experience

Jan 23rd, 2019 20m 32s

Dash/American the Podcast with James Barbosa an Army Veteran shedding some light on the experience of being POC in the military; before, during, and after serving.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dashamerica

Episode 7: Creators Circle

Oct 15th, 2018 20m 45s

AKIN founder Ruthie Ofrasio sits down with Irene Lazaridis who founded MakeShift and Christopher Moncayo-Torres founder of FailBetter. They talk about being artist, the need for community, and why it was important for them to bring the two tog

Episode 6: Undertones in Jazz

Aug 6th, 2018 26m 56s

Guests Paul JB Lee(Korean) Ruben Mejia(Mexican-American) & Peter Enriquez (Filipino & Greek) talk about what it is like about to be a minority in the Jazz community, and gives insight on the music industry for young musical artists. It may be l

Episode 5: Woman, Color, & Corporate

Jul 11th, 2018 23m 33s

Guests Nicole Pineda, Andrea Navarrete, & AKIN Project Manager Vivian Wang sit down and talk about their experiences as woman of color getting into and navigating in the corporate world. Turns out it's foundation, foundation, foundation! But as

Episode 4: Queer

Jun 25th, 2018 31m 46s

Our host, Hubert Silva is joined by JP Moraga, Peyton Emery, and Arjun Dhawan in talking about their experience in both the queer and straight communities. We talk about what it's like to balance both our queer and cultural identities and insta

Episode 2: The Dating Game

Jun 11th, 2018 42m 6s

Dash American is back & we are playing the Dating Game! We brought some guests in to chat about their dating experiences & how culture and race comes into conversation. Featuring Dan Foster, Charlie Hurtt, & Kiki Kish, We go from #relationshipg

Episode 1: We are AKIN

Jun 11th, 2018 25m 8s

Meet some of the members of AKIN: Ruthie Ofrasio, Hubert Silva, Sam Midwinter, and AKIN partner from "Vaulted" Noah Breymeier, as they share stories of their identity, discuss their relationships to their identities, as AKIN's goal to bring tog

Episode 3: Hapa Mag

Jun 11th, 2018 33m 57s

For our third episode of Dash American we brought in our fierce friends from Hapa Mag, a publication by Hapas for everyone, to talk about their experiences walking through the world as Hapas, or half Asian/Pacific Islander. Featuring Hapa found

Rate