KAVITHA CORDOSA
For those military personnel who are assigned overseas, their children vary often are living in the country to which their parents are assigned. For those military children in the United States, our foreign policy largely determijnes whether their parent or parents may have to leave for an overseas assignment for a year or more. So foreign policy very much influences the lives of military children moreso than other youngsters.
The modern world is awash in news. Every day, we can turn on our computers, flick on the TV or tap on our phones to get the latest updates from locales both far-flung and close to home. And yet there are still important stories left untold, voices that never enter the media mainstream. WAMU 88.5 in Washington, D.C. is proud to produce Breaking Ground with Kavitha Cardoza, a documentary series dedicated to those voices, to making the invisible visible by uncovering the stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Stories about adults learning how to read and write for the very first time, stories about military children, and stories about students who struggle to graduate from high school. In all these stories, Kavitha Cardoza brings a dogged commitment to rigorously reported journalism, as well as a compassion that encourages interviewees to open up. She believes in letting people tell their own stories, and through those stories, challenge our assumptions about the world around us. Breaking Ground is intelligent, compassionate, and vibrant. It is through respect for each member of our community that Cardoza introduces us to people who need our understanding, and at times, our help.
