This episode is by Clarissa Wing with the help of Jarrett Ramones.
Opening Narration by Katelyn Chang.
Episode art by Nancy Aguilar-Aquino.
Social media by Fátima Ramirez.

Welcome to Mind the Gap, a podcast series created by the fellows of Youth Leadership Institute's 2022-2023 Calafia Fellowship. Mind the gap gives suppressed voices a platform to express the inequalities of society and addresses how we can combat them.

This episode is focused on the topic of racial pay gaps in the U.S. and their effect on minority groups. We often hear about the gender pay gap in our society but do not address the racial pay gap nearly as much. Host, Clarissa Wing, invites Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, the director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the School of Medicine at UCLA, to uncover the history of the racial pay gap.

Resources:

https://ph.ucla.edu/faculty/hayes-bautista

• https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/07/01/racial-gender-wage-gaps-persist-in-u-s-despite-some-progress/#:~:text=Large%20racial%20and%20gender%20wage,83%25%20as%20much%20as%20men
• https://iwpr.org/iwpr-issues/esme/gender-wage-gaps-remain-wide-in-year-two-of-the-pandemic/#:~:text=Wage%20gaps%20across%20gender%2C%20race,slightly%20for%20women%20of%20color.

For more information about Youth Leadership Institute.

Calafia is yli’s statewide youth policy journal that amplifies the narratives of young people on topics and issue areas important to them and their communities.

Calafia’s past issues have focused on youth criminal justice reform, educational equity, and addressing stigmas within communities of color. Check out the last fellowship's issue titled, Systems below and contact Jarrett Ramones at jramones@yli.org for a print copy.

Be on the look out for our next print issue Mind the Gap coming soon.

Calafia Fellows are selected every year from each yli office to create and edit the issue’s theme and the stories presented. They are also mentored by experienced reporters, travel to statewide and national media conferences, and learn the steps to producing a printed publication.

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