Immigrant Experience

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.

This month on VOICES Radio Hour, storytellers from Taiwan, Germany, Argentina, and South Africa celebrate their heritage and their roots, in words and music.

Emiliano Aguilar, an assistant professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, is in Colorado this summer participating in a history workshop at the Center for the American West at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He says there are many complexities of celebrating immigrant heritage amidst ongoing immigration debates.

Mexican citizens living in the United States are now able to apply for a matricula consular at any consulate office.

Local residents celebrated a traditional Mexican posada and cut down their own Christmas trees in the Thompson Divide area last Saturday. Reporter Eleanor Bennett spent the day with Vicky Rodas, who wanted to give her 10-year-old son, Jahir Rodas, the same experience her mother gave her growing up in Aguascalientes, Mexico.

On this month's episode of Brain Garden, host Jenell Hilderbrand talks with Elizabeth, a college student from Peru, about her experiences living in the Roaring Fork Valley.

Valley natives Kelsey and Tess Freeman discuss their book "No Option But North" and share the stories of Central American migrants Kelsey interviewed…

KDNK News Director Lucas Turner speaks with best-selling author Cory Doctorow about his new book Radicalized, a series of 4 novellas covering such topics…