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New Morning Edition Host John Davis
John Davis is the new local host of Morning Edition, that airs weekdays on 90.1/91.7 FM. Davis replaces Mike Kiniry. John joined the WGCU radio staff in November 2009 as a news reporter. He recently was awarded a first place award by the Florida Associated Press for “best investigative feature.” John's investigative feature story also garnered a “Best in Show” award from the Florida AP. He is the recipient of a 2009 Edward R. Murrow Award for best news series. He is a graduate of Florida Gulf Coast University and holds a bachelor’s degree in communication. Amy Tardif, FM station manager and news director, said “John brings a wealth of experience to his new job as host of Morning Edition. We know that listeners will welcome him into their morning routines and will come to rely upon him to bring them state and national news, weather and traffic information.”
Lucia's Letter
Lucia’s Letter describes one Guatemalan teenager’s trip with a coyote from Guatemala through Mexico to southwest Florida. The story is a composite of several local Mayan women’s experiences of becoming a coyote’s slave. All of the women were raped, starved and drugged during the trip and then sold when they arrived in the U.S. Some ended up as indentured slaves in the vegetable fields and/or in brothels. Others were sold to men they were forced to marry. The letter was recorded in Spanish, English, two Mayan languages, Creole, and Mixteco. It was taken to rural parts of Guatemala and distributed to 62 indigenous villages on CD. The hope is to warn other young women about the dangers they face if they decide to immigrate to the States via a coyote. This documentary tells the story of this effort through the women, trying to use Lucia’s Letter to convince mothers to stop sending their daughters to the states. We ask women in Guatemala if it would stop them. And we ask one of the women who helped write and voice the letter if her travels were worth what she went through twenty years ago.Page 2 of 2
