AirGo

AirGo AirGo is a podcast that's reshaping the culture of Chicago for the more equitable and creative. He is a member of the Collective. Damon A.

AirGo is a weekly podcast and cultural media hub in Chicago that reshapes the culture of the city and country for the more equitable and creative. Through longform conversations with movement workers, artists, rappers, poets, musicians, organizers, and changemakers, AirGo puts Chicago's reimaginers in conversation and creates a living dialogue-based archive of our creative communities and social m

ovements. AirGo is a sponsored project of Allied Media Projects, a Detroit-based organization that cultivates media for liberation. Daniel Kisslinger is a Chicago-based host and producer who creates dialogue-based media showcasing the stories, voices, and artworks of communities challenging power, reconfiguring public life, and reimagining our world. He is the Cohost and Co-Executive Producer of AirGo, a weekly podcast and cultural media hub in Chicago that reshapes the culture of the city and country for the more equitable and creative. He is also the Executive Producer of VS, a Poetry Foundation podcast hosted by poets Danez Smith and Franny Choi. He is a contributor and producer of The Hoodoisie, a biweekly block-optic news talk show hosted by Ricardo Gamboa, and edits CTU Speaks!, a podcast produced by the Chicago Teachers Union. He also works as a consultant helping organizations, individuals, and companies build humanizing, subject-to-subject podcasts from scratch. Williams is a movement builder, organizer, hip-hop performing artist, educator and media maker from the south side of Chicago, and Cohost of AirGo. He is the co-director of the Collective, an artistic activist organization birthed out of supply trips to support the Ferguson uprising in resistance to the murder of Mike Brown. Williams and transplanted the experiences from the front lines and continue to organize direct actions and community enrichment events throughout the streets of Chicago and in their movement building community center The Space, with the mission of utilizing cultural production and popular education to redistribute power and resources, eradicate systemic violence, and transform inequity. Damon is also a Community and Cultural Organizer at the Chicago Torture Justice Center, a community center for Chicago police torture survivors that seeks to address the traumas of police violence and institutionalized racism through access to healing and wellness services, trauma-informed resources, and community connection.

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AirGo showcases the strong young voices who shape Chicago and beyond, sharing their stories over the air, on wax, from the stage, and across the city. Each episode of AirGo features a live longform interview with and some sort of on-air performance from an artist, writer, activist, thinker, actor, or musician whose work and spirit is reshaping the city and the nation’s contemporary culture. Explore the stories and voices that are reshaping our culture with AirGo. AirGo airs live, and is also available in full as a podcast on iTunes and at http://airgoradio.com. In addition, the quarterly We ’Go mixtape series features the on-Airgo live performances, mixed and curated by the Airgo crew. Daniel Kisslinger is the Co-Host and Producer of AirGo. He’s also a Production Associate for Louder Than a Bomb, the world’s largest youth poetry festival, and a contributing Teaching Artist to Young Chicago Authors’ Chicago Beat Journalism Program. In addition to his work with YCA, he is a production assistant at The Promontory, a music venue in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood; is the Booking Coordinator for The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, the first poetry anthology by and for the hip hop generation; and does oral histories for high schools and colleges across the country. Daniel was previously the host and Executive Producer of Erasing Boundaries, a weekly interview show on KDIC 88.5FM and online folio featuring conversations with artists who strive to erase musical and cultural boundaries, including hip hop stars Kendrick Lamar, Pete Rock, Chance the Rapper, and many others. He was also Station Manager of KDIC 88.5FM, the Grinnell College radio station. A native New Yorker, he interned at WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show and under Bill Bragin at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ Public Programming Department, which produces the Midsummer Night Swing and Lincoln Center Out of Doors public music festivals. Damon Williams, an actor, rapper, poet, comedian, teacher, public speaker and activist hailing from the south side of Chicago, is the Co-Host of AirGo. He is also a regular contributor for Urban Broadcast Media’s The Damon Williams Show, hosted by his father and veteran standup comedian Damon Williams. He is a member of hip hop-poetica fusion group April Fools with his sister, the acclaimed poet and playwright Kristiana Colón. The duo has performed at venues throughout the Chicagoland area and was featured on the cover of the Redeye in the summer of 2014 for the reading of their new hip hop stage show “Lack on Lack,” held at Victory Gardens. In addition to April Fools, the siblings have paired together to form the #LetUsBreathe artistic activist collective, in response to the death of Mike Brown and protests in Ferguson, and have become prominent figures in the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Williams started acting at a young age in many commercials and movies, including an ad for the Jordan Brand starring and directed by Spike Lee, and the feature length film RollBounce. He attended Grinnell College, where he found his voice as a performer of spoken word poetry and as the creator and co-host of KDIC 88.5’s weekly hip-hop radio show The BoomBox, which was accompanied by an online talk show of the same name. He graduated in 2014 with degrees in Economics and Sociology. Williams has led community outreach and seminars aimed at youth for over ten years, encouraging financial literacy and combating growing economic inequality in urban America.