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411 Teen on 88.9 WFSU-FM

Join host Dr. Liz Holifield for "411 Teen," a locally produced program, created with teen input for a teenage audience. Guests provide insights into topics that concern adolescents. Over the last twenty years, programs have enlightened young people on countless subjects such as college admission, eating disorders, sexually transmitted disease, career planning, civic associations focusing on young people, and politics, to name but a few.

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  • IB students from James S. Rickards High School examine and discuss prevailing local, state and national political issues and events, sharing their perspectives and theories.
  • Trevor Hylton, extension agent for University of Florida/Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Leon County and FAMU -department of Agronomy, shares wisdom on gardening. He has a wealth of knowledge on fruit tree as well as vegetable gardens.
  • Florida Youth Shine is a youth-run, peer-driven organization that empowers current and former youth in foster care to become leaders and advocates in Florida.
  • Kendall Smith writes a playbook for men experiencing fatherhood for the first time. He offers a treasure trove of helpful ideas for new fathers and old fathers alike.
  • Author, Paco De Leon, talks money in her new book: FINANCE FOR THE PEOPLE, an illustrated, practical guide to navigating your financial life, no matter your financial situation. She provides realistic practical advice for students and parent as well.
  • IB students from James S. Rickards High School examine and discuss prevailing local, state and national political issues and events, sharing their perspectives and theories.
  • Author Carter Weinstein, wrote CONQUERING FEAR, while a senior in high school to provide a first-hand perspective of hope to fellow teens and young adults with acute anxiety.
  • IB students from James S. Rickards High School examine and discuss prevailing local, state and national political issues and events, sharing their perspectives and theories.
  • Judy Hall marched with the giants: Dick Gregory, Martin Luther King in the 60s in Chicago, Ill. Following her graduation from University of Chicago, she relocated to Tallahassee , Fl. looking for an integrated community which was nonexistent. Several years later, she attended FSU law school. She shares her experience of sexism and racism in the south
  • Ever pop an aspirin? Thank a willow tree for that. Ethnobotany is the study of how people of a particular culture and region make use of indigenous plants. In THE PLANT HUNTER, author, Dr. Cassandra Quave identifies and studies plants to treat threatening illnesses. Her groundbreaking research is helping to provide clues for the next generation of advanced medicine. Dr. Quave talks with 411 TEEN.
  • 411 TEEN talks with James Kilgore, author of UNDERSTANDING E-CARCERATION: electronic monitoring, The state, and the future of mass incarceration. He argues making prisons virtual does not dismantle their power, just expands the power of carceral state.
  • Author Erwin Chemerinsky is the dean of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. He explores how the Supreme Court empowered the police and subverted civil rights.