Welcome
The iCharla show is a platform for STYC members and alumni to meet, host podcasts, conduct short remote interviews, and post on the iCharla site.
The first and current show host is Ana Ximena Sosa.
iCharla shows include these podcast series—One called iSol which focus is on fiber optic connection to the school, infrastructure, and class room transformation.
The other is Life Skills for safe and healthy schools.
A series called Sobre Las Américas it being considered. The second amendment in the bill of rights is also something we would like to take a look at. And a food and health series.
In the first episode in the Life Skills series STYC members recall their experience at the Texas Capitol promoting safe and healthy schools.
Thank you.
July 2023
PROFILE
August 2020
Student Stanford University.
Three titles from your playlist:
Glory, by John Legend,
Where Is The Love? By Black Eyed Peas,
Parecen Viernes by Marc Anthony.
Book you would like to read again:
The Harry Potter series.
Best three movies/docu/videos you’ve seen this summer:
About time, Souls, Same Kind of Different as Me.
Three people you would like to have dinner with:
Michelle Obama, Paulo Coelho, and my 5 year old self.
A favored quote:
It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear.
She looks back at the path she has traveled, from the peaks of the mountains, the long winding road crossing forests and villages.
And in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast, that to enter there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.
But there is no other way.
The river can not go back.
Nobody can go back.
To go back is impossible in existence.
The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then will fear disappear, because that’s where the river will know it’s not about disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean.
-Kahlil Gibran
Your thoughts on the times we are living in:
Thoughts? With physical distance most evident during the times of the pandemic, I also see the distance between our differences shrinking as people unite in solidarity across distinct causes.
Introduction
Julio 2020
March 2021
Series
Camino Hacia Space Exploration
Karolyne Carloss
Recorded October 31, 2021
Schools and Broadband—the Connection
And the prospect of a Space Exploration Academy at Boca Chica (SEA)
State Rep. Alex Dominguez
Recorded December 2021,
The City and Broadband—The Connection.
Ron Nirenberg San Antonio Mayor
Recorded August 6, 2021
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Show Host
Ana Ximena Sosa
B.S. Candidate 2024
Stanford University
Ana is a former STYC member, and alum.
She has been the iCharla show host since the first podcast, Summer 2020.
Search iCharla in Apple Podcast App or iTunes
Photo April 2022
The gift one generation gives the next next.
iCharla Show is a production
of the Dream Forward Foundation.
An IRS 501c3 organization operating in Texas.
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PROFILE
August 2020
Student Stanford University. B.S. Candidate 2024
Civil engineering major and energy resources engineering minor.
Three titles from your playlist:
Glory, by John Legend,
Where Is The Love? By Black Eyed Peas,
Parecen Viernes by Marc Anthony.
Book you would like to read again:
The Harry Potter series.
Best three movies/docu/videos you’ve seen this summer:
About time, Souls, Same Kind of Different as Me.
Three people you would like to have dinner with:
Michelle Obama, Paulo Coelho, and my 5 year old self.
A favored quote:
It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear.
She looks back at the path she has traveled, from the peaks of the mountains, the long winding road crossing forests and villages.
And in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast, that to enter there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.
But there is no other way.
The river can not go back.
Nobody can go back.
To go back is impossible in existence.
The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then will fear disappear, because that’s where the river will know it’s not about disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean.
-Kahlil Gibran
Your thoughts on the times we are living in:
Thoughts? With physical distance most evident during the times of the pandemic, I also see the distance between our differences shrinking as people unite in solidarity across distinct causes.
