Radio Rookies: Spotlighting a Winner
These 2008 WNYC Radio Rookie stories — on “Growing Up in the System” — are new again, having won the 2009 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism and the inaugural America’s Promise Journalism Award for Awareness (hat tip: Journalism Center on Children & Families).
Below, Shirley “Star” Diaz, whose mother was murdered, talks about being on the brink of aging out of the foster care system.