Stories with Angelo Gio Mateo

“People’s eyes would just light up. People felt so happy and excited, and they would open up to me and tell me what they ate, or what their grandma cooked, or what they knew about ancestral food connections between their family in South Carolina and th...

“I showed her a photo on my phone of my mom and her siblings as little kids and she pointed to each individual child and said their Vietnamese names… and I just burst out crying.” Imagine travelling to your parents’ old country that they used to call h...

The 2019 Canadian Election Day is Monday. And I’ve been thinking a lot about my vote. I tried to have conversations with my local candidates and have them recorded for the Stories podcast. I met with the NDP and Conservative candidates for about an hou...

I’m following up on my promise to use my podcast as a platform to participate in democracy. Every election, I try to meet with the candidates in my riding and talk to them directly about the policy issues. I want to get to know who they are and what th...

“It is very difficult for us to feel as citizens that we have a space to fight for something… I don’t feel like I can convince someone that this is worth fighting for and that is a horrible thing to have and I think that is really the root of the probl...