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2008 Saxon Grad, Matt Cox joins us to share about his latest venture: The Saucetown Stories Podcast. Matt played three sports as a Saxon, was the Senior Class President, and went on to play college baseball at the University of Puget Sound.  He's traveled the world, owned his own company, and is on the cutting edge in the business world and shares his advice to current Saxons on how to navigate it all.

In recognition of World Down Syndrome Day, our latest drop features 2017 Graduate, Annie Lisle, who sits down with one of our South Salem teachers, Brennan Young.  Brennan teaches our Developmental Learning Center (DLC) class where Annie was student.  He also directs our Saxon Unified Champion Schools Program at South Salem which was inspired in part thanks to a powerful friendship forged by Annie and another 2017 graduate, Kate Paluska.  Kate hops on the conversation about 5 minutes in and Annie's reaction is priceless.  Tune in to find out about that relationship, as well as what these two incredible Saxons are up to in life these days.

Our celebration of World Down Syndrome Day (March 21st) features another Saxon Graduate, Conrad Williamson '18.  Conrad sits down with his former DLC teacher, Brennan Young and they connect about Conrad's life beyond South Salem, his current employment, love for the Oregon Ducks and Sports, as well as his impact on the Saxon Unified Champion School movement.  Conrad is a Saxon legend who won the coveted Saxons Got Talent trophy during his 11th grade year.

Home for the holiday break, best friends Anna Chau '19 (currently studying electrical engineering and computer science at MIT) and Glory Lyatuu '19 (currently studying psychology and global health at Northwestern) hopped on a Zoom call with current Saxon, Keziah '21 to talk Black History Month, life as Black women in Salem, and life in a Pandemic.  This is that conversation.

Julius Scott (2020) sits down twice with two of our Saxon staff in this two-parter.  Part one is a brief conversation he had with a member of the Saxon Counseling team as they prepared for Black History Month and part two is a conversation between Julius and his former AVID teacher, Chris Riley.  Julius talks Black excellence and Black triumph.  He talks about representation and the power of unapologetic confidence.

Episode 3!  Current Saxon, Mimi ('21) sits down with 2020 graduate, Victoria Stafford to talk life, pandemic, activism, racism, and the crushing news they received just days before playing in the State semi-finals.