This is where it started.
During the pandemic, I served on the Executive Board of the Association of Big Ten Students. We needed to figure out how to connect hundreds of thousands of students across the country during a then-climax of unprecedented times.
My colleague Dylan Catalano and I started Between Class. Conversations between staff, faculty, and students across the country to talk about the things that mattered in higher education.
This is where it led.
Dylan and I went on to produce a podcast spurred by the anxiety that our youth, along with our friends’, would be lost to quarantine and isolation. We wanted people to understand that young people were working hard to forge their paths, so we sat down to talk to them about their convictions, fears, and joys during a time of fear, isolation, and unrest
We called that Gen Zeal.
You can hear the various iterations of Gen Zeal below.