Youth Radio: Stephen Archuletta

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be hearing voices and perspectives from members of our community that we don’t often hear from - inner-city teens from Arrupe Jesuit Academy in northwest Denver.

Our youth radio project is part of collaboration with the Denver non-profit Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop. The goal of the program is to teach teenagers of all walks of life how to become better writers and speakers. 

This essay is from Stephen Archuletta. He says he recently learned a lot after losing a close family member to alcoholism.