Utah Stories presents the other side of Salt Lake City. These stories are reported from those directly involved in the issues. These are issues in which politicians offer lip service and the media pretends to cover, but are largely misunderstood. Utah Stories is about offering neglected voices a platform to be heard. For this series we have recruited some excellent journalists who live on the other side, and therefore can offer great new insight.
Jason Miller
An adventurer who has traveled the Appalachian Trail, and has been to over thirty of our fifty states; Jason E. Miller is a North Carolina native who moved to Utah in 2001 for personal reasons, and decided to settle here because of the state's culture, scenery and people. With favorite authors such as: Albert Camus, Margaret Atwood, and David Sedaris its easy to see why this writer loves the written word. A musician, a composer, an actor, and a writer, Jason brings passion, and compassion to everything he invests his time in.
Jason's Stories:
Dirk Thomas
My name is Enrique Eva-Renaldi, though most people know me as Dirk Thomas Delaney. After my parents died of AIDS I ended up on the streets hanging out with other street kids, hippies and travelers. I had been in and out of abusive foster homes since I was ten, and by 14, I decided I was not going to be a victim anymore. I had about $600 to my name and decided to head east. I wanted to go to New York and try my luck as a musician. I play marimba, bass clarinet, drums, alto sax and I sing. I came to Utah because it was the last place anyone would expect me -- seeing how I'm neither white nor religious.
Dirk's Stories:
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