Cody Hmelar is an award-winning multimedia journalist, broadcast engineer and doctoral student in the University of Pittsburgh’s composition and rhetoric program. Focusing on academic policy and its impacts the classroom experience for students; he researches the co-habitional populations in the Mississippi River Delta and San Francisco Bay Area to learn how caste, class and colonialism impact academic experience with language—historically and in the present. Cody is the producer of 1World, a collaboration between WRHU-FM and BUSH Radio in Cape Town, South Africa that explores local and global issues from a positive solutions-based approach. Before working at Pitt, he served as the youngest Chief Engineer in the United States, managing technical operations for multiple radio stations in Philadelphia and New York. His stories have been featured on WRHU, WLIW, WABC, KALW, The Long Island Advocate, TechRadar and Technical.ly. He utilizes his community reporting to influence community-engaged research in the academy.
Cody Hmelar, “Toisanese Linguistic Violence: How the Language Perseveres” (Master’s Capstone, Hofstra University, 2023), https://preservingcantonesesf.shorthandstories.com/
Qué Pasa, Long Island: The Story of the Secatogue Nine: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1234994238/que-pasa-long-island-the-story-of-the-secat
