Meet the BE HEARD! Team
Selena Hill, Founder, Executive Producer, and Co-Host
Selena Hill is an award-winning writer, on-air personality, public speaker, event host, and content creator with a passion for empowering marginalized communities. She currently works as the Digital Editor for
Black Enterprise, where she covers entrepreneurship, race, culture, and politics. She also conducts on-camera interviews with the likes of Wendy Williams, Spike Lee, and Stacey Abrams. Selena has made guest
appearances on NBC, WNYC (NPR), and Bold TV as a guest anchor. She has also co-hosted Amateur Night at The Apollo and spoken on panels at the National Urban League conference, the United Negro College Fund Scholar Summit, and Prairie View A&M University.
Infusing her passion for journalism and social justice, Selena created BE HEARD!, a live radio show and widely-distributed podcast. The award-winning talk show focuses on race, culture, politics, and social issues from an urban millennial perspective. It broadcasts on WHCR 90.3 FM “The Voice of Harlem” and is streamed on Facebook Live every Sunday at 11 am ET. A number of high-profile speakers have appeared on the show, including Sen. Cory Booker, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, and Russell Simmons.
Selena is also the host of season 7 of “What’s Eating Harlem,” where she interviews Harlem-based entrepreneurs and tastemakers. The show airs on PBS local affiliate station NYC Life.
Furthermore, Selena is the host of Angela Simmons’ “Pressure Makes Diamonds” live event series, which empowers disenfranchised young women.
Selena received The New York Association of Black Journalists Award for Best Blog Commentary in 2016 and 2017. “Let Your Voice Be Heard!” won a New York Press Club Award in 2016.
She received the Presidential Medal Award and other honors when she graduated from SUNY Old Westbury with a bachelor’s degree in Media and Communication.
Stanley Fritz, Co-Host and Engineer
Growing up in the housing projects of Brooklyn’s East New York and Brownsville, Stanley Fritz never imagined becoming a community organizer, political expert, two-time published author, the creator of a web series, an entrepreneur, and one of the voices behind an awardwinning radio show before the age of 30.
As the son of immigrants trapped in a cycle of poverty, Stanley was surrounded by negative influences drug abuse and street gangs before he was a teen. Despite his negative circumstances, he developed a love for reading at an early age and dreamed of one day becoming the nation’s first Black president. Unfortunately, Barack Obama beat him to the punch. Plus, it took him just one year of working for the New York City Council to realize that real change happens not through the current political system, but when a broad coalition of people work together.
Since graduating from SUNY Old Westbury in 2010, Stanley has been dedicated to fighting for progressive issues and standing up for disenfranchised communities through organizing, activism, and storytelling. Today, Stanley works full time as the Communications Associate at Citizen Action of New York, a grassroots organization that fights for economic, social and environmental justice. Prior, he worked for the WE ACT for Environmental Justice and the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG). He currently volunteers with the Justice League NYC and hosts/engineers an Let Your Voice Be Heard! Radio.
Back in 2011, he self-published his first book called “Beautiful Problems,” which is a collection of short stories loosely based on his own life experiences. He then released his second book, Confessions of a Sucker for Love, in 2013, which is now being transformed into a web series. In addition, Stanley recently helped co-write a socially conscious stage play called “Doughboy” and cofounded a new political action committee called the New York Caucus for Political Action, along with Jemar T. Ward and Bryant Arthur.
Stanley currently resides in Harlem, NY and enjoys bike riding and spending time with his girlfriend. His field of expertise includes, public speaking, politics, the 2016 election, social media, education reform, environmental racism and social justice.
Tammie David, Co-Host
Tammie David is your newest problematic fave who brings an unapologetically left-leaning perspective and witty humor to Be Heard! She is loud, intense, and passionate about building a more equitable and just society.
Tammie was born and raised in Boston and Germany by a mixed Trinidadian family before making New York City her home in 2012. After graduating from The City College of New York in 2017 with a Bachelor’s in Political Science, she became a community organizer and participated in social justice campaigns around the world, including an anti-gentrification campaign in Berlin, refugee aid in France, and the Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo campaign in Buenos Aires. She has also worked for a collective of state agencies, non-profits, and small businesses, including New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) and the Massaschuetts House of Representatives on public policy and a variety of issue-based campaigns like voting rights, environmentalism, healthcare access, and education. Her advocacy and activism is mainly focused on mental health and trauma, income inequality, poverty-relief, and the neo-civil rights movement.
Tammie currently works full time as an administrator but volunteers with city-wide leftist organizations such as the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the Campaign for an Elected Civilian Review Board.
Outside of empowering communities and fighting for social justice, Tammie loves to travel, learn about new cultures, meet new people, and work towards her ultimate dream of being a professional comedian.
Meet Our Correspondents
Ilyssa Fuchs, Esq.
Ilyssa Fuchs is an attorney, freelance writer, and activist from Long Island, NY, who holds both a juris doctor and a political science degree. She is the founder of the popular Facebook page Politically Preposterous and a contributor on Let Your Voice Be Heard Radio. Ilyssa is an outspoken advocate for progressive causes.
Ilyssa received her J.D. from New York Law School in 2012, where she graduated cum laude. Prior to attending law school she obtained a B.A. in Political Science from Stony Brook University, where she graduated magna cum laude. During law school, Ilyssa worked as a summer legal intern for both the Legal Aid Society and the Neighborhood Defender’s Service of Harlem. Additionally, she was a Student Bar Association Senator, President of the Stonewall Law Students LGBT Association, team captain of the NYLS AIDS Walk Team, and a Torts teaching assistant. While at Stony Brook, she was a staff writer and copy editor for the Stony Brook Press newspaper, a teaching assistant, and an active member of the Stony Brook LGBTA and the Pi Sigma Alpha political science fraternity.
Presently, Ilyssa works as an associate attorney at a small law firm in downtown Manhattan that handles state and federal criminal defense and civil rights, police misconduct cases. She spends her free time writing/blogging about politics and law and is an activist for criminal justice reform, civil, women’s and LGTBQ rights, and many other progressive causes, as well as a sports enthusiast.
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Jaqi Cohen
Jaqi Cohen grew up in a small, conservative town in Westchester, New York. She enrolled at SUNY Albany where studied political science, fell in love with politics and became a die-hard progressive.
She lives in Astoria, Queens and currently works for a statewide political advocacy organization.
She loves comedy, movies, reading and talking to anyone who will listen.
One of Jaqi’s greatest inspirations is Lenny Bruce, a controversial comedian that challenged social norms and the status quo.
She aspires to one day defeating her arch-nemesis, Stanley Fritz.
Jaqi brings a well-rounded and informative perspective to “Let Your Voice Be Heard! Radio.”
