Local Students Exchange Places & Knit America Together

Most people are familiar with foreign exchange student programs, but students at Utah's Mountain Heights Academy are exchanging places with students across the United States. It's part of the American Exchange Project and it's giving students nationwide a chance to travel to communities throughout America for free with the hope of connecting a divided country. In this episode of Utah Weekly Forum, FM100.3 Host Rebecca Cressman is joined by Mountain Heights Academy Executive Director DeLaina Tonks and recent high school graduates Ben Parr of Portland Maine and Brodie Harris of Cedar City who share what they learned from their own American Exchange experience and how it gave them hope for a more united country. To learn more, visit MountainHeightsAcademy.org or AmericanExchangeProject.org.

Utah Weekly Forum is a weekly community affairs conversation about the growing and changing needs, resources, and issues affecting the diverse people and communities along the Wasatch Front mountains, within Salt Lake City, and beyond. Utah Weekly Forum is hosted and produced by Rebecca Cressman, KSFI Midday Radio Personality in Salt Lake City.  The interview program is broadcast Sunday evenings on FM100.3, KSFI Radio at 11:00pm and on 103.5 FM on Sunday mornings at 5:30am. You can reach Rebecca with questions and show ideas at Rebecca@FM100.com.