Penn State Brandywine
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Campus stories with a Brandywine heartbeat.
We Are Chattin' is a relaxed interview series rooted in Penn State Brandywine life. Conversations move through first college choices, campus involvement, academic paths, athletics, THON, philanthropy, and the small moments that make a commuter-friendly campus feel personal.
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We Are Chattin' is a campus conversation series with a soft, sincere center. Ava Clements and Natalie DiMario guide interviews with students, faculty, alumni, and supporters connected to Penn State Brandywine. The format is simple. A guest arrives with a role, a story, and usually a few unexpected turns in how Brandywine became part of their life. That looseness works in the show's favor. Dr. Austin Duckett's episode turns a student affairs career into a story about being heard, finding support, and wanting students to feel valued. Dr. Joshua Phillips brings the academic lane, talking through education, teaching, authorship, classroom policies, and the kind of moments that stay with a professor. Student episodes add a different texture. Addison Stanton connects Las Vegas, Delco family roots, soccer, math club, and the practical choice of starting at Brandywine. Farrell Everett's story runs from a delayed college search to softball coaching and memories from work as a former Phillies ball girl. THON episodes bring the campus-service side forward. Charles Carlini, Morgan Gallagher, and Joey Preddy describe the physical and emotional challenge of 46 hours without sleeping or sitting, while Sarah Hallahan talks about involvement, leadership, and fundraising for the fight against childhood cancer. Zeebo Sinome-Bridgers gives the small-campus argument in plain terms: cost mattered, close classrooms mattered, and being known by people mattered. David Rosenberg broadens the frame through Penn State loyalty, philanthropy, the David and Marjorie Rosenberg Foundation, and the Center for Social Impact. The show is not trying to sound distant or analytical. It is conversational, supportive, and comfortable letting guests speak in the order they remember things. That means stories can wander, but the pattern is clear. Brandywine is presented as a place where students find lower-cost paths, smaller rooms, faculty access, clubs, athletics, service groups, and people who notice them. The recurring message is involvement. Go to the fair. Join something. Ask for help. Stay after class. Meet the person beside you. We Are Chattin' makes higher education feel less like an institution and more like a network of people explaining how they got through it, what they learned, and why they stayed connected.
Made for: Best for Penn State Brandywine students, families, alumni, faculty, and anyone curious about campus life through first-person stories. It also suits listeners interested in student leadership, commuter-campus belonging, THON, athletics, and service work.
What sets it apart: The show stands out through its small-campus intimacy: guests are not reduced to titles, and long personal answers are allowed to breathe. Its value is in the steady accumulation of practical stories about support, involvement, affordability, and community.
We Are Chattin’ is the official Penn State Brandywine podcast where hosts Ava Clements and Natalie DiMario sit down with students, faculty, staff and alumni to share their stories, experiences and passions both on campus and beyond. Tune in each episode for real conversations that celebrate the Brandywine community and all the ways we say “We Are!”
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Student-led interviews turn Penn State Brandywine's campus life into practical accounts of belonging, support, leadership and paths beyond college.
Ava Clements and Natalie DiMario treat college life as something best understood through the people doing its daily work. Their conversational interviews begin with how guests reached Penn State Brandywine, then follow the choices and relationships that shaped what came next.
The Phillies foul line meets a professor's attendance policy, giving you campus stories without the brochure gloss.
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A campus conversation about support, purpose, and the first-gen path to student affairs leadership.
Dr. Austin Duckett uses a campus conversation to show how a first-gen student moved into Penn State Brandywine's Director of Student Affairs role, while keeping the focus on a larger question: what helps students stay on track when school gets difficult.
A campus interview that turns attendance rules and a book nod into something human.
Dr. Joshua Phillips comes across as a professor who tells his own path with ease, moving from Central Michigan and Southern Illinois to Penn State Brandywine, with Mission Year and a year away from school along the way.
A Brandywine alum turns a late college decision into a clear-eyed ballpark story.
Farrell Everett's conversation with Ava Clements and Natalie DiMario moves from a late college choice into her time as a Phillies ball girl, and it keeps its focus on the parts that feel most lived in: falling behind on applications, leaving Florida, selling 50-50s for Phillies…
A campus conversation about Penn State roots, philanthropy, and student service.
We Are Chattin' presents David Rosenberg as a Penn State alumnus whose path to the university was shaped by family visits and an early pull toward football.
A campus interview that makes involvement and THON feel concrete.
The piece presents Sarah Hallahan as a steady example of why Penn State Brandywine can appeal to students who want a smaller campus close to home.
Campus radio from the wrong side of reality.
Campus decisions, Northeast news, and Northeast priorities.
How research culture changes in practice.
Conversations from inside the IT channel.
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Addison Stanton discusses her journey from Las Vegas to Penn State Brandywine, following her parents' legacy and choosing a local campus to save money and be near family.
Farrell Everett starts with a late college decision and ends at the ballpark.
Three Penn State Brandywine students discuss their experience dancing for 46 hours at THON Weekend to raise money for childhood cancer.
Zebo Senome-Bridgers discusses why he chose Penn State Brandywine for its affordability and small class sizes.
Ava Clements and Natalie DiMario welcome David Rosenberg, a Penn State alumnus, full-time philanthropist, president of the David and Marjorie Rosenberg Foundation, and a member of the Penn State Brandywine Advisory Board, and begin with his Penn State story.
Ava Clements and Natalie DiMario sit down with Sarah Hallahan, a third-year honors student, Student Government Association treasurer, and president of Brandywine Benefiting Thon.
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Bobby Caprice, director of athletics at Penn State Brandywine, shares her journey from student-athlete to her current role.
Hosts interview meteorologist Drew Anderson about his path to teaching at Penn State Brandywine and explain weather phenomena like grapple.
Amanda Paez shares her journey from LA to Penn State Brandywine, driven by proximity and the university's reputation.