Managing editor of Origins OSU, host of the podcast exploring the global impact of “the war on drugs” called Prologued, Brionna Mendoza is a PhD Candidate at The Ohio State University. Brionna is a lover of live music, swing dancing queen, Nicolas Cage fanatic, whose days are spent studying life after the war on drugs. Growing up in Fresno to a tight-knit family, we explore what life might have looked if she stayed there instead of relocating to the mid-west.

Follow her on Twitter @brionna_mendoza or “Prologued” @prologuedpod

Music in today’s episode is “Blood (instrumental)” by Anthem of Rain. Find this song and more of theirs at https://freemusicarchive.org