En Route

Riding Route 14 with a woman who wants to make people smile

By Beth Golay,

Hugo Phan

Published May 19, 2023 at 12:00 AM CDT

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Is it possible to assign value to kindness and a smile? For Jessica Brewer, they’re both worth more than money.

Beth Golay and Hugo Phan talked to Brewer on Route 14 for this month’s En Route.

Beth Golay goes En Route with transit riders across Wichita. Her conversations are featured monthly on The Range. Follow her on Twitter @BethGolay, or you can probably track her down on Route 21.

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Beth Golay

Beth Golay is KMUW's Director of Marketing and Digital Content. She is the host of the KMUW podcast Marginalia, co-host with Suzanne Perez of the Books & Whatnot podcast, creator of the podcast You're Saying It Wrong, creator of KMUW's daily news podcast Wichita's Early Edition, and NPR StoryLab Workshop team member on the award-winning podcast My Fellow Kansans.

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Hugo Phan

Hugo Phan is a Digital News Reporter at KMUW, and founding member of the KMUW Movie Club. After years of being a loyal listener, he signed up to be a KMUW volunteer and joined the station's college student group before becoming a digital assistant in 2013.

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