On this week’s episode of Catching Up with the Kernel, your hosts, Sylvia Freire and Lilly Keith, inform you about Trump criticizing U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie and endorsing Ed Gallrein, a former University of Kentucky student indicted for manslaughter in the death of her baby and Michael D. Rankin MD Health Education Building construction impacts parking.
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PODCAST: Catching Up With The Kernel: Season 3 Episode 21
March 13, 2026
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Sylvia Freire, Assistant News Editor
Sylvia Freire is a Louisville, Kentucky, native. She is a sophomore undergraduate student at the University of Kentucky, majoring in journalism with a minor in political science.
While at the Kentucky Kernel, she has been the copy editor and assistant news editor, focusing on breaking news, political reporting and the Catching Up with the Kernel news podcast. Outside of the Kernel, she is a radio DJ for the local radio station, WRFL Lexington 88.1FM.
She hopes to work for a news corporation as a foreign correspondent or political journalist.