Get Together
136 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsA show about ordinary people building extraordinary communities.
"Get Together" is hosted by the team at People & Company and our correspondents Mia Quagliarello, Maggie Zhang, Marjorie Anderson, and Whitney Ogutu.
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Vulnerability is key when connecting fathers 💚 Bruce Muchelule, DADing Different
April 12, 2021 04:00 - 29 minutes - 27 MB“The journey is not so much about how many people respond. You can just impact one person and they can impact you back.” - Bruce Muchelule When Bruce became a dad, he wasn’t quite sure how to know if he was doing things right. He reached out on Twitter to see if there were any support groups or places for dads to find peer mentorship. He couldn’t find one, but he did receive DMs from many fathers looking for a community like Bruce. DADing Different began as a space for young and first-time...
A systems thinker’s approach to rebuilding trust 🔴 Evan Hamilton, Reddit
April 05, 2021 10:00 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MB“It's way better if members are passionate and loud than dispassionate and quiet. The fact that they care enough to yell is really a gift.” - Evan Hamilton Reddit is the mothership for sub-communities known as “subreddits,” each of which covers a different topic from ask historians to cats standing up. Subreddits are each managed by a team of volunteers. Thus as the Director of Community at Reddit, Evan Hamilton doesn’t have just one community to cultivate. He has hundreds of thousands of ...
A system-thinker’s approach to building trust 🔴 Evan Hamilton, Reddit
April 05, 2021 10:00 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MB“It's way better if members are passionate and loud than dispassionate and quiet. The fact that they care enough to yell is really a gift.” - Evan Hamilton Reddit is the mothership for sub-communities known as “subreddits,” each of which covers a different topic from ask historians to cats standing up. Subreddits are each managed by a team of volunteers. Thus as the Director of Community at Reddit, Evan Hamilton doesn’t have just one community to cultivate. He has hundreds of thousands of ...
How SXSW created programming *with* its community 🎨Todd Hansen, SXSW & Artist Rescue Trust
March 22, 2021 10:00 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MB“If you're going to go to your community and build with them, realize that you're going to have to support and prop them up. It's not a part-time job. It's a full-time thing.” - Todd Hansen In the Spring of 1987, a group of music fans and journalists organized a small live event in Austin, Texas. Around 700 people showed up. By 2019, South by Southwest (SXSW) had become a 10-day conference and festival with over 28,000 attendees heading to Austin each March. Each year the conference receiv...
Spreadsheets rule the world 📊 David Lyford-Smith, Spreadsheet Warriors
March 15, 2021 11:00 - 41 minutes - 37.5 MB“The question is ‘how do I keep my volunteers on track?’ because they're hugely motivated.” - David Lyford-Smith If you spend a lot of time working with spreadsheets, you know they have a special power to rule the world. You can do almost anything with them from creating a shopping list to financial planning and analysis. Spreadsheets' powers lie in the fact they are accessible to people who aren’t programmers and coders. But if even just one cell is wrong, it can wreak terrible havoc. Dav...
Meet the huge, leaderless web of fans fueling BTS 🎶 Ashley Hackworth, BTS A.R.M.Y.
March 08, 2021 12:00 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MB"We are a part of their success. We are a part of their team.” - Ashley Hackworth BTS is a seven-member South Korean boy band. They became the fastest-growing group since The Beatles to earn four US number-one albums, doing so in less than two years. The rise of BTS is in part thanks to a huge leaderless web of dedicated fans who call themself A.R.M.Y. People like Ashley Hackworth host accounts that serve as informational and even emotional hubs for millions of fans. They don’t just love ...
Connecting designers across Africa during COVID-19 🇰🇪 Lewis Kang'ethe, The Fearless Community
March 01, 2021 12:00 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MB“Let's bring designers together and first talk about your wellbeing. Then let's talk about the next steps forward for you as a designer.” - Lewis Kang'ethe Lewis Kang'ethe was first championed as a community leader in primary school when his teacher asked him to spearhead the mathematics club. When the teacher asks, the answer is either, “yes or yes.” Now, Lewis works as a product designer in Kenya. When he’s looking for jobs outside of Africa he often gets asked the question, “are you q...
Growing a community one town hall at a time 💰 Claire Wasserman, Ladies Get Paid
February 22, 2021 12:00 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MB“The email that I would receive after every single town hall was, ‘I thought I was the only one.’” - Claire Wasserman By 2016, Claire Wasserman was fed up with men not taking her seriously in the workplace. For years, she’d internalized this marginalization as somehow her fault or her problem to struggle through alone. It was time for that to change. With a friend, Claire brought together 100 women in a town-hall style event to talk about money and power in the workplace. Out of those conv...
Wastin’ away in retirement paradise 🍹 Adam Bedoian, Margaritaville
February 15, 2021 12:00 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MB“I tell all my staff to have your hearts, your minds and your ears open to new ideas. It doesn't have to come from you to be a great idea.” - Adam Bedoian Margaritaville isn’t just a state of mind, it’s a real place. Seniors can live out their Buffett-inspired retirement dreams at the three Latitude Margaritaville retirement communities in Daytona Beach and Watersound, Florida, and Hilton Head, South Carolina. When moving into a retirement community, people care greatly about what their co...
A band of 500 modern day superheroes 💍 Chris Turner, The Ring Finders
February 08, 2021 11:00 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MB“The strategy is the questions. You have to ask the right questions. If you don’t, you can be walking away from a smile.” - Chris Turner When Chris Turner was 12 years old he got a metal detector and fell in love with looking for history. Over the years, he would be on the beach or in a park and get approached by a frantic couple looking for their ring. Within minutes, he was often able to help them recover their ring. These rings represent stories and relationships, and when they are lost...
Building real bonds amongst diverse groups of strangers 💖 Sophie Mona Pagès, LVRSNFRNDS
February 01, 2021 11:00 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MB“Society is losing something when we don’t share our weirdness with one another. You're losing something when you have someone at your table and they don't share what makes them different. One of the purposes I have in life is to create spaces where people will share what is interesting about them, and why they are different.” - Sophie Mona Pagès As a Moroccan immigrant growing up in France, Sophie Mona Pagès grew up feeling a bit “weird” in her complex identity. She craved a space infused ...
Connecting over the food & family we love 🍲 Sarah Leung, Woks of Life
January 25, 2021 11:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MB“As the community grows and people come back, they start wanting to know more about us and where we're coming from. We wanted to make that really clear--the origin of all of these recipes and of our family.” - Sarah Leung The Woks of Life has opened the door for many families to connect over the food and memories they love. The Leung family, Bill and Judy, and daughters Sarah and Kaitlin started the blog to document their favorite Chinese dishes and family memories in 2013. Food has been ...
Meet Maggie Zhang 🎙 “Get Together” Podcast Correspondent
January 23, 2021 11:00 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MB“Everyone has that thing that makes them super excited they can just talk endlessly about it. When you’re interviewing you're feeling around for that geyser. You don't know what's going to make them light up. As you find it, you can feel that flow and the change in their voice.” - Maggie Zhang Maggie Zhang and Bailey sit down to reflect on Maggie’s learnings so far as a “Get Together” correspondent. Maggie’s approaching her 10th episode on the podcast. She’s brought us the stories behind cr...
Toastmasters: Still thriving 100 years into its history 🗯 Joe Smith, Toastmasters
January 18, 2021 12:00 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MB“The hallmark of Toastmasters is making things fun because we want people to come back. We can have the best education in the world but if you're not coming back, it's of no use.” - Joe Smith Toastmasters was founded on October 22, 1924 (97 years ago!) at a YMCA in Santa Monica, California by a man named Ralph Smedley. Ralph set out to offer a functional value--creating a space for members to improve their public speaking. What continues to keep people coming back decades later is the insp...
Realizing a global movement 📣 Colombe Cahen-Salvador, Andrea Venzon & Laura Giani, NOW!
January 11, 2021 12:00 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MB“We really managed to create a community of doers. Our people always look at how they can impact the world, how they can impact change.” - Colombe Cahen-Salvador In 2016, Colombe, Laura, and Andrea were devastated by the UK's decision to leave the European Union. Colombe is French, and Andrea and Laura are Italian. For them, the E.U. is a symbol of a more open and global society. In response, the team completely changed their lives to organize. Colombe and Andrea started by creating Volt,...
The People & Company Holiday Spectacular 🎁 A live interview with Bailey, Kevin, & Kai of People & Company
December 28, 2020 11:30 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MB“Stop using the word community. We all know community is magical but doesn’t come together by magic. It’s magical because it’s this elusive thing. So take the ambiguity out of it. Stop using the word and get more specific.” - Kai Elmer Sotto People & Company’s theme of our last year was to refine the process we use to teach community building. How did it go? What did we learn? What will 2021 hold? Kai, Kevin and Bailey sat down with our friend Marjorie Anderson, “Get Together” corresponden...
A home 30 years in the making 🏡Ceyenne Doroshow, G.L.I.T.S.
December 22, 2020 15:35 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MB“In creating a home, I'm creating sustainability. And I'm creating excellence within the people that I'll be housing.”- Ceyenne Doroshow Ceyenne Doroshow is an author, activist, and the founder and executive director of G.L.I.T.S., an organization dedicated to creating sustainable housing and healthcare for Black transgender people. Ceyenne has become “the parent that she desperately wanted as a child” for people around the world. At an early age, Ceyenne identified as transgender and fac...
Supercharging grassroots political action in our communities 📢 Nicole àBeckett, SameSide
December 14, 2020 19:21 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MB“You don't have to be a celebrity or a mega influencer to take action and host an event. A hundred people or a thousand people don’t have to attend. It can be five people. That impact is still impact. ” - Nicole àBeckett Just after the 2016 U.S. election, many people were saying, “I want to do more to get involved but I don’t know how.” Nicole àBeckett and her brother, David, knew there had to be a better way to bring people together for action on issues that matter. They started SameSid...
How a movement took over LinkedIn 🗺Anna McAfee, #LinkedInLocal
December 07, 2020 17:56 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MB“Leadership is actually the first few followers, not the crazy first person to stand up on stage.” - Anna McAfee In May 2017, Anna McAfee put up a simple post on LinkedIn to see if anyone living in her hometown of Coffs Coast, Australia wanted to get together. She had just returned after years of living abroad and wanted to “get to know the people behind the profiles” in her area. Anna included the hashtag #LinkedInLocal. Fifteen people made it out to the first Coffs Coast event, but the ...
LIVE Interview! “Going Virtual” 👩🏻💻 Carla Fernandez & Mary Horn, The Dinner Party
December 05, 2020 06:00 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MB“We're not going to give up in-person gatherings, but at the same time, virtual tables have been so meaningful. Post-COVID probably will be a ‘both and’ community.” - Carla Fernandez In November, we hosted a live interview with Carla Fernandez and Mary Horn in front of an intimate audience. For both women, their work with The Dinner Party is personal. “We know what it’s like to lose someone and we aren’t afraid to talk about it,” their website states. When COVID-19 arrived in March, Carla...
Room for reimagining masculinity 🤝Onyango Otieno, Nyumbani
November 30, 2020 18:40 - 36 minutes - 33 MBNote: we will discuss sexual assault in this episode and advise our listeners to practice discretion in tuning in. “Everybody's story is valid. The fact that people feel they cannot speak up about their own pain is my motivator.” - Onyango Otieno At twenty years old, Onyango Otieno was the victim of sexual assault and found he had no where to turn. In Kenya, as in many other societies, the patriarchal structure turns a blind eye to the sexual experiences of men. Men are socially conditione...
Meet Whitney Ogutu 🎙“Get Together” Podcast Correspondent
November 28, 2020 06:00 - 15 minutes - 13.7 MB“Listeners should expect refreshing and new voices from me. The plan is to put Africa on the map.” - Whitney Ogutu In the middle of July, we announced that we were searching for a new podcast correspondent to help us expand the stories we tell. We had an incredible response to the program–117 applications! We decided in the end to bring on not just one, but two correspondents: Marjorie Anderson and Whitney Ogutu. We’ve been training Marjorie and Whitney over the past few months on our edi...
Growing a restorative community 🌱Jodianne Beckford, Noire Girls Plant
November 23, 2020 15:17 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MB"I kept doing events after that first one. I guess that became my community. Even now saying it out loud, it is very strange. I never thought I could be someone that would be a part of like creating a community.” - Jodianne Beckford Jodianne created Noire Girls Plant, “from a dark place of feeling numb.” At a low point, she found plants were givinging her joy. She searched on Eventbrite and asked around, trying to find a space with others to nerd out and talk about plants with. When she co...
Meet Marjorie Anderson 🎙 “Get Together” Podcast Correspondent
November 21, 2020 06:00 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MB“Community doesn't require that you have the same opinions. It just requires that you share a passion.” - Marjorie Anderson In the middle of July, we announced that we were searching for a new podcast correspondent to help us expand the stories we tell. We had an incredible response to the program–117 applications! We decided in the end to bring on not just one, but two correspondents: Marjorie Anderson and Whitney Ogutu. We’ve been training Marjorie and Whitney over the past few months ...
Instigating grassroots culture change 🧩 Steve Garguilo, Cultivate
November 16, 2020 17:57 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MB“There's strategic value in giving up some control when you're a leader at a company and you want new ideas to emerge.” - Steve Garguilo Early in his career, Steve did the (seemingly) impossible—he led a grassroots transformation of the culture of Johnson & Johnson, the fifth largest company in the world. Frustrated by the pace and challenges of big company culture, Steve decided to do something he’d done in college: host a TEDx. He hosted a casual TEDx event at a bar and invited employe...
A curated dinner party that went virtual without losing its purpose 🍴Lennon Flowers and Carla Fernandez of The Dinner Party
November 14, 2020 06:00 - 44 minutes - 41 MBThe Dinner Party is a worldwide community of 20- and 30-somethings who have each experienced the loss of a loved one. “We know what it’s like to lose someone and we aren’t afraid to talk about it,” their website states. Before the pandemic more than 400 Dinner Party tables were regularly meeting in nearly 100 cities around the world. Carla and Lennon share in this episode how they have through the age old practice of breaking bread, Dinner Partiers are transforming life after loss from an i...
Role modeling honesty ❣️ Kibi Anderson, Red Table Talk
November 09, 2020 14:14 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MB“If there's drama in your life, you don't want to talk about it. It’s hush, hush. But that's not the way you heal. It's been detrimental to our communities. So when people–especially a lot of black women—saw that representation on camera it just touched them in a way that just exploded.” - Kibi Anderson Many of us may know “Red Table Talk” as the TV show that Jada Smith, her daughter Willow, and mother Adrienne host. What you may not know is that Red Table Talk sparked thriving grassroots...
Crowdsourcing scenes 🤣 Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere
October 26, 2020 14:48 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MB“You don't have to have any talent. You just have to come out. I design things that would work for someone who was a lawyer or a school teacher.” - Charlie Todd In August 2001, Charlie Todd moved to New York City with an interest in acting and comedy. He didn’t have immediate access to a stage, so he started creating in public spaces by staging undercover performances. Charlie documented his first undercover performances on a blog he called Improv Everywhere. Over the past two decades, Ch...
BONUS! Kevin's interview on Masters of Community with David Spinks
October 24, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBYou can tune into the original episode on the Masters of Community podcast. Special thanks to David and his team for giving us access to the audio to share directly with our listeners. Check out their podcasts!
Mastering the art of meetups 🤓 Joe Robinson, Designers + Geeks
October 19, 2020 14:39 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MB“I'm fairly introverted which I find a lot of people are surprised by given the number of events that I've run over the years. I don't actually like attending events where I don't have a fairly structured role to play. I think to some extent being the organizer of the event gave me a role and job responsibilities. It helped me as an introvert feel more comfortable.” - Joe Robinson By day, Joe Robinson is the Co-Founder of Hummingbird, a new service focused on fighting financial crime. But t...
Rallying allies ✊🏾 Nate Nichols and Steffi Behringer, Allyship & Action
October 12, 2020 15:28 - 56 minutes - 51.5 MB“We need people to see the power they have in themselves to make a very small change that can compound over time.” - Nate Nichols Nate Nichols and Steffi Behringer are life and business partners and the founders of Allyship & Action. The Allyship & Action Summits took the advertising community by storm these past few months. Like many others, their creative agency, Pallete Group, faced challenges when the pandemic hit. But they flipped the challenge into an opportunity, producing Freela...
Crowdsourcing the world’s hidden wonders 🌎Jonathan Carey, Atlas Obscura
October 05, 2020 16:17 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MB“We really lean all the way in for our community so they can feel that they're working with somebody and not working for us.” - Jonathan Carey Atlas Obscura is one of the few community-driven travel platforms. The site focuses on the hard-to-find wonders and oddities of the world, from a church with Frederic Chopin’s heart in Poland to an abandoned Eurostar train covered in graffiti in France, to the Ottoman Bird Palaces (yes, ornate mansions for birds!) hiding in Istanbul. All of the 20...
Writers helping writers 📬 Fiona Monga & Nadia Eghbal, Substack
September 28, 2020 13:56 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MB“Community means there's a reason why these people are here, irrespective of the platform.” - Nadia Eghbal If you haven’t heard of Substack, you will soon. The company is just three years old and growing quickly. The co-founders came together to see if they could solve a problem: helping writers earn a living directly from their readers. When readers pay writers directly, the founders realized, writers can focus on doing the work they care about most, not what editors, algorithms or adver...
Training and connecting the coders of the future 👾 Isis Miller, Black Girls CODE
September 21, 2020 14:39 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MB“We know that there is a tomorrow and we want to be able to prepare our girls and our community for what that tomorrow looks like. Not only prepare them for it, but make sure that they have a hand in building it. ” - Isis Miller Throughout her biotech engineering career, Kimberly Bryant was often the only black female in the room. Kimberly’s experience wasn’t rare. In fact, it’s the norm. Black women make up less than 0.5% of the leadership roles in tech. As Kimberly watched her young dau...
“When you growth hack with incentives, you erode authenticity” 🗯 Laura Nestler, Duolingo & Yelp
September 14, 2020 14:45 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MB“Community is not transactional by nature. Humans seek to connect on a deeper level. They're looking for validation or for support or for something bigger than themselves. Now that community is such a buzzword. Everyone wants it and they want it quickly. We have more levers than ever, and they work. But when you growth hack with incentives, what you gain in volume, you erode in authenticity.” - Laura Nestler In 2007, Laura Nestler responded to a Craigslist ad that “was either as sketchy as...
Walking in the user's shoes🚶🏽♀️Cindy Au of Kickstarter, Zagat, and Brainly
September 07, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MB“When you work in community, you get to be the person who thinks about the customer all day long, who thinks about people, who thinks about how they connect.” - Cindy Au Cindy Au set out for a career in academia but soon found herself as employee #9 at Kickstarter. Back then, the community team would review and help write each project submitted to the site. Later as their VP of Community, she oversaw the evolution of Kickstarter as it grew from 50,000 users to 10 million. After her experi...
Creating a radically safe, welcoming space online 🏳️🌈 Shana Sumers, HER
August 31, 2020 14:59 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MB“Ask your community: What they want to see out of the company to make them feel supported? I don't do anything until I talk to the community or reach out to them or say, ‘What do you want to see next? And then I make that a part of my plan.’” - Shana Sumers HER Social App is the largest social community and dating app for LGBTQ+ womxn and queer people. Unlike other dating apps that tend to end the user journey when people find a partner, HER is also a place for users to return to for queer ...
Bringing humor & hype to personal finance 💸 Berna Anat, Hella Helpful
August 24, 2020 15:34 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MB“When you learn in community, your brain grows so much faster than it would on its own.” - Berna Anat Berna brings hype to an otherwise “hella male, hella stale, and hella pale” financial space. She creates videos, writing, and hosts talks that encourage, support and celebrate those of us who struggle with personal finances. This work is personal for Berna. Growing up a first-gen child of Filipino immigrants, money felt like a taboo topic. Berna set out to change that. Today she’s a writ...
BONUS! Bailey's interview with Dee Reddy of Inside Intercom
August 21, 2020 13:47 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBIn this behind-the-scenes interview, Dee Reddy of Intercom asks Bailey why the team at People & Company focuses on communities and how the teams has shifted coaching organizations to harness the power of community in a time of pandemic. You can tune into the original episode on Intercom's website. Some key insights that Intercom noted: There’s a lot businesses can learn about community from grassroots organizations. Many of these have, for a long time, operated remotely in innovative way...
The secret sauce behind Mariah Carey’s fan community 🌟 Bree Nguyen
August 17, 2020 17:08 - 1 hour - 63.9 MB“Hi, Bree, it’s Mariah. Mariah Carey...Please tell the fans thank you.” In 1999, 16-year-old Bree Nguyen was hired by her idol, Mariah Carey, to do something urgent: get Mariah on Total Request Live (TRL). Why hire a 16-year-old fan? Bree figured out one thing that music executives were unclear how to venture into: internet fandom. If you’ve read our book, you may have already heard a snippet of Bree’s story and we don’t want to give it all away. In this episode Bree tells us the extraor...
Making friendship more “user-friendly” 🤝 Kat Vellos, Author of We Should Get Together
August 10, 2020 20:50 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MB“We lack language for describing the ache when we crave for companionate emotional connection, for that friend bond. Whether it's an ache for a single close friend or a group of friends. I gave it is ‘platonic longing.’” - Kat Vellos Kat Vellos is a user experience designer who uses her trade to help people connect authentically. After moving to the Bay Area 6 years ago, Kat for the first time found herself struggling to make adult friends. She felt, as she describes it, a “platonic long...
What makes a Facebook group “off the charts” active 👩🏻💻 Lindsay Russell, Facebook
August 03, 2020 15:17 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MB“Every party needs a host. Every team needs a coach. It's no different online than it is in our real world communities.” - Lindsay Russell At Facebook, Lindsay Russell was a part of the team that used data to identify, validate and supercharge the company’s biggest community building investments to date. In their research on what makes a Facebook group active, even vibrant, Lindsay. and her team realized that successful groups had one clear commonality: a remarkable admin. These admins w...
Publishing a book through crowdfunding 💪Elena Favilli, Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls
July 27, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MB“It's important that people realize that extraordinary women are not just the heroes of the past, but they are around us every day today. They are already part of our communities. We just need to look a little deeper and more carefully, but they are already there.” - Elena Favilli Elena Favilli found herself at the center of an all too familiar story of women in the startup world. She was in Silicon Valley working on her company Timbuktu and finding it hard to make friends with inv...
Publishing a book through crowdfunding 👩🎤Elena Favilli, Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls
July 27, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MB“It's important that people realize that extraordinary women are not just the heroes of the past, but they are around us every day today. They are already part of our communities. We just need to look a little deeper and more carefully, but they are already there.” - Elena Favilli Elena Favilli found herself at the center of an all too familiar story of women in the startup world. She was in Silicon Valley working on her company Timbuktu and finding it hard to make friends with investors, g...
Making art to connect strangers 🎨 Ivan Cash, Director of “A Social Distance”
July 20, 2020 15:55 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MB“I think that there's just some stubborn part of me that wants benevolence towards strangers to be more accepted and widespread. That's my underlying mission.” - Ivan Cash Ivan Cash is an interactive artist and filmmaker whose work celebrates and inspires connections among strangers. He has received high accolades for his work (Forbes 30 Under 30, Cannes Lions Shortlist, exhibitions in V&A Museum and The Brooklyn Museum). But that’s not why we interviewed him on the podcast. We brought him ...
Knitters banding together for climate 🧶The Tempestry Project
July 14, 2020 13:05 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MB“Every piece that's knit is 20 to 30 hours of somebody thinking about climate. And then every person who sees that piece thinks about it and hopefully talks about it...It's activism, but sort of a cozy activism, a “craftivism,” that's not too threatening to people and permeates conversations and dialogue about climate change.” - Justin Connelly and Emily McNeil Knitters have been doing temperature knitting for a long time--checking their thermometer on their porch every day, writing down t...
Helping families talk about race 💌
July 06, 2020 19:04 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MB“Mom, Dad, Uncle, Auntie, Grandfather, Grandmother: We need to talk.You may not have grown up around people who are Black, but I have. Black people are a fundamental part of my life: they are my friends, my classmates and teammates, my roommates, my family. Today, I’m scared for them.” - Letters for Black Lives In 2016, Philando Castile, a 32-year-old black man in Minnesota, was shot by a police officer during a routine traffic stop. Philando’s girlfriend streamed the aftermath on ...
Helping families talk about anti-Blackness 💌Letters for Black Lives
July 06, 2020 19:04 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MB“Mom, Dad, Uncle, Auntie, Grandfather, Grandmother: We need to talk.You may not have grown up around people who are Black, but I have. Black people are a fundamental part of my life: they are my friends, my classmates and teammates, my roommates, my family. Today, I’m scared for them.” - Letters for Black Lives In 2016, Philando Castile, a 32-year-old black man in Minnesota, was shot by a police officer during a routine traffic stop. Philando’s girlfriend streamed the aftermath on Facebook ...
Helping families talk about anti-Blackness 💌
July 06, 2020 19:04 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MB“Mom, Dad, Uncle, Auntie, Grandfather, Grandmother: We need to talk.You may not have grown up around people who are Black, but I have. Black people are a fundamental part of my life: they are my friends, my classmates and teammates, my roommates, my family. Today, I’m scared for them.” - Letters for Black Lives In 2016, Philando Castile, a 32-year-old black man in Minnesota, was shot by a police officer during a routine traffic stop. Philando’s girlfriend streamed the aftermath on ...
What a little "social courage" can do: Connecting strangers through tea time 🍵 Ankit Shah, Tea With Strangers
June 30, 2020 01:20 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MB“If you're going to lead an organization, it's likely that more of your time and energy is going into building an engine and less of your time and energy is going into facilitating connection between people. It's really important for community leaders to recognize if they want to lead an organization or if they want to facilitate connection.” -- Ankit Shah Motivated by a sense of nostalgia during his senior year of college, Ankit Shah posted an open call: he wanted to get tea with anyone on...