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Edify Extras: June 2023

Edify Justice Advocates - June 07, 2023 18:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Edify Extras resumes with host, Alex Dhanani.  Alex is a content creator and the Founder of Bedroom Doozies (@bedroomdoozies),  a project dedicated to uplifting and connecting the stories and work of marginalized voices to minimize feelings of isolation regarding one's identity and experience.  ...

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Edify Extras: April 2023

Edify Justice Advocates - April 07, 2023 03:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Edify Extras continues with our podcast's own Executive Producer, Belén Moyano.  Belén shares her journey from immigrant to activist to curriculum designer within our community as the co-creator of the 5 steps of Edify.  Belén also shares notes from what's coming up this month with Harriet Tub...

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Edify Extras: March 2023

Edify Justice Advocates - March 08, 2023 19:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
On this new series from Edify Justice Advocates and the Harriet Tubman Effect Institute, we will be featuring a member of our community as the episode host.  To kick off EDIFY EXTRAS, we present our very own podcast production team members.  This month's episode welcomes Tony Ponella, an Edify...

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Edify and Higher Education

Edify Justice Advocates - November 12, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
From socioeconomic inaccessibility to cultural insensitivity, American universities are undergoing rapid growing pains as its students and faculty become aware of its outdated roots.  This episode of the Edify Justice Advocate Podcast opens a dialogue to uncover the roots of isolation and discon...

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Grace-Led Storytelling for the New World | Live from TEDx Broadway 2022

Edify Justice Advocates - July 22, 2022 19:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Our own Nicole Javanna Johnson leads the audience of TEDx Broadway 2022 through her work as a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Director on several Broadway shows. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at h...

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Introducing: A New World

Edify Justice Advocates - July 01, 2022 17:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
What is A New World? A New World is a 52-week, year long community and accountability practice conducted by the Harriet Tubman Effect. Who is this for? Workplace professionals who want to dismantle white supremacy culture in their daily spaces, and hold themselves accountable to new inclusive pr...

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Edify and Theatre

Edify Justice Advocates - September 21, 2021 16:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Nicole Johnson interviews members of the theatre community to identify systemic oppression within the industry.  Guests discuss the Edify curriculum and how to work towards a better future and, ultimately, a more equitable and inclusive art. Subscribe to Edify Justice Advocate Podcast on Apple ...

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Graduation Part 1

Community Visions - August 06, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
This final episode celebrates the Black students in UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design (CED). The episode documents the students’ learning journeys and provides an opportunity for reflection of their education within the graduate programs at CED. The series of conversations in this ep...

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Graduation Part 2

Community Visions - August 06, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
This final episode celebrates the Black students in UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design (CED). The episode documents the students’ learning journeys and provides an opportunity for reflection of their education within the graduate programs at CED. The series of conversations in this ep...

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Racial Capitalism

Community Visions - July 02, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Racial capitalism can be interpreted in multiple ways and scholars have argued that racism is a core functionality of capitalism, since it is deeply rooted in histories of colonialism and slavery. Another interpretation of racial capitalism is the process of deriving social and economic value fr...

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Edify and Arts Education: PPAS

Edify Justice Advocates - June 30, 2021 16:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In the premiere episode of the Edify Justice Advocates podcast, Nicole Johnson, Founder and one of the lead curriculum designers of the Edify Dismantling Systemic Oppression curriculum, speaks with members of the Professional Performing Arts School (PPAS) community, including students, teachers,...

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Edify and PPAS

Edify Justice Advocates - June 30, 2021 16:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In the premiere episode of the Edify Justice Advocates podcast, Nicole Johnson, Founder and one of the lead curriculum designers of the Edify Dismantling Systemic Oppression curriculum, speaks with members of the Professional Performing Arts School (PPAS) community, including students, teachers,...

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Gentrification & Criminalization

Community Visions - June 04, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Planning concepts like “eye’s on the streets” inherently villainize Black bodies and are highly dependent on surveillance as well as the presence of law enforcement, and this is just one of the ways that urban planning is implicated in the over-policing of Black neighborhoods. This episode anayz...

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Black LGBTQ Lives Matter

Community Visions - May 07, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
The policies and practices of urban planning is focused on a heterosexual public that marginalizes differences in gender and sexuality. In addition to historical and current homophobia and transphobia, the compounded impacts of anti-Black racism has required Black LGBTQ communities to create spa...

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Self(ie) Love

Velvet Salon Podcast - April 18, 2021 05:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In this Office Hours, we had a fun conversation with the inspiring photographer and selfie coach Monique Floyd. First and foremost, she addressed the myth that selfies are for shallow people. Selfies are in fact extremely deep because they give us an opportunity to heal. As Monique likes to say,...

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Show and Tell

Velvet Salon Podcast - April 08, 2021 16:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In this episode we share print objects that inspire us. From calm and confident kraft paper covers, to the simplicity of folded paper, to large tomes we come back to again and again and again. This conversation will likely inspire to you take a field trip to your bookshelf / book box / pile of b...

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Movement Through Space

Community Visions - April 02, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
For our second episode, we explore how the movement of Black people is policed in urban settings by government agencies that go well beyond police departments. This episode looks at the perceptions of transit infrastructure and how it connects to other issues, including increased land values and...

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We Are The Artists

Velvet Salon Podcast - April 01, 2021 16:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In this intimate conversation, we talk with Karen Mitchell about our inherent worth as artists. Karen is a brilliant meditation leader and art facilitator with experience working with Fortune 500 companies. In our conversation, Eva Knox shared the relatable feeling of being watched, and needing ...

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Anti-Oppressive Creative Culture

Velvet Salon Podcast - March 25, 2021 16:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In this intimate conversation, we talk with the project's anti-racism coach Alyssa Hall. As described by Tema Okun, in white supremacy culture, "mistakes are seen as personal, ie. they reflect badly on the person making them as opposed to being for what they are --- a mistake." The harsh persona...

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Print Prototyping And Perfectionism

Velvet Salon Podcast - March 18, 2021 16:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In this intimate conversation, we talk with the badass zine maker Jackie Ayala: an email systemizer by day and a DIY zine maker by, well, all the time. One of the most beautiful things that happened was how we got vulnerable about our relationship to perfectionism — how it has protected us, and ...

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Movement Building, with Sascha Schlossberg

Velvet Salon Podcast - March 11, 2021 03:51 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In this intimate conversation, Erin talks with the messaging queen Sascha Schlossberg: movement designer, consumer psychology wiz, and messaging simplifier. She helps us understand in super simple terms what the ingredients of a movement can look like (they're not expensive or complex!). We drew...

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Stolen Land & Stolen Bodies

Community Visions - March 04, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
This introductory episode acknowledges that the conversation around anti-Black racism is happening on stolen and occupied Indigenous land.  Settler colonialism and settler privilege have enabled us to frame the Native American experience in the past tense, as if they are no longer here. The resu...

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Branding Hope, with Leah Hall

Velvet Salon Podcast - March 04, 2021 02:45 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In this intimate conversation, Erin talks with the creatively brilliant Leah Hall: brand strategist, designer, marketing maven, and signature offer synthesizer. We talk through the magazine's target audience, potential brand pillars, and also its physical experience. We go on a rich tangent with...

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Equitable Process > Product, with Meira Greenfeld

Velvet Salon Podcast - February 25, 2021 16:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In this intimate conversation, Erin talks with the brilliant Meira Greenfeld: Harvard-trained lawyer, licensed trauma therapist, and anti-racism coach. We unpack the word equity. We also explore the concept of an embodied magazine (where we honor our physical bodies and limits in the process), a...

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Breaking Walls Between Articles, with Jacqueline Lisenby

Velvet Salon Podcast - February 24, 2021 02:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In this intimate conversation, Erin talks with the multi-talented Jacqueline Lisenby: acting coach, film writer, pro interviewer, sponsor magnet, and film producer. We walk through the full process of doing an interview, and we explore how we might use the medium of interviews to create great co...

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Do White People Know They're White?

Colored Conversations - June 09, 2020 05:00 - 16 minutes
Do white people have a race story to tell? When do white people recognize they are white beyond checking the box on a form? Do white people realize there are undeniable distinguishing systemic and cultural features connected to being white? Join me as I explore "race stories". Do you have one?

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The Pandemic of Whiteness Part II

Colored Conversations - May 20, 2020 03:00 - 13 minutes
The coronavirus is dangerous and is attacking unsuspecting people who are healthy one day and sick the next. And while white people are definitely dying from this virus, Black people are being hit the hardest. Why is it that? In addition to disproportionately dying from COVID-19, Black people a...

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The Pandemic of Whiteness

Colored Conversations - April 30, 2020 05:00 - 12 minutes
Whiteness is not a color; it is an ideology; a set of normed behaviors, beliefs, and privileges that favor white people. Whiteness is the standard; everything is “other”.  Pandemic is an outbreak that is prevalent over an entire country or the whole world. Added together, whiteness is a pandemic...

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Colored Conversations - April 11, 2020 23:00 - 1 minute
Welcome to Colored Conversations with Traci O'Neal Ellis. Every episode will be a discussion of how race, racism, power and privilege inform and impact every aspect of American culture, through the lens of a Black woman in America. From rants to reflections and everything in between, we will pro...

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