Latest Merle Podcast Episodes
Episode 228: Local Perspectives on Development Communications with Emilly Okello-Juma
Glocal Citizens - June 25, 2024 09:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSummer Greetings Glocal Citizens! My guest this week, comes to us via fellow Glocal Citizen, Yana Fleming (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/yana-fleming). Like Yana, Emilly Okello-Juma is a seasoned communications and program management professional. Born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya, Em...
Episode 227: The Artist and the Designer with Elike Nkansa Part 2
Glocal Citizens - June 18, 2024 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGreetings Glocal Citizens! I met Elike Kofi Nkansa, a multifaceted creative with a background in literature and art with a keen interest in fine detailng, one afternoon at a place called the Green Butterfly Market (https://greenbutterflyghana.com/greenbutterflymarket/) in Accra. He was seated in ...
Episode 226: The Artist and the Designer with Elike Nkansa Part 1
Glocal Citizens - June 11, 2024 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGreetings Glocal Citizens! I met Elike Kofi Nkansa, a multifaceted creative with a background in literature and art with a keen interest in fine detailng, one afternoon at a place called the Green Butterfly Market (https://greenbutterflyghana.com/greenbutterflymarket/) in Accra. He was seated in ...
Episode 225: A Cup of Impact with a Side of Coffee with Robert “Bob” Bush, Jr.
Glocal Citizens - June 04, 2024 09:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGreetings Glocal Citizens! This week we have a Glocal Citizens first so keep reading! I first met my guest, Robert “Bob” Bush, Jr., more than 15 years ago in a cute bistro in the Meat Packing District in New York City. At the time, he had been living in the Middle East for a couple of years as Ma...
Episode 224: #tbt...Jamaica with Stacy Kirk, Andray McKenzie, Beverley Watson, Suki Fuller, Morris Sinclair, Natasha Moore, and Nydia Swaby
Glocal Citizens - May 28, 2024 09:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGreetings Glocal Citizens! Beach has been in heavy rotation in my mind lately so I decided to recreate the experience of being there through conversations with guests from a favorite beach destination - Jamaica. Our tour guides for this virtual experience are fellow Stanford alum and techpreneur,...
Episode 223: Multilingual Transcultural Education and New Paradigms for Teaching and Learning with Dr. Shartriya Collier
Glocal Citizens - May 21, 2024 09:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGreetings Glocal Citizens! My guest this week and I go way back to the days of carefree Saturdays and Brooklyn Street festivals, before adulting was the order of our days. Fast forward and today, Dr. Shartriya Collier is an Associate Dean and Full Professor at the School of Education at Nevada St...
Episode 222: Toward Greening Communities--One Clean Street at a Time with Kwadwo Safo
Glocal Citizens - May 14, 2024 09:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGreetings Glocal Citizens! The Glocal Citizens community has gifted us with another inspiring diasporan. Heneba Kwadwo Safo, a graduate of the University of Ghana in Civil Engineering is the founder and leader of the BuzStopBoys. The Buzstopboys is a volunteer group promoting a Clean, Green, Envi...
Episode 221: Free Thinking and Maker Spaces with Paul Damalie Part 2
Glocal Citizens - May 06, 2024 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGreetings Glocal Citizens! This week’s conversation comes to you in two parts and is courtesy of a connection made by my guest from Episode 34, Stacey Enyame (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/stacey-enyame). Recognizing the intersection between tech and community/economic development and...
Episode 220: Free Thinking and Maker Spaces with Paul Damalie
Glocal Citizens - April 30, 2024 09:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGreetings Glocal Citizens! This week’s conversation comes to you in two parts and is courtesy of a connection made by my guest from Episode 34, Stacey Enyame (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/stacey-enyame). Recognizing the intersection between tech and community/economic development and...
Episode 219: Spotlight on the Producer with Sasheen Artis Part 2
Glocal Citizens - April 23, 2024 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGreetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast we have another fellow Stanford Alumni – #chocolatecardinal, with a mini masterclass as a great follow-up to my conversation with creative director, Francis Brown (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/217). Sasheen Artis, born a New Yorker in Harl...
Episode 218: Spotlight on the Producer with Sasheen Artis Part 1
Glocal Citizens - April 16, 2024 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGreetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast we have another fellow Stanford Alumni – #chocolatecardinal, with a mini masterclass as a great follow-up to my conversation with creative director, Francis Brown (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/217). Sasheen Artis, born a New Yorker in Harl...
Episode 217: On Building Animation Ecosystems in Africa with Francis Brown Part 2
Glocal Citizens - April 09, 2024 09:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsApril Greetings Glocal Citizens! As you listen to this week’s episode you may catch a hint of showers as part of the sound track for this conversation with long-time collaborator, Takoradi, Ghana’s own Francis Brown. As the saying goes, showers bring flowers and in this two-part conversation we’r...
Episode 216: On Building Animation Ecosystems in Africa with Francis Brown Part 1
Glocal Citizens - April 02, 2024 09:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsApril Greetings Glocal Citizens! As you listen to this week’s episode you may catch a hint of showers as part of the sound track for this conversation with long-time collaborator, Takoradi, Ghana’s own Francis Brown. As the saying goes, showers bring flowers and in this two-part conversation we’r...
Episode 215: A Web of Wellness with Kadiatou Sibi
Glocal Citizens - March 26, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGreetings Glocal Citizens! This month we’ve traveled to three continents on our herstory tour and our final destination is the west coast of the US by way of The Gambia. My guest, Kadiatou Sibi, started in the world of work after finding her voice (literally), in university when she began traveli...
Episode 214: Deep Dialogues and Enabling the Possibility of Change with Yaliwe Clarke
Glocal Citizens - March 19, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGreetings Glocal Citizens! This week, we’re flashing back to my trip to Cape Town last November. I met my guest, Yaliwe Clarke through sister-to-sister connection, literally. Her sister and mine are friends and as we (my sister and I) were in SA together our meeting was inevitable. Yaliwe, who is...
Episode 213: Globalizing Local Initiatives with Valerie White
Glocal Citizens - March 12, 2024 09:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGreetings Glocal Citizens! This week’s episode and herstory really hit close to home. We recorded this interview on Ghana’s Independence Day (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ9ZcXEXOh0), March 6th--or 6th March as we say in Ghana. And while days like this are meant to be celebrations of freedom ...
Episode 212: Reimagining Effective Mental Health Care with Sara Reed
Glocal Citizens - March 05, 2024 10:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWomen’s Month Greetings Glocal Citizens! If it’s March then it’s all about herstories here on the podcast and first up we’re in London by way of Hopkinsville, Kentucky with mental health futurist, Sara Reed. She is an empathic leader, mental health futurist, and practitioner in psychedelic-assist...
Episode 211: Everyday Activism with Hakeem Oluseyi, Juleen Christopher, Kobby Graham, Samba Yonga, Eric Collins
Glocal Citizens - February 27, 2024 10:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGreetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast it’s flashback February. Inspired by last year’s Black History Month compilation episode (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/163), for this week, also dedicated to Black History Month, I’ve selected glocally speaking, mindset hacking and soluti...
Episode 210: Me + You + Art + Wellness with Marlea Edwards
Glocal Citizens - February 20, 2024 10:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGreetings Glocal Citizens! I’m back in Accra and it’s HOT and HUMID, but thankfully not so dusty--I’ve successfully evaded the Harmattan! A significant contrast to the environs for my guest this week who dials in from her hometown of London, England. Raised between London and Brooklyn with roots ...
Episode 209: Healthtech Solutions and Tools for Engagement with Dana Weeks Part 2
Glocal Citizens - February 13, 2024 10:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGreetings Glocal Citizens! Kicking off February, we have a double-header in conversation with another Stanford Alum and fellow “Track Girl.” Born in Vietnam (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/children-of-the-vietnam-war-131207347/) and raised in New York, Dana Weeks is the Chief Executive Off...
Episode 208: Healthtech Solutions and Tools for Engagement with Dana Weeks Part 1
Glocal Citizens - February 06, 2024 10:15 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGreetings Glocal Citizens! Kicking off February, we have a double-header in conversation with another Stanford Alum and fellow “Track Girl.” Born in Vietnam (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/children-of-the-vietnam-war-131207347/) and raised in New York, Dana Weeks is the Chief Executive Off...
Episode 207: Digital Expertise for Greater Good with Stephen A. Newton
Glocal Citizens - January 30, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGreetings Glocal Citizens! This week’s episode comes to us courtesy of a dinner hosted by EP 22/23 guest, Kwame Acheampong (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/kwame-acheampong). Kwame and my guest, Stephen Newton are longtime colleagues that recently rejoined forces at Aleph Group, Inc., a...
Episode 206: Wellness as a Way of Work with Tara Aura Purnell
Glocal Citizens - January 23, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGreetings Glocal Citizens! I am sincerely grateful to my community of Glocal Citizens, especially as former guests have been delivering on sharing life experiences with me and the podcast in their communities. My guest this week is someone I met last December in Ghana while catching up with Nydia...
Episode 205: On Organizing Labor with Tobias Bavnsgaard
Glocal Citizens - January 16, 2024 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGreetings Glocal Citizens! “The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. On Monday of this week, we celebrated global visionary, activist and minister, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. For many, it is a time to refle...
Episode 204: Raising Digital Economies with Eric Osiakwan Part 2
Glocal Citizens - January 09, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGreetings Glocal Citizens! This week on we’re moving into the new year with some wise words and insights in Part 2 of my conversation with Ghanaian investor and developer of new businesses, Eric Osiakwan. With 25 years of experience spanning 32 countries in Africa gained through a number of succe...
Episode 203: Lifelong Learning with Monroe France
Glocal Citizens - January 02, 2024 10:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsNew Year Greetings Glocal Citizens! Thank you to all that land here with us weekly to #listenandlearn about #DynamicDiasporans living, working and playing worldwide. I look forward to a new year of conversations that will include taking deeper dives into the whys and ways of reimagining global im...
Episode 202: Creating New Ecologies of Knowledge with Nana Oforiatta Ayim
Glocal Citizens - December 18, 2023 10:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGreetings Glocal Citizens! This week’s guest is fast becoming a cultural icon across her chosen disciplines. Ghanaian by ancestry and born in German and spending a formative part of her life in England, Nana Oforiatta Ayim is a writer, filmmaker, and art historian. She is Founder of the ANO Insti...
Episode 201: On Becoming a Public Health Champion with Fiona Gambanga
Glocal Citizens - December 12, 2023 10:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGreetings Glocal Citizens! My guest this week is a fellow podcaster and we met as fellow members of a global #BWiD (Black Women in Development) Connect networking group. Born and raised in Harare, Zimbabwe, Fiona Gambanga is a global health professional with more than seven years’ experience in q...
Episode 199: Intelligence as a Way of Business with Suki Fuller Part 2
Glocal Citizens - December 05, 2023 10:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGreetings Glocal Citizens! In some circles, my guest for this two-part episode could be thought of as a spy by a different name. With roots in Jamaica, and raised between the Middle East, Europe and the United States, Suki Fuller (https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/suki-fuller/), an intel...
Episode 200: Angel Fair Africa @10 with Eric Osiakwan Part 1
Glocal Citizens - November 28, 2023 10:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGreetings Glocal Citizens! This week, we interrupt our scheduled Part 2 conversation with Suki Fuller to give some shine to a milestone event taking place in Cape Town, South Africa. Co-founded by my guest, Ghanaian, Eric Osiakwan, Angel Fair Africa, happening November 28th - December 1st, brings...