Women & Politics presents:
Women & Politics: Community Leaders Discussing Gun Violence – Part II
Today we talk with women in local leadership about the community response to gun violence, the role of funeral services, and the intersection of domestic violence. Our guests today are:
Chenice Brown-Johnson, founder of Just C, is a native of Richmond, Va. She started Just C because she experienced what youth of today currently experience and understands the importance of having a trusted adult in their lives. Chenice uses real life triumphs to mentor young people by connecting, developing, and empowering them to heal and flourish. Aside from her passion for youth, Chenice has three sons and is the wife of a youth football coach. She is a die-hard Philadelphia Eagles fan and loves exploring new things with friends.
We then share a short NPR documentary on teens and gun violence.
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Carol Olson Women & Politics October 6th, 2022
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Women & Politics presents:
Women & Politics: Community Leaders Discussing Gun Violence – Part I
Today we talk with women in local leadership about the community response to gun violence, the role of funeral services, and the intersection of domestic violence. Our guests today are:
Nickia Bland
Nickia Bland is a native of Petersburg, Virginia. She is a 96 graduate of Matoaca High School. She obtained her bachelor’s from Hampton University in 2000. Nickia currently serves at the CEO of her family business, Bland Funeral Homes in Petersburg, Virginia. Her grandfather began the business in 1952. Preserving the rich legacy her grandfather and parents passed down to her is something she values deeply. She is committed to ensuring that the same caring, dignified, professional and personal services she watched them provide to the community continues to be the hallmark standard in which she operates the family business. They have been blessed to serve the community for 70 years this year!
Nickia is also the Lead Business Counselor for the Women’s Business Center of RVA. The WBC Richmond provides one-on-one counseling, training, technical assistance, networking, and resources vital to the success of women and minority entrepreneurs in the Richmond area. She absolutely loves working in this role because she has a passion for helping women achieve their entrepreneurial goals. Nickia believes that one of the most important factors needed to grow and transform our communities is through economic development. It is important that we connect with one another and support one another to ensure that this happens, especially in the communities that are suffering. She firmly
believes that being a “boss” means nothing if you are not helping others elevate with you.
In the community, Nickia is a member of Metropolitan Baptist Church, Petersburg and is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She is the mom to four beautiful children,
Cindy CaprilesCindy joined the Safe Harbor team in 2015 as a bilingual counselor and is now the Clinical Director. She provides trauma-informed individual and group therapeutic counseling services to adult and child survivors of sexual and/or domestic violence and human trafficking.
She earned her License as a Clinical Social Worker in 2017. Cindy received her Master’s degree and Bachelor degree in Social Work from VCU. She was recognized in Style Weekly 30 under 30 in 2020.Cindy is passionate about her work with those who have experienced complex trauma and has focused her career in the field of trauma, sexual/domestic violence, and human trafficking. She supervises Safe Harbors interns and staff working toward becoming a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Virginia. Her professional training includes play therapy, family therapy, EMDR, TF-CBT, and mindfulness.
Cindy helps her clients recognize their own resilience, and her work is informed by her strong belief in the human capacity for healing and growth.
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Carol Olson Women & Politics September 29th, 2022
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Women & Politics presents:
Women & Politics: Carving Your Own Path with Jenn Roberts
Jennifer Roberts
Jenn Roberts is an equity strategist, facilitator and social designer working at the intersections of systems change, equity, innovation and design. She is the CEO of Versed Education Group, a consultancy that helps organizations turn their good intentions into equitable, anti-racist action through interactive learning experiences and dynamic coaching. In 2020, she founded Colored Girls Liberation Lab, an intergenerational healing, dreaming and innovation space for Black women that assists them in dreaming up and designing their most liberated lives. Her biggest pleasures are dancing and being mommy to her spunky and creative 10-year old daughter.
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Carol Olson Women & Politics September 22nd, 2022
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Women & Politics presents:
Women & Politics: Progressive Primary Care in Community Clinics with Dr. Suzanne Arnold – rebroadcast
We are rebroadcasting our show with Stephanie Arnold, and congrats on the opening of her practice: Seven Hills Family Practice
Dr. Stephanie Arnold
Dr. Arnold was born and raised in Hampton, VA and attended undergraduate school at VCU. She started working as support staff at a local indepdendent abortion clinic in 2008 and continued working there until she entered medical school. After completing her residency in 2018, she returned to Richmond with the plan to open her own practice with progressive and inclusive values. She is targeted to open her clinic: Seven Hills Family Practice in the Fall of 2022. They will be offering abortion care in addition to primary care, with primary care as a subscription model (vs traditional fee-for-service) and affordable regardless of insurance status. She believes prescription models are an alternative to current health infrastructure which she views as corrupted by profiteering and private equity.
She is also a burlesque artist and has been performing since 2011.
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Carol Olson Women & Politics September 15th, 2022
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Growing Greener presents:
Carol Olson on VCU’s Project Empower
Carol Olson talks about domestic violence and hospital based programs through her work with VCU’s Project Empower.
christamotley Growing Greener September 9th, 2022
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Women & Politics presents:
Women & Politics: Black Leadership with Rasheeda Creighton
On Today’s show we are rebroadcasting our we talk with local community leader: Rasheeda Creighton.
An experienced corporate executive turned entrepreneur, Rasheeda Creighton has always taken the road less traveled. In 2020, after a successful 15 year career at a Fortune 100 company, Rasheeda harnessed her skills and passions into a convergence of business ventures that all work towards a singular path: creating and holding spaces that connect people, particularly Black and Brown people, to opportunities for growth and wealth building, ultimately leading to a path of financial freedom.
She is the co-founder of JWC Foundation, a nonprofit whose mission is to Learn, Grow and Own in the Black community. JWC Foundation is a hub that connects Black business owners of all stages to connect to one another and with partners, service providers, programs and financial resources to grow their businesses. She also provides budget coaching and money values courses to women, particularly Black women, seeking to destroy the Superwoman Syndrome in their lives by leveraging financial freedom to navigate that path.
Rasheeda earned her Bachelor’s Degree in English from Spelman College and holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School. She is an active community leader in Richmond, Virginia. Of the many hats Rasheeda wears, her favorite is being mom to her daughters.
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Carol Olson Women & Politics September 8th, 2022
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Women & Politics presents:
Women & Politics: Ukraine, Foreign Policy, and Community Activism – rebroadcast
On Today’s show we are rebroadcasting our show about the Ukraine.
Elizabeth Shackelford
Elizabeth Shackelford joined the Chicago Council on Global Affairs in January 2021 as senior fellow on US foreign policy. Her analysis, writing, and outreach focus on building awareness and understanding of a “restraint” approach to foreign policy, which seeks to limit the use of military force to the defense of core US national security interests and favors robust diplomatic engagement.
Shackelford was a career diplomat with the US Department of State until December 2017, when she resigned in protest of the Trump administration. Her resignation letter was the first to draw widespread attention to the declining state of diplomacy under Donald Trump. She is the author of The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age, winner of the 2020 Douglas Dillon Book Award. Using both firsthand and historical observations, The Dissent Channel demonstrates that the crisis in US foreign policy predated recent efforts to sideline the diplomatic corps.
As a Foreign Service Officer, Shackelford served in Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan, Poland, and Washington, D.C., tracking political and conflict developments, advising Mission and Washington leadership, and advocating for US interests with foreign counterparts. For her work in South Sudan during the outbreak of civil war in 2013, Shackelford received the Barbara Watson Award for Consular Excellence, the Department’s highest honor for consular work.
As a non-resident fellow with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft in 2020, Shackelford conducted research, analysis, and commentary on the costs of a militarized approach to foreign policy and the need for greater accountability in US actions abroad. Prior to joining the State Department, Shackelford was an associate with Booz Allen Hamilton where she led USAID projects to assess business environments in developing countries. Shackelford was also an associate with the law firm Covington & Burling, where she focused on international trade law.
Carmen Foster, Emergency Medicine
Carmen Foster, MD – Assistant Professor, VCU Health
Carmen Foster grew up in Romania while it was still under communist rule. After the communist regime fell in 1989, she spent four years serving as a translator for many foreign charity organizations and faith-based mission groups that came into the country to serve orphanages that were in deplorable conditions and to provision hospitals that were chronically undersupplied. She came to the United States for undergraduate studies and continued her medical education at Rush Medical College in Chicago. She spent her residency at Mayo Clinic and completed her Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Michigan. She has served as an Assistant Professor at VCU since 2013. In addition to her clinical duties, she helps train residents as well as medical students. In my free time,
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Carol Olson Women & Politics September 1st, 2022
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Women & Politics presents:
Women & Politics: Parents and School Systems
Today we are talking about parents and school systems, or more specifically the role of school boards, parents, and superintendents. We have three parents on with us today discussing SOL’s, school after covid, and how parent’s and their children are dealing with unprecedented challenges. With us today are:
Emily Kavanaugh who describes herself as a loud woman who tweets and writes about Richmond Public Schools on Twitter and Medium. She is a founding member of Kids First RPS. Contrary to the belief of some, that doesn’t mean she tweets AT the kids but rather FOR them among other kid-centered activism work. Emily is a member of the School Health Advisory Board, a nurse, a mom, and absolutely no relation to that other guy with the same name.
Becca DuVal is a Binford and Fox (at Clark Springs) Parent and contributing writer for Kids First RPS. When not chasing after her three kids or advocating for school equity, Becca can be found caring for her house plants and taking beautiful photos.
Katina Harris is an English teacher and advocate for children’s education and establishing foundations that support growth and learning.
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Carol Olson Women & Politics August 25th, 2022
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Women & Politics presents:
Women & Politics: United Black Birth Collective
We are back from vacation and still talking about women, leadership, and black maternal health. This week we talk with United Black Birth Collective. We will be talking with Mental health specialist and student midwife, Weluna Finley; Midwife Tomasina Oliver, Grand Doula Basmah Karriem, and Midwife intern Zakiya Robinson.
UBBC is committed to protecting the sanctity of Black life through supporting Black birth workers, honoring the cultural traditions of Black birth, and informing communities of color of birthing options and choices. Our goal is to protect the birthing power of the Black community through the offering of culturally centered, quality care rooted in consciousness; provide supportive pathways of growth and development for Black birth workers; and promote unification of all interested in the advancement of Black birth within our communities. We are a collective of mothers, daughters, community members, birth workers, professionals, and healers that care about the future of our communities and the value of life within them. We believe in the principle and power of unity as we support one another and our communities’ health, well-being, and purpose.
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Carol Olson Women & Politics August 18th, 2022
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The Unquiet Grave presents:
The Unquiet Grave episode 59: Tierra Y Libertad (Indigenous Heavy Metal)
Tonight on The Unquiet Grave (9-11pm): Indigenous heavy metal, mostly of the Americas, and mostly from the last 5 years. We’ll check out Pre-Hispanic black metal, hear music from the self-described “most isolated heavy metal band in the world,” and listen to the first indigenous language heavy metal album ever. Listen live right here, or check out the archive later at this link.
Emily Robinson The Unquiet Grave August 14th, 2022
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