POP Goes The World! presents:
POP Diabolique
enzo POP Goes The World! March 25th, 2022
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Tags: indie rock, power pop, Punk
Women & Politics presents:
Women & Politics: Celebrating Ketanji Brown Jackson
This week we are excited folks!! Ketanji Brown Jackson is being nominated for Supreme Court Justice! So we are just fan-girling today and playing some outtakes of her amazing background, some fangirling by Corey Booker, her celebrating her family and her schooling Ted Cruz (who didn’t love that?)
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Carol Olson Women & Politics March 24th, 2022
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Women & Politics presents:
Women & Politics: Ukraine, Foreign Policy, and Community Activism
On Today’s show we start global and end local talking about what happening in 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 March 17th, 2022
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Bumps N Banter presents:
Part 2 with Inspire InDeed’s Newest Co-Host
April and Christa welcome their newest host to the team: DeAndra Lee.
christamotley Bumps N Banter March 11th, 2022
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Women & Politics presents:
Women & Politics- Schools, Parents, and Kids First
Welcome to Women and Politics. Today we are talking with Kids First RPS members and parents who are dealing with the politics of local school boards, parents, and communities. Meet;
Theresa Kennedy is an RPS parent, advocate, and one of the founding members of KidsFirst RPS, a collective of parents and community members seeking to put RPS students at the center of RPS advocacy. In her free time she works a full time job, raises two wild things that resemble children, and hangs out with her husband.
Tisha Irby is a mom, a passionate advocate for kids and schools, and an activist for her local community. She is fully engaged in ensuring this generation of kids gets the right start through equitable education in safe buildings with an involved community.
Emily Kavanaugh is 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.
LaKiesha Williams is a community activist, an advocate for Richmond Public Schools, an educator to bring our youth into future leaders, and a social change maker.
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Carol Olson Women & Politics March 10th, 2022
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Women & Politics presents:
Women & Politics- Women Supporting Community and State Politics
Welcome to Women and Politics. Today we are talking with two women who are supporting the interests of women and community members access rights, access services, and get their voice heard.
Bella Muse // www.Bella-Muse.com
Kiesha Preston, Community Advocate and State Legislative Coordinator for Amnesty International.
Kiesha Preston is a proud mother and human rights activist from Roanoke Virginia. She currently serves as state legislative coordinator for Amnesty International USA and sits on the Board of Directors for the Kirk Family YMCA. Accomplishments she’s most proud of in her advocacy work include writing the Domestic Violence Victim’s Protection Act, briefing members of Congress on violence against women, and helping to create a National Training Curriculum for addressing gender-based violence in the workplace.
Dominique Thaxton, Liaison – Richmond City Council
Dominique Thaxton is the Richmond City Council Ninth District Liaison. She assists in the office’s legislative agenda and works with residents to navigate critical city services; as a former Assistant City Clerk for Richmond, she clerked the Council’s Finance and Economic Development Standing Committee. She is a graduate of Old Dominion University, where she earned her bachelor’s in Criminal Justice and Sociology. In addition, Dominique is part of the 2022 cohort of the Minority Political Leadership Institute, a collaborative initiative of The Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus. Dominique is passionate about community work and civic engagement..
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Carol Olson Women & Politics March 3rd, 2022
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Women & Politics presents:
Women & Politics: Black Women Leading the Culture Discussion
Today we talk with two women who are leading the cultural discussions in the community and academia.
Dawn Johnson, J.D., Ph.D.
Black Feminist Professor
Aspiring Leader in Black Feminist Thought, Culture, and Digital Media Studies
Dawn Johnson, J.D., Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor, in the GSWS Department. She is a social media enthusiast, feminist pedagogy researcher, and an aspiring educator from rural Virginia. She received her Ph.D. from VCU’s Media Art and Text, an interdisciplinary program, in May 2021. Dawn also obtained a certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at VCU. Dawn has a background in English and law and policy with a JD from the University of Richmond and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia. Her areas of interest include feminist research, Black feminism, and digital media studies, applying a lens of intersectionality, gender studies, social media studies, critical race feminism, and social justice matters. Dawn’s dissertation is entitled: Black Feminist Thought, Interrupted – Dissecting the Voice of Black Feminists in the Blogosphere and their Engagement with Platform Affordances.
On a personal note, Dawn enjoys writing, reading, and planning events. Also, she has self-published a poetry book. In her downtime, which is very little, she loves to spend time connecting with her husband, family, and friends. You can read more about Dawn on her personal website – dawngjohnson.com.
Julian Glover, PhD
Julian Kevon Glover is an assistant professor of Dance + Choreography, an Institute for Inclusion, Inquiry and Innovation Core Member, and an LGBTQIA iCubed visiting scholar. She is currently a Franke Fellow at Northwestern’s Kaplan Institute for the Humanities and her work appears in publications including Harvard Kennedy School’s LGBTQ Policy Journal; American Quarterly; Souls: A Critical Journal of Back Politics, Culture and Society; and Text and Performance Quarterly. She was also recently inducted into the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society at Yale University. Her dissertation is a performance ethnography of the experiences of transgender women in the ballroom scene across Chicago, London, Paris, and Amsterdam. Glover is an advisory board member of the TransLife Center—a program of the Chicago House and Social Service Agency designed to provide transgender and gender-nonconforming people with access to housing, employment opportunities, and healthcare. She has also worked for several national progressive nonprofit organizations including the National LGBTQ Task Force, the National Center for Transgender Equality and the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. She has a Ph.D. in African American Studies from Northwestern University and holds an MPA from Indiana University’s O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Glover earned a BS in speech communications with a double minor in music (cello performance) and sociology (emphasis on gender and sexuality) from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
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Carol Olson Women & Politics February 17th, 2022
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Bumps N Banter presents:
Introducing Inspire InDeed’s Newest Host
April and Christa welcome their newest host to the team: DeAndra Lee. The conversation will continue in next month’s episode.
christamotley Bumps N Banter February 11th, 2022
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Women & Politics presents:
Women & Politics: Black Women Leading Community Voices and Spaces
Today we talk with two women leading our communities in different ways.
Melody Joy Short
Melody Joy Short is a graduate of Morgan State University’s Earl Graves School of Business and a marketing executive, focused on business development and brand development for small businesses. Melody jump-started her career in the Urban Marketing Department of Sony Music Distribution. Her career in the music industry afforded her the opportunity to establish relationships with small business owners in the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, and Southwest markets. This proved pivotal to Melody’s career because it’s where she developed a passion for supporting small business owners. As an entrepreneur and co-founder of the Richmond Night Market, she supports small business owners and independent artists in areas to include public relations, marketing, and business development. Melody is the former Director of Marketing and Business Development for the largest collection of Black-owned Inns in the United States, Akwaaba Bed & Breakfast Inns, and was featured as part of the cast of their television show, on the OWN Network, Checked Inn. Melody served the small business community of Richmond, Virginia with a focus on minority and women-owned businesses as the former Director of Marketing & Communications at the Metropolitan Business League. She is the Co-founder of The Jackson Ward Collective, a hub for Black business owners and selected partners to share resources, experiences, and expertise to build and grow strong, sustainable Black-owned businesses in Richmond, VA, and as a consultant for the Black Business Opportunity & Investment Study and Virginia Community Capital’s Open For Business Loan Fund. In addition, Melody serves on the board of the Afrikana Independent Film Festival, The Valentine Museum, ChamberRVA, CultureWorks, and the Minority Business Enterprise and Emerging Small Business Advisory Board for the City of Richmond. All this while managing her most important role of all–mother to 13-year old Nia Abiose.
Kenya Hunter
Kenya has served as the Education reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch over the last two years and is joining Capital B News in Atlanta as their new health reporter. She will be reporting on health outcomes in all aspects of Black life in the city, whether it’s environmental justice, abortion access, climate change, or COVID-19. She is excited to build out her vision for the beat, like hosting panels and working with Atlanta’s Black residents to provide the news the Black community deserves and needs. Kenya has always had a passion for journalism and the liberation of Black people:
“As I’ve grown in my professional career, I began to see the ways in which traditional media is broken and doesn’t truly serve Black people. I wanted more for me and for all Black folks, who deserve serious coverage in the press. It’s also really important for journalists to know the community they’re reporting on. We often center detachment as an important asset of being a reporter, but reporting from home is important. When journalists report from home, they report with love, and that is important. When I saw the job listing at Capital B, and specifically one for my hometown, I knew this was the perfect opportunity for what I want in my career.”
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Carol Olson Women & Politics February 10th, 2022
Posted In: Music Shows, News
Cause and Effect presents:
#CauseandEffect G-Unit
Today’s Cause and Effect is on G-Unit. Preparing for my next Cause and Effect show where I am going to put the hits of Murder Inc and G-Unit head to head to see which rappers empire had the best hits in the early 2000s.
DonteOnTheMic Cause and Effect February 5th, 2022
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Tags: cause and effect