Women & Politics presents:
Women & Politics: Women Making History with Sarah Choi – rebroadcast
We wanted to air this episode again to close out our funddrive, another local voice for Richmond – Sarah Choi, a marketer and community builder in Richmond, Virginia, who likes to instigate fun gatherings for strangers to connect in real life. She is often referred to as the firebrand or instigator. She is the founder of IGNITE. She loves developing strategies and is known to create effective ways to drive traffic to a business, but she believes the world’s best strategy is time and effort wasted unless it is executed properly. Sarah will assess your project, curate your Ignite team and work alongside you doing the work, moving the pieces, and connecting the dots. When it comes to juggling all the moving parts of your project, Sarah takes on accountability. She owns it.
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Carol Olson Women & Politics April 28th, 2022
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Women & Politics presents:
Women & Politics: Environmentalism and Local Activism
Today’s guest is Katherin Jordan, City Council Member, 2nd District
- One of my first roles in the district was as Chair of Fox Elementary School PTA’s Parks & Grounds Committee. I successfully fought for repairs to our broken playground and wrote grants for new trees and custodial equipment. I consistently advocate for RPS funding, and remain active as a former RPS parent in Support Our Schools and StayRVA.
- I also served as Fan District Association (FDA) President, Grants Co-Chair, and Parks & Trees Chair. In these roles I helped neighbors with general city services like trash, lighting, flooding & sidewalks as well as zoning and other issues. I also successfully advocated for increasing proceeds from our Holiday House Tour fundraiser to our public schools (Fox, Binford and TJ).
- Outside of the 2nd, I served 4 years as a member of Richmond’s Green City Commission. I’m proud to have spearheaded the NetZero 2050 Resolution which was adopted June 8 by City Council, as well as helping introduce sustainability goals into city contracts and master plans. I’ve loved meeting with neighbors from Carver to Scott’s Addition to hear their sustainability initiatives. Together we can build a more resilient and equitable city. To become involved, visit the just launched: www.RVAGreen2050.com
- At the state and national level, I was honored to be part of the VAratifyERA leadership team. After three years of advocacy and organizing, our General Assembly finally ratified the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in a bipartisan vote. Equality in all forms should be the rule.
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Carol Olson Women & Politics April 22nd, 2022
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Women & Politics presents:
Women & Politics: The Politics of Environmentalism – Urban Forestry
Today’s guest is Qui Nguyen, Urban Forest Specialist and Member of RVA Community Fridges.
Qui Nguyen (pronounced “kwee win”)
AmeriCorps member currently serving with the City of Richmond’s Urban Forestry Division. A longtime city resident, and VCU alum, you can most likely find her biking around town, moving and maintaining RVA Community Fridges, or with her hands in the dirt. She believes in the power of individuals to make change, that environmental stewardship and food justice go hand-in-hand, and that tree equity is both an environmental and social justice issue.
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Carol Olson Women & Politics April 14th, 2022
Posted In: Music Shows, News
Bumps N Banter presents:
Supreme Ladies Motorcycle Club
christamotley Bumps N Banter April 8th, 2022
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Tags: motorcycles, RVA, rva radio, WRIR
Women & Politics presents:
Women & Politics: The Politics of Environmentalism
Today’s guest is Lee William’s: Co-Chair, Green New Deal Virginia. EXCOM member and Advocacy Chair, Sierra Club Fall of the James Group
Lee’s background is in healthcare, and she worked as a CCRN before moving to Richmond Virginia to raise her children. Over the years, she watched ecosystems degrade, extreme weather and fires worsen, and the promises made at that first Earth Day be forgotten and cast aside as the American Dream was corrupted by greed, privatization and union busting.
For the past 15 years, she has worked in the grassroots nonprofit sector in a variety of roles for environmental, social and food justice organizations. Lee is a founding member of RVA Interfaith Climate Justice League and Divest RVA, and serves on the ExCom of the Sierra Club, Falls of the James Group and as their Advocacy Chair. In her role as Co-Chair of Green New Deal Virginia, she is committed to the fight for environmental and economic justice.
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Carol Olson Women & Politics April 7th, 2022
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Women & Politics presents:
Women & Politics: Women Making History with Sarah Choi
We close out Women’s History Month with Sarah Choi, a marketer and community builder in Richmond, Virginia, who likes to instigate fun gatherings for strangers to connect in real life. She is often referred to as the firebrand or instigator. She is the founder of IGNITE. She loves developing strategies and is known to create effective ways to drive traffic to a business, but she believes the world’s best strategy is time and effort wasted unless it is executed properly. Sarah will assess your project, curate your Ignite team and work alongside you doing the work, moving the pieces, and connecting the dots. When it comes to juggling all the moving parts of your project, Sarah takes on accountability. She owns it.
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Carol Olson Women & Politics March 31st, 2022
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POP Goes The World! presents:
POP Diabolique
enzo POP Goes The World! March 25th, 2022
Posted In: Music Shows, News
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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