Ep 54 - Sudev

Hridith Sudev is a public-health scientist, writer, poet and community organizer. Born in India, and raised in Oman, Sudev migrated to the United States in 2018 to pursue higher education in Denver, where he has lived ever since. For the past 10 years, Sudev has worked in both governmental and non-governmental capacities to expand healthcare access to historically marginalized communities and create governments of action that fight for working-class interests. His passion for community work began in 2012 when he founded Project Greenworld International, a children’s environmental action group in his hometown in Oman. Over the years, his activism has expanded to the frontlines of immigrant and refugee rights agitation, community building, racial justice movements, student organizing, and labor organizing. Today, his work is mostly centered on addressing the growing epidemic of firearm and bullet injuries affecting black and brown men, as well as the health-impacts of food and income insecurity among working-class Americans. Hridith is the Community Health Specialist at the Sheridan Family Health Clinic and the founder and current President of Colectivo de Paz, a grassroots non-profit in Denver dedicated to creating self-reliant and liberated communities. His poetry is informed by his experiences growing up in Oman, his interactions with the geopolitics of being a third-culture nomad, and his meditations on his journey through the world as an organizer, a dreamer, a brother and a son. Follow Colectivo de Paz on IG @colectivodenver and learn more at www.colectivodepaz.org Hear more about Sudev and his life as an activist on the Blackbird Radio Podcast — Questions? Comments? Want to be featured? Email thepoetspodcast@gmail.com