Mermaids, Mixedness, and Mixed Race Studies with Dr. Brittany Wiley
MESSAGE ME HERE! About This Episode Dr. Brittany Wiley has been teaching since before she had a classroom, assigning herself summer book reports and turning her siblings into students. Today she teac...
22 Sep 38min
Mike Brown and The Stories We Inherit
MESSAGE ME HERE! In this episode of Our True Colors, Shawna and Marcel talk with Mike Brown, a biracial Marine veteran, nonprofit fundraiser, veteran advocate, husband, and father. Mike shares what it...
12 Sep 45min
The Grand Commencement with Melissa Muganzo
MESSAGE ME HERE! What a joy to spend time with our guest for this episode. Melissa Muganzo is an entertainer, entrepreneur, educator, and media producer based in Sacramento, California. She's a profes...
25 Aug 1h 8min
Picking a Car: Andre Discusses Race, Prison, and Refusing to Choose
MESSAGE ME HERE! In this episode, Shawna and Andre get into what he calls anti-mixed violence and how it gets folded into other categories. They talk about conditional acceptance, the pressure to perf...
13 Aug 1h 1min
"I am You, You are Me" with Dr. Natalie Hart
MESSAGE ME HERE! Dr. Shawna Gann and her co-host, Marcel De Jonghe, sit down with Dr. Natalie Hart — speaker, consultant, and educator — for a warm, funny, and honest talk about growing up between cul...
7 Jul 40min
Birds, Belonging, and Becoming with Jamison Schulz-Franco
MESSAGE ME HERE! What does it mean to reconnect with your ancestry when the journey doesn't come with a roadmap? In this episode of *Our True Colors*, Dr. Shawna Gann sits down with storyteller, commu...
30 Jun 41min
SPECIAL EPISODE: Refusing to Forget: Memory Culture in Action with Dr. Mirjam Rein
MESSAGE ME HERE! What does it mean to have civil courage? And what happens when you refuse to forget? In this special episode, Shawna talks with her friend of 35 years, Professor Dr. Mirjam Rein, abou...
18 Jun 31min
