The Rise of MAMAS: Solidarity Not Charity
Jessie Norriss joined Mutual Aid of Medford and Somerville (MAMAS) on March 12, 2020, just as the coronavirus pandemic began and when the group was barely a week old. MAMAS, like other mutual aid soci...
14 Jun 202027min
Sharing Leadership: A Conversation with Sheerine Alemzadeh (Re-release)
Is it healthy for an organization to have leadership centralized in one person — the executive director? Is leadership development “one size fits all”? Sheerine Alemzadeh and Karla Altmayer turned th...
12 Apr 202032min
Special Re-release: Storming The Barricades: A Conversation With Tomas Aguilar
When a hurricane or tropical storm hits Texas, Tomas Aguilar wants the immigrant residents he works with to be effectively organized to withstand the storms. The Living Hope Wheelchair Association whe...
29 Mar 202036min
Community Planning From The Inside Out With Allentza Michel
Growing up in Mattapan, a neighborhood on the southern tip of Boston that today comprises predominantly people of color, Allentza Michel didn’t know that urban planning was even a potential field of s...
15 Mar 202037min
Can Joy Fuel The Revolution? Ask Marc Cordon.
In school growing up, Marc Cardon had been repeatedly bullied and mocked In school because teachers and students thought he looked “Native American.” So, it’s hardly surprising that when he first beca...
1 Mar 202037min
Just Sustainabilities: A Conversation with Julian Agyeman
How can we advance environmental sustainability so that equity, and the people most affected, are at the core — not an afterthought? That’s the key question that our guest, Julian Agyeman, explores on...
16 Feb 202028min
Tackling Disputes That Never Go Away: A Conversation With Eben Weitzman
When people think about conflict resolution, they often picture a mediator sitting down with a couple of people in an organization to resolve a dispute. Eben Weitzman does some of that, but his real i...
2 Feb 202038min
