The Equity Matters Podcast

We've all heard it before - young children are ‘too young’ to understand race, racism and discrimination or you don’t want to ‘put ideas in their heads. Racism in early childhood is real and it has co...

2 Nov 202145min

The horror genre has a long-standing history of critiquing social norms, asking us to find the alternative, deeper meanings beyond the surface plotlines. This quality makes horror films one of the mos...

28 Okt 202152min

People of color and all those whose lives have been marginalized by those in power experience life differently from those whose lives have not been devalued. They experience overt racism and bigotry f...

19 Okt 20211h 1min

Too often, data is collected and presented in a way that perupates disparity and deficit. By decolonizing data, indigenous communities determine the information they want to gather, think through why ...

5 Okt 202136min

Culture makes us who we are. In doing project evaluation, it is also important to consider cultural context in which the project operates and be responsive to it by fully describing and explaining the...

21 Sep 202150min

Although there is no commonly agreed upon definition for community engagement, at its heart community engagement means mutual decision making through collaboration. People, organizations, and governme...

7 Sep 202140min

For far too long, communities of color and low-income communities have borne the brunt and burden of pollution to the air, water, and soil they rely on to live and raise their families. Research furth...

24 Aug 202143min

The environmental movement of the 1950s and 1960s raised awareness of the dangers posed by pollution and environmental degradation. Fast forward sixty years, we understand these environmental problems...

10 Aug 202134min