B-Side Belonging with Leah Goodridge: Housing Reality Check in NYC
What if the housing crisis isn't a failure of the system, but proof that it's working exactly as designed? Leah Goodridge, housing attorney, NYC Planning Commissioner, and author of Professionalism as...
26 Mars 47min
DEI in the Time of Backlash: Why Wicked Hits Different Right Now
Everyone deserves a chance to fly! You know Wicked as a story of friendship, but do you know it as a story of Pipeline Warriors? Smashing inequitable barriers to entry, denouncing false meritocracy, a...
20 Nov 202544min
Changing the World Starts with Your Theory of Change
How do you go about changing the world? For this episode we brought in one of ODEIB’s inspirations – and just one of our favorite people – Professor Susan Sturm, to share her work on what it really ta...
4 Nov 202556min
Sh*t People Really Say to Us about DEIB
“You’re not helping Black people by helping them get jobs that they’re not qualified for.” “Community college students are too low-skill to benefit from pipeline programs.” “You’re doing ‘skin deep’ d...
11 Sep 20251h 5min
9am Is Too Early for Hate Mail
When a hateful voicemail message hurtled out of the clear blue sky to explode on Tanya’s sunshine-y Saturday, we knew that the kind of hate we fight against had come right up to our doorstep. This was...
24 Juli 202553min
Good Bye BooBoo DooDoo DEI
Everyone thinks they know what DEI is. But the disagreements over what DEI is, what it should do, and how it should be done stretch far into the past. Far before the attacks on DEI that characterize t...
16 Juni 202546min
Back to Our Roots: What Is DEI, Really?
In the first episode of Building Belonging season two, ODEIB dives deep into the fundamental question: What is DEI really? With the haters circling and pushback in full force, a lot of people are retu...
9 Maj 202551min
