My conversation with Kevin P. Henry explores the challenges of workplace diversity and inclusion, particularly in a corporate setting where management culture can significantly impact employee morale. It highlights the experiences of employees who feel isolated and undervalued, and the resistance from management towards necessary training and discussions around these issues.Find out more at: https://www.kevinphenry.com/

This is a micro-episode, just Craig the random white dude taking a walk and musing about the potential for an anti-racist New Deal - and why Dems are so reluctant to embrace such a concept.

My guest today is Laurie Harding.

Dr. Laurie Harding, through her company Insight Indigenous Anti-racism Services, is an Educator, Facilitator, and Coach to settler people regarding the impacts of Canada’s historic and current colonial realities including; systemic racism and socialized bias.

Laurie and I are both white settlers living in different parts of colonized North America, so we have a lot to talk about.

Learn more about Laurie's work here:

https://www.insightantiracism.com/

Episode #10 of Yell Fire! features Dr. Tracey A. Benson discussing his background, work, and insights related to anti-racism leadership in education. Dr. Benson shares his journey from being a classroom teacher to founding the Anti-Racism Leadership Institute, emphasizing the importance of data-driven strategies and courageous leadership to close achievement gaps for students of color.Learn more about Dr. Benson's work:https://www.antiracisminstitute.com/about

My guest today is Nicole D Vick, who has spent her career as an advocate and educator in the field of public health.

Specifically, we’re going to talk about race and public health. The American Public Health Association began tracking declarations of racism as a public health crisis in the summer of 2020. Since then, over 260 cities, counties, public health agencies and academic institutions have declared racism a public health crisis and have committed resources to dismantling the systems that have reinforced health inequity. The goal is more equitable policies, practices and allocation of resources.

And of course, the current administration in Washington DC is doing everything in its power to roll back those initiatives and allocations.

Here are just a few public health data points from some 2024 Kaiser Family Foundation research:

• Life expectancy: native americans (at 67.9 years) and Black Americans (at 72.8 years) have a shorter life expectancy compared with White people (at 77.5 years).

• Childbirth mortality - Black and native infants were at least two times as likely to die as White infants as of 2022. Black and Indigenous women also had the highest rates of pregnancy-related mortality.

Living and working in South Central Los Angeles, Nicole D Vick brings a wealth of lived experience along with her research and decades of work in public health.

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My guest today understands better than most how individual freedom and collective liberation are intertwined.

Erin Corine, Founder and CEO of Hola Magnolia is an educator, certified coach, consultant, and thought leader based in Barcelona, Spain. Through Hola Magnolia, Erin is building a community of practitioners and change makers in areas of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Identity and Belonging, Decolonization, and Community Health to name just a few.

She is passionate about helping change makers earn a solid living, not just scrape by.

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When my guest, Christian Ortiz, had the opportunity to beta test Chat GPT a few years ago, they saw the potential, but also saw some deep limitations. Was a decolonized AI possible? That is how Justice AI GPT was born.

Christian Ortiz is a visionary entrepreneur, filmmaker, and technologist operating at the intersection of technology, media, and social justice. As the founder of MOD ATLAS MEDIA and developer of Justice AI, Ortiz has leveraged diverse talents to champion the causes of equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

In today’s episode of Yell Fire, I talk to Ortiz about the intersections between tech, media, and social justice, and what it means to decenter whiteness in those spaces.

Today’s show is a deep dive into one group’s work of decolonization. Today I speak with two leaders of the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery.

First, what is the doctrine of discovery? Briefly, it is the religious and legal justification for settler colonization beginning in the late 1400s. The legal framework of this historic land grab exists today in the United States and continues to impact indigenous people as they simply seek to exist on their own lands and on their own sovereign terms. Hence the need to dismantle the doctrine of discovery.

Sheri Hostetler is co-founder of the Coalition and is currently the Administrative Leadership and Advancement Director. With Coalition Executive Director Sarah Augustine, she co-authored the book So We and Our Children May Live: Following Jesus in Confronting the Climate Crisis She and Sara co-host the Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Podcast.

Doe Hoyer is an organizer and songleader with the Coalition and coordinates the Repair Network. They have lived on Dakota homelands for most of their life, and are involved locally with the Twin Cities Repair Community.

As you will hear, the work of the Coalition is wide-ranging. For details on the indigenous Repair Partners, books Sherri and Sara have written, the Land Justice Fund, the work of Rematriation, and other resources, check out the show notes in the Yell Fire! Substack at Yellfire DOT Substack DOT com .