This episode features a conversation with Dr. Meenakshi Verma-Agrawal. Dr. Verma-Agrawal is the Director of Administration and Operations at the Center for Race, Inequality and Equity Studies (CRISES) at Harvard University. We explored how her identities shape her organizing, parenting as a motivator for action, and the need for courage and resilience in the fight for justice. We also discussed the importance of working across disciplines, the responsibility of academia to engage communities and the power of taking action locally.

This episode features a conversation with Dr. Raul Fernandez. Dr. Fernandez is a senior lecturer in the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, where he studies, writes, and teaches about inequities in education. We explored how school segregation remains a problem, how it isn’t limited to White vs. Black students, the differences between desegregation and integration, and what can be done to encourage both. We also discussed the implications of all this for multiracial democracy in America. .

This episode features a conversation with Nashira Baril. Nashira is the daughter and great-granddaughter of midwives. Having birthed both of her children at home, she knows firsthand the transformative experience of midwifery care. Nashira has spent several years leading an effort to create the “Neighborhood Birth Center”, Boston's first community birth center. We discussed how midwives are the answer to inequities in reproductive health and the political and cultural challenges involved in building a visionary space for “catching babies” and caring for families.