Episodes

  • Episode 49 - What is a Successful Life? with Student Guests

    Episode 49 - What is a Successful Life? with Student Guests
    Nov 5 2019

    On today's episode, we visit Professor Claudine Tomlinson-Burney's Radio and Podcasting Class at Valencia College to explore the question of a successful life.  The student guests on today's show Felice Mathie, Tim Hetz, and Makenna Waller, are all students in the radio and podcasting class.  Felice, Tim, and Makenna engage Jerrid in a conversation on what success looks like in their lives and share a bit about their current journeys.   

     
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    28 mins
  • Episode 48 - Peace, Passion, and Educator Burnout with Tina Medina of The VIBE Movement

    Episode 48 - Peace, Passion, and Educator Burnout with Tina Medina of The VIBE Movement
    Oct 29 2019

    On today's, episode we spend time with the Founder of The VIBE Movement Tina Median.  Tina shares her journey from teaching in Korea to teaching middle in Los Angles and San Diego to founding the VIBE Movement to inspire educators to vibe at a higher level.  She offers professional development programs for school staff and a Bold Educator Coaching Program aimed at teachers to re-engage in what their "why" is as a way to remain energized inside and outside of the classroom.   

     

    Biography

    A natural rebel and rule interpreter, Tina has promoted social change since her youth, risking her reputation with bold fashion statements like shaving her head when she was only a freshman in high school. Tina spent much of her youth living, working, studying and volunteering abroad in humbling places like South Africa, India, and Vietnam. With almost 30 countries and 20 states under her belt by the time she was 26, Tina got a good glimpse of a world that was full of both love and destruction. She realized at a very young age the meaning of global citizenship, the duty we owe each other as human beings, and the impact one person can have.

    With 12 years of teaching experience, Tina earned her Red Badge of Courage on the battlefields of some tough schools between South Central LA and San Diego. But she wanted more and felt confined by the four walls of the classroom and stifled by a bureaucratic education system. With a master's in peace and justice studies, Tina found her passions for education and peace align through restorative practices.

     

    Links

    https://www.vibemovement.com/

    https://www.vibemovement.com/vibe-deck Use Promo Code FREESHIP for free shipping if ordering within the United States.

    mailto:tina@vibemovement.com

    Instagram _thevibemovement_

    Facebook Page @vibewithvibe

     

    https://taylormali.com/ A Brooklyn-based Poet and Educator      
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    39 mins
  • Episode 47 - Center for Peace and Commerce's Work in the US Mexico Borderlands with Rachel Christensen

    Episode 47 - Center for Peace and Commerce's Work in the US Mexico Borderlands with Rachel Christensen
    Oct 22 2019
    On today's episode, we connect with Rachel Christensen, Assistant Director of the Center for Peace and Commerce, at the University of San Diego.  Rachel shares how much of her work and pedagogy stems from living in the borderland of the US and Mexico.  She shares her journey into social innovation work and how she sees herself first and foremost as a bridge-builder bringing people together.  Biography Rachel Christensen is the Assistant Director for the Center for Peace and Commerce. She cares about inviting more cultural brokers and bridge builders into the public, private, and social sectors to help individuals and communities flourish.    Formerly, she worked with social entrepreneurs in education in 9 countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America with Edify, Inc. She also worked with a grassroots non-profit advocating for green transportation and placemaking in uptown San Diego neighborhoods.    She lived in the Dominican Republic, working with microfinance and SME models to improve education and studied mental health in rural Brazil. She has a Master's in Public Administration and is Chairwoman of the Board of Directors for the bi-national non-profit Create Purpose.  Links If helpful, here are some other places I talk about teaching social innovation in the borderlands   Ashoka Big Talk "Teaching In Between" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vMguJPNQUk&t=5s   Tedx Talk "Borderlanders" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hxnp4eo0bY     Personal Website on Living In-Between https://www.livinginbetween.org   https://www.livinginbetween.org/themovement     Example of teaching design thinking across the border https://www.sandiego.edu/news/detail.php?_focus=68936     Links to resources mentioned   Acumen Resource Library https://www.plusacumen.org/     USD Fowler Global Social Innovation Challenge https://www.sandiego.edu/cpc/gsic/ https://www.sandiego.edu/cpc/newsroom/gsic.php   https://www.sandiego.edu/cpc/resources/   Impact Gap Canvas http://tacklingheropreneurship.com/the-impact-gaps-canvas/ Gap Frame (SDGs) http://gapframe.org/ Ideo https://www.ideou.com/ Equity & Design Thinking https://dschool.stanford.edu/resources/equity-centered-design-framework http://www.creativereactionlab.com/eccd Designing Your Life http://designingyour.life/resources-authorized/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SemHh0n19LA     Transcript Jerrid Kalakay 0:09 Welcome to the Teaching Change podcast, where we explore issues a Social Entrepreneurship, education, and innovation. I'm your host Jerrid Kalakay. On today's show, we're talking with Rachel Christiansen of the University of San Diego. Rachel, welcome to Teaching Change. Rachel Christensen 0:23 Yeah, thanks for having me. Jerrid Kalakay 0:25 Yeah. So, Rachel, I would love for you to kind of start out by talking a little bit about, introduce yourself, and then talk a bit of your work. You've done a bunch of stuff, a bunch of things, and now you're working in higher education, still doing a bunch of things. So anxious, just kind of who you are and what you're doing currently, and then we'll sort of dive off from that. Rachel Christensen 0:45 So my name is Rachel. I'm based in San Diego and park relevant a little bit for what we'll talk about today is probably two things. So my context is the US Mexico borderlands. We're about 15 minutes from Tijuana, Mexico. And that's part of Our pedagogy and how we interpret our context for the Social Innovation work that we do. And the other piece that's relevant to today is that I run our Center for peace and commerce, which is a center that's a partnership. I think it's a pretty cool radical way between the School of Business and a school of peace and justice. So the idea is we're trying to bring together sometimes disparate worlds, and paradigms around change, some of them that believe in business models, and some of them that believe in negotiation and, and community organizing, and realizing that we're going to need all approaches for us to make sustainable social change. And what that looks like on an operational level is I help primary students from the University of San Diego and our partner institutions around the world from about 12 countries to try their hand at building a social enterprise. So we kind of culminate a lot of our activities in a global social venture Pitch Competition that's oriented around the Sustainable Development Goals and really has as primary goals and learning and connecting around the Sustainable Development Goals and as a secondary goal and generating some ideas that could be sustainable social enterprises. Jerrid Kalakay 2:09 Wow. Wow. So that's a lot of stuff. It's a lot of stuff. What I think is really neat it talk a little bit more about your school of peace and justice and the School of Business coming together in the university to create the center that you work in. how unique is that in the landscape of higher education in the United States? And how did ...
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    32 mins
  • Episode 46 - The Power of Social Intrapreneurship with Authors Narayan Sundararajan and Jacen Greene

    Episode 46 - The Power of Social Intrapreneurship with Authors Narayan Sundararajan and Jacen Greene
    Oct 15 2019

    On today's episode, we are joined by authors Narayan Sundararajan and Jacen Green to discuss their newly published book "The Rule of One: The Power of Intrapreneurship". We discuss the journey of Grameen-Intel Social Business a partnership between Grameen and Intel Corporation from the beginning to now 9-years later.  We also discuss the desire of the authors to share the successes and failures of their social business to inspire other corporations and individuals to pursue untraditional partnerships to improve the world.  
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    37 mins
  • Episode 45 - Finding Balance in a Hectic World

    Episode 45 - Finding Balance in a Hectic World
    Oct 7 2019
    In today's episode, host Jerrid Kalakay takes us on a journey into the concept of balance and how it applies to his life. Is balance possible? We have all heard the phrase "work/life balance," and is it possible what other types of balance do we truly need for the long-term. Jerrid proposes thinking about balance as different seasons and what is necessary for our lives for each season.   Transcript   Jerrid Kalakay 0:09 Welcome to the Teaching Change podcast, where we explore issues social entrepreneurship, education, and innovation. I'm your host, Jerrid Kalakay. So in today's episode, we're going to be talking about finding balance. What does that mean? How does someone go about finding balance? And is it even possible? So on a previous episode, we talked about basically recharging your batteries, and understanding the need to restore oneself to stay in the game for the long haul. And the finding balance everyone talks about work-life balance. Jerrid Kalakay 0:46 Is that a real existence? Is that even possible? You know, the thing that's difficult about finding balance is what are you finding balance with? So a lot of times people talk about their personal life Jerrid Kalakay 0:59 and the Jerrid Kalakay 1:00 Their work-life, you know, and then balancing the two or balancing one's family life with their friends' life, or balancing your work life with your family, friends, personal growth, all those kinds of things. Jerrid Kalakay 1:18 I think it's a work in progress for pretty much everyone I don't know if anyone has would say, honestly, they found complete balance because it's, it's an ever-moving target, right? Jerrid Kalakay 1:31 You feel like you're doing pretty well. And then you get thrown a curveball. Jerrid Kalakay 1:37 You feel like you're on top of the world, and then all of a sudden you backslide, or tumble down the front of the hill, all the way down to the bottom. And so it's kind of a constant struggle, a continuous battle to try to figure out where is your balance and where can it be I know for me in my life as a professor as a social entrepreneur. Jerrid Kalakay 2:00 As a father, as a husband, as a son balance is ever elusive, many times, I'm trying to continually figure out what's the right amount of work to put in here, whether it be in my personal life or whether it be in my work life, whether it be my, my academic life, so forth and so on. And I think that it's probably a healthy conversation to have with yourself, not only with yourself but also with your family, with your friends, if you have a partner, so forth to really try to figure out what, what right now and this exact stage of my life, what does balance look like? What could balance look like? Jerrid Kalakay 2:41 And I don't know if it's, I don't think it's going to be a perfectly balanced thing. Like I'm looking, I'm thinking about a seesaw, you know, and I'm, I'm looking for, you know, what point is a seesaw utterly horizontal with the ground. Very rarely have I ever in my life and all the playgrounds that I've taken my kids Jerrid Kalakay 3:00 too, and probably all the playgrounds I've ever gone to as a child myself, have I ever seen a seesaw exactly horizontal with the ground? Jerrid Kalakay 3:10 And so using that as a metaphor for life, is it possible to have a perfectly balanced life to have your work? Have your academics or your extracurricular activities, your clubs, your organizations, the things you do on the weekends, your family? All the requirements that go along with with having a family and so forth is is it ever going to be a possibility that it's going to be perfectly balanced? Jerrid Kalakay 3:39 I don't think so. I think the answer to that question is no. And the reason why I say that is because I believe at certain times, it naturally should not be in balance ultimately, right. You've got a deadline and work, and so that's probably going to, you know, coming up that's going to be it's going to take a little bit more energy from you. Jerrid Kalakay 3:57 One of your children gets sick if you are fortunate. Jerrid Kalakay 4:00 have to have kids, or we know one of your dogs or animals get sick or your partner gets sick, or you get sick, then you know, obviously that's going to take energy away from your work. Jerrid Kalakay 4:12 If you're pursuing if you're on a softball league or you're in a bowling league, or you know anything like that, if something goes wrong with that, and you're having a tough season or tough go of it, that might take more energy to try to try to remedy that situation try to get better at whatever it is you're trying to do. Right. And so I think it's natural to kind of oscillate between projects and activities and things that you're doing. And not necessarily be super caught up with everything has to be 5050, you know, exactly even across the board or 3333 33 and don't forget about the third and each one of those. Jerrid Kalakay 4:50 That's probably not a healthy way to do things. ...
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    18 mins
  • Episode 44 - Growing an Economy And People Through The Global Links Program With Mary Conway Dato-on, Yasmin Mesbah, and Denise Delboni

    Episode 44 - Growing an Economy And People Through The Global Links Program With Mary Conway Dato-on, Yasmin Mesbah, and Denise Delboni
    Oct 1 2019
    On today's episode, we learn about an innovative partnership between the U.S. Department of State's Office of Global Women's Issues, Rollins College, and Tupperware Brands called The Global Links program. Recorded at the Ashoka U Exchange 2019 in San Diego, California.  Our guests include Dr. Mary Conway Dato-on, Crummer Associate Professor of International Business and Social Entrepreneurship; Yasmin Mesbah, Program Coordinator; and Dr. Denise Delboni, Professor of Labor Law, Compliance, and Labor and Employment Relations at Fundacao Getulio Vargas and Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing in Brazil.   Links Webpage: https://www.rollins.edu/business/news/global-links.html Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Tupperware.Brands.Global.Links/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/global.links.us/ Blog: https://globallinksus.wordpress.com/author/globallinksprogram/ Contact Info: globallinks@rollins.edu    Transcript Jerrid Kalakay 0:09 Welcome to the Teaching Change podcast, where we explore issues of Social Entrepreneurship, Education, and Innovation. I'm your host, Jerrid Kalakay. So welcome. We're so excited to have you on Teaching Change and to talk about some really exciting things with you. We are currently recording at the Ashoka Exchange 2019 in San Diego, California. So, unfortunately, it's been raining here, but nonetheless, that we won't let that dampen our spirits. So we have some really exciting guests today. And I'll let them introduce themselves and talk a little bit about their work. And then we'll kind of go from there. Mary Conway Dato-on 0:45 I am Mary Conway that goes on. I am a faculty member at the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College. And there I am the Cornell scholar for social entrepreneurship and international business. But all the roles that I do today, one of the most exciting ones, and the one I hope we can talk about with you today. Jerrid is about the global links program. And so I am the faculty mentor and sort of all-around girl Friday of different things related to global links. Jerrid Kalakay 1:18 Fantastic. Yasmin Mesbah 1:20 So I am Yasmin Mesbah And I am the Global Links Program Manager. So I kind of just manages everything that has to do with all the links. And I'm also right now an adjunct professor for the Social Entrepreneurship department at Rollins College. So it's a lot of fun just working with all of this kind of opportunities to inspire change-making in different fields. Jerrid Kalakay 1:43 Awesome, Yasmin, can you explain a little bit about what global links program is? Yasmin Mesbah 1:49 Sure. So global links, it's a public-private partnership between Tupperware brands, Rollins College and the US State Department's Office of Global Women's Issues. And it was founded in 2011, with the purpose of empowering female entrepreneurs and developing countries. So the way the program is structured is over, it takes place over three phases. So we start by bringing over a female professor to be our global scholar from a developing country. And she spent about, she spends a semester at Rollins college followed by a month or two months externship at to her brands. And during that time, she kind of learns different concepts of social entrepreneurship and how she can implement those learnings have changed making theory and practice back in her home country once she returns. Fantastic. Yeah. So once you're in terms of success, exactly what she does, so she partners with NGOs and universities. And the structure of phase two is then that she partners one student with one female entrepreneur, so the student works with the female entrepreneur for about four, six months to just address different business issues that the entrepreneur faces in three different areas. So it's business development, female empowerment, and then social and environmental issues that she's having in her business. So the students do that for about four to six months. And at the end of that, we do a three 360 degrees evaluation of the students. And based on that we select five students who we designate as global links change-makers, who then return to Rollins college for a two-week immersion program. Jerrid Kalakay 3:32 Wow, wow. And how long has the Global Links program been in existence? Yasmin Mesbah 3:36 So it was founded in 2011. And so far, we have had a completed three cycles, our first scholar was from Iraq. And then we had two scholars from India. And we just welcomed our fourth scholar from Brazil. And yeah, so we just started our fourth cycle in January of this year. Jerrid Kalakay 3:57 Fantastic and fantastic. And also with us, current global links, scholar. Denise Delboni 4:02 Yes, I'm Denise Delboni professor in Brazil, I teach labor law and labor relations there. But here I am a global link. scholar and I have been learning so much about Social Entrepreneurship in Social Innovation, it would be a great idea to we can spread these ideas in Brazil to Absolutely, ...
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    44 mins
  • Episode 43 – Ashoka U on Teaching Change Series with Rachel Maxwell

    Episode 43 – Ashoka U on Teaching Change Series with Rachel Maxwell
    Feb 18 2019

    On today’s episode, we have our 7th and final episode in our special series Ashoka U on Teaching Change with our conversation with Rachel Maxwell, Head of Learning and Teaching Development at the University of Northampton. Rachel shares her work in developing changemaker learning outcomes to be adopted institution-wide, her own philosophy around change-making, and the impact the upcoming Ashoka U publication will have on the field of changemaker education.

    Biography

    Dr. Rachel Maxwell is Head of Learning and Teaching Development in the Institute of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (ILT) at the University of Northampton in the UK. She is currently leading a number of projects supporting the student experience, including improving the first-year experience and the development of a framework of graduate attributes embedding employability and Changemaker skills across our curricula. 

    Since starting work at the University of Northampton in 2012, Rachel has displayed a strong interest in Changemaking, primarily through her work to embed the skills and attributes associated with Changemaker into our curricula. In this way, her desire is to ensure that all students at Northampton receive a meaningful, on-programme entitlement to engage with Changemaking, thus supporting the institutional strategy: Transforming Lives + Inspiring Change.
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    36 mins
  • Episode 42 – Ashoka U on Teaching Change with Jacen Greene

    Episode 42 – Ashoka U on Teaching Change with Jacen Greene
    Feb 18 2019

    We continue our special series Ashoka U on Teaching Change with our interview of Jacen Greene, Director of Impact Entrepreneurs at Portland State University. Jacen shares his winding journey from the private sector to consulting to higher education and working with change-making education. He also shares how his private sector experience influences his work in education and how important learning outcomes are for a strong educational foundation. Listen to find out why Jacen believes that every decision he makes to be more inclusive in his programs has benefited every student participating.

    Biography

    Jacen Greene manages social innovation programs in PSU’s School of Business, including the Social Innovation Certificate and Elevating Impact Summit, and co-founded PSU’s new Homelessness Research and Action Collaborative. He teaches design thinking and lean startup courses in social entrepreneurship, initiated the student-run B Impact consulting program, and leads an award-winning case writing program. He serves as PSU’s Change Leader, official representative to the Ashoka U Changemaker Campus network, and is one of Ashoka U’s global Network Advisory Committee members.

    Jacen’s case studies have won the Oikos Case Competition, placed 2nd in the Next Billion Competition, and been used by more than 2300 students and faculty. He has published in the International Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Learning, VentureWell 20th Annual Conference Proceedings, Case Studies in Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability, and the Oikos Case Quarterly.

    In addition to overseeing the planning team for the yearly Elevating Impact Summit, he has presented at or led workshops for the Fulbright Program, AmeriCorps, Net Impact Conference (2011), GoGreen PDX (2012), VentureWell OPEN (2016), Ashoka U Exchange (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018), and Social Enterprise World Forum (2018), among others.

    Jacen graduated Beta Gamma Sigma with an MBA in sustainability from Portland State University and magna cum laude with a B.A. in China Studies from Willamette University. He has previously worked or taught in India, China, Cambodia, Honduras, and Nicaragua.

    Links

    Learning Objectives Guide DOWNLOAD

    https://guides.library.pdx.edu/c.php?g=527355&p=3605354

     
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    43 mins