Episodes

  • Season 2: Preview

    Season 2: Preview
    Apr 14 2025

    A short clip welcoming listeners to season 2 of What Keeps Us Going
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    1 min
  • 9. Finding Peace in Coming Out, with Diego

    9. Finding Peace in Coming Out, with Diego
    Jun 27 2024
    Diego Garcia Blum is the Program Director for the Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. His work is dedicated to advocating for the safety and acceptance of LGBTQI+ individuals globally, particularly in regions where they face significant risks. Before dedicating his work to politics and queer rights, Diego made every immigrant’s parents proud by becoming a nuclear engineer. Yet he knew that was not enough and his life at...
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • 8. Fear as an Inspiration, George Floyd, and the Great Outdoors with Jason

    8. Fear as an Inspiration, George Floyd, and the Great Outdoors with Jason
    Jun 18 2024
    Jason Hill has always had a spirit of giving back. Even as a football player at his alma mater Emory and Henry College, in Emory Virginia, Jason volunteered at local nonprofits. That spirit has taken him to North Carolina where he taught football, Minnesota where he was a program coordinator for the University of Minnesota, and Wyoming, where he was a NOLS Field Instructor. NOLS stands for the National Outdoor Leadership School. Yes, a Black man Jason isn’t one to shy away from discomfort or ...
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • 7. Surviving the Criminal Justice System with the Support of Black Women, with Kyle

    7. Surviving the Criminal Justice System with the Support of Black Women, with Kyle
    Mar 30 2024
    Kyle Jacobs uses his talent for media and technology as a tool for more inclusive conversation about sustainability and environmentalism.He's a graduate of Virginia State University and Columbia University. His journey didn't start off rosy. He made it through abuse and the criminal justice system, all with help and support from Black women.
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    1 hr and 40 mins
  • 6. Managing Family Expectations and Inner-Child Work, with Chauncey

    6. Managing Family Expectations and Inner-Child Work, with Chauncey
    Feb 28 2024
    Chauncey was raised in Ohio, earned her bachelor's in Georgia, and launched her career as a Mississippi Delta Corps Member of Teach for America. She comes from a family that prioritizes education. Her grandfather is a doctor and her grandmother has a masters in social work, achieving that success when it was much harder for Black people to even go to college. Although she faced high expectations and reached them, she knew there was more to her than degrees and titles. She followed t...
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    57 mins
  • 5. The Struggle of Being Model Minority and Dealing with Inherited Trauma, with Victoria

    5. The Struggle of Being Model Minority and Dealing with Inherited Trauma, with Victoria
    Jan 27 2024
    Victoria is a first-generation Asian American who has never taken any opportunity for granted. Her curiosity and tenacity led her to graduate from high school early and from college early, the University of Utah’s Eccles School of Business. Still, her road was far from what is expected. Her passion for education has her pursuing a career in academia while navigating being expected to be a "model minority" and managing mental health. Identities: Asian-American, woman of color, daughter, f...
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    47 mins
  • 4. Surviving Domestic Violence with María

    4. Surviving Domestic Violence with María
    Jan 8 2024
    María is an educator from Florida who is pursuing masters at Harvard's Graduate School of Education with the goal of becoming a school principal.Identities: Latina, daughter, queerProfession: school leaderThemes: family, mental health, domestic violence
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    48 mins
  • 3. The power of noticing details and patterns to affect community change, with Kenyatta

    3. The power of noticing details and patterns to affect community change, with Kenyatta
    Oct 2 2023
    Today I'm talking with Kenyatta, co-managing director and founding member of BlackSpace Urbanist Collective. Kenyatta and I go way back. Since studying together as undergrads at UCLA, Kenyatta has become an extraordinary entrepreneur who's reshaping the definition of an urban landscape. Before then she grew up in southern California, soaking up the wisdom of the matriarchs in her family as she navigated complex issues of race, mental health, and community. Identities: Black woman, daught...
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    1 hr and 38 mins