Audio Nuggets: Mining For Gold

Welcome to the cypher! Audio Nuggets is where you will find a symbiotic force; both the heaviness of the air to breathe, and the light of freedom of liberation. Where human consciousness is alive. Each voice has a moment to spotlight their IT; their shine; their journey; their truth; their gold. And through the tenderness of love, we will aggressively claim our voice and own our right to humanity. We are excited to be joined by Toshira Maldonado for this episode, Birthing Black- The Shared Fight.Toshira Maldonado is fueled by passion for Black maternal health and racial justice. She is an international birthworker, community organizer, and educator. Toshira co-founded a maternal wellness group that grew out of her church group in 2004. Today it is known as Most Beautiful W.O.M.B. Inc., (Women Overcoming Major Barriers), flourishing as a grassroots community led organization. Her professional experience with family policing in Philadelphia for over seven years added purpose to what she describes as her life mission to support women. Along with 26 years as a community birth worker, she holds four generations of holistic healing and birth keeping close to her heart. This episode explores Toshira's journey as a birthworker for freedom and liberation. Toshira's liberation is fortified by being a descendent of ancestors who birthed this nation, African spirituality, the power of communal midwifery, and healing. Toshira lives in her purpose of seeing the full humanity of Black women, and experiencing the love of people who came from generations of systemic abuse, inhumane treatment, and the legacy of enslavement.  Toshira reminds us..free people, free people...that want to see people free!This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Welcome to the cypher! Audio Nuggets is where you will find a symbiotic force; both the heaviness of the air to breathe, and the light of freedom of liberation. Where human consciousness is alive. Each voice has a moment to spotlight their IT; their shine; their journey; their truth; their gold. And through the tenderness of love, we will aggressively claim our voice and own our right to humanity. We are blessed and honored to be joined by Dr. Resmaa Menakem for this episode, Reclaiming Humanity Tenderness.Embodied provocateur, multiple-levels thinker, and structural paradigm shifter Resmaa Menakem, is an author, agent of change, therapist, and licensed clinical worker specializing in racialized trauma, communal healing, and cultural first aid based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As the originator and leading proponent of Somatic Abolitionism, an embodied anti racist practice for living and culture building, Resmaa is the founder of Justice Leadership Solutions and the Cultural Somatics Institute and is an educator and coach. Working at the intersections of anti-racism, communal healing, and embodied purpose, Resmaa Menakem is the challenging yet compassionate coach we all need in this time of racial reckoning and near-global dysregulation.We can't explain what you're about to listen to. Jump in with tenderness and love for the people. It is our role to tend to things. This is a time to reclaim the things we have been thinking are unclaimable. Because there's a little bit more room now. The cultivation of glue. The glue of peoplehood. To learn more about Resmaa and the Black Octopus Society, visit resmaa and Black Octopus Society.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Welcome to the cypher! Audio Nuggets is blessed for the gift to be joined by BeKura Shabazz for this episode- Stay Ready For Freedom.BeKura Shabazz, a Virginia native, and a mother of four who through her challenges of taking on the system while trying to provide for her children as a single mother, learned the law to protect herself and many others navigating systems of oppression. She is the founder and President of the Injustice Reform Network.This episode illuminates BeKura's embodied liberation and freedom. The episode uncovers the interconnectedness of carceral systems and state violence, and how that has fueled BeKura's purpose in the revolution. Political education, legal education, community education, and learning the language of the oppressor are tactics for BeKura in organizing and movement building, as she activates and unifies people in building a new world and building nets that work. BeKura's network is her net worth.The conversation deepens to explore the Injustice Reform Network's pillars of criminal, family policing, environment, and housing injustice. Oppressive systems don't narrow their scope; therefore, the vision and mission of the Injustice Reform Network can't and won't be narrow and siloed. Many individuals are impacted by a multitude of systems. BeKura reminds us of the need to expand our thinking and our learning.Naming injustice for the safety and protection of her people is a requirement for the way that BeKura practices justice. The level of care that comes from protecting her village is the care that cares for her.  BeKura leaves us with the most beautiful reminder---”We got work to do. If you are already ready, you won't have to get ready!”This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

We are BACK the cypher! Audio Nuggets is grateful and humbled to be joined by Rev. angel Kyodo williams for this Black History '25 anchor episode- Healing Race.Rev. angel Kyodo williams is a visionary author, strategist, founder of Transformative Change, and architect of the audacious Healing Race Portal. Called “one of our wisest voices on social evolution” by On Being's Krista Tippett, Rev. angel is the second Black woman to hold the most senior title in Zen Buddhism. Her 30 years of multi-dimensional work and practice have expanded the possibilities of personal and collective liberation. Ever since her critically acclaimed first book, Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living With Fearlessness and Grace was hailed as “an act of love” by Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker, Rev. angel has been bridging the worlds of transformation and justice. Her second book, Radical Dharma: Talking, Race, Love & Liberation, ignited communities, catalyzing practices and technology that became the laboratory for healing race.This episode is revelatory. This episode is radical. This episode is an experience you do not want to miss. The conversation explores Rev. angel's lifelong commitment to liberation and freedom, and deeply explores the Healing Race Portal. Rev. angel constructed the Healing Race Portal to facilitate the broadest possible passageway for people to return to our core nature as humans who want to belong. It is a global intervention to disrupt the harmful effects of racialization. Rigorous in discipline and rooted in love, Rev. angel applies wisdom teachings and embodied practice to intractable social issues. She was made for these times, and we are grateful to share the cypher with her!Interested in having a LIVE in-person experience of Healing Race Portal with Rev. angel??? You have a RARE opportunity. From MARCH 11th to the 14th, Rev. angel will be joined by special guest Dr. Resmaa Menakem, best-selling author, healer and trauma specialist, in Montgomery, Alabama. Together, they will prime and guide participants through the Legacy Museum, which powerfully documents our country's history of racial trauma. This is a 3-day journey, where you'll engage in the practices and methodologies architected by Rev. angel to heal the impacts of racialization on our bodies--meaning, your personal body, the collective body, and our relationship to the body of Earth. This HRP Live experience is not likely to happen again in this intimate, small-group format—so, if you feel called to it, go right now to healingraceportal.com to see if there are any spaces left and register for this profoundly transformative, in-person experience with Rev. angel and Dr. Resmaa Menakem.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Audio Nuggets is back in the cypher! We have pulled from the greatness of hip hop culture in this all-Black container, where we are expressive and a bit impatient as we struggle for even a taste of justice. We are grateful to be joined by our comrade and friend, Brittany Gail Thomas for this episode, Blackness 365.Brittany Gail Thomas (affectionately known by all as “BGT”) is a visionary leader, passionate advocate, nuanced thought-leader, and unapologetic champion for the most marginalized communities. She is a wife, mom, friend, mentor, non-profit Founder & CEO, DEIJ Coordinator, and Assistant Federal Public Defender who combines her passion for justice with her litigation, training, and administrative skills to manage it all. We are in a time of reckoning. There is no statute of limitation in the annihilation of Black bodies. BGT has an embodied presence and is grounded in individual responsibility. This episode is about Blackness, Black history, and the love of Black people. Every space that BGT occupies is a testament to her ancestors' struggles which flow through her bones and veins. This connection fuels her passion for advocating for Black people and her clients in the struggle toward freedom and liberation.  The message is clear: Black History is not a month. We are proud to honor and celebrate Blackness 365!This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Welcome to the cypher! Audio Nuggets is back, as fierce as ever, for 2025. We are turning the page. Another beginning, a new season, and for a lot of us; so much work to be done. Get ready to experience the rhythm of the cypher with our friend and guest, MiDian Shofner for Dreaming In Blackness. MiDian Shofner embodies the essence of Denver, Colorado. Influenced by the indomitable spirit and wisdom of her forebears, MiDian has forged her path of leadership steeped in the traditions of advocacy, faith, and activism. As the CEO of the Epitome of Black Excellence & Partnership and the Owner/Founder of 8PM Consulting for Humanity, MiDian brings an unwavering commitment to racial justice.This is a conversation grounded in liberation of the mind, body, soul, and spirit. The episode explores Black culture as being coveted, and how being accountable to our own humanity will allow us to live in all our bigness and all of our radiant shine.  With a firm reminder of the place that Black bodies sit today is because of the dreaming that the ancestors had, to experience the liberated minds of today. Dreaming in Blackness means that we begin to unlearn the conditioning of the oppressor and move toward embracing and being captivated by the conditioning that our ancestors gave us; the vision of freedom.MiDian gifts the cypher with a demonstration of intentional love and liberation. It is magnified. It is palpable.  In turning the page into 2025, let us all remember the joy in love, and remember what we are saying YES to! What we pay attention to will grow. This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Welcome to Audio Nuggets, right here in the cypher. We invite you to join us in experiencing this season's anchor, "Becoming Responsible For Her Body--Remembering Ma".How do I share the depth and magnitude of our relationship? To keep making her proud.  There are two purposes in this episode: to thank you, the people, and to show what it looks like to be responsible for my mother's body. In learning and practicing what "meeting a moment" truly means, there is persistent loss, pain, and gain happening at the same time. I can feel her legacy in me. For the family beyond blood and law, and my family family, THANK YOU. Special acknowledgements: BGT and Jasmine Wali for their remarkable gifts of love. And lastly, I could never forget my fearless TEAM MFG, FOR HOLDIN' IT DOWN! The gratitude for my team runs deep. Season's greetings to all. We will be back in 2025. Just as fierce as always, right here in the cypher!This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Welcome to the cypher! We took a break, and now we are back to experience the rhythm of the cypher. We want to thank our loyal listeners for your grace during these tough times. This month's pause was conducive to our overall health. Audio Nuggets is grateful to be joined by a fellow titan, dear friend, and comrade, Valerie Chafograck for Episode 38: Embodied Liberation. WE NEEDED THIS!Valerie Chafograck is an Afro-Caribbean woman born in France and moved to this country in 1990. Her love affair with dance and embodiment combined with her commitment to collective liberation fuels her radical imagination and creativity.  An embodiment facilitator, devoted to decolonizing the body and promote liberation in the body, this inspired Valerie to create Movement Liberation in 2019--a California based healing justice non-profit, blending conscious dance, somatic and social justice perspectives to curate workshops and retreats for Black bodies and bodies of culture.This conversation occurs just days after the execution of Marcellus Williams in Missouri. The episode begins with uncovering the pattern of Black annihilation, and how centering love for Black bodies will facilitate healing.The conversation deepens as Valerie describes somatic and embodiment practices for the audience, describing embodiment as love, learning to stay in the body, reclaiming the body, and nurturing the body. Valerie reminds listeners to quiet, slow down, pay attention to the parts of us that need tending and celebration, and weave mindfulness in our daily practice. Valerie shares the gifts of conscious dance on the dance floor at Movement Liberation--the importance of ritual, the beauty of being BIG and full, tapping into our born dignity, and following our ancestry for inspiration. All in a way that is unapologetic! Collective care is where it's AT!To learn more about Valerie and to experience a class or workshop, visit @ Movement Liberation (movement-liberation.com)This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Welcome to Audio Nuggets! In the cypher, we give ourselves rooted permission to tell a collective story of the principled struggle for liberation. We are excited to be joined with a co-struggler and friend, Imani Worthy, for Episode 37: Care and Repair--One Mandate for Freedom.Imani is a community organizer and proud Black mother, hailing from the vibrant Bronx, New York. In 2019, Imani co-founded Black Families Love and Unite, an organization with a mission to unite Black and brown families while holding the institutions that perpetuate harm accountable.This episode is grounded in the necessity for reparations for families who have been impacted by the violence of family policing. There has been very little done to make a mass acknowledgement of the atrocities and harms of family policing that linger and persist. Reparations must take on as many forms necessary to address all that was stolen, proportional to the violation, and should be community-based so that communities can provide the communal aid and care that is necessary for healing. As growing abolitionists, this conversation is one of liberation and freedom. You will witness the beautiful presence of a critical connection, the practice of being in right relationship with one another, and embracing the “mess” that happens in the cocoon of transformation. And together, we disentangle accountability from punishment.To learn more about Imani Worthy and the organizing efforts at Black Families Love and Unite, you can visit their website at Black Families Love and Unite.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Welcome to Audio Nuggets! We are excited to experience the true rhythm of the cypher with our guest Angela Tucker for Episode 36: Transracial Adoption—Believable Lies. Angela Tucker is the CEO of the Adoptee Mentoring Society, cultural commentator, podcast host, inspiring speaker, the author of “You Should Be Grateful:” Stories of Race, Identity and Transracial Adoption. Angela is also the subject of the documentary Closure, chronicling the search for her biological family.  In this episode, Angela gifts the audience with her deep political analysis of being a Black transracial adoptee in these Americas--what she describes as “the Blackest experience of all”. The believable lies have always been told, yet she always believed something different in her body. Angela shares her smile and energy as she gifts us with the journey of finding her beautiful birth mother family in Tennessee, and the conversation deepens to explore the historical context of forced Black family separation. Angela is re-claiming her humanity and seeking freedom with transracial adoptees at the Adoptee Mentoring Society, as they tell their stories-- stories that are different from the believable lies they were brainwashed to believe, as they are becoming rooted in truth, love, and community. We are honored to share the cypher with Angela, a Queen who holds it down in the name of FREEDOM!You can learn more about Angela and her work @ Angela Tucker"You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption" can be purchased here: You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption a book by Angela Tucker (bookshop.org)You can watch the documentary Closure here: Closure (vhx.tv)This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Welcome to the cypher, right here on Audio Nuggets! On Audio Nuggets we strive to bend the arc of non-linear modes through conversations that tug and pull from the best of who we are. We give ourselves rooted permission to tell a collective story of the principled struggle for liberation. We are filled with joy and honored to be joined by Myah Overstreet for Episode 35: To Be Invisible—A True Narrative.Myah Overstreet is a filmmaker and journalist. Her area of focus is on the intersection of culture and racial injustices among marginalized communities. She is dedicated to amplifying bold, untold stories. Just two weeks ago, Myah's documentary “To Be Invisible” was published on The New Yorker site. The film follows the journey of Alexis and Kelley as they demand the return of their children from the family police in North Carolina.Shining light and love on Black women was always what Myah wanted to focus her work on. In this episode, we unpack Myah's journey to using film and journalism to tell the true narrative of reproductive justice rights of Black women, and the policing of bodies--the story that is not talked about. Myah shares the evolution of the film and how she joined with mothers and activists in the movement to abolish family policing to tell the story. Myah brings life and love to the film to magnify what's been hidden. Every story that is told in this true narrative is getting us closer to a new world!This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

We are back in the cypher, right here on Audio Nuggets!  We are honored to be joined by Miriam Mack, a co-struggler and friend, for Episode 34: Critical Connections--THE Imperative.Miriam Mack is the Policy Director for The Bronx Defenders' Family Defense Practice, and an advocate and activist for racial and reproductive justice. The Bronx Defenders are actively redefining public defense by challenging the dominant narrative of save and rescue, as they root themselves in the principled and broader struggle for freedom.  This conversation unpacks the beauty of base-building in the movement to abolish carcerality and systemic violence, right relationships, and the critical connections that are our driving force in practicing new worlds. We grapple with what happens if we're harmed, and Miriam reminds listeners of the deep and very real urgency for imagining and building. Listen to be captivated!This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

We are right back in the cypher, on Audio Nuggets with Khafre Jay in Episode 33: Hip Hop Culture & Organizing For Health.Khafre Jay is a change-maker, hip hop artist, and community organizer who is practicing new worlds. Hip hop is art. Hip hop is poetry. Hip hop is a cornerstone of our stories. Hip hop is the MOST effective organizing force that we have. Hip Hop is culture!In this episode, we hear from Khafre about his abolitionism and how he's leveraging Hip Hop as communal health.This King has range, wisdom and a sharp political analysis. Be prepared to break intellectual laziness as we chop it up. To learn more about Khafre Jay and ways to support Drip Fest, you can visit his website  Hip Hop Organizer | Khafre Jay and subscribe to the newsletter Unapologetic Black, watch his Ted Talk Performance by Hip Hop for Change | Khafre Jay | TEDxSausalito (youtube.com) and follow on IG @khafrejay.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Welcome to the cypher! On Audio Nuggets, we give ourselves rooted permission to tell a collective story of the principled struggle for liberation and freedom. We are honored to welcome Joyce James to the cypher for Episode 32: In The Fight to Undo Racism.Joyce James has been leading and supporting anti-racism and justice in multiple systems and institutions across the country for almost three decades. In this episode, respect is given by Joyce and MFG to The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB) for the education and political analysis they have gifted so many with through their principles, teachings, and organizing.Joyce unravels the narratives about people that we have bought into, and the lies we have been taught. Through good teaching and teachers, Joyce illustrates the cornerstone fact; racism is so deeply embedded in all of our systems and institutions, that to truly undo this racism, means a lifetime commitment to the fight.  We are grateful to march alongside Joyce and so many others who embody justice and liberation for the people, on the long road to freedom!This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Welcome to the cypher! Audio Nuggets is grateful and blessed to bring you Episode 31: Singing My Song with April Lee.April is a leader, community activist, advocate, artist, poet and believer of freedom. April is a lover of her people and her community. April hips the audience to the political analysis that we can SEE the truth of the destruction that the family policing system causes Black families and communities. April is here to share that freedom seeking looks like singing her song--LIBERATION! April gifts Black parents with the wisdom to question everything, educate yourself, know your rights... because you are not the problem, but rather part of the solution. Don't believe the hype. Don't believe the lie!And before we leave...April drops "True Insight" as an expression of her full humanity, power, and liberation. She sings her song!This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

We are back in the cypher with our anchor #4 for FREEDOM in Black History '24.  We are joined by Aubrey Edwards-Luce for Episode 30: Dreaming Sanctuary.In Dreaming Sanctuary, Aubrey moves us to become filled. Filled with dreaming; filled with an energy to chase the vision of freedom, filled with a drive to nurture connections with others, and truly filled with a desire to love all people. Sanctuary is best defined as a place where someone or something can be protected or safe from being chased or hunted; to live and be protected. Aubrey illustrates that there is safety and sanctuary in relationships that are knitted through love and give us an opportunity to see and lean into full humanity. Aubrey's contributions to freedoms are palpable with how she leads by listening, and how she shows up in love by building a culture of truth-telling in her ecosystem.Throughout this February, the cypher has brought you Radically Practical with jasmine Sankofa, Loyalty to Truth with Dawn Blagrove, Notes For Freedom with Dr. Jessica Pryce and Dreaming Sanctuary with Aubrey Edwards-Luce; 4 Black women, 4 for Freedom. They have all made clear the distinction necessary for freedom and liberation as a lifestyle, not only a goal.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Audio Nuggets is back in the cypher and expanding Black History with #3 for FREEDOM. Episode 29: Notes For Freedom with Dr. Jessica Pryce will push you to embrace a reckoning.   For over 15 years, Dr. Pryce has worked with multiple angles in child protection, encompassing direct practice, academia, policymaking and research.  This episode unpacks just a few of Dr. Pryce's contributions to freedom and liberation through her writing and memoir that is set to be released as we commemorate 60 years of civil rights legislation for Black bodies.  Broken: Notes of a Former Caseworker; Transforming Child Protective Services, is a former caseworker's searing, clear-eyed investigation of the child welfare system—from foster care to incarceration—that exposes the deep-rooted biases shaping the system, witnessed through the lives of several Black families.Dr. Pryce graces the audience with truth-telling vulnerability, wisdom, and the story of her personal journey of witnessing the humanness in Black parents.  After Dr. Jessica Pryce, Aubrey Edwards-Luce will anchor us with Dreaming of Sanctuary. This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

In the cypher we bring you,  #2 for FREEDOM with our dear friend Dawn Blagrove for Episode 28: Loyalty To Truth.Dawn is a freedom fighter, movement attorney, and a beautiful human being. She has a sharp political analysis.  And a bullshit detector that helps discern who she builds with.  She epitomizes leadership in the struggle for freedom. Dawn tells it as it should always be told--with breadth and honesty. We invite you to sit back and experience Dawn's loyalty to truth.From Dawn, the next drop will weave artistry and threads of freedom with Dr. Jessica Pryce.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

We are back in the cypher for Black History Month '24.Audio Nuggets has curated the most magnificent series to commemorate 60 years post-civil rights. We are honored to level UP with THE jasmine Sankofa for Episode 27: Radically Practical.jasmine is the Executive Director of Movement For Movement Power. She joins us embodying many roles in the quest for freedom.  She's a passionate movement lawyer, scholar, activist, storyteller, birth worker, and bonus/god mama committed to abolition and grounded in the belief that when we fight, we win.jasmine's warmth and laughter permeates the cypher, as she reminds listeners that dreaming, imagining and building with people are practical steps toward abolition. From jasmine, the next drop will weave threads of Blackness with Dawn Blagrove from Emancipate NC.Until freedom...This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

We are back in the cypher! Welcome to Audio Nuggets in January '24 for Episode 26: Part 2--Phenomenon of Whiteness with DaWayne Judd. Another beginning, a new season for many, and for some, and a lot of us; so much work to be done.Phenomena are occurrences in the natural and human-made world that can be observed and cause one to wonder and ask questions. DaWayne continues to guide our conversation from where he left us in Part 1, educating on the Dred Scott Decision, and kicks off Part 2 by asking listeners "who gets included in whiteness?"Sit back and embrace the liberation in DaWayne in the vision toward freedom!Until next time....just keep movin'!This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

2023 is gone, and here we are, right back in the cypher for Audio Nuggets in 2024. This introduction shapes what's in store for '24, reflects on the journey behind and ahead, and unfolds what freedom and liberation means to MFG. We gift our courageous audience with an invitation, our motivation, our long view, and how we believe MFG's piece of the struggle will continue to permeate our collective justice doing.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Welcome back to the Mining For Gold cypher! In this Black container, we witness and experience how traveling the stoney road toward freedom is a journey trekked with love, resistant abolitionism, dignity, and revolutionary muse makers. If you've eavesdropped on the political analysis, you've come to know that on Audio Nuggets we strive to bend the arc on non-linear modes through conversations that tug and pull from the best of who we are. We give ourselves rooted permission to tell a collective story of the principled struggle for liberation.Audio Nugget's anchors '23 with one of the most liberated voices around. You will have the luxury of discovering DaWayne Judd in Episode 24: Phenomena of Whiteness. Phenomena are occurrences in the natural and human-made world that can be observed and cause one to wonder and ask questions. DaWayne will guide our conversation in ways that help to excavate why we find ourselves steeped in the religion of race.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Welcome to Audio Nuggets, right here in the cypher, we are honored to be joined by Keshia Adeniyi-Dorsey for Episode 23: Love and Liberation.Keshia has advocated and served as a family defender for thousands of families who have been ensnarled by family policing and the Civil Death Penalty, commonly known as TPR.  Keshia is a human being who enjoys spending time with her husband and beautiful baby girl.In this episode, the audience is gifted with the humanness of an abolitionist. Keshia shares that her goal as a family defender is to value and protect sacred family bonds and lineage.  Keshia illustrates her love of Black families and that she gifts herself with liberation! She is true to self and acts in LOVE. And by glimpsing liberation, Keisha loves her Black people, and sees family's full humanity.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

We are honored to be joined by Tanesha Grant, a mother of three, grandmother of four and an impacted child of the family policing system from birth. Tanesha is the founder and Executive Director of two community based organizations, Parents Supporting Parents NY, and Moms United for Black Lives New York City.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

We are joined with Tehra Coles for Episode 21: Defending Justice Against Family Policing.  Tehra Coles is the Executive Director of the Center for Family Representation, a public defender office in New York City that represents parents in family policing cases in Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx. In this episode, we glimpse Tehra's journey of discovery. With all the zeal at her command while advocating for families, she realizes that alone, she wouldn't be able to bring justice to families. This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Judge Aurora Martinez Jones presides over the historical 126th District Court in Travis County, Texas, where she co-founded the Child Welfare Race Equity Collaborative (CWREC). Currently, Judge Martinez Jones is leading a community effort in a local pilot to Re-Imagine the Child Welfare system. Through this episode, listeners experience Your Honor's embodiment of full humanity, justice and liberation, as she shares with us the ways in which she has supported parents through the most daunting times of their lives with justice-centered representation as an attorney and now as the presiding District Judge.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Cordelia Cranshaw Skeete is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, representing the District of Columbia. Despite the odds stacked against Cordelia as an adolescent, she guides others on their healing journey and believes that the journey is just as important as the destination.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Erin Miles Cloud is the co-founder and co-director for Movement For Family Power. MFP works to end the family policing system and punishment of families to create a world where the dignity and integrity of all families is valued and supported.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

We are back in the cypher with Tewabech Genet Stewart for the much-anticipated Episode 17: Part 2- Reconcile With Terminating The Institution's Rights.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

The conversation is rooted in the transformation of Black fathers from being “the impacted”, to being leaders that influence change and know the value of co-design with people. All while challenging the ideology that Black skin has never been the issue, that it is racism that is the issue.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Tewabech Genet Stewart, an Ethiopian-American, was born and raised in Liberia, West Africa. Tewabech spent 22 years in Florida's child welfare system, and now she advocates for justice-centered practices that support families.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

We are honored to be in conversation with Lisa Sangoi. Lisa is a founding co-director of Movement For Family Power, an organization that supports organizing and movement building to abolish the family regulation system.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Audio Nuggets warmly welcomes our dear brother and friend, Matthew Stewart. Matthew is liberated and shares that his becomING is family justice. This conversation unpacks the relationship between Black bodies and anti-Black ideology in child welfare and how that has impacted him directly.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Audio Nuggets is honored to welcome Derrick Stephens. Derrick brings his uniqueness and dreaming to the cypher. This conversation unpacks the shoulders to stand on and obligations of Black bodies of this generation to “get into a lot of good trouble,” acknowledging that planting seeds for tomorrow requires liberation. Derrick reveals that from a young age, he was always dreaming of freedom and liberation.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Audio Nuggets welcomes Takkeem Morgan. In this conversation, Takkeem shares and unpacks his value with our listeners around people who are closest to the pain ought to be the architects of all the solutions. Families have the data, and they have better and less expensive ideas on how to spend government resources to help communities in a meaningful and impactful way. Takkeem outlines what he identifies to be the three major challenges faced by current child welfare.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Welcome to the Mining For Gold cypher for this explosive, special Black History Month 2023 edition of Audio Nuggets with Joyce McMillan, of JMACForFamilies. Joyce embodies justice, humanity and belonging in her life's mission for abolition of the family policing system, educating the listeners that abolition is the removal of the parts of the system that are harmful, destructive, and creating outcomes that are horrific for Black families.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Audio Nuggets ushers in '23 with special guest, Ivory Bennett. Through love, Ivory is reclaiming her voice and right to speak. Her right to full humanity. Her right to heal, practice empathy, and engage in the healing process for herself, so that she can then show up for the collective mission of justice as the throughline.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

In our final episode for 2022, Audio Nuggets is overjoyed that Angela Olivia Burton joins the cypher. Her personal liberation journey and using her power, influence, and liberated voice, is the core of her work, as she leverages these experiences to elevate the voices of Black parents, who are fighting to protect their families from unwarranted government intrusion and destruction of their families.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Audio Nuggets welcome Shrounda Selivanoff to the cypher in this episode. Shrounda shares her humanity in describing the impact that the coercive nature of the violent family policing system has had on her family's life. In this conversation, Shrounda shares that one coercive tactic of the family policing system's goal is to erase family history, and ultimately extinguish hope for parents. We examine and ask why this violent system tears children apart from blood lines and family.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Audio Nuggets is proud to announce that Professor Dorothy Roberts has joined us back in the cypher for Part 2: Family Policing and the Journey to Reproductive Justice. In this conversation, MFG and Professor Roberts dive into the post-Roe era, and how the historical legacy of Black women and families have been the centrality of her work for the past 25 years.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Audio Nuggets is honored and filled with gratitude to be joined by the legendary racial and family justice scholar and activist Dorothy Roberts for Episode 5: Part 1: The Analysis of Anti-Black Ideology.Dorothy utilizes her critical analysis of Roe, reproductive justice, and family policing to demonstrate how interconnected systems and racist policies have had a devastating and violent impact on Black families.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

OperationStopCPS joins MFG in the cypher to provide vivid clarity around why they know the child welfare system destroys Black families. It is through their own lived experiences as a CPS case manager and Mental Health Clinician, that Amanda and KeKe became a force in a growing movement to abolish the current child welfare system. This Audio Nugget will explore how they do this work, where they do this work and the impacts this has had on families. You will experience liberation and hopefully be inspired to tap into your power to ensure that your stance is visible and fueled by love for the people.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Audio Nuggets welcomes Sandra Killet to the cypher. During our conversation, Sandra will unpack more than her motivation. She will demonstrate self-love and liberated love for Black people. Sandra goes deep into her ideas of justice, advocacy, and the emotions that currently hold her attention. You are invited to recognize that you can make a difference and that opportunity is right in front of you.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Audio Nuggets Episode 2: Reflections on Barriers to Justice is a liberated and thought-provoking conversation with Ms. Maleeka Jihad, aka MJ. During this episode, MJ reveals what humanity means as she paints a picture of the parallels between domestic violence and our child protection system.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Audio Nuggets, Next Level Teaming. In this episode, MFG is joined by Tiffany C. & Maneashia H.; parent leaders who partner in their local and state communities to co-design a reinvented child welfare system with families and racial justice as the throughline.Tiffany and Maneashia will explore what it means to them to team in authentic ways where parents are underrepresented. You'll hear what MUST be present when teaming with parent leaders. We learn their “why”, and together, we mine for gold.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.