Different Boat, Same Storm

In the Season 2 finale of Different Boat, Same Storm, hosts Abhay and Atharv look back at all the episodes of Season 1 and 2, as well reflect on the journey of the podcast. They also provide insights as to what the future holds.  This is a conversation that you don't want to miss.   Connect with us on:   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dbss_podcast/ Facebook: @DifferentBoatSameStorm Twitter: @DBSS_podcast   Abhayjeet Singh Sachal (co-host)  Atharv Agrawal (co-host)  Mei Ling Phung (editor)  Anisha Huq and Mehar Kamra (communications and outreach)

Jaivet  Ealom is a student at the University of Toronto, an advocate and  writer: his book, Escape from Manus, is now out through Penguin Books  Australia. Born in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), Jaivet gained a  first-hand experience of the persecution of the Rohingya minority to  which he belongs. Making his escape by air and sea, he was detained en  route to Australia and spent four and a half years in an offshore  detention centre on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. There he witnessed  how a democratically elected government could detain large groups of  refugees indefinitely and without due process. He left the island prison in unusual circumstances, becoming known as  “the only person to escape from the Manus Island Immigration Detention  Centre.” After a period of time in the South Pacific, Jaivet made his  way to the Toronto airport on Christmas Eve of 2017. He joined the  leadership team of the Canadian Rohingya Development Initiative, a  not-for-profit that advocates for the cause of the Rohingya people. He  also enrolled at the University of Toronto, where he is a full-time  student of Economics and Political Science. Motivated by his lived experience of political oppression, Jaivet has  become a staunch advocate of improving the refugee system, particularly  through the use of innovative and scalable solutions. As Manager of  NeedsList, a global crisis coordination relief enterprise, he promotes  the use of technology to bypass institutionally-placed barriers and  shape policy that better meets the needs of refugees. He is also a  member of the Refugee Advisory Network, where he builds upon his  understanding of refugee issues to help develop decision-making  processes that give voice to and address the needs of refugees  worldwide. This is a conversation that you don't want to miss. Connect with us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dbss_podcast/ Facebook: @DifferentBoatSameStorm Twitter: @DBSS_podcast Abhayjeet Singh Sachal (co-host) Atharv Agrawal (co-host) Mei Ling Phung (editor) Anisha Huq and Mehar Kamra (communications and outreach)

Jaivet Ealom is a student at the University of Toronto, an advocate and writer: his book, Escape from Manus, is now out through Penguin Books Australia. Born in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), Jaivet gained a first-hand experience of the persecution of the Rohingya minority to which he belongs. Making his escape by air and sea, he was detained en route to Australia and spent four and a half years in an offshore detention centre on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. There he witnessed how a democratically elected government could detain large groups of refugees indefinitely and without due process.    He left the island prison in unusual circumstances, becoming known as “the only person to escape from the Manus Island Immigration Detention Centre.” After a period of time in the South Pacific, Jaivet made his way to the Toronto airport on Christmas Eve of 2017. He joined the leadership team of the Canadian Rohingya Development Initiative, a not-for-profit that advocates for the cause of the Rohingya people. He also enrolled at the University of Toronto, where he is a full-time student of Economics and Political Science.   Motivated by his lived experience of political oppression, Jaivet has become a staunch advocate of improving the refugee system, particularly through the use of innovative and scalable solutions. As Manager of NeedsList, a global crisis coordination relief enterprise, he promotes the use of technology to bypass institutionally-placed barriers and shape policy that better meets the needs of refugees. He is also a member of the Refugee Advisory Network, where he builds upon his understanding of refugee issues to help develop decision-making processes that give voice to and address the needs of refugees worldwide.   This is a conversation that you don't want to miss.   Connect with us on:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dbss_podcast/ Facebook: @DifferentBoatSameStorm  Twitter: @DBSS_podcast   Abhayjeet Singh Sachal (co-host)  Atharv Agrawal (co-host)  Mei Ling Phung (editor)  Anisha Huq and Mehar Kamra (communications and outreach) 

Kate Banting leads Marketing and Social Impact for Boston Consulting Group in Canada.  Previously, Kate was a Project Leader in the Toronto Office engaging with clients across Social Impact, Travel and Tourism, Consumer Goods, Retail and Financial Services sectors. Kate has been with BCG for over a decade, with six years of experience on the consulting track.   In her current role, Kate leads a variety of social impact initiatives across topics such as measuring impact, diversity, education, youth development, mental health, and community engagement. Outside of BCG, Kate has been involved in Children's International Summer Villages for 15 years, participating, leading and directing camps around the world and was the National Junior Representative for Canada. Kate is also on the Board of Directors for The Child Development Institute, an accredited children's mental health agency headquartered in Toronto that is focused on developing innovative programming.  Kate holds an MBA, with honours, from Harvard Business School and an HBA degree, with distinction, from Richard Ivey School of Business. While at Harvard, Kate was actively involved in the Social Enterprise Initiative and was an Education Pioneer Fellow for BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life) where she supported a new revenue model.   This is a conversation that you don't want to miss.  Connect with us on:   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dbss_podcast/ Facebook: @DifferentBoatSameStorm  Twitter: @DBSS_podcast  Atharv Agrawal (host)  Mei Ling Phung (editor)  Anisha Huq and Mehar Kamra (communications and outreach)

Maryam and Nivaal are twin activists, studying at the University of Toronto in International Relations & Peace, Conflict, and Justice (PCJ). Their activism began at the age of eight, when they visited their families country of Pakistan. It was over there that they visited a girl's school and learned that many of the girls were planning to drop out and support their families once they reached grade five. Since then, they have conduct numerous workshops to hear the children's stories and inspire them to continue their education. The twins are also co-founders of The World with MNR, a non-profit that they started to take action against social justice issues like girls' education, climate justice, gender equality and inclusivity through advocacy, storytelling and development projects. Through this, the twins have shared their experiences as activists and journalists through their social media and their YouTube channel, also named the The World With MNR. They have also conducted interviews with world leaders and other activists like Malala Yousafzai, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Ambassador Melanne Verveer, Dr. David Suzuki and Madame Christine Lagarde. The twins are also filmmakers, as they participated in the #DreamBigPrincess Project, a partnership between the Walt Disney Company and the UN Girl Up Campaign, back in 2018. The two sisters, alongside 19 young girls from 13 different countries were selected to be filmmakers in this project, and create digital short-films, to be shared on social media. The twins also created a feature-length documentary called "Destined To Soar" about their activism journey in Pakistan. This is a conversation that you don't want to miss. Connect with us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dbss_podcast/ Facebook: @DifferentBoatSameStorm Twitter: @DBSS_podcast Abhayjeet Singh Sachal (co-host) Atharv Agrawal (co-host) Mei Ling Phung (editor) Anisha Huq, Amar Aziz, and Mehar Kamra (communications and outreach)

Professor Joseph Wong is Vice-President, International at the University of Toronto, where he is also the Roz and Ralph Halbert Professor of Innovation at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Arts and Science. He held the Canada Research Chair in Health, Democracy and Development for two terms from 2006 to 2016. He is a graduate of McGill University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.   He is the author of many academic articles and several books, including Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea and Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of Asia's Developmental State, both published by Cornell University Press.   Inspired by the Sustainable Development Goals. in collaboration with the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth. Professor Wong founded the Reach Alliance, a model for student-led, faculty-mentored, multi-disciplinary research dedicated to investigating the pathways to success for innovative programs that are reaching the world's most marginalized populations: http://reachalliance.org/what-is-reach.    This is a conversation that you don't want to miss.   Connect with us on:   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dbss_podcast/ Facebook: @DifferentBoatSameStorm  Twitter: @DBSS_podcast   Abhayjeet Singh Sachal (co-host)  Atharv Agrawal (co-host)  Mei Ling Phung (editor)  Anisha Huq, Amar Aziz, and Mehar Kamra (communications and outreach)

Dr. Kiffer G. Card is a social and behavioural epidemiologist with the School of Public Health and Social Policy at The University of Victoria. He also holds an appointment as an Adjunct Professor with the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University.    Dr. Card's research focuses on the social dimensions of health emphasizing understanding the roles that health inequity and social marginalization play in shaping healthcare utilization, health-related knowledge and stigmatized behaviour.   Further, Dr. Card is the recipient of the 2020 CIHR-IHSPR Rising Star Award, along with several prestigious postdoctoral awards. Over the past six years, his work on substance use, sexual behaviour, and social connection has been featured in nearly 70 publications and over 90 academic conference presentations.  As a rising star in social and behavioural epidemiology, Dr. Card's research program provides training to future scholars and raises awareness of key social reforms and policies that aim to help Canadian leaders build happier and healthier communities.   This is a conversation that you don't want to miss.   Connect with us on:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dbss_podcast/ Facebook: @DifferentBoatSameStorm  Twitter: @DBSS_podcast   Abhayjeet Singh Sachal (co-host)  Atharv Agrawal (co-host)  Mei Ling Phung (editor)  Anisha Huq, Amar Aziz, and Mehar Kamra (communications and outreach)

Eli Meadow Ramraj is a third year student at the University of Toronto, studying Cinema, Philosophy, and Creative Expression and Society. He is a passionate filmmaker, photographer, writer and producer, currently working on I'm Still Here, a short film exploring trauma and mental health. He is also one of the co-founders of Different Boat, Same Storm.   This is a conversation that you don't want to miss.   Connect with us on:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dbss_podcast/ Facebook: @DifferentBoatSameStorm  Twitter: @DBSS_podcast   Abhayjeet Singh Sachal (co-host)  Atharv Agrawal (co-host)  Mei Ling Phung (editor)  Anisha Huq, Amar Aziz, and Mehar Kamra (communications and outreach)

Uma Kalkar is a dual-degree candidate for a Master of Public Policy specializing in Digital and New Technology at Sciences Po and a Master of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto.       She is the Innovation Director of 18by Vote, a youth-led non-profit that helps 16. 17. and 18-year-olds understand how to vote when to vote, and why to vote. 18by Vote has been at the forefront of the youth voting movement, during the 2020 election cycle, they reached over 2 million people to raise awareness of the Presidential and Senate Runoff elections. 18by Vote has been featured on The Daily With Trevor Noah, CNN, The Wall Street Journal and more.      Uma is also a Research Intern in the Data Research Program at The Governance Lab at NYU, where she works on cross-cutting methodologies for data stewardship and governance. Her work focuses on digital inequities, open data initiatives and civic organizing in digital spaces.       Uma was a 2019-2020 Presidential Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC) researching the political effects of the urban-rural digital divide in the United States. Uma holds a B.Sc (Honors) majoring in Peace Conflict and Justice and double minoring in Mathematics and Biology from the University of Toronto.   This is a conversation that you don't want to miss.   Connect with us on:   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dbss_podcast/ Facebook: @DifferentBoatSameStorm Twitter: @DBSS_podcast Atharv Agrawal (host) Mei Ling Phung (editor) Anisha Huq, Amar Aziz, and Mehar Kamra (communications and outreach)

Tarina Ahuja is a freshman at Harvard College who cares deeply about social justice and civil rights issues. She is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the nonprofit Young Khalsa Girls, a grassroots organization founded in 2012 with a mission of empowering young girls to serve their communities through selfless service and advocacy. She is also the co-founder and president of The Greater Good Initiative, a youth-led, youth-run, national policy think-tank working to write and advocate for policy at the local, state, and federal levels in the sectors of economy, public health, education, civil rights, and environment.      She is the youth ambassador for the National Democratic Institute's and Running Start's DISRUPTHER program, an initiative envisioned to increase women's political participation around the world. She was the youth keynote speaker at the Madeline Albright lunch and the Foreign Policy HerPower Summit in 2019. She is motivated, determined, and driven to be a person of change, focusing on implementing solutions for our society centered on empathy.      At Harvard, she currently serves as a representative on the Undergraduate Council (Harvard College's Student Government), a representative on the Service to Society Council, and chair of the Institute of Politics CIVICS program.     This is a conversation that you don't want to miss.     Connect with us on:    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dbss_podcast/     Facebook: @DifferentBoatSameStorm      Twitter: @DBSS_podcast       Abhayjeet Singh Sachal (host)    Mei Ling Phung (editor)    Anisha Huq, Amar Aziz, and Mehar Kamra (communications and outreach)  

Renee Jagdeo is a third-year student at the University of  Toronto studying Human and Environmental Geography. With a specialization in Planning, her academic career has allowed her to explore how constructed geographies shape the environment in which human identity and wellbeing are formed. Interested in topics of communalism,  earth democracy and food sovereignty, she hopes to participate in building a world that re-evaluates the importance of our relations not only to property but to ourselves and others.     This is a conversation that you don't want to miss.     Connect with us on:     Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dbss_podcast/      Facebook: @DifferentBoatSameStorm       Twitter: @DBSS_podcast        Abhayjeet Singh Sachal (co-host)     Atharv Agrawal (co-host)       Mei Ling Phung (editor)      Anisha Huq, Amar Aziz, and Mehar Kamra (communications and outreach)  

Stephanie is a 17-year-old junior at Seven Lakes High School in Katy, Texas. She is deeply passionate about leveraging science and technology to bridge the educational divide. Notably, she is a Research Science Institute scholar, a Science Olympiad national champion, and has conducted internationally recognized research.      During the pandemic, Stephanie wrote and published Epidemiology Unmasked: An Introduction to Epidemiology in Public Health to combat misinformation, promote personal health responsibility, and democratize public health education. She has subsequently undertaken numerous efforts to spread public health literacy through curricular and legislative activism.  This is a conversation that you don't want to miss.     Connect with us on:     Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dbss_podcast/   Facebook: @DifferentBoatSameStorm    Twitter: @DBSS_podcast     Abhayjeet Singh Sachal (co-host)   Atharv Agrawal (co-host)    Mei Ling Phung (editor)    Anisha Huq, Amar Aziz, and Mehar Kamra (communications and outreach)  

In this episode of Different Boat, Same Storm, Atharv and Abhay talk with Rev. Dr. Michael Reid Trice.     Michael Trice is an Associate Professor of Constructive Theology and Theological Ethics and Director of the Center for Religious Wisdom & World Affairs at Seattle University.   Trice studied at Loyola Jesuit University, Duke University, the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, and Ludwig Maximillian Universitaet in Munich, Germany.     He served as Executive Associate for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and on the Board of Directors for Church World Service; he currently serves on the Board of the Parliament of the World's Religions. He is the Founder of Religica.org, a platform committed to amplifying influencers from religious traditions, spiritual pathways, and indigenous wisdom as forces for good in the world. This is a conversation you don't want to miss.  

In this episode of Different Boat, Same Storm, Atharv talks with Andrew Riis, a 23-year-old leader, social entrepreneur and culture shaper.  While previously leading different projects in the social impact space - including a stint with comedy and a Nobel Peace Prize winner - he's now most passionate about the simple magic of saying hello. He currently runs a podcast called Hello, Stranger all about the depth and beauty in everyday people, and recently returned from travelling Australia in a van full-time. This is a conversation you don't want to miss.

In this special episode of Different Boat, Same Storm, Abhay talks to best-selling author and Humboldt bus crash survivor Kaleb Dahlgren. Kaleb shares his story of overcoming adversity as a Type 1 Diabetic,  playing hockey with the Humboldt Broncos, and recovering after the 2018 tragedy that shook all of Canada. Abhay and Kaleb also chat about the impacts of COVID and the importance of anti-racism work in hockey today.  This is a conversation you don't want to miss. Connect with us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dbss_podcast/​  Facebook: @DifferentBoatSameStorm  Twitter: @DBSS_podcast  Abhayjeet Singh Sachal (co-host)  Kaleb Dahlgren (guest)  Mei Ling Phung (editor)  Anisha Huq, Amar Aziz, and Mehar Kamra (communications and outreach)

In the Season 2 premiére of Different Boat, Same Storm, Atharv and Abhay talk about everything they have been up to these past few months, expanding the DBSS family, and what everybody can expect from Season 2 of DBSS. A conversation that includes numerous thought-provoking musings and a sneak peek into DBSS's plans to expand beyond the pandemic and explore the countless storms we all constantly face every single day. And more, of course. Connect with us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dbss_podcast/ Facebook: @DifferentBoatSameStorm Twitter: @DBSS_podcast Abhayjeet Singh Sachal (co-host) Atharv Agrawal (co-host) Mei Ling Phung (editor) Anisha Huq, Amar Aziz, and Mehar Kamra (communications and outreach)

In the season finale of Different Boat, Same Storm, Atharv, Abhay and Eli reflect on their successes, obstacles and growth over the three months of producing this podcast. A discussion of interpersonal relationships, the problem of self-reinvention, taking control of your surroundings, relating to friends and strangers, the lessons learnt from DBSS guests, and the importance of thinking complexly. And more, of course. Connect with us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dbss_podcast/​ Facebook: @DifferentBoatSameStorm Twitter: @DBSS_podcast Abhayjeet Singh Sachal (co-host) Atharv Agrawal (co-host) Eli Meadow Ramraj (director, editor, co-host)

Eli, Abhay, and Atharv speak with Sheel Tyle. Sheel is Founder and CEO of Amplo, a global venture capital firm helping build companies that matter. He is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and was on the Forbes' 30 under 30 list in 2013. Sheel talks about fostering the entrepreneurial spirit amidst adversity, investing in people, ideas, and companies that matter, employing empathy in navigating through every aspect of life, and more!

In our third Deep Dive, Atharv and Ankita talk about (and laugh- A LOT) about bubbles of happiness, faceless stories, stepping stones to success and failure, all whilst trying to kindle empathy and love ourselves!

In episode 7 of Different Boat, Same Storm Eli gets in-depth with Moyukh Syeed! Moyukh is a fourth-year student at the University of Toronto studying law and theatre. A singer and performer, she is now preparing for her first film role starring in the upcoming short film, "I'm Still Here" (written and directed by Eli). In this episode, Moyukh and Eli discuss the film, the increasing relevance of it's mental health themes, the place of truth in the arts, how we deal with loneliness, the problem of certainty and stability, and more!

In the sixth episode of Different Boat, Same Storm, Abhay chats with 2019 Vice Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland and National Young Arts Winner in Writing, Eleanor Wikstrom.

In the fifth episode of Different Boat, Same Storm, Abhay, Atharv and Eli chat with motivational speaker, cancer-thriver, and life-skills teacher Neelam Kumar.

Senghong Yourk joins us from Cambodia to discuss the importance of positive stories in the midst of the pandemic on Episode 4 of DBSS!

In the second episode of Different Boat, Same Storm, Abhay, Atharv and Eli chat with Ryan Pyle. Ryan Pyle is a Canadian adventurer, TV host, speaker, writer for the New York Times, and filmmaker.

Agrima Bhasin discusses the pandemic's exposition of the vast inequality in India on Episode 3 of DBSS! Agrima Bhasin is a senior educational consultant in India.

In the pilot episode of Different Boat, Same Storm, Abhay, Atharv and Eli chat with Albert F. Moritz. Professor Moritz teaches at the University of Toronto, is an accomplished writer, and currently serves as the Poet Laureate of the City of Toronto.