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Town Hall's 2024 Scratch Night featuring the work-in-progress of our Artist-in-Residence Maia Brown In collaboration with Brivele bandmate, Stefanie Brendler, Maia crafts an intimate evening that dives deep into the Yiddish archives of anti-fascist poetry and song, offering a glimpse into their creative process. Maia Brown, a visual artist, Yiddish musician, and educator, brings a rich background in oral history and fine art to this exploration, alongside Stefanie Brendler, a multi-talented Seattle-based artist, composer, and member of the klezmer brass band Shpilkis. This evening comprises a stirring blend of storytelling and music, echoing the resilience and resistance found within Yiddish tradition. About the Artists Maia Brown (she/her) is a visual artist, Yiddish musician, writer, translator, and educator. Brown has a background in oral history and fine art, including a Watson Fellowship to study storytelling and advocacy in South Africa and the North of Ireland. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College. She is a dedicated student and teacher of her own tradition as well as the many ways people have reached out to each other across communities. Stefanie Brendler is a Seattle-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, visual artist, translator, storyteller, and union stagehand. The founder of Seattle's premier klezmer brass band Shpilkis, Stefanie is also a member of the Yiddish folk-punk band Brivele. Despite the constant toil under capitalism, heteropatriarchy, and nationalism, Stefanie's artistry reflects the joys of life as a queer Jew. Brivele, a Seattle-based ensemble, blends Yiddish song, anti-fascist and labor balladry, folk-punk, and contemporary protest themes into powerful vocal harmony. Meaning “little letter” in Yiddish, Brivele symbolizes the journey songs undertake, crossing borders and time, carrying tales of love, resistance, and resilience. Rooted in the Yiddish anti-fascist tradition, their repertoire merges satire, remembrance, and political commentary, echoing the voices of ancestors in today's struggles. With an irreverent spirit, Brivele proudly embraces Diaspora heritage, singing in Yiddish as a testament to the enduring relevance of our mixed-up, impure Yidishkayt. About Town Hall Residencies Every year, Town Hall selects exceptional local artists and scholars for paid residencies where they engage with Town Hall programs and collaborate with our programming team to develop original events for the community. Read more about our residency program here.  WORKS CITED: "Music in Concentration Camps: 1933-1945" by Guido Fackler Passionate Pioneers: The Story of Yiddish Secular Education in North America, 1910-1960 by Fradle Pomerantz Freidenreich "The birth and long life of ‘Peat Bog Soldiers' on its 90th anniversary" by Fiete Ausländer "Memories of a Jewish American red diaper baby" by Susan Gosman

Maria Coryell-Martin is an expeditionary artist.That's right.Expeditionary, as in expeditions. What type of imagery does this bring up? If you imagine an artist traveling with a scientist or an explorer, you are imagining things correctly.This episode originally aired in 2019. Back then, Maria took a few moments to speak with me while she was packing for her trip to meet a scientist in Alaska.In this episode, we discuss Maria's journey from student to artist, how she has sustained herself as a working artist, and the three questions she answers before taking on new projects.Plus, I have exciting updates to share. I hope you enjoy this conversation with Maria. LINKSLearn more about Maria's current project in the post Witnessing Climate Change.View the exhibition and other news about Maria's trip to Alaska.Expeditionary Art (Maria's website)Maria talks about her work in this presentation for Girls Can Do.Maria shares how she introduces nature journaling to kids.See the Art Toolkit's new store!Follow Maria on Instagram at @expeditionaryart and @arttoolkit. ________________________Producer: Tania MarienMusic: So Far So Close by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike License; SOLO ACOUSTIC GUITAR by Jason Shaw is licensed under a Attribution 3.0 United States License.View The Freelance Project Portfolio to learn more about Independent environmental education professionals and how they strengthen environmental literacy.* Talaterra is an affiliate of Bookshop.org. Commissions earned support The Freelance Project.Contact Us

Gretel Cuevas; orgullo mexicano. Acompáñanos en esta travesía para 1)     Aprender sobre el poder de la disciplina y el enfoque 2)     La magia de la lectura 3)     El poder de la soledad 4)     La importancia de cuestionarnos nuestro propósito personal y profesional 5)     El impacto de la vulnerabilidad y escuchar nuestro propio llámado "Tener la certeza que su existencia mejoró la vida de otros" Viajó por el mundo para entrevistar y buscar historias, encontrándose con la peculiaridad que la historia que descubriría sería la propia. Es una joven activista, escritora (El Siglo de las Esperanzas Perdidas (The Century of Lost Hopes). Tiene un B.A in Political Science and Government from Bryn Mawr College, PA, in the United States. Se especializó en política pública y comparativa en la universidad de Pensilvania y en el London School of Economics de UK. En su estancia en Londres se unió al programa de escritura creativa del London's South Bank Center and the Author's Club, en 2020, después de completar su B.A. recibió el prestigioso Watson Fellowship, que la llevó en un viaje en solitario a través del mundo; por África, Medio Oriente, Europa y Asia, trabajando en sus proyectos colaborativos para explorar la influencia social y narrativas personales en el proceso de la sanación colectiva de traumas,; así como crear un entendimiento profundo entre los grupos de opuestos que comparten características comunes de tener un conflicto que emergió a através de líneas étnicas o religiosas. Actualmente con un Mphil de Cambridge University, está por estrenar su libro sobre las memorias de su viaje por el mundo

In the heart of San Francisco's Mission District sits a community gathering place called “Manny's,” where on any day one might find Kara Swisher interviewing a member of Congress, a Q&A with San Francisco's Chief of Police, a gathering of Gamers of Color, or meeting of the American Jewish Committee. All of this the brainchild of the space's founder and namesake, Manny Yekutiel '07. In this episode, Manny tells his story—from growing up gay and closeted in a Modern Orthodox home in the Pico-Robertson district, before obtaining a Harvard-Westlake brochure, applying to the school in secret, and then attending with the help of need-based financial aid. After a life-changing Harvard-Westlake experience, Manny was then elected student body president at Williams College, followed by a White House Internship and Watson Fellowship, and then finally San Francisco, where Manny now owns and operates what has become the structural embodiment of his own political passions and curiosities. Manny references Tamar Adegbile, Portia Collins, and Tom Hudnut of Harvard-Westlake, Katya King of Williams College, and San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman as profound life influences

To mark the 300th episode of the Bobcast, we welcome someone to the show who embodies what it means to be a Bobcat: Dean James Reese, who takes us down memory lane of his time working Bates basketball games, and more. Plus, meet Watson fellow and women's track and field senior captain Elizabeth Lacroix, and hear from our Bobcats of the Week! Interviews this episode: 1:14 -- Delaney Rankin '26, Softball. (Female Bobcat of the Week) 8:11 -- Colby Stakun-Pickering '23, Men's Track and Field captain. (Male Bobcat of the Week) 19:22 -- Elizabeth LaCroix '23, Women's Track and Field captain. (Watson Fellowship recipient) 35:28 -- Dean James Reese.

An expert in climate change and the optimization of power grids, Priya Donti researches how to use machine learning for forecasting, optimization, and control of power grids to facilitate the integration of renewable energy. She first became interested in climate change during high school and studied computer science with a focus on environmental analysis as an undergraduate at Harvey Mudd College. After graduation, she spent a year on a Watson Fellowship, learning about different approaches for next-generation power grids in Germany, India, South Korea, Chile, and Japan. She went on to earn her PhD in power grid optimization at Carnegie Mellon. While there, she co-founded Climate Change AI, an initiative born out of a paper she co-wrote with academic and industry leaders about the ways machine learning could address climate change.Machine learning can play a role in mitigating climate change in areas like decarbonizing power grids, buildings, and transportation; helping create more precise forecasts for climate change impacts; and strengthening social, food, and health systems to cope with the impacts of climate change. There are several ways to apply machine learning to the climate crisis. One is distilling raw data into actionable insights, like turning satellite imagery into inputs on where the solar panels are or where deforestation might be happening, or turning large amounts of text documents into insights to guide policy or innovation. A second way is forecasting solar and wind power, and extreme weather events. A third is optimizing complex systems to make them more efficient, like heating and cooling systems in buildings or optimizing freight transportation systems. Machine learning is also valuable in science and engineering workflows to accelerate the design of new batteries or speed up climate or power models.While there are many ways that AI and data science can play a role in climate action, sometimes it's difficult figuring out where to start. Priya says the WiDS Datathon is a great way to get started because no matter how much experience you have, you can enter and be able to work on this particular challenge. “The floor is low, but the ceiling in high.” There are also many resources on the Climate Change AI website to start learning, get involved, and meet other people working in the space through workshops, virtual happy hours, mentorship programs, and an online community platform. RELATED LINKSConnect with Priya on LinkedINFind out more about the Climate Change AIConnect with Margot Gerritsen on Twitter (@margootjeg) and LinkedInFind out more about Margot on her Stanford Profile

  This episode is about striated caracaras, or rather, one man's obsession with them.  The man in question is Jonathan Meiburg who is a musician, author and bird lover.  In 1833, a young Charles Darwin was astonished by a strange animal he met in the Falkland Islands: a handsome, social, and oddly crow-like falcon that was “tame and inquisitive,” “quarrelsome and passionate,” and so insatiably curious that it stole hats, compasses, and other valuables from the crew of the Beagle. Darwin met many unusual creatures in his five-year voyage, but no others showed an interest in studying him—and he wondered why these birds were confined to islands at the tip of South America, sensing a larger story. But he set this mystery aside, and never returned to it. Almost two hundred years later, Meiburg picks up where Darwin left off. These rare and unusual birds—now called striated caracaras—still exist, and A Most Remarkable Creature reveals the wild and fascinating story of their history, origins, and possible futures in a series of travels throughout South America, from the fog-bound coasts of Tierra del Fuego to the tropical forests of Guyana. Along the way, Meiburg draws us into the life and work of W.H. Hudson, a Victorian writer and naturalist who championed caracaras as unsung wonders of the natural world, and takes us to falconry parks in England, where captive caracaras perform incredible feats of memory, problem-solving, and friendship. A Most Remarkable Creature is much more than a book about birds: it's a quest for moments of first contact between humans and animals, science and religion, and the mismatched continents Europeans mistakenly called the New World.  In 1997, Jonathan Meiburg received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to travel to remote communities around the world, a year-long journey that sparked his enduring fascination with islands, birds, and the deep history of the living world. Since then, he's written reviews, features, and interviews for print and online publications including The Believer, Talkhouse, and The Appendix on subjects ranging from a hidden exhibit hall at the American Museum of Natural History to the last long-form interview with author Peter Matthiessen. But he's best known as the leader of the band Shearwater and as a member of Sub Pop recording artists Loma, whose albums and performances have often been praised by NPR, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Pitchfork. His unique career between the sciences and the arts makes him an ideal guide for a journey that takes in the deep history and landscapes of an entire continent, from the lush forests of Guyana to the windswept Falkland Islands. He lives in central Texas. “Caracaras are not like other birds, or even other birds of prey. Curious, wide-ranging, gregarious, and intelligent, the ten species of caracara are a scientific puzzle that has intrigued biologists since the days of Darwin. And this book — as curious, wide-ranging, gregarious, and intelligent as its subject — is not like any other book that I have encountered.” Charles C. Mann, author of 1491.  Image credit: Bryan C. Parker Summary of the episode 1:00 What are Caracaras? 3:00 Falklands from Tierra del Fuego. 5:25: Bird life in the Falklands per Darwin. Striated caracaras. 8:30 Black-browed albatrosses.  140,000 birds sitting on their nests in the summertime.  Royal and Wandering albatrosses. 10:00 Jonathan imitates bird sounds. 12:00 Antarctica used to be warm before the Cretaceous extinction. The ancestors of falcons lived there and came to North America later on.  Greatest diversity of the various falcon species are in North America. 13:00 True falcons-- what are they? 14:00 Specialist versus generalist approach to life. 15:00 Are Caracaras intelligent? Ten species of Caracaras.  Only one is endangered: Striated Caracaras.  Why are they only in the Falklands? This is what Darwin asked. Jonathan has a theory about why Striated Caracaras are stuck in the Falkland Islands. 20:00 Who was William Henry Hudson? The book has both these characters? What did Darwin think about the function of music? 24:00 Guyana trip to look for tropical caracaras.  About the red-throated caracaras.  They nest in bromeliads, sometimes 200 feet off the forest floors.  Feed on wasp combs, litter their nest with millipedes (pest control?) 27:00 Genetically, falcons are closest to parrots.  Not hawks and eagles. 28:00 The Guadalupe caracara.  30:00 Flamingoes on Andes Mountains 33:00 The future of striated caracaras.  

In this episode, originally recorded in September 2019, Kyra and Elena take a deep dive into her summer 2019 research project, which was focused on 16th century clothing and portraits. More recently, in 2021, Kyra has been awarded the prestigious Watson Fellowship to spend a year tracing the route of the original Silk Road. It's always a great day to be a Logger! Learn more about Puget Sound on our website, and make sure to check out the Virtual Tour while you're there.

When you look at immunity, you're looking at wellness. Immunity is about peak optimal performance; that your needs are met, you're not stressed or anxious, and you're able to focus. I think animal wellness supports that in terms of providing optimally nutrient dense food and with minimal inflammation. Our immune system is compromised when we're inflamed and inflammation comes primarily from junk that's in our food. Eating whole, high nutrient dense, and anti-inflammatory foods is so important for boosting immunity. - Anya Fernald   Get 15% off your CURED Nutrition order with the code WELLNESSFORCE   ---> Get The Morning 21 System: A simple and powerful 21 minute system designed to give you more energy to let go of old weight and live life well.   JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP | *REVIEW THE PODCAST* Wellness Force Radio Episode 393 Co-Founder and CEO of Belcampo, Anya Fernald, shares her mission to revolutionize the meat industry from the inside out, explains how ethically raised meats can boost your immunity while also helping the planet, and explores our spiritual and emotional connection to food.   How do we create and consume animal products that are good for people, the planet, and the animals themselves?     Join us as Anya shares her mission with Belcampo to revolutionize the meat industry by farming meat the right way with regenerative agriculture and positive climate practices.   Belcampo Farms Get 20% off of your first Belcampo order with the code WELLNESSFORCE Belcampo was founded with a purpose: to create meat that’s good for people, planet and animals. What started as one mom’s desire to feed her family the healthiest meat possible became a mission to revolutionize the industry from the inside out. Belcampo is the pioneer of hyper-sustainable, organic, grass-fed and -finished, Certified Humane meats, broths, and jerkies. The company is on a mission to revolutionize the meat industry for the well-being of people, the planet, and animals by farming meat the right way – with Certified Humane, regenerative, and climate-positive practices, which means it’s better for you, the planet and the animals. Conventionally raised animals are confined to feedlots and eat a diet of inflammatory grains, but Belcampo’s animals graze on open pastures and seasonal grasses resulting in meat that is higher in nutrients and healthy fats.     Listen To Episode 393 As Anya Fernald Uncovers:   [1:30] Meat You Can Feel Great About Eating Anya Fernald Belcampo Food Network | Anya Fernald What Belcampo and its mission means to her. Her background in food and how she came to be a artisanal cheesemaker in Italy. Obstacles and changes she faced as an expat in Italy for 8 years. The ambitious drive that led her to get out of her comfort zone and seek work outside of the US. Her own personal health shift in Italy compared to how she felt when she lived in the US and had struggles with moodiness, dry skin, split ends, and cavities. Unpacking the slow food movement that Italians live by compared to other countries. What food actually means for our physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Why good food doesn't necessarily mean it's been prepared by a professional chef but that it is clean and both whole ingredients and methods have been used. The importance of slowly growing our food, using micronutrient rich soils, and being mindful about consumption. How she has become such a strong leader for Belcampo by tuning into her intuition, speaking her truth, and being driven by their mission.   [19:00] Revolutionizing Meat: People, Planet & Animals 357 Robb Wolf The fundamental ethics that Belcampo stands behind with the treatment of their animals including raising them outdoors to support their customer's wellness. Why it's so important to raise animals in a way that is aligned with their own evolutionary context. Unpacking this fight between ethical consumption of meat and people who don't believe in eating meat. How PETA harassed her for two years including one time when she was giving a talk while also 9 months pregnant. Why PETA's question to her, "Would you eat your dog?" doesn't even make sense from a pathogen perspective as dogs are carnivores. The empathy that she has for people in PETA and why she believes their success is her success because they are fighting for the same thing: the end of animal confinement in agriculture. Belcampo's positive impact on agriculture yet the amount of grass-fed and finished farms is still less than 1%. Why many of the vegan movement messages are correct when it comes to confinement agriculture.   [27:30] Food's Connection To Spiritual and Emotional Health 376 Mike Salemi  How humans have lost the instinct to seek out whole foods as our sense of smell has decreased with the use of food packaging, processed ingredients, and marketing. Her mission to give people a product that smells amazing, has a great story and you can both connect with and feel good about purchasing. The challenge that she has for the health and wellness movement now with the simplification that food is fuel or that protein is protein powder to the point that it's playing the agroindustrial game. Why adding mindfulness to food can help us win against the agroindustrial game of processed and poorly raised, grown, or created food. Unpacking the fact that the most uncommon food to eat comes from pigs because of it being an omnivore and fear of getting sick from something such as trichinosis. Why it doesn't make sense for humans to eat carnivorous animals because they have a very similar microbiome to us and any parasites they may carry could then live in our guts. Her life as a vegetarian and experiencing poor skin conditions, low energy, weight gain, and depression  for almost 10 years before adding meat back into her diet when she moved to Italy. How she got into artisanal cheese making after being a traditional baker using whey. Why she's not anti-vegetarian and believes it works great for some people, it just didn't work well for her body.   [32:30] Healing Energy From Ethical Meats The fact that a lot of raw meat is often eaten in northern Italy and thus it became a regular part of her diet while she lived in that area and felt great because of it. How her health got worse when she came back to the US as she gained a lot of weight, felt lethargic, was grumpy, and had brain fog. Exploring how her focus on better health for herself helped launch the start of Belcampo. The real cost of food and why it's affordable to eat grass-fed and finished meat such as that from Belcampo. Unpacking the truth about organic and the hidden costs of not eating organic food. Her own rules for buying organic foods for own household. Why cows are able to process and filter out toxins such as GMOs unlike fruits and vegetables. Exploring the slow movement of grass-fed, organic meat and why the health of these animals are important for your health too. How the amount of protein in her animals differs compared to conventionally raised meat. What meat labels you should look for at the grocery store: grass-fed and grass-finished, 100% grass-fed, and pasture-raised.   [40:30] The Issues With Raising Conventional Chickens Joel Salatin 362 Zach Bush MD The fact that most common medicine in the US is antacid and most people have GI issues. Why it's so important to pay attention to what our bodies are telling us if we eat foods that make us feel sick. How eating meat again was an important piece of Anya's gut feeling better again. The fact that the third largest greenhouse gas emitter is meat that we throw away as we overproduce meat that is raised in extremely poor conditions. Why pricing is an important factor in being mindful of what we buy and put into our bodies. Exploring the impact of raising chickens either the conventional or natural way Morgan Spurlock - SUPER SIZE ME 2 Official Trailer - Holy Chicken The fact that conventional chickens can be processed by being bathed in chlorine and pumped up to be sold at higher prices with less nutrient value.   [47:30] How Conventional Chicken Is Raised In Stressful Environments Why chicken can be really complex as we our meat consumption of it is 60% and it is the most changed as far as pricing and perceived cultural value in the past 6 decades. How the high-stress environment that chickens are raised in and continuous exposure to antibiotics suppresses their microbiome and leads to rapid weight gain. The fact that some chickens are under so much stress from being kept to lay eggs to forced molting in their environment. The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business by Christopher Leonard The horrible conditions that some people work in and how it can also impact those who live nearby the farms. Why you should go for pastured, organic, air-chilled chicken if you are going to buy it. What happens when you degut an animal and why contamination is low for beef but high for chickens. The fact that on average even USDA approved chicken, 48% of them have some fecal matter on them. Doctors Sue USDA for Ignoring Concerns Over Fecal Contamination of Chicken How to know if your chicken has been dunked in a bleach bath because a gooshy, white liquid solution will come out.   [53:30] Ethical Meats & Immunity How to build and boost your immunity with ethical meat consumption. Why a lot of our gut health issues have to do with a the glyphosate, antimicrobials, and bleach that is in our food. The fact that all flour is now treated with antimicrobials because of the issues with E.coli. Why you might not be intolerant to gluten but have a strong reaction to antimicrobials in your food. How the strong antiviral and antimicrobial sprays on planes while traveling has affected her gut health lately. The power of nutrient dense foods to boost our immunity and wellness. Why bloating and holding onto water is a sign that there is inflammation in the body. 365 Dr. Paul Saladino The fact that most people who start eating higher amounts of animal proteins reduce their inflammation and physically look less puffy. Anya's experience following a strict carnivore diet and the healthy benefits she received from it but why she isn't following it in the long term. Why not everyone's body can handle a ton of fruits and vegetables and so they find that a meat-based diet is better for their bodies. The problem the US is facing with land that is not sustainable for growing crops yet animals can still graze on them and help redistribute seeds. Historical records of agriculture and the planting of crops that have succeed and failed such as from the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl eras. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan   ] [1:06:30] How Anya Has Become A Leader For Women In Business The biggest trigger that Anya has faced: Being dismissed as somebody who is good at marketing. Why she doesn't waste her time worrying about the other competition. How they've determined their prices based on their cost and allocation of resources. Why she focuses on spending every single moment of the day taking care of herself or making things better for her company and employees. Words of wisdom she wants to pass on women who also work in the world of business. How social media has helped her rediscover herself as an authentic leader. The feminine characteristics she is proud of in addition to being a boss. Why eating ethical meats helps us balance our masculine and feminine energies. Breaking down why healthy animal protein does allow you to have more vital femininity. What wellness and self-care practices she has invested in for personal growth and self-discovery. The benefits she has received from having a mentor to help and guide her path. Start With Why by Simon Sinek breathwork.io M21 Wellness Guide Wellness Force Community   Power Quotes From The Show Clearing Out GMOs, Bleach, & Antimicrobials In Our Food   "A lot of the issues that we have with digestion have to do with the glyphosate, bleach, and antimicrobials that are in our food. For example, all flour is now treated with antimicrobials because of the E.coli issues so you don't get sick if you eat raw cookie dough. So, when people think they're intolerant to gluten, they may actually be reacting to a strong antimicrobial that their food is infused with. From an immunity perspective, clearing out glyphosate, bleach, and antimicrobials in our food is the number one thing to do." - Anya Fernald   The No. 1 Rule About Eating Organic Foods "There are certain things I will never eat if they are not organic and that is anything that has a very thin skin and no protective exterior membrane. So, something like a blueberry, a strawberry, zucchini or lettuce. Avocado? No problem; I'll eat a non-organic avocado. Corn occasionally? Sure; It has a husk. If there's a cabbage that's not organic, I'll peel off the exterior sections before eating it but that's not my everyday choice. Be rational - the thinner the membrane as well as the sweeter it is inside, the more careful you need to be about organic foods. What about meat? These animals have all these organs that make them great at processing and filtering out toxins. Will you get glyphosate from a cow that ate GMOs? No way; you can't make a better machine that is able to filter out toxins than a cow but eating organic animals is more about being the change that you want to see in the world." - Anya Fernald   Human Wellness Is Supported By Animal Wellness   "From a fundamental integrity perspective, the most important factor of ethical meat is to raise the animals outdoors. This is a key piece to human health. Evolutionarily, human wellness is supported by animal wellness. We need to look at systems that allow animals to live in an evolutionary context; in systems that are aligned in a way with their own evolution." - Anya Fernald     Links From Today's Show  Food Network | Anya Fernald 357 Robb Wolf 376 Mike Salemi  Joel Salatin 362 Zach Bush MD Morgan Spurlock - SUPER SIZE ME 2 Official Trailer - Holy Chicken The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business by Christopher Leonard Doctors Sue USDA for Ignoring Concerns Over Fecal Contamination of Chicken 365 Dr. Paul Saladino The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan Start With Why by Simon Sinek Leave Wellness Force a review on iTunes breathwork.io M21 Wellness Guide Wellness Force Community Anya Fernald Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Belcampo Facebook Instagram Twitter YouTube   About Anya Fernald Anya Fernald is the Co-Founder and CEO of Belcampo. She is an entrepreneur, chef, and agriculture expert, appearing as a judge on the Food Network's Iron Chef America, Iron Chef Gauntlet, and The Next Iron Chef. After experiencing the positive effects that eating clean meats had on her own health–and recognizing the impact of the quality of life of the animals we eat–she set out on a journey to produce the highest-quality meats there are, both in the ethics of how they’re raised as well as pure deliciousness. Fernald was born on a raw-milk dairy farm outside Munich, Germany, while her parents were teaching and researching abroad. When she was 3 years old, her family moved back to the United States, eventually settling in Palo Alto, California. After graduating from Wesleyan University with a degree in political science, she received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, leading to work as an itinerant cheesemaker in Europe and North Africa. In November 2012, the first Belcampo Meat Co. storefront opened its doors in Marin County, California, following the opening of Belcampo Butchery, a 20,000 square foot, USDA-approved multi-species slaughter facility designed by animal welfare expert Temple Grandin, and a nearby 27,000-acre (11,000 ha) farm. It has butcher shops and restaurants in Los Angeles, Marin, Santa Monica, San Francisco, San Mateo, Oakland, and New York. Belcampo also sells meat in Erewhon Grocery Stores. Fernald co-founded the company and serves as its CEO.   Build Immunity. Breathe Deeply. A simple, powerful 21 minute morning system designed to give you more energy to let go of old weight and live life well. 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MEET KIT MARTIN:While I never graduated high school, I am an artist, coder, and doctoral candidate who has worked with underserved communities for the past 20 years. I grew up in Sudan, Kenya, and the United States. Such disparate perspectives brought into focus gross racial, socio-geographic, and gender disparities. Through a Watson Fellowship and while obtaining an M.A. in international development, I spent my years after college at work on humanitarian projects in Brazil, Senegal, Jordan, Tanzania, and Egypt; in the last, I worked with garbage collectors, الزبالين, to improve working conditions and income. After obtaining my Master’s, I moved to the newly independent South Sudan, working with local partners and international donors to decolonize international development by shifting power dynamics, and administer projects with loan provision, agricultural systems transformation, and resettling displaced refugees. Most recently, my motivation to reduce barriers to equality and enfranchise historically underrepresented groups has taken me into simulation through agent-based models, particularly those models dealing with social systems that demonstrate the intersubjective development of inequality and the perpetuation of violence. To get to this point, however, I've overcome significant hardships in my own education, and as a result, I understand the challenges of not being as prepared as my peers. I grew up in a family with eight children, and my parents chose to homeschool us early on, and, because of undiagnosed learning disabilities, I was unable to read until I was 11. Then, due to troubles in the family, all the educational support had been withdrawn by the time I was 13. I was left to negotiate my own learning without the support of any kind of educational infrastructure. I found the books I needed by asking people who were going to school and teachers I knew. Sometimes my parents would give me a stack of books for Christmas, and I would just tear through them. In time I found Kant and Jane Austen, Dostoevsky, and Machiavelli. I constructed a canon of literature on my own. Though I also tried to pursue biology, chemistry, and math, without mentorship, these subjects were out of my reach. I know how it feels to have pieces missing from what I know, what society expects me to know, and as a result, I can easily empathize with students who must overcome hardships in their educational journeys. My motivation to work with disadvantaged youth influenced one of my first projects in Nashville in the 1990s, with a group called Kids Club. There was a low-income housing project in downtown Nashville, and each week, we would go to talk to the families there as volunteer social workers. On Saturdays, we held a gathering called Kids Club where nearly a thousand kids would come together for a time to simply play. The disadvantages these children faced were continuous and inhibiting; routine needs, like getting to school and completing their homework, were inordinately difficult. Precarity also challenged their ability to form and maintain relationships. Through Kids Club, children were able to build relationships in an open, inclusive environment. After I arrived at the Northwestern campus, I saw opportunities to incorporate my interests in coding and language to further motivate and continue to work with disadvantaged groups. In 2018, I was given the opportunity to teach two courses. The first was a multilingual creative writing workshop that facilitated the construction of generative grammars through coding: students could easily switch between languages to express themselves in all languages at their command. I conducted and designed this eight-week creative writing course, providing feedback as students used the technology to develop multilingual narratives. As a result of running that course, Dr. Eva Lam, an eminent scholar in the field, asked me to TA and work with her to teach her Identity, Language, and Culture class to...

Fi Sullivan, a Colorado native began singing at age four. She has spent years exploring extended vocal possibilities through new sonic realms in electronic music. Transcendently influenced by the beauty and complexity of nature. Fi has researched Intersections of Technology and Human Vocal Continuity as a 2019 recipient of the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. She lived and performed in Berlin, Linz, Reykjavík, Nuuk, Dublin, the Hague, Sydney, Canberra, and Buenos Aires before returning to the United States in March 2020. Fi will release her first EP, Shades of Forest, this Spring. For more info. visit the podcast page www.talkingjoy.org

Elite distance runner Becky Wade Firth, a standout at Rice University in Texas, was expected to turn pro after graduation. Instead, she chose a different plan that changed her life and how she looks at running and training. Becky decided to travel the world, but not just to see and explore like a typical college-age kid.  She applied for and won a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to travel the world to learn how others run. Over the course of 12 months, Becky traveled solo to 22 countries including Switzerland, Ethiopia, New Zealand, and Japan to learn about some of the world’s most fascinating running traditions, and she captured her experience and findings in her book RUN THE WORLD.  Coach Claire talks to Becky about how her year abroad affected her and what she learned from this incredible experience. They also get into Becky’s cross training, her experience with orthotics, similarities between recreational and pro runners, and Becky’s perspective on running in a year without in-person races. Becky is still an avid writer and in addition to her book, you'll find her work all over the web in places like Runner's World, Outside, Podium Runner, Women's Running and more. She is also a food lover and traveler. Part of two sets of twins born 20 months apart, Becky grew up in Dallas, Texas, before making her way to Rice University on a track scholarship. There, alongside the world’s greatest teammates and coach, she fell in love with the distance running lifestyle and by the time she graduated, was a junior national champion, an All-American in cross-country and track, and an Olympic Trials qualifier in the 10K and 3K steeplechase. Since then, Becky has moved up to the marathon, signed with Flynn Sports Management, relocated to Boulder, Colorado, and gotten married. She’s competed in three more Olympic Trials (4 total: 2 in the 3K steeplechase, 2 in the marathon) and qualified for 2 senior USA teams (2018 and 2020 World Half Marathon Championship, the latter of which USATF sadly pulled them out of). She now has her eyes set on the 2021 US Olympic Track Trials, faster PRs over all distances, and many more writing projects—ideally a second book before too long!     Questions Becky is asked:   3:54 Instead of going directly from college to the pros, you took a year off to travel to 22 different countries to learn what runners do all over the world.  What were some of the biggest similarities and differences you found when compared to American running?    5:19 Some of the countries you went to are obviously the big running countries that we all think about, Japan and Africa, New Zealand, all of these places, but you didn’t end up just going to those places; you took a couple of detours. Anything you want to tell us about that and what you learned about that?   7:17 Were you worried at all before you left? Because people who are on track to do amazing things in whatever sport it is, they kind of get nervous about change, they kind of get nervous about getting out of their schedule. Were you worried when you took off for a year that your running might suffer?   9:01 I think that if you want to learn more about your own country, the only way to do it is to leave it, so I highly encourage everybody who can in college just to get out of America to see what the rest of the world is like.   9:43 What was it like coming back to the States after that experience?  Do you think it made you a better runner?   10:51 Recreational runners think the same thing as professional runners, “Are we doing enough? Should I be resting? Should I be doing heel lifts?” Or whatever it is. You just think that “I’ve got to do it in such a perfect way,” and there’s room for flexibility.   11:44 2020 has been obviously a very strange year for everybody, but I'd love to know how you are doing specifically and how you've been training.   15:12 Let’s talk a little bit about your cross training. I’ve looked through your Instagram. There’s a lot of pictures of you in the pool and I know you aqua jog. Can you help us out and give us some tips to make aqua jogging less boring?   20:03 Besides your book, you are a pretty prolific writer. You write articles for lots of running magazines and online places, so what are some of your tips? I know you recently wrote an article for Runner’s World about challenging the conventional rules of running. Do you want to talk a little bit about that?   22:26 Why do you wear orthotics? What is it for you?   23:28 We think of orthotics as a temporary solution, but to hear that you’ve been wearing them for 10 years, that’s super interesting.   23:55 Another conventional rule of running you challenged in your Runner’s World article was the 30-minute window, that you have to eat 30 minutes after you stop running, and you found that not to be true.   25:08 One thing I’ve been asking almost everybody this year is without in-person races, s really hard for a lot of people to find motivation, and for a lot of people it’s going to be a really long time until we race again. Do you have any tips or any suggestions to kind of keep that spark, and what can you do as far as training goes in a world without races?   28:51 What’s coming up for you in the future? What have you got your sights on? Questions I ask everyone:   30:00 If you could go back and talk to yourself when you started running, what advice would you give?   31:02 What is the greatest gift running has given you?   32:01 Where can listeners and charities connect with you?   Quotes by Becky:   “It really allowed me not only to see how the best runners in the world train, and some of the strongest, most kind of iconic running traditions are, but I also got to see so many just passionate recreational runners and see how running influences their life to just the same degree as someone whose career it is but in a different way.”   “I think there are maybe components of successful training systems that people maybe can apply, but there’s really not that. I think one of my fears was that I was going to go travel and see that what it takes to be a really good runner is to be like 100% dialed into running. That’s your life. That’s all you do. You do everything perfectly, and I literally never saw that, so that was kind of validating.”   “I think there are a lot of things you can do, nothing that is exactly like racing because I just find like the whole atmosphere, and like official results, and the community and everything, that’s really what makes road racing special to me and to a lot of people I think, but there are other ways to I think really stay engaged with the sport and stay on top of training and still work towards goals.”   Take a Listen on Your Next Run Want more awesome interviews and advice? Subscribe to our iTunes channel Mentioned in this podcast:   Becky Runs Away Run the World book Thomas J. Watson Fellowship Runner's World Article: When You Can Challenge Conventional Running Wisdom Runner's World Article: Alternative Outlets for Your Competitive Fire Runners Connect Winner's Circle Facebook Community RunnersConnect Facebook page claire@runnersconnect.net https://www.precisionhydration.com/ Follow Becky on:   Instagram We really hope you’ve enjoyed this episode of Run to the Top. The best way you can show your support of the show is to share this podcast with your family and friends and share it on your Facebook, Twitter, or any other social media channel you use. The more people who know about the podcast and download the episodes, the more I can reach out to and get top running influencers, to bring them on and share their advice, which hopefully makes the show even more enjoyable for you!  

Takeaways from today's episode: “I was not put on earth to follow your wishes”, you have to help yourself and reach out to good people who can mentor you. Don’t compromise on your dreams. Get mentorship from multiple sources.You should not self-censor, this is a result of socialisation. Don’t be afraid to speak up.Ask for support when you need it and stop trying to be superwoman and negotiate a partnership which works.ResourcesSome inspirational Women leaders in STEM from: https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/research-action/women-leaders-global-healthInsights from Women Leaders: https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/research-action/women-leaders-global-health/insights-women-leadersShubha’s article in nature; Mentorship comes from many sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41556-018-0189-x?WT.feed_name=subjects_neurogenesisInspirational words from Shuba Tole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr6l3GckVNIShubha Tole on not compromising on your dreams as a woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7s7bP40gk0Marriage, women and STEM: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/entrepreneurship/how-societal-norms-work-against-women-choosing-stem-careers/articleshow/60804962.cmsReview of gender inequities in sub-saharan Africa: http://genderandset.open.ac.uk/index.php/genderandset/article/view/652/0Mansplaining: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180727-mansplaining-explained-in-one-chartInterviews with Women in STEM podcast (In French): https://www.iybssd2022.org/20-a-podcast-where-women-in-science-and-tech-talk-about-themselves/ Guest informationProf. Shubha Tole obtained her BSc (1978) from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, and a PhD (1994) from Caltech, USA.  After a post-doc at the University of Chicago, she joined the faculty of the Tata Institute in Mumbai, India in 1999.  Tole actively engages in public outreach and is an engaged mentor. Connect with Shuba on twitter @shubhatole. Website: https://www.tifr.res.in/~dbs/faculty/stolelab/Home.htmlProf. Dorothy Mbori-Ngacha is a Senior Specialist on HIV for UNICEF’s global programmes. A medical doctor with specialist training in pediatrics, infectious disease and child health, she has extensive experience as a public health professional; and in academia including as chair and professor of paediatrics at the University of Nairobi. @DeeMboriNgachaKyla Roland completed a B.S. in Biology at Davidson College in 2019, and during her senior year she was awarded the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship.  Currently she is a Post baccalaureate IRTA Fellow at the National Institutes of Health, where she will pursue an independent research project with implications for understanding the spread of human diseases. AcknowledgementsEditing by Mariana Vaz, https://www.marianacpvaz.com/Research: Christine Boinett and Alice MatimbaProducers: Christine Boinett (Creator and Executive producer), Alice Matimba (Senior Producer), Isabela Malta (Producer) and Emmanuela Oppong (Producer).Host: Christine BoinettMedia and Marketing: Catherine HolmesMusic: https://freesound.org/s/477388/ Sponsors:Wellcome Genome Campus Advanced Courses and Scientific ConferencesWellcome Sanger InstituteSocial Entrepreneurship to Spur Health 

This is the second part of a two-part episode in which we will learn about how Wilmer became a teacher. If you have not listened to the first part, please do so, it will help you understand where his passion for education comes from. In this second part we will learn about how his hard work and multicultural experience led him to be one of the 2 top-rated teachers in the state of New Mexico, and about the things that motivated him to become a school principal. More importantly, Wilmer encourages us to advocate for our children's education, and to hold teachers and administrators accountable to deliver it; however, don't forget to be kind… to yourself and others, because we are all in this together.Some of the opportunities mentioned in this episode:Thomas J. Watson Fellowship:https://watson.foundation/fellowships/tj

Takeaways from today's episode:Building capacity and skills is an effective way to address the vulnerability of young people in Africa, it builds their confidence to thrive.Systemic impact is achieved through policy change, advocacy and investing in the lives of young people who can invest back into their communities.Our niche lies in the ability to take the voices of engaged millennials and address social issues. Young people understanding their place in society, understand they can trigger change.An empowered youth is able to communicate their needs, identify their strengths and showcase their skills and talent through giving back.Mentorship of youth should encompass understanding stakeholders, application of etiquette in the work environment and effective communication with important partners.Remember to speak up, participate, pay it forward. ResourcesGlobal Citizen: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/gb/BeyGOOD foundation: https://www.beyonce.com/beygood/Mentee managing the relationship: https://ementorconnect.com/mentoring-topics-executive-time-management/ Guest informationChebet Chikumbu is Global Citizen’s Regional Director for Southern and East Africa. Chebet joined the team in 2018 for the execution and delivery of Mandela 100 - the inaugural festival for Global Citizen African on the continent and is currently responsible for leading the Johannesburg-based office and setting its organisational strategy, providing oversight of staff and major activities as well as managing key partnerships within the region Twitter: @ChebetChikumbu and @GlblCtznAfrica @GlblCtznNoxolo Gigaba is a Digital Marketing graduate from Soweto. I was a 2019 BeyGOOD marketing fellow at Global Citizen Africa and currently a marketing coordinator for a healthcare platform called epione.net. I am passionate about the creative industry and passionate about finding ways that I can use my skills and knowledge to positively impact the communities around me while creating good career opportunities for myself.Twitter: @younique_noxyEmmanuela Oppong holds a B.S in biomedical engineering from Union College. She is very passionate about global health, education, social justice & youth empowerment; she works to learn more and gets involved through different avenues, including her 2019 Watson Fellowship project on social entrepreneurship & innovation exploring some of these topics. AcknowledgementsEditing by Mariana Vaz, https://www.marianacpvaz.com/Research: Christine Boinett and Emmanuela Oppong Producers: Christine Boinett (Creator and Executive producer), Emmanuela Oppong (Producer), Alice Matimba (Senior Producer) and Isabela Malta (Producer).Host: Christine BoinettMedia and Marketing: Catherine HolmesMusic: https://freesound.org/s/477388/ Sponsors:Wellcome Genome Campus Advanced Courses and Scientific ConferencesWellcome Sanger InstituteSocial Entrepreneurship to Spur Health

Andi Dickmeyer is currently finishing up her Watson Fellowship year. The fellowship is a one-year grant for purposeful, independent exploration outside of the United Staes, awarded to graduating seniors. Andi decided she wanted to study adventure therapy. *Adventure therapy* is a mental health discipline that uses the natural environment to help individuals cope with and overcome cognitive, behavioral, social, and affective disorders. She traveled to Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Budapest, Japan, and many more countries around the world to see how adventure therapy can improve people's well being. In this interview, we talk about: Why she chose this topic, Stories of her travels, What she learned, How we can reconnect to nature, and The importance of the outdoors. To learn more about her journey, you can visit: https://andiwatsonyear.blogspot.com/. Please REACH OUT with any questions you have, any topic you want to discuss, or any support you need! We are here to help make your dream life a reality. Instagram link https://www.instagram.com/dreamersinitiative/. Linkedin link https://www.linkedin.com/company/dreamersinitiative/. Twitter link https://twitter.com/dreamersdaily_. Facebook link https://www.facebook.com/dreamersinitiative1/. If you want to reach out to me - Tim Bishop - personally, hit me up at 612-710-4605 (this is my real number!) Go make those dreams a reality.

Philip Metres is the author of ten books, including Shrapnel Maps (2020), The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance (2018), Pictures at an Exhibition (2016), Sand Opera (2015), and I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky (2015). His work has garnered a Guggenheim, a Lannan, two NEAs, six Ohio Arts Council Grants, the Hunt Prize, the Adrienne Rich Award, three Arab American Book Awards, the Watson Fellowship, the Lyric Poetry Prize, and the Cleveland Arts Prize. Metres has been called “one of the essential poets of our time,” whose work is “beautiful, powerful, magnetically original.” His poems have been translated into Arabic, Farsi, Polish, Russian, and Tamil. He is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University, and lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

9.1 - On this Episode, CRB interviews Philip Metres, whose book "Shrapnel Maps" comes out on April 24. We jump off of J. David's review of the book(https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/home/2020/4/7/why-do-you-laugh-on-philip-metress-shrapnel-maps) and talk about the power of myth and story telling to bridge ideological divides, the politics of representation, and the ability of poetry to do what political theory and philosophy in creative/different, not necessarily better, ways. Philip Metres is the author of ten books, including Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon 2020). His other works include The Sound of Listening (essays), Pictures at an Exhibition (poems), the translation I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky, and Sand Opera. His work has garnered fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as six Ohio Arts Council grants, the Hunt Prize, the Adrienne Rich Award, two Arab American Book Awards, the Watson Fellowship, the Lyric Poetry Award, the Alice James Award, the Creative Workforce Fellowship, and the Cleveland Arts Prize. Most recently, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University. Music Credit: a-Live of Muamin Collective SUBSCRIBE on Spotify and Apple Music

We hope everyone is doing well during these uncertain times with the COVID-19 outbreak. In this episode Eugene speaks with his friend JinJin, who tunes in from quarantine in Macau. JinJin is an MFA candidate at NYU who previously pursued a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to speak with dislocated mothers in marginalized communities around the world. The two talk about JinJin's "Pandemic Diaries," which was inspired by the writer Fang Fang's "Wuhan Diary," and the importance of family during moments like this. You can read and subscribe to JinJin's newsletter here: https://tinyurl.com/t5p85mw We are also starting a letter campaign, in which we encourage listeners to send five letters to their friends and family. The recipients should then write letters to five new people, like a chain letter. We hope this project will reaffirm our relationships during isolation, and also spread awareness about the different COVID-19 related funds people can contribute to. We are compiling a list of them here: https://tinyurl.com/sffwwjh For updates, follow us on Instagram at @DividedFamiliesPodcast, and contact us at dividedfamiliespodcast@gmail.com

"I'm realizing that a song is a kind of story. Stories are expressions of togetherness. They're all we have to bridge the phenomenal gulf of our experiences. Through story telling, we come close to perceiving together." Born in Portland, Oregon with Montana roots, Sam Olson, like his poetic aspirations, can't decide if he should wear a Stetson with his raincoat. He gets inspiration from Greyhound windows and dreams. Blessed to join Holden as a 2019 Resident Artist, he wrote about finding salmon in places they shouldn't be. Check out his work at http://www.ourfeetonearth.com Sam Genualdi is a composer/songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and artist from Evanston, Illinois. In 2017-18 he traveled the globe studying music for a year on a prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. His travels took him to the United Kingdom, Armenia, Peru, Brazil, Mozambique, Japan, and Bali where he lived and studied the music of each place. Sam currently serves Holden Village as Village Musician. Check out his work at https://samgenualdi.com Excerpt from a live recording in the Lift at Holden Village, July 2019 To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

Josh York is the founder of the Detroit-based social streetwear line, York Project. Each item purchased provides living essentials to the homeless of Detroit. York Project launched a cut + sew operation and line in Summer 2018 and now employs women from Detroit homeless shelters as part of its production team. Josh also launched a B2B private label garment manufacturing company called Soft Goods Detroit, whose client list includes Shinola, TJ Maxx Canada, The PGA, Chips Ahoy, Speedo, Funyuns, Planters Peanuts, Vaynermedia, among others.Josh was a former buyer at Abercrombie & Fitch and also worked for The Boeing Company. He graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in Supply Chain Management and a minor in German. Josh was honored as a TEDx speaker in 2017. His company, York Project, also participated in the inaugural 2016 cohort of Conquer Accelerator program.Find Josh on LinkedIn.Amanda is an award-winning writer and entrepreneur. She loves to drive change through community. As Co-founder of Bamboo, she builds collaborative workspaces that unite and empower diverse founders and creatives. She is a partner and board member of Venture Catalysts, a 501c3 non-profit leading large scale events. She has a decade of operations and marketing experience but has had the most fun bootstrapping Bamboo from a $5,000 loan to 500+ members and 25,000 sq ft of community space.Find Amanda on LinkedIn.Jen has served as Executive Director of the Detroit Food Academy for five years. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Geography from Colgate University and a Master’s in Business Administration from Michigan State University, where she was a Michigan Non-Profit Association Scholar. In 2010, she received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to explore the social, economic, and environmental impact of chocolate production on small scale cacao farming communities around the world. Inspired to link young people with farmers close to home, she completed two terms with national service FoodCorps and local organization Food System Economic Partnership (FSEP), connecting cafeterias and classrooms in high needs school districts with local food from Michigan farmers and school gardens. Seeing the need to engage students beyond the school year, Jen co-founded the Detroit Food Academy, bringing food, business, and learning together. As Executive Director, Jen supports our young people and the organization in visioning, strategic planning, partnership expansion, fund development, operations, food systems education, culture-building, program facilitation, and fun captain-ing.Find Jen on LinkedIn.hatchcastpodcast@gmail.com

Welcome to the introductory episode of “Fashion Utopia” I am your host, Kelly Dowd, Founder and CEO of AIMA Image Consulting. Thank you so much for Joining us in the first season of Fashion Utopia - where we discuss the world of fashion; how people can discover and explore their fashion culture with cutting edge professionals in the industry. This episode focuses on the Art of Fashion - how fashion is an art in everyday life; today, I have the honor of interviewing an eclectic, artistic fashion entrepreneur, Anne Temmick! Annie Temmink is a sculptor and costume designer with international accolades for her work. Her costumes, headwear and constructed accessories have been featured in the World of Wearable Art (Wellington, New Zealand), at the Video Music Awards (Los Angeles, Ca), on stage for the Crucible (Oakland, Ca), on the cover of Whurk magazine (Richmond, Va), and in numerous fashion shows along the east coast. The recipient of a prestigious Watson Fellowship, Annie has worked with master craftsmen in Indonesia, Japan, India, Uganda, and Ghana. Annie has a BA in sculpture and math from Davidson College and loves to dance. Her research has spanned topics of Kudzu and Kente weaving to house building and Boolean logic. Her eclectic interests strive to find a balance of form and function, seeking to transform humble materials into emotive experiences. She currently works independently designing for theater, dance, performers, and private clients. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kelly-dowd/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kelly-dowd/support

Growing up on a little island off the coast of Massachusetts didn’t afford Jason Mantzoukas, an aspiring performer, much room to interact with the outside world, but it was a good place for Jason to hone his comedic skills. “I was a little Greek kid in a very WASP-y town. I very much felt like ‘the other’ and was subjected to lots of name calling and threats, but that’s where I came into being as a funny person—I diffused situations by making people laugh, and I never got into fights.”Jason’s world started to expand when he got bussed to a regional high school. That’s where his talent and passion for performing really took shape—he wrote and performed in sketch shows, played in bands, and did comedy bits for his class.After college, Jason received the Watson Fellowship to explore abroad. He was greeted by fear and loneliness the moment he landed, but working through that experience was essential to his growth. It’s why he got involved with improv and the Upright Citizens Brigade; it’s how he persevered through the rejection during his early acting career; and it’s why he writes, co-hosts a podcast, and has so much acting work on television and in film (The League, The Good Place, The Long Dumb Road, and John Wick 3 to name a few).Jason joins Off Camera to talk about his nervous breakdown in Morocco, why he’ll never stop doing improv, and why playing a maniac in The League made him a target for drunk bros everywhere.

A woman accidentally points a gun at Jim Beyer in a rough biker bar in the 1970s of Missoula when she tries to defend herself against a brutal attack from another guy in the bar. Jim Beyer has ridden motorcycles in Missoula for over 40 years. He says “I used to be cool, now I am  cliche”. Caroline Caldwell is a shepherd in The Falkland Islands when she is invited on a debauchery filled Christmas celebration that lasts for days. Riding her horse through town and drinking excessively with the locals, she didn’t tell Mom about this one until after it happened. Raised in the midwest, Caroline Caldwell headed up to Maine for college and never looked back. After graduation she was granted a Watson Fellowship, which allowed her to travel to the far ends of the earth to work on sheep and cattle ranches in remote places and extreme environments. After her return to the states, she continued ranching and traveling stateside, until she found her perfect fit with Oxbow Cattle Company in Missoula, and is happy to call Montana home. Heidi West grew up in Germany and watched the Berlin Wall come down. She shares her story about the after-effects of the wall falling and how that forced her and her family to flee Germany. In 2009, after a long drive from Stillwater, Oklahoma, Heidi West found home in Missoula’s Northside neighborhood. She raises food and a family, turns pots at the Clay Studio of Missoula, and is immersed in an extensive reinvention of the family’s 1900 house. Heidi develops permanently affordable housing with the North Missoula Community Development Corporation and also holds elected office as Ward 1 City Council Representative. Heidi has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Studio Art with minors in German and Horticulture as well as a Master of Science in Plant and Soil Science, all from Oklahoma State University. Brad Lane happens on a funk music festival while he is hiking the Pacific Coast Trail. Brad Lane recently moved to Missoula from Iowa. He has had residencies in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and the Cascades of Washington. He moved to Montana because he wanted to live in the Rockies. His career in freelance writing made Missoula seem like the right place. You can find more of Brad’s work and other adventures at BradLaneWriting.com.

Join professional runner, Becky Wade, and Kelsey as they discuss Becky's recent book, "Run the World," which shares her running journey around the globe, and so much more! Questions we ask Becky include: How did you get your start in running? You received the Watson Fellowship from Rice University in 2012. Would you mind telling us more about this fellowship? What did it mean to you to receive this award? Upon receiving this award, did you know what you wanted to do in your yearlong time period? Tell us about your experience traveling around the world logging more than 3,500 miles. You visited nine different countries during this time. Do you have a favorite? What did you notice about running in different cultures around the world? Anything similar or different that the United States? You are a self-proclaimed foodie. What were some of your favorite foods you tried on this trip? Any concerns about fueling your body while traveling and running so much (especially with foreign foods)? Upon arriving back to the United States, when did you decide it was time to write a book about your experience or did you have this in the back of your head while on the fellowship? Do you plan on writing any other books? Any races on the horizon? What is currently making you thrive? What advice would you give your younger self? What does being a Strong Runner Chick mean to you? How can our listeners connect with you? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/strong-runner-chicks/support

263: Deanna Cook on Kids and Farmers Markets Creating an early love of healthy foods and cooking through fun activities. In This Podcast: Encouraging kids to enjoy healthy cooking and eating is an investment in their future, and Deanna Cook has some activities to help make that a little easier and a lot more fun.  Working with kids, learning how they enjoy cooking, and helping them have fun in the kitchen has been a focus of hers since just after high school. She has used this experience to create several fun books to help parents teach healthy lifestyles early. Don't miss an episode! Click here to sign up for weekly podcast updates Deanna graduated from college and received a Watson Fellowship to travel around the world and collect recipes from kids. This led her to write her first book The Kids' Multicultural Cookbook. Keeping her focus on kids and cooking, she has been the creative development director at FamilyFun, an editor at both Scholastic and Disney, and is currently the content director at Kidstir.com, and kids' book and cookbook acquisitions editor at Storey Publishing. Deanna, has written dozens of award-winning books for kids including Baking Class, the best-selling Cooking Class, and Farmers Market Create-and-Play Activity Book. Go to www.urbanfarm.org/marketplay for more information and links on this podcast, and to find our other great guests.

Olympic Trials qualifier, world traveler and published author Becky Wade has joined the Citius Mag staff as a regular contributor. Wade's name first popped to many when she clocked a 2:30 at the 2013 CIM Marathon and qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials. She has most recently garnered attention as the author of Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe (HarperCollins, 2016), where she chronicles her one-year research of running cultures outside of the U.S. as part of her Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. The grant is awarded to 40 graduating seniors each year. Beck was born and raised in Dallas, Texas and currently lives in Boulder, Colorado. She attended Rice University and earned All-American honors on the track while studying history, psychology and sociology. Her success on the track continued as a professional when she qualified for the Olympic Trials in the 3,000m steeplechase, the 10,000 meters and the marathon. At the moment, she's in between marathons. She took third at the Houston Marathon earlier in the year and plans to run a fall marathon. She could also use the space on Citius Mag to chronicle her training. Fun fact about Becky: She is one of four Wade twins. She has a twin brother as well as an older brother and sister who are also twins and a grade older. We're super excited to bring Becky onboard. She's got some great ideas for fun content, which is what we're all about. She can hit on anything from tips for traveling runners, insight into the life of a professional runner and many stories that were left on the cutting room floor from her book. Nicole Bush and Jeanne Mack will be writing more for the site this summer and they could possibly team up for their own podcast. For now, take a listen to Becky's chat with Chris Chavez on the Citius Mag Podcast about her world travels and hopes for the site. The podcast is also available on iTunes. Subscribe and leave a five-star review.

In this episode we are joined in the studio by New York based Australian artist Ian Strange aka Kid Zoom to discuss his upcoming show, and American artist Lekha Jandhyala talks to us about her time in Australia on a prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. Plus, Abdul interviews Blak Douglas, and Reko Rennie about their practice and upcoming projects. Tracks are curated by Bhenji Ra.

Fourteen months. Four continents. Lots of cheese. On this episode of Cutting the Curd, Linnea Burnham, recipient of the prestigious Watson Fellowship, discusses her fellowship project–exploring how social, cultural, and economic forces shape cheese makers’ lives from the Arctic Circle to South Africa and Mongolia.

This episode was recorded at over Skype with Berlin based artist Yishay, who was commissioned to create a piece of public art, ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’ for the outside of the Marlborough Theatre during Trans Pride Brighton, 2016. We talked about art and Trans Pride About surrounding yourself with people who challenge you About the systematic erasure of Trans Women from museum collections and galleries About how not being killed is awesome. You can follow yishay on twitter @yishaygarbasz And you can keep up to date with Emma's movements through the None of Us is Yet a Robot project at www.notyetarobot.co.uk or @elbfrankland on twitter. Opening music was by Visitors and Closing music by Señor Coconut.   Yishay Garbasz is a Berlin-based British-Israeli artist, graduate of photography BA from Bard College in New York 2004 Her 2005 Watson Fellowship resulted in the first book project, In My Mother's Footsteps (Hatje Cantz, 2009), nominated for the German photo book prize award. This contemporary journey of the Holocaust retraces her mother's path of survival in lush large format photographs. Garbasz’s second project starkly documents her body a year before and after gender affirmation surgery shown in the flipbook Becoming (MBP, 2010) and installed in the second largest Zoetrope in the world (Busan Biennale 2010, Korea). Currently, she explores globally the impact of trauma on communities, including “Ritual and Reality”, which documents the Fukushima nuclear exclusion zone, with fall-out reaching Tokyo Garbasz has exhibited widely in galleries, museums, around the world, including solo shows at Wako Works of Art (Tokyo), Ronald Feldman Fine Art (NY), Norderlicht Foto Festival (Holland), Chiang Mai Museum of Art (Thailand), and Tokyo Wonder Site (Japan); group shows at Museum of Fine Art Boston, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Korea), Stanley Picker Gallery (London), Dumbo Arts Center (NY) MOCA NOMI (FL). Garbasz’s work has also been featured in Artforum, the New York Times, and she was recently listed by the Huffington Post as one of Ten Transgender Artists Who Are Changing the Landscape of Contemporary Art. www.yishay.com www.feldmangallery.com  Some things we mentioned in the conversation were: Links to: Trans Pride Brighton, 2016

Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension Studio Engineer: Amy Browne Issue: Community concerns and opportunities Program Topic: The Abundance Cycle—A new lens for developing sustainable businesses Key Discussion Points: Jay Friedlander: • A college economics text book from the 1970s was called “Scarcity Challenged”… we have scarce resources and our various economic systems are designed to allocate those resources based on various values or beliefs. How does your concept of “abundance” connect with classic economics? • How does “abundance” relate to the concept that we could be doing “business” differently, sustainably, with benefit to the business owners, employees, communities and the natural systems on which we all rely? • How did you come to understand “abundance” as a guiding principle in sustainable business development… reference your work with O'Naturals. • What drew you to College of the Atlantic and how have you introduced both sustainable business and “abundance” to undergraduates? Steve Schafer: • How did you and Kate Schafer create Black Dinah Chocolatiers in the tiny community of Isle au Haut and how were and how some of the abundance cycle concepts that you applied? • What factors went into your decision to expand, locating production and shipping to the Portland area…, and what does it mean for the future of the company. • Looking back, are there any lessons you would like to share with other existing and potential small business people in our audience. Lisa Bjerke: • John Gardiner, founder of Common Cause, said: “This is the time of breathtaking opportunities disguised as unsolvable problems.” Based on your recent Watson Fellowship, traveling to Germany, India, China and Japan to explore how people viewed “waste”… are there any “breathtaking opportunities” buried under that pile of trash? • What resources or leads can you share with listeners who are interested in solving our solid waste problems—consumers, local town officials, business owners? Guests: Jay Friedlander, Sharpe-McNally Chair of Green and Socially Responsible Steve Schafer, Black Dinah Chocolatiers Lisa Bjerke, graduate student, College of the Atlantic Business, College of the Atlantic FMI: blackdinahchocolatiers.com/ www.abundancecycle.com/ www.coa.edu/thehatchery.htm Individuals: www.zerowastehome.com/ www.trashisfortossers.com/ cleanbinproject.com/ Businesses Resources: : www.mrra.net/ www.uszwbc.org/resources www.earthresource.org/events/Zero%20Waste2/Zero%20Waste%20Businesses.pdf zwia.org/standards/zw-business-principles/ Exampels of companies www.mars.com/global/about-mars/mars-pia/our-operations/waste.aspx www.zerowastenetwork.org/success/story.cfm?StoryID=1287&RegionalCenter= www.unilever.com/sustainable-living-2014/news-and-resources/sustainable-living-news/Achieving-zero-non-hazardous-waste-to-landfill.aspx original-unverpackt.de/ (in Germany) Towns: www.mrra.net/ www.zerowasteeurope.eu/the-zero-waste-municipality/ www.zerowastenetwork.org General: www.grrn.org/page/zero-waste-resources Book: Zero Waste Solution by Paul Conett, at www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/the_zero_waste_solution:paperback The post Talk of the Towns 2/13/15 first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

As a queer, multi-racial/lingual female mixed-media artist, Miyuki is happiest when working with people who embrace intersectionality. After graduating from Swarthmore College in 2012, where she was involved in queer Asian activism and making art, she received the Watson Fellowship to travel the world in search of queer artists and activists and made 8 zines highlighting what she learned under her publishing house Queer Scribe Productions. Miyiki is a freelance artist, journalist, barber, translator, seamstress, lecturer and performer.

As a queer, multi-racial/lingual female mixed-media artist, Miyuki is happiest when working with people who embrace intersectionality. After graduating from Swarthmore College in 2012, where she was involved in queer Asian activism and making art, she received the Watson Fellowship to travel the world in search of queer artists and activists and made 8 zines highlighting what she learned under her publishing house Queer Scribe Productions. Miyiki is a freelance artist, journalist, barber, translator, seamstress, lecturer and performer.

In this episode, we discuss Becky’s running background and her recent win of the 2013 California Marathon. Becky shares the inside scoop on her Watson Fellowship and describes her favorite place she travelled: Ethiopia. Becky offers wise advice for runners based on her experiences with injuries. Lastly, Becky reveals what inspires her outside of running.

Hear from a winner of one of the many post-graduate fellowships available to Davidson College students.

Hear from a winner of one of the many post-graduate fellowships available to Davidson College students.

What is the Watson Fellowship?

When we think about communities that are threatened by climate change, we often think about coastal areas and how these communities will be affected by sea-level rise, but we often don’t think about the other elevation extreme; how mountainous communities are going to be affected, and how they will have to adapt. In this podcast episode, we dive in to learn how mountainous communities around the world are adapting to climate change. We are joined by two researchers who lend different perspectives to understanding what threats these communities face and how they can adapt. Dr. Kelli Archie is the Senior Science Advisor at the Institute for Ecological Civilization. She spent the past 12 years as an academic in New Zealand and the USA studying climate change adaptation. Dr. Archie speaks about where her passion for this topic came from, why mountainous communities are at more risk than some other geographic areas and she discusses her research findings and its implications. Tina Chen received the prestigious Watson Fellowship to conduct an interesting explorative research project where she spent a year traveling alone to live in various mountainous communities, learning about how they are adapting to climate change. Ms. Chen joins EOC to tell us what she learned from that one year’s experience. Take a plunge into learning about climate change, ski towns, yak butter, politics, and more. Music: “Hit the Road” by VESHZA Artlist.io.com ( http://Artlist.io.com ) This episode was produced by Wild Lens Collective member, Emily Stanford