Episodes

  • Exploring Voting Behavior and Civic Engagement with Mindy Romero

    Exploring Voting Behavior and Civic Engagement with Mindy Romero
    Jul 15 2025
    Mindy Romero is the founder and director of the Center for Inclusive Democracy that is part of the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy based in Sacramento, California. Romero is a political sociologist whose research focuses on political behavior and race/ethnicity. The research and reports of the Center seek to explain patterns of voting and political underrepresentation, particularly among youth and communities of color in California and the U.S.
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    26 mins
  • Protecting Whistleblowers with Louis Clark

    Protecting Whistleblowers with Louis Clark
    Jul 1 2025
    For over 40 years, Louis Clark has led the Government Accountability Project (GAP), an organization dedicated to protecting whistleblowers and ensuring government accountability. During the Trump administration, GAP is overwhelmed with the number of government employees seeking support in disclosing illegal, unethical, and fraudulent conduct. It is also addressing a new form of retaliation against whistleblowers, physical harm, and death threats. Learn more about the organization and its work at https://whistleblower.org.
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    29 mins
  • Women of Color: The MVPs of the Social Justice Movement with Vanessa Daniel

    Women of Color: The MVPs of the Social Justice Movement with Vanessa Daniel
    Jun 17 2025
    Vanessa Priya Daniel’s first book, Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning, centers the work of women of color in social justice movements. Daniel discusses her personal journey from community organizer to the founder and Executive Director of Groundswell, a philanthropy organization committed to intersectional organizing. She shares the three superpowers of successful WOC leaders that we can all adopt: a 360 vision, boldness, and generosity.
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    36 mins
  • Making It Easy to Give Back with Anna Chu

    Making It Easy to Give Back with Anna Chu
    Jun 3 2025
    We The Action has a simple premise – lawyers have the power to do good. The organization started in 2017 to help connect lawyer with pro bono causes, from immigration and domestic violence representation to non-profit governance and tax issues, from voting rights to copyright. Anna Chu, the Executive Director, describes how nimble organization started the Federal Workers Defense Network to provide pro bono support for the thousands of federal workers who were fired from their positions in violation of law and without legal process. You can find pro bono opportunities at https://wetheaction.org/lawyers
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    32 mins
  • Protecting and Providing Due Process with Erica Pinheiro

    Protecting and Providing Due Process with Erica Pinheiro
    May 20 2025
    Erica Pinheiro serves as the Executive Director of Al Otro Lado providing holistic legal and humanitarian support to refugees, deportees, and other migrants in the US and Tijuana through a multidisciplinary, client-centered, harm reduction-based practice. The organization provides direct, free, legal services on both sides of the US-Mexico border and beyond through zealous individual representation, medical-legal partnerships, and impact litigation to protect the rights of immigrants and asylum-seekers.
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    33 mins
  • Reclaiming Civility with Cassandra Dahnke and Tomas Spath

    Reclaiming Civility with Cassandra Dahnke and Tomas Spath
    May 6 2025
    Thirty years ago, Cassandra Dahnke and Tomas Spath founded the Institute for Civility with the goal to promote civility—in government, workplaces, schools—and to catalyze change. They describe their journey, how they define civility, what they have learned about reducing polarization, and why they have hope for the future. https://www.instituteforcivility.org/.
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    33 mins
  • Respecting and Protecting our Seniors with Christine Winge

    Respecting and Protecting our Seniors with Christine Winge
    Apr 15 2025
    Meals on Wheels does more than just provide home delivery of healthy food for Seniors. President Christine Winge reminds us that maintaining human connection is a critical and essential part of physical and mental health as we grow older and risk becoming more isolated.
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    24 mins
  • The Moral Call to Protect Children with Beth Wilbur

    The Moral Call to Protect Children with Beth Wilbur
    Apr 1 2025
    After a long career in the corporate world, Beth Wilbur decided she would serve children as the Executive Director of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Monterey County. She discusses the incredible work that CASA volunteers do to support children in the foster care system and how they change lives through their efforts. She describes her motivation as a moral call to protect children.
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    30 mins