Convergence Partnership
These podcast episodes act as final grant reports for Convergence Partnership’s grantee partners across the country. The Convergence Partnership is a collaborative of local statewide and national funders working to advance racial justice and health equity. This podcast introduces you to people and organizations who are building social, political, and economic power.
Episodes
10 episodes
Hutchinson’s Fight for Justice: How Community Advocacy Revived a Civil Rights Office
How many of my friends and kids with similar stories to mine fall through the cracks? I mean, that keeps me up at night. It puts this fire in my belly to try to address the systems that we live in. - David Sotelo, Hutch...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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12:30
Mutual Aid, Resilience, and the Fight for Justice in Buffalo
Now we need to make sure we have sustainable aid, ongoing. So we had to not only be boots on the ground, but also put on suits and go into boardrooms to tell stakeholders: This crisis isn’t over just because the headlines moved on. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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13:00
Holding the Land: Indigenous Resistance and Climate Justice in the Bayou
My whole story is a story of diaspora and displacement. We lost everything but what we had on our backs. That’s why tribal communities are on the front lines of this crisis—because they were forced to the furthest ends of Louisiana, to p...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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12:03
TikTok, Transit, and Transformation: How Elevated Chicago is Fighting for Transit Equity
I started the page because I was walking to the train station, and it felt like Mario—I couldn’t get around. There was construction everywhere. I said, maybe people need to know about this. So I started recording. - Janice Ne...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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9:53
Telling Our Own Stories: DocuCourse and the Power of Community Narrative
Oftentimes, what’s positive isn’t what’s promoted. And that’s been one of my biggest frustrations. They want the drama. They don’t want the uplifting story that our communities are yearning for. — Avrell Stokes, president BeG...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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10:24
Building Housing & Power in Louisiana
In this episode, local audio producer Marquel Dominique interviews House of Tulip’s co-founders--Mariah Moore and Milan Nicole Sherry--about what inspired them to work for transgender and gender non-conforming housing justicein New Orleans.&nbs...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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38:31
The Legacy of Lead in Buffalo
In this episode, local audio producer and artist Maria Ta shares the multidisciplinary community theater project by Ujima Company to educate their community about lead poisoning. Their Legacy of Lead production brings forward the stories of tho...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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45:48
Fighting COVID-19 Gentrification and Housing Displacement in California
In this episode, local audio producer Lety Valencia of Faith in the Valley shares the fight against evictions and displacement in California’s San Joaquin Valley. She interviews organizers who worked with residents as they faced a slew of...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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32:13
Kansas City, Missouri: Black and Latinx Solidarity for Justice
In this episode, local audio producer Cynthia Fails interviews Ave Stokes about a year-long process to bring Black and Latinx communities together to heal historic divides and build collective power. Stokes describes why this work is crit...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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32:34
Getting Everyone Onboard with Equitable Transit in Chicago
In this episode, local audio producer Joey Lieberman visits the Washington Heights and Logan Square neighborhoods with two community leaders who work on equitable transit oriented development. We learn how Elevated Chicago and their partners ar...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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