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In The Moment podcast100. Centennial Celebration with Jini Palmer, Steve Scher and Town Hall StaffSince our 2017 season, hosts Jini Palmer, Steve Scher, and local correspondents have interviewed hundreds of luminaries, local officials, and national and international thought leaders as part of our In The Moment podcast. This month, we celebrate the series' 100th edition with a special introspective episode that reflects on how Town Hall faced the challenges (and celebrated the successes) of the past year. Hear from Town Hall staff and insiders about work-from-home life, learning how to produce virtual events on the fly, and the challenge of staying healthy and connected during a year of physical isolation. Town Hall...
2021-06-1450 min
Life On The MarginsIjeoma Oluo on "The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America"0:00 - Episode Introduction1:10 - Conversation with Ijeoma Oluo 31:20 - Conclusion____________________________________________________________Ijeoma Oluo is a Seattle-based writer, speaker, and Internet Yeller. She’s the author of the New York Times Best-Seller So You Want to Talk about Race, published in January by Seal Press. Named one of the The Root’s 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2017, one of the Most Influential People in Seattle by Seattle Magazine, one of the 50 Most Influential Women in Seattle by Seattle Met, and winner of the of the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award by the American Humanist Society, Oluo’s...
2020-12-1632 minLife On The MarginsElection 2020, The Day After0:00 - Episode Introduction7:49 - Conversation with Estela Ortega & Michele Storms31:20 - Conclusion____________________________________________________________Florangela Davila has been a journalist since 1992. For 14 years she worked at The Seattle Times where she covered both news and features. She's been freelancing for KNKX since 2008, reporting and producing as well as helping coordinate the station's "Looking Back to Look Forward" documentary project. She's also a lecturer in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington. Florangela received her B.A. from U.C. Berkeley and her Master's in Journalism from Columbia University. She's been both...
2020-11-0531 minIn The Moment podcast74. PSE's Tyler O'Farrell with Jini Palmer: Renewable EnergyIn this week's episode, Correspondent and Town Hall Digital Media Manager Jini Palmer talks with Puget Sound Energy's Tyler O'Farrell about renewable energy. Town Hall is a PSE Powerful Partner, so for Energy Awareness Month in October, O'Farrell discusses the renewable energy programs at PSE that are designed to keep sustainability within reach. For those with electric power, he explores the solar choice, green power, and customer connected solar options; and for those with gas, he shares about the carbon balance option. Learn more about PSE and energy awareness—and stay in the know about what's going on in thi...
2020-10-2045 minLife On The MarginsTaking Aim at Seattle's Gun Violence0:00 - Episode Introduction1:59 - Marcus Harrison Green's Personal Experience 5:43 - Conversation with Dominique Davis35:11 - Conclusion____________________________________________________________Dominique Davis is Founder and CEO of Community Passageways, where he works to improve racial parity in schools, prisons and communities. He sits on the King County Juvenile Justice Equity Steering Committee where he works with King County Superior Court judges to address racial inequity in the juvenile justice system, Our Best Advisory Council to advise the Mayor and City leaders on a long-term strategy to support young black male achievement, the Immigrant F...
2020-10-1035 minLife On The MarginsThe Shooting of Jacob Blake: A Pro Sports Backlash0:00 - Episode Introduction1:30 - Discussing the Current Context 8:03 - Conversation with Kurt Streeter____________________________________________________________Kurt Streeter covers sports at The Times. He primarily writes features and essays, and has a particular interest in stories related to race, gender and social justice. Prior to coming to The Times in 2017, he was a senior writer for ESPN. He also covered the inner city for the Baltimore Sun and spent 15 years at the Los Angeles Times, where he wrote about everything from crime to transportation to religion, and also was a columnist. A former athlete, i...
2020-09-1200 minLife On The MarginsAddiction & Change0:00 - Episode Introduction0:50 - Conversation with Erica C. Barnett____________________________________________________________Erica C. Barnett is a feminist, an urbanist, and an obsessive observer of politics, transportation, and the quotidian inner workings of City Hall. She has been a writer and editor since the time of electric typewriters, at publications such as PubliCola, the Stranger, Seattle Weekly, Shakesville, the Austin Chronicle, and many more. Right now, she is walking around the city. ____________________________________________________________Life On The Margins is a Production of : The South Seattle Emerald (https://southseattleemerald.com/)_____________________________________________________________Exec...
2020-08-1800 minLife On The MarginsDefund the Police Pt. IIIListen to Ijeoma Oluo talk about the need to Defund the Seattle Police Department : HERE0:58 - Episode Introduction1:45 - Interview with Lorena Gonzalez29:00 - Series Credits____________________________________________________________Lorena Gonzalez Born and raised in Washington's lower Yakima Valley to a Spanish-speaking migrant farmworker family, Councilmember González earned her first paycheck at the age of 8, alongside her parents and five siblings. She relied on scholarships and worked three jobs to attend community college and later Washington State University.She moved to Seattle in 2002 to attend Seattle University Law School, wh...
2020-08-1500 minLife On The MarginsDefund the Police Pt. IIListen to Ijeoma Oluo talk about the need to Defund the Seattle Police Department : HERE0:05 - Episode Introduction1:02 - Interview with TraeAnna Holiday28:05 - Looking Forward To Part Three____________________________________________________________TraeAnna Holiday is a true Seattleite who has watched her city change in many ways. Through studying abroad and being displaced by gentrification, she's now fueled to tell her neighborhood's story through film and education. TraeAnna is a community organizer with the King County Equity Now Coalition as well as the Africatown Community Land Trust. ____________________________________________________________Produced In P...
2020-08-0700 minLife On The MarginsDefund the Police Pt. IListen to Ijeoma Oluo talk about the need to Defund the Seattle Police Department : HERE0:00 - Episode Introduction1:08 - Hosts Check In 14:12 - Interview with Carmen Best46:47 - Analysis with Erica C. Barnett____________________________________________________________Erica C. Barnett is a feminist, an urbanist, and an obsessive observer of politics, transportation, and the quotidian inner workings of City Hall. She has been a writer and editor since the time of electric typewriters, is a contributing writer for the South Seatttle Emerald and has written for publications such as PubliCola, the Stra...
2020-07-3100 minLife On The MarginsPatty Murray on America's Pandemics: Covid-19 and Racism0:00 - Episode Introduction0:50 - Hosts Checking In 1:45 - Conversation with Marcus Harrison Green & Patty Murray12:28 - Host Recap15:51 - Tribute to John Lewis____________________________________________________________Patricia Lynn Murray is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Washington, since 1993. A member of the Democratic Party, Murray previously served in the Washington State Senate and is Washington's first female U.S. Senator. ____________________________________________________________Produced In Partnership With :Town Hall Seattle (https://townhallseattle.org/)The South Seattle Emerald (https://southseattleemerald.com/)...
2020-07-3000 minLife On The MarginsWe the PeopleFind the "LIVE" video version of this episode : HERE0:00 - Town Hall Episode Introduction1:30 - Host Introduction7:32 - Spoken Word from Jessica Rycheal10:30 - Conversation with Dr. Julian Perez37:00 - Spoken Word from Naa Akua40:20 - Conversation with Ijeoma Oluo____________________________________________________________Jessica Rycheal is a Multi-disciplinary Storyteller and Creative Director from Macon, Georgia. Since relocating to Seattle in 2014, Jessica has carved space for herself in the pacific northwest with a decade of experience in brand strategy and design, and a blossoming presence in the f...
2020-07-2200 minLife On The MarginsPandemic, Racial Justice and the Arts0:00 - Episode Introduction0:50 - Hosts Checking In 6:07 - Conversation with Reagan Jackson26:56 - Conversation with Claudia Castro Luna39:23 - Conversation with Stephanie Anne Johnson53:19 - Host Recap____________________________________________________________Reagan Jackson is a writer, artist, activist, international educator and award winning journalist. She's been a regular contributor to the Seattle Globalist since 2013. Her self published works include two children's books (Coco LaSwish: A Fish from a Different Rainbow and Coco LaSwish: When Rainbows Go Blue) and three collections of poetry (God, Hair, Love, and America, Love and Gu...
2020-07-0100 minLife On The MarginsThe Movement for Change0:06 - Episode Introduction1:28 - Hosts Checking In 2:09 - Jini Palmer at CHOP9:08 - Perspective of BLM King County Silent March17:47 - Conversation with Elmer Dixon41:16 - Meet Aileen Granstrom44:56 - Host Recap46:10 - Marcus Harrison Green's Crosscut Excerpt____________________________________________________________Elmer Dixon was born in Chicago and moved to Seattle at age 7 when his father took a job at Boeing. Dixon grew up in Seattle’s Central District, attending Garfield High School. While at Garfield High, Dixon helped organize the school’s Black Studen...
2020-06-1800 minLife On The MarginsIt Can Happen Here, TooFor more coverage of the Manuel Ellis story follow :South Seattle Emerald // https://southseattleemerald.com/Life on the Margins Podcast // https://lifeonthemarginspodcast.com/____________________________________________________________Marcus Harrison Green is the publisher and co-founder of the South Seattle Emerald, current columnist for Crosscut, a former reporter with the Seattle Times, a former Reporting Fellow with YES! Magazine, a past board member of the Western Washington Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and a recipient of Crosscut’s Courage Award for Culture. Growing up in South Seattle, he experienced first-hand the neglect of news cov...
2020-06-0800 minLife On The MarginsRage, Riot, Racism : The Killing of George Floyd0:16 - Episode Introduction1:02 - Hosts Checking In 13:07 - Conversation with Dr. Ben Danielson27:49 - The Story of Manuel Ellis 38:51 - Matt Chan's Commentary40:52 - Host Recap____________________________________________________________Dr. Ben Danielson was born in Boston, was placed in and then, in his words, rescued from foster care and raised by his single mom in Washington, D.C., and rural Montana. He went on to attend Harvard University and then UW to study medicine. He completed his residency at Seattle Children’s before assuming responsibility for the Odessa Brown...
2020-06-0500 minLife On The MarginsCoronavirus Racism0:01 - Announcing Special Weekend Edition0:24 - Episode Introduction1:15 - Processing Together7:12 - Conversation with Kert Lin27:54 - Community Opinion by Matt Chan30:36 - Episode Recap____________________________________________________________Kert Lin is an Seattle Public School elementary teacher and a new father. Matt Chan knows that storytelling begins with the audience – an idea that has driven his 45 years of award winning success in the television industry. Chan has worked in every facet of the industry, from operating television stations to running national television series. In 1998 he started his la...
2020-06-0200 minLife On The MarginsSlammed: Communities of Color and the Covid-19 Pandemic1:09 - Episode Introduction1:48 - Conversation with Matias Valenzuela12:00 - Conversation with Jessica Esparza25:55 - Episode Recap____________________________________________________________Matias Valenzuela is the Director of the Office of Equity and Social Justice for King County and an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health & Community Medicine at the University of Washingon. Jessica Esparza works in the Intensive Care Unit at Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee. ____________________________________________________________Produced In Partnership With :Town Hall Seattle (https://townhallseattle.org/)The South Seattle Emerald (https://southseattleemerald.com/)...
2020-05-1900 minLife On The MarginsThe Better Angels of the COVID-19 Pandemic0:33 - Episode Introduction1:29 - "For Real Though?"10:30 - Highlighting Garfield High School students Dylan & Eva Stepherson12:09 - Conversation with Luis Rodriguez23:45 - Tagging along with Maria Lamarca Anderson's meal delivery29:08 - Episode Recap____________________________________________________________Luis Rodriguez owns The Station, a community coffee shop and activist hub which is located on Beacon Hill . Maria Lamarca Anderson by day works as the Director of Communications for UW Bothell . During the COVID-19 pandemic, Maria has been delivering hot meals three days a week to Seattle residents that liv...
2020-05-0500 minLife On The MarginsRacial politics and the Coronavirus Pandemic.0:37 - Introducing the Life On The Margins Podcast3:43 - Jini Palmer's personal experience with Coronavirus8:05 - Interview with former Washington Governor Gary Locke21:05 - Interview with Ijeoma Oluo36:56 - Episode Recap____________________________________________________________Gary Locke graduated from Seattle's Franklin High School. He achieved the rank of Eagle Scout and is a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. He attended Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor degree in political science and received his law degree from Boston University. As Governor of Was...
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