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Stinchfield with Grant StinchfieldFood Companies Hauled into Court for Targeting ChildrenA Pennsylvania teen with chronic diseases is suing food companies for not warning consumers of the dangers of eating chemically-laden food. This from The Epoch Times: A Pennsylvania teen who developed Type 2 diabetes and fatty liver disease by age 16 is suing the companies that made the food he’s grown up eating, claiming the companies intentionally develop addictive food and market it to children. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Bryce Martinez by Morgan & Morgan, alleges that companies including Kraft Heinz, Coca-Cola, Nestle, Mars, PepsiCo, and others strategically designed research around th...2024-12-2031 min
If Not Now Wen PodcastHelping Founders Break Through Geographic Barriers - Interview with Grant NewlinIn this episode of If Not Now Wen, we are so excited to welcome special guest, Grant Newlin. Grant is a founder and general partner of Newlin Ventures, investing at Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A across both North and South America.
Grant began his career as a process improvement / strategy Consultant for Ernst & Young where he aided the nation’s largest financial institutions in the post-financial crisis, Dodd-Frank world. He then worked in M&A sell-side and buy-side transactions for Waller Helms Advisors in Chicago, leading middle-market deals often as the sole junior banker. During the...2024-05-3035 min
KDKA Radio Time CapsuleGrant StreetAndy Masich, CEO & President of the Heinz History Center, takes a look back at the history of Grant Street. 2022-08-0302 min
Crews Control94: Eagle's Nest with Gregory Heinz (Andy Bridges)Grant eats a sand-sandwich-wich and remembers his sister Susan, you know, from CERN, Leo may be behind the death of a famous dancer and takes part in yet another experimental test, and Dorsch is at the Derby! Joining the Crew this week is deli meat master, Gregory Heinz, no, not Gregory Hines (Andy Bridges). Gregory and the present crew chat about gimmicky rideshare options, updated food pyramids, and if it's possible to make Ronda Rousey smile. Questions, comments, or the desire to chat? You can reach the crew at Crewscontrolpodcast@gmail.comWe're m...2022-05-1256 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsGrant Oliphant on gratitude, speaking truth to power & making room for everyone (We Can Be S4EP11)The importance of gratitude, what makes a community great, & his hope for what the future holds for the social change realm are among subjects Grant Oliphant covers as his tenure as president of The Heinz Endowments – & as host of “We Can Be” – comes to an end.
While the “We Can Be” podcast will continue with new episodes and hosts in the coming months, this episode includes Grant’s reflections on the 70-plus guests he hosted over the past four seasons and spotlights why supporting those who speak truth to power is crucial.
“Challenging th...2022-03-2344 min
KDKA Radio Time CapsuleGrant StreetAndy Masich, CEO & President of the Heinz History Center, takes a look back at the history of Grant Street.
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KDKA Radio Time CapsuleGrant StreetAndy Masich, CEO & President of the Heinz History Center, takes a look back at the history of Grant Street.
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We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsFacing America‘s crisis of connection w/ Jenn Hoos Rothberg, Einhorn Collaborative Exec. Dir. (We Can Be S04EP10)“The circle of concern has to be wide enough for all of us to fit inside,” Jenn Hoos Rothberg tells host Grant Oliphant on this episode of “We Can Be.”
Jenn is executive director of the Einhorn Collaborative, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to addressing America’s crisis of connection by increasing opportunities for empathy and civility.
Her work is especially needed in these times. This past summer, a U.S. News and World Report piece reported that out of 17 countries surveyed, the U.S. had the highest percentage – 88 percent – of respondents say that they fe...2021-10-1335 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsThe New Climate War author Michael Mann & the fight to take back our planet (We Can Be S04EP09)Michael Mann, one of the world’s preeminent experts on climate change, said in a Boston Globe editorial published shortly after the devastating storm made landfall in Sept. '21: “Hurricane Ida was a shot across the Earth’s bow."
Michael is distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Penn State University, with joint appointments in the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute and the Department of Geosciences and the Earth.
He is the author of five best-selling books, including the recently published “The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet” as well as “The Tantrum that...2021-09-2937 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsAppalachia‘s battle b/w wish & hope w/ energy industry researcher Sean O’Leary (We Can Be S04EP08)Energy industry researcher and “The State of My State” author Sean O’Leary zeroes in on the role of coal, natural gas and petrochemicals in the economies of Appalachia.
He does it with with a deep respect for the region where he grew up, and an understanding that with the beauty and grandeur of that region also comes unfulfilled promises of hydraulic fracturing-related prosperity.
Sean was born and raised in West Virginia, and is a senior researcher and writer with the Ohio River Valley Institute. The Institute was founded in 2020 with an aim of providing sound...2021-09-2243 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsEnvironmental Health News investigative reporter Kristina Marusic uncovers hard truths & arms public w/ facts (We Can Be S04EP07)Kristina Marusic is an investigative reporter covering environmental health & justice issues for Environmental Health News, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization dedicated to driving science into public discussion and policy.
In early 2021, Environmental Health News published Kristina’s “Fractured: The body burden of living near fracking,” a four-part series that revealed the health impacts of shale hydraulic fracturing—or fracking—on families living near fracking sites. Research for the series, conducted in the summer of 2019, included a nine-week collection of air, water, and urine samples from five southwestern Pennsylvania households, all including at least one child.
...2021-09-1534 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsThe true cost of military service w/ War Horse founder/journalist Thomas Brennan (We Can Be S04EP06)Thomas Brennan is Founder and Exec. Director of The War Horse, a nonprofit newsroom that has gained international respect for reporting on the often-unspoken human impacts of military service.
A former Marine Corps sergeant who served as an infantryman in Iraq and Afghanistan, Thomas joins host Grant Oliphant for a timely conversation about his journey from active duty service in Afghanistan to being honored with a Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his resolute reporting on sexual assault in the military.
Thomas first gained widespread journalistic acclaim for a series of...2021-09-0836 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsReinventing Social Change author Nell Edgington on embracing abundance, joy & power of “yet” (We Can Be S04EP05)Nell Edgington, author of “Reinventing Social Change: Embrace Abundance to Create a Healthier and more Equitable World,” has traveled coast to coast in her quest to guide social-change warriors in realizing their full power and capability.
Social change movements have been part of our country’s DNA for hundreds of years, encompassing the abolitionist movement of the 1800s, the suffragist movement that culminated in women gaining the right to vote in 1920, and the civil rights movement that gained widespread support in the 1960s and whose work continues to this day.
Whether you are...2021-09-0129 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsDr. Barry Kerzin, personal physician to Dalai Lama & Altruism in Medicine Institute founder on power of compassion (We Can Be S04EP04)Dr. Barry Kerzin is foremost a kind, giving, smart and all-around inspirational human being.
And if that were all he was, it would be more than enough.
But Barry is also a Buddhist monk, a personal physician to the Dalai Lama, and the founder of both the Human Values Institute in Japan and the United States-based Altruism in Medicine Institute, which teaches resilience to health care workers through training in compassion and mindfulness.
He shares his fascinating and moving journey with “We Can Be” host Grant Oliphant, includin...2021-08-2532 min
Schampus & SpinatEs muss immer erst so richtig knallen!Es grüßt das Podcastmurmeltier...wir werden diese Woche etwas schwermütig, besprechen die großen Themen, aber kehren am Ende zurück in's "Kleine". Was ist los mit der Welt und wie fühlt sich Verliebtsein an? Ein krasser Spagat!
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We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsRebuilding Appalachia for a new energy economy w/ Coalfield Development CEO Brandon Dennison (We Can Be S04EP03)Coalfield Development CEO Brandon Dennison & his team are rebuilding the Appalachian economy one job at a time, with gumption, grit & grace as their guide.
The wide valleys, imposing mountains and steep ridges that make up the topography of Appalachia wind across all or parts of 12 states, stretching from New York to portions of Mississippi and Alabama.
In the middle this impressive terrain is Huntington, West Virginia, the home of both Brandon and Coalfield Development, which he co-founded in 2010 with his high school best friend.
Brandon and his team...2021-08-1832 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsHow & why radical generosity works w/ GivingTuesday co-founder Asha Curran (We Can Be S04EP02)GivingTuesday co-founder Asha Curran has been key in producing 20 billion social media impressions & raising nearly $2.5 billion dollars to help others in a single year.
Digital generosity platform GivingTuesday was created in 2012 to be, in her words, “an antidote to Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the two days right after Thanksgiving that shamelessly celebrate mass consumption.”
Instead, Asha and co-founder Henry Timms envisioned a simple, open-source, customizable digital giving campaign that could help thousands of nonprofits raise funds in a unified day of giving.
Now, nearly a decade on, GivingTuesday (originally launched as part of Ne...2021-08-1137 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz Endowments“Diversity Explosion” author/demographer William Frey on where America is headed & why it's good for us (S04EP01)William H. Frey (“Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America”) joins host Grant Oliphant in diving into new census data - and shares what it could mean for the future of our nation.
The internationally renowned demographer and senior fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institute is acutely skilled at taking complicated data and helping us understand what it says about who we are and where we are going as a country.
William is also is a research professor with the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research and Populat...2021-08-0434 min
KDKA Radio Time CapsuleGrant StreetAndy Masich, CEO & President of the Heinz History Center, takes a look back at the history of Grant Street.
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We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsBridging gap between university & community: The Center for Shared Prosperity (WeCanBeSpecEp)Carnegie Mellon University’s CREATE Lab leader Illah Nourbakhsh, & Raqueeb Bey, exec. dir. of Black Urban Gardeners & Farmers of Pittsburgh join host & Endowments Pres. Grant Oliphant as they dive into the fascinating backstory of the new & innovative Center for Shared Prosperity.
One of the great anomalies of modern American society is the disconnect between the intellectual capital, innovation, and wealth creation associated with its leading research universities and the persistent challenges and inequality confronting the communities in which those centers of innovation reside.
There is a better way – one in which universities focus their research and prob...2021-04-2832 min
Access Top-Rated Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Action & Adventure[German] - Die Polarfahrt: Von einer unwiderstehlichen Sehnsucht, einem grandiosen Plan und seinem dramatischen Ende im Eis by Hampton SidesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/511020 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die Polarfahrt: Von einer unwiderstehlichen Sehnsucht, einem grandiosen Plan und seinem dramatischen Ende im Eis Author: Hampton Sides Narrator: Heinz Bergner Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 21 minutes Release date: February 24, 2021 Genres: Action & Adventure Publisher's Summary: Er galt als blinder Fleck, als Problem, als Ende der Welt und ewig ungelöstes Geheimnis: der Nordpol. Während andere rätselten und rechneten, schritt ein verrückter Zeitungsverleger auf der Jagd nach Sensationsgeschichten zur Tat. Er kaufte ein Schiff, erkor einen Kapitän und schickte im Juli 1879 dreiunddreißig Männer...2021-02-2403 min
KDKA Radio Time CapsuleGrant StreetAndy Masich, CEO & President of the Heinz History Center, takes a look back at the history of Grant Street.
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We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsDesigning cities for justice w/ Toni Griffin, “Patterned Justice” co-editor & Harvard’s Just City Lab lead innovator (We Can Be S03EP12)Toni Griffin, head of the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Just City Lab and co-editor of “Patterned Justice,” joins host Grant Oliphant for this episode of “We Can Be.”
Our country has perpetuated structural race and class inequities for more than two centuries. But what if we could design cities – their structures, infrastructures and public spaces – in ways that lessen that inequity and foster a more just community?
Toni Griffin has been studying, teaching and putting into action this concept of “just cities” for the past decade, most notably with the Just City Lab, a...2020-09-2332 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz Endowments“Reach” author & BMe co-founder Trabian Shorters on the astounding power of asset framing (We Can Be S03EP11)Trabian Shorters, international expert on the cognitive structure of “asset framing” and co-founder and CEO of the Miami, Florida-based BMe, joins host Grant Oliphant for this episode of “We Can Be.”
Trabian is a former vice president of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, retired tech entrepreneur, New York Times best-selling author of “Reach: 40 Black Men Speak on Living, Leading and Succeeding,” and – in his words – “a doting father of two brilliant, Black twin girls who will live in a better world that we are making together for them.”
Throughout his impressiv...2020-09-1631 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz Endowments"White Fragility" author Robin DiAngelo: why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism (S03EP10)Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People to Talk About Racism,” began an 85-week run on The New York Times Bestseller List upon its release in 2018.
It has since been published in five languages, and as the Black Lives Matter movement swelled in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police this past spring, “White Fragility” again topped the bestseller lists.
Robin challenges us to consider the deeply embedded racism that many white people have, and the “white fragility” that they must ove...2020-09-0932 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsArtist & cultural agitator D.S. Kinsel protests w/art & leads w/heart (SE0309)D.S. Kinsel is – in his own words – a “multidisciplinary artist and cultural agitator” who in 2014 co-founded BOOM Concepts, an art collective “dedicated to the advancement of Black and brown artists from marginalized communities across America.”
D.S.’s art – and his work in mentoring and promoting other artists – is more vital now than ever. It is no secret that COVID-19 has hit the creative community with particular force, causing canceled exhibits and fundraisers, closing venues, and putting many arts education programs in jeopardy.
This, of course, is happening at the exact time when we n...2020-09-0229 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsThe radical imagination of PolicyLink founder Angela Glover Blackwell is building a more equitable world (S03EP08)The very fact that our country is having a conversation about equity now is due in no small part to the groundbreaking work of Angela Glover Blackwell, who founded PolicyLink 20 years ago with a simple but profound aim: to advance racial and economic equity for all.
Doing just that has been her life’s work, first as a lawyer who founded Oakland, California’s Urban Strategies Council, where she pioneered new approaches to neighborhood revitalization, and later as senior vice president at The Rockefeller Foundation, where she headed their domestic and cultural programs.
S...2020-08-2633 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsThe fight against climate racism w/ NAACP Environmental Justice program dir. Jacqueline Patterson (S03EP07)Communities of color breathe in nearly 40 percent more polluted air than white communities, and African-American children are three times as likely to suffer an asthma attack. And that’s just the tip of the environmental racism iceberg.
While these are undeniably stark statistics, they are being addressed head on by Jacqueline Patterson, the senior director of the NAACP’s Environmental and Climate Justice Program., and coordinator & co-founder of Women of Color United. Jacqui joins host Grant Oliphant for this new episode of “We Can Be.”
As a nationally-respected expert in the field of e...2020-08-1930 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsElection safety & equity in algorithms w/ cybersecurity expert David Hickton (S03EP06)The nation’s leading cybersecurity expert, David Hickton, founding director of the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy and Security joins host Grant Oliphant for this episode of “We Can Be.”
David has been a steady force in some of the most front-and-center issues of our time – including cyber security, child and inmate safety, the battle against opioid abuse, and equity in the algorithms fueling our digital lives.
Nominated by President Barack Obama to be the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, he made national headlines in 2014 fo...2020-08-121h 04
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsJustice, poetry, race & activism in education w/ Dr. Valerie Kinloch (WeCanBeS03EP05)Author, scholar & education visionary Dr. Valerie Kinloch joins host Grant Oliphant for this episode of “We Can Be.”
Valerie has penned “Harlem on Our Minds: Place, Race, and the Literacies of Urban Youth” and “Crossing Boundaries ― Teaching and Learning with Urban Youth,” and is the editor of the recently published compilation “Race, Justice, and Activism in Literacy Instruction.”
She is the Renée and Richard Goldman Dean of the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh, where she is the first female, African American dean in the school’s history.
Valerie c...2020-08-0530 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsWhy tackling climate change is absolutely doable w/ Jonathan Foley, Ex. Dir. Project Drawdown (S0EP04)Dr. Jonathan Foley, world-renowned environmental scientist, sustainability expert, author, and executive director of Project Drawdown, joins host Grant Oliphant to talk about why – despite seemingly insurmountable political and cultural obstacles - he believes tackling climate change is “absolutely doable.”
Regardless of climate science deniers, Jonathan says there is no contesting the reality of what we are facing. “Climate change is real,” he says. “Mother Nature is slapping us in the face about it.”
Jonathan earned his doctoral degree in atmospheric sciences from the University of Wisconsin, where he launched the Climate, People, and Envi...2020-07-2938 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsHow Indigenous wisdom can help heal inequities w/ Decolonizing Wealth author Edgar Villanueva (S03EP3)Edgar Villanueva, Lumbee Indian tribe member and author of “Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance,” shares with host Grant Oliphant why “listening in color” may be a key in addressing our nation’s systemic racial and ethnic equity disparities.
“Putting judgments and preconceived conclusions aside, and being open to listening through the space of the other person or group’s lived experience can lead to a better sense of understanding,” Edgar says.
He is president of the board of directors for Native Americans in Philanthropy, serves as vice president of p...2020-07-2236 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsColumnist Tony Norman & the "revolution in attitudes" fueling social change (S03EP02)For the past 24 years, renowned Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist and book review editor Tony Norman has written about the most pressing issues of the day, proving to be an important and eloquent voice of truth.
Tony began his journalism career covering pop culture, eventually serving as the Post-Gazette’s Pop Music and Culture Editor. He is a former editorial board member at the Post-Gazette, and is the current vice president of the board of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.
He has modestly described himself as “a distracted former political science major,” but he i...2020-07-1530 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsArtist Mikael Owunna reveals inherent beauty, power & dignity of Black & LGBTQ+ bodies (S03EP01)Mikael Chukwuma Owunna has described himself as a “queer Nigerian-Swedish American photographer, Fulbright Scholar and engineer” who “imagines new universes and realities for marginalized communities around the globe.”
“Infinite Essence,” Mikael’s exhibition of large-scale photographs presenting glittering Black bodies as gorgeously ethereal universes, has moved audiences at every stop.
His recent book, “Limitless Africans,” featuring portraits of 50 LGBTQ+ individuals of African descent who are thriving around the world, is a best seller that has garnered rave reviews from NPR, VICE Media, and The New York Times.
Mikael tells “We Can...2020-07-0736 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsTruth in science advocate Dr. Todd Woylnn on a COVID-19 vaccine & what it unveils about our society (Stronger than This series EP8)Nationally renowned vaccine expert Dr. Todd Wolynn, co-founder of the vaccine-advocacy group Shots Heard Round the World, joins host Grant Oliphant to discuss what the journey to a COVID-19 vaccine could look like, the politicization of mask wearing, and the key role communication skills play in modern-day medicine.
The world’s hopes of beating COVID-19 ride on the wide-spread availability and use of an effective vaccine, and Todd knows first-hand the push-back that doctors and communities may face. He gained national renown in 2017 when he posted a video on social media urging parents to vaccinate the...2020-06-1136 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsEmmai Alaquiva on using art to expose truths in historically trying times (Stronger than This series EP7)Emmy-winning composer, director & photographer Emmai Alaquiva joins host Grant Oliphant to discuss the role of art in fighting “the radical particles that have been dropped in our laps” by the COVD-19 crisis, & protests brought on by the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, who were later fired.
Emmai is CEO of the media production entity Ya Momz House, which has produced work for clients such as Wiz Khalifa, The Roots, Martha Stewart, and NBC. He serves on the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and is a dedicated husband and father with...2020-06-0532 min
The Business of GivingHeinz Endowments President Says Nonprofit Sector is Ripe for ReinventionThe following is a conversation between Grant Oliphant, President of The Heinz Endowments, and Denver Frederick, the host of the Business of Giving.
In this interview, Grant Oliphant, President of The Heinz Endowments, shares the following:
• The challenges of the “reimagining” phase after a crisis
• The role of advocacy and public policy
• The importance of a leader showing vulnerability in difficult times2020-05-2731 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsWhat COVID-19 reveals about food insecurity w/ 412 Food Rescue’s Leah Lizarondo (Stronger than This series #6)Global Leadership Award winner Leah Lizarondo, founder & CEO of 412 Food Rescue, talks with host Grant Oliphant about what COVID-19 reveals about food insecurity, the “Mister Rogers mentality” that drives the largest volunteer-led food transport network in the nation, and how movie star Michael Keaton has helped spur record volunteer involvement during the current crisis.
Melding technology, logistics and civic engagement to fight hunger and promote sustainability, 412 Food Rescue has become the fastest-growing food recovery entity in the country, diverting more than 10 million pounds of perfectly good food from waste to organizations that help those who are f...2020-05-2129 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsAir quality & COVID-19 w/ Clean Air Task Force’s John Graham (Stronger than This series EP5)Dr. John Graham, a senior scientist with the Clean Air Task Force, talks with host Grant Oliphant about the effects COVID-19 is having on the air we breathe, why this is an “exceptional moment” for air quality, and what the current “war on expertise” could mean for our future.
A San Francisco Bay Area resident, John grew up in the rural dairy farm community of Glenn Falls, New York, and holds a doctorate in atmospheric science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s in chemistry from Harvard University.
A nationally...2020-05-0820 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsKids & COVID-19 w/ Patrick Dowd, Exec. Dir. Allies for Children (Stronger than This series EP4)Patrick Dowd, executive director of Allies for Children, joins host Grant Oliphant to talk about the myriad of ways COVID-19 is affecting our young people, including hunger, access to technology, the health and well-being of their parents, child care – and the action needed to prepare for what’s next.
A bold voice for policy and practice changes that improve the well-being of children, Patrick was raised in Missouri and put down roots in Pittsburgh after earning his doctorate in European history from the University of Pittsburgh.
A teacher for nearly a decade...2020-05-0125 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsRedirecting anger into action w/ Monica Ruiz, ED of Latino advocacy entity Casa San Jose (Stronger than This series EP3)Monica Ruiz, executive director of Latino advocacy entity Casa San Jose, joins host Grant Oliphant to talk about the unique ways COVID-19 is affecting immigrant and refugee communities, why the census is key to changing the narrative around Latinos, and the teachable moments that the current crisis offers us.
Born in Cleveland Ohio and with family roots in Guatemala and Puerto Rico, where her parents are originally from, Monica has a master’s degree in social work with a focus on community organizing and social action. She fights for those facing deportation proceedings, and brings comp...2020-04-2427 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsThe moral lessons of COVID-19 w/ Dr. Andre Perry, Brookings Institution scholar & Know Your Price author. (Stronger than This series EP2)Brookings Institution scholar and author Dr. Andre Perry joins host Grant Oliphant to talk about the moral lessons we can learn from the COVID-19 crisis, why black and brown people are dying from the virus at a vastly disproportionate rate, and why hearing from his son’s teacher gives him hope.
Andre is an internationally acclaimed voice on race and equity. He is a columnist for The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit news organization that specializes in in-depth education reporting, and his writing also regularly appears in The Nation, The New York Times and The Washington Post...2020-04-2226 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsArt in times of crisis w/ 1Hood Media Co-Founder/CEO Jasiri X (Stronger than This series EP1)Artist/activist Jasiri X, co-founder/CEO of 1Hood Media, joins host Grant Oliphant to talk about the role of art in times of crisis, why COVID-19 lays bare a historic distrust of the medical system by people of color, & the reality that many who are deemed “essential workers” do not make a living wage.
Jasiri X is leading 1Hood Media — a collective of socially conscious artists and activists who use art as a means of raising awareness about social justice issues — in its response to the COVID-19 crisis. He is the recipient of an “Artist as Activist...2020-04-1729 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsCivil rights activist DeRay Mckesson: “Protest is speaking the truth out loud.” S02EP20DeRay Mckesson and his instantly recognizable blue down vest have become synonymous with advocacy for victims of police violence and an end to mass incarceration.
A civil rights activist, community organizer and former middle school teacher, DeRay came to national prominence as a leading voice in the Black Lives Matter Movement when he documented – and participated in – protests following the deaths of unarmed black men by police or in police custody in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland.
With his one million twitter followers, a best-selling book (“On the Other Side of Freedom...2019-11-1338 minWe Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsAndre Perry’s genius blend of information & inspiration is helping individuals realize their value & worth. S02EP19Dr. Andre Perry of The Brookings Institution has made exploration of race and structural inequality – especially as it affects education and economic inclusion – his life’s work.
A Pittsburgh native born into a challenging family environment, Andre learned early the importance of community, school and neighborly kindness in guiding youth like him toward realizing their full potential. A high school track and cross-country star, he says he used to run from the trouble that surrounded him growing up, but “now instead of running away from problems, I run toward them.”
Indeed, today Andre...2019-11-0634 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsOutdoor Afro founder Rue Mapp: "Nature is a refuge from all the '-isms'" S02EP18Rue Mapp founded Outdoor Afro, a “social media community that introduces African Americans to the Great Outdoors” because she remembers the exhilaration she felt as a child in the run from the car to the creek when her parents pulled into the driveway of the family’s ranch in the Northern California woodlands.
“I want everyone to have that opportunity to feel that rush of joy and sense of belonging in nature.”
Started as a blog in 2009, Outdoor Afro quickly gained national attention, spreading across the country and garnering national attention and garnerin...2019-10-3032 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsThe joy & complexity of giving w/ Giving Done Right author Phil Buchanan S02EP17In 2018, Americans gave $427 billion to charities of their choice. Phil Buchanan, founding chief executive of The Center for Effective Philanthropy and author of “Giving Done Right: Effective Philanthropy and Making Every Dollar Count,” is working to make certain people have the best possible information to ensure those hard-earned dollars do the most possible good.
Phil has his father to thank for his sense of empathy, and his urge to give where it can be most impactful. An ardent social justice and worker’s rights activist, Phil’s father “sought to build relationships with people whose lives and e...2019-10-2331 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsPoet, soldier, author & father Tim O’Brien on the extraordinary, beautiful power of maybe S02EP16“The Things They Carried” brought National Book Award-winning author Tim O’Brien fame, and the unparalleled poetic beauty and honesty of his novels, short stories and memoirs have cemented his status as one of our most revered contemporary writers.
Born and raised in southern Minnesota, Tim was a high school student body president who opposed the Vietnam War, and was drafted several weeks after graduation. He served in the area known as “Pinkville,” the location of two sites where American massacres of Vietnamese villagers occurred.
“When my life collided with Vietnam, I realized not o...2019-10-1649 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsBuilding an army of support for refugees: Hello Neighbor’s Sloane Davidson S02EP15As the national rhetoric about refugees skews toward outright xenophobia, Hello Neighbor Founder and CEO Sloane Davidson is “creating an army of support” that is changing their lives and strengthening the fabric of neighborhoods.
At a 2016 family Thanksgiving dinner with five Syrian refugees who had recently resettled in Pittsburgh, Sloane realized something powerful was happening. She knew if she could help replicate the good vibes of that fellowship with other refugees and neighbors, both would be stronger for it.
Sloane felt the immense power of that human-to-human interaction, and with that spark...2019-10-0927 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsBlindsided by the Taliban: Journalist & Postindustrial media co-founder Carmen Gentile S02EP14In 2010, journalist and Postindustrial media co-founder Carmen Gentile was embedded with the 32 Calvary regiment in eastern Afghanistan when he was struck in the right side of the face by a rocket-propelled grenade.
Carmen details the moment he was blinded in his right eye – and the ensuing years of heartbreak and healing, including his return to Afghanistan and his decision to make Pittsburgh his base – in his 2018 book “Blindsided by the Taliban: A Journalist’s Story of War, Trauma, Love and Loss.”
In this conversation with “We Can Be” host Grant Oliphant, Carmen gives his...2019-10-0233 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsFrom homelessness to Emmy Award winning composer & director: the shining light of Emmai Alaquiva S02EP13Emmy-winning composer, in-demand director and respected mentor Emmai Alaquiva is candid about what rescued him during his early hard times: “The arts saved my life.”
CEO of the media production entity Ya Momz House (a tribute to his own mother) and a centrifugal force of light and positivity, Emmai shares his story of homelessness; his early ‘90s hip-hop days with Pensoulzinakup; and how he’s built a career that has included working with The Roots, Dr. Maya Angelou, Solange Knowles and Common.
He’s giving back, too, empowering rising creatives through the youth-ar...2019-09-2530 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsDr. Cornel West & Bikari Kitwana 2: the revolution in priorities our society needs S02EP12In part two of host Grant Oliphant’s two-episode conversation with Dr. Cornel West and Bakari Kitwana, they examine the revolution in priorities our society needs if we are to thrive, the young activists that are driving their hope, and why empathy – on both sides of the aisle – is key.
Celebrated activist and academic Dr. Cornel West is professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University, the author of a number of bestsellers, a prominent pop culture figure, and a revered voice in the social justice realm.
Journalist, activist and poli...2019-09-1824 minWe Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsDr. Cornel West & Bikari Kitwana on the joy & struggle of today’s freedom fighters S02EP11In part one of a two-episode conversation, Dr. Cornel West and Bakari Kitwana examine why joy is important in our lives (especially for those in the social justice realm), what reparations could mean to our nation, and why artists are the indispensable ingredient in society today.
Celebrated activist and academic Dr. Cornel West is professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University, and the author of bestsellers such as “Race Matters” and “Black Prophetic Fire.” He has written a dozen more seminal works about modern civil rights issues and figures. He also is a prominent...2019-09-1131 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsDifferent but united: the palpable positivity of 24-hours-a-day bridge-builder Wasi Mohamed S2EP10When Wasi Mohamed led the Muslim community in an international fundraising effort that raised a quarter of a million dollars for the families of those killed in the attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the world got to know the man many have called “a 24-hours-a-day bridge-builder.”
Born and raised in an Indian-Muslim family in central Pennsylvania, Wasi recalls his childhood home being pelted with mustard packets and paint bombs, and dynamite exploding their mailbox.
“It changes who you are at a very young age,” he says.
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We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsFrom Parkland to Pittsburgh, student activists are forever altering the social change landscape S2E9More than 2,300 lives have been lost and 8,500 people wounded in over 2,000 mass shootings in the United States in the past seven years. Survivors of the attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida., that left 17 dead know this trauma of violence all too well.
But Parkland students are organizing, speaking out, and reaching across boundaries to offer support to others who have survived or been affected by gun violence, including members of the Pittsburgh community still reeling from the attack at the Tree of Life Synagogue.
Recorded in the mi...2019-05-2237 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsFrom Air Force plane nosedive to university president: Dr. Chris Howard & the power of mentoring S2EP8As a United States Air Force pilot, newly engaged to his South African fiancée, Chris Howard ejected from his aircraft as it fell into a nosedive during a solo training mission in January 1995. Twenty years later, he was one of the youngest university presidents in the United States.
Dr. Chris Howard, president of Robert Morris University since 2015, grew up in Plano, Texas, the great-great-grandson of an enslaved man, and the son of parents who instilled in him the values of humility and service.
As a high school and United States Air...2019-05-1529 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsArt is making souls soar in this rapidly changing neighborhood S02EP07“I got into art-making because I want show the different ways that people show up in the world, and to represent voices that are often not heard,” says janera solomon, executive director of the Kelly Strayhorn Theater. That aim has never been needed more than now, as her neighborhood grapples with rapid change and the risk of cultural erasure.
In the past decade, Pittsburgh’s historic East Liberty community has seen big-name tech companies set up shop in former warehouses, heated controversies ignited about affordable housing, and black-owned businesses priced out of their long-time locations. Steady...2019-05-0828 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsAs environmental stakes rise, Emily Collins helps the underserved get a fair shake S02EP06Groundwater poisoned from fracking, toxic coal sludge, and industrial pollution can sicken those who live near the source, and ruin land for generations to come. Often those most acutely affected are also those with the least resources to fight for environmental justice.
So, Emily Collins did something about it, founding Fair Shake, the nation’s first nonprofit law firm devoted to providing environmental legal services regardless of the client’s ability to pay.
Hear about Emily's journey from the woods of her family’s Ohio homestead to the courtroom where she and the...2019-05-0132 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsTrayvon Martin's activism legacy: mother Sybrina Fulton, Jasiri X & Black Lives Matter stand strong S2E5Sybrina Fulton is the mother of slain teen Trayvon Martin, and Jasiri X is the co-founder of anti-violence artist collective 1Hood Media, but both are so much more than those descriptors suggest.
“He was my youngest boy,” says Sybrina of her son Trayvon, the unarmed 17-year-old who was followed and shot to death in 2012 by a neighborhood watch coordinator for “looking suspicious” in a Sanford, Fla., gated community. “He loved aviation, Skittles, babies and his family. He was a regular kid.”
Recording artist-activist Jasiri X, who also is a father, remembers the moment he...2019-04-2434 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsVery Smart Brothas' Damon Young: the hyper-cognizance & beauty of being black in America S2E04With over 2.5 million weekly “Very Smart Brothas” readers, a GQ column and new Harper Collins book “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker,” Damon Young is artfully illuminating life as a black man in 21st century America.
“So many of the narratives about being black in America are ensconced in deep trauma,” says Damon. “And yes, we do deal with racism, oppression and structural inequality, but I hope my writing shares that there is also beauty, love, passion, and humanity in that experience, too.”
Damon shares his take on the role white privilege...2019-04-1731 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsArcheology, family & fantasy: the fantastic Afrofuturist art of Alisha Wormsley S2E03“THERE ARE BLACK PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE," in cut-out white letters on the black background of a steel billboard, stood high above Pittsburgh’s rapidly changing East Liberty neighborhood last spring – and brought national acclaim to interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer Alisha Wormsley.
But that science fiction-inspired contribution to The Last Billboard art project – and the controversy its removal sparked – is but one brush stroke in an artistic career that has spanned nearly two decades and numerous continents.
“I don’t consider myself an activist,” Alisha says, “but my art is active.” It is indee...2019-04-1030 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsTree of Life leaders: "We didn't think about courage; we thought about doing the right thing" S2E02In this second episode of a two-part series, Jewish community leaders share their distinct and moving perspectives of what happened on Oct. 27, 2018, when a lone gunman opened fire on worshipers at the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Eleven people were killed in what would become the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in our nation’s history.
Host Grant Oliphant speaks with the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh’s executive director, Brian Schreiber, and the Center for Loving Kindness and Civic Engagement’s Rabbi Ron Symons.
With...2019-04-0340 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsIn aftermath of tragedy at Tree of Life synagogue, random acts of beauty & unity are the new normal (S02EP01)The early morning of Oct. 27, 2018, began with promise, ethereally foggy with sunlight shining through the occasional crack in the haze to highlight the fall foliage.
Then, at 9:50 a.m., a lone gunman opened fire on worshipers at the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, killing 11 people in what would become the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in our nation’s history.
In this two-part episode, we will hear three distinct and moving perspectives of what happened that day and in the weeks that followed as the Je...2019-03-2731 min
Let’s Hear ItHeinz Endowments President Grant Oliphant
If anyone knows how foundations can and should use communications, it’s Grant Oliphant. Grant, who was formerly communications director at the Heinz Endowments, now runs the organization as its president. As a former board chair of the Communications Network, the national organization of foundation and nonprofit communications professionals, Grant may be one of the country’s great champions for our field. But Grant isn’t satisfied.
As Grant tells Eric in this episode of Let’s Hear It, “Many of the issues we care about are losing or at least deeply embattled.” Grant says that foundations have a “sacr...2019-02-2742 min
The Creator Mindset PodcastEpisode 124: Robin de Haas, Breathing Coordination Explained Series #7 Bio of the Guest Robin de Haas Born and raised in Switzerland, Robin De Haas has received many prizes in his singing and academic studies. He pursued a grant as soon as he started his professional singing studies and studied with many teachers in Europe and the U.S.A, such as Kurt Widmer, Anne Ramoni and Cornelius Reid. Attracted by pedagogy, he pursued the Diploma of Teaching Singing at The Conservatory of Music of Lausanne, Switzerland, which was completed with an award for his diploma work, “Lyrical Sing...2018-10-0100 minThe Creator Mindset PodcastEpisode 123: Robin de Haas, Breathing Coordination Explained Series #6 BIO OF THE GUEST: Robin de Haas Born and raised in Switzerland, Robin De Haas has received many prizes in his singing and academic studies. He pursued a grant as soon as he started his professional singing studies and studied with many teachers in Europe and the U.S.A, such as Kurt Widmer, Anne Ramoni and Cornelius Reid. Attracted by pedagogy, he pursued the Diploma of Teaching Singing at The Conservatory of Music of Lausanne, Switzerland, which was completed with an award for his diploma work, “Lyrical Singing and Modern Singing, Two Wor...2018-09-2400 minThe Creator Mindset PodcastEpisode 122: Robin de Haas, Breathing Coordination Explained Series #5 BIO OF THE GUEST: Robin de Haas Born and raised in Switzerland, Robin De Haas has received many prizes in his singing and academic studies. He pursued a grant as soon as he started his professional singing studies and studied with many teachers in Europe and the U.S.A, such as Kurt Widmer, Anne Ramoni and Cornelius Reid. Attracted by pedagogy, he pursued the Diploma of Teaching Singing at The Conservatory of Music of Lausanne, Switzerland, which was completed with an award for his diploma work, “Lyrical Singing and Modern Sin...2018-09-1800 minThe Creator Mindset PodcastEpisode 121: Robin de Haas, Breathing Coordination Explained Series #4 BIO OF THE GUEST: Robin de Haas Born and raised in Switzerland, Robin De Haas has received many prizes in his singing and academic studies. He pursued a grant as soon as he started his professional singing studies and studied with many teachers in Europe and the U.S.A, such as Kurt Widmer, Anne Ramoni and Cornelius Reid. Attracted by pedagogy, he pursued the Diploma of Teaching Singing at The Conservatory of Music of Lausanne, Switzerland, which was completed with an award for his diploma work, “Lyrical Singing and Modern Sin...2018-09-1200 minThe Creator Mindset PodcastEpisode 120: Robin de Haas, Breathing Coordination Explained Series #3 BIO OF THE GUEST: Robin de Haas Born and raised in Switzerland, Robin De Haas has received many prizes in his singing and academic studies. He pursued a grant as soon as he started his professional singing studies and studied with many teachers in Europe and the U.S.A, such as Kurt Widmer, Anne Ramoni and Cornelius Reid. Attracted by pedagogy, he pursued the Diploma of Teaching Singing at The Conservatory of Music of Lausanne, Switzerland, which was completed with an award for his diploma work, “Lyrical Singing and Modern Singing, Two Worlds That Are Completely Opposed?” It was in...2018-09-0500 minThe Creator Mindset PodcastEpisode 119: Robin de Haas, Breathing Coordination Explained Series #1 BIO OF THE GUEST: Robin de Haas Born and raised in Switzerland, Robin De Haas has received many prizes in his singing and academic studies. He pursued a grant as soon as he started his professional singing studies and studied with many teachers in Europe and the U.S.A, such as Kurt Widmer, Anne Ramoni and Cornelius Reid. Attracted by pedagogy, he pursued the Diploma of Teaching Singing at The Conservatory of Music of Lausanne, Switzerland, which was completed with an award for his diploma work, “Lyrical Singing and Modern Singing, Two Worlds That Are Completely Opposed?” It was in the p...2018-09-0200 minThe Creator Mindset PodcastEpisode 118: Robin de Haas Series #1 Bio of the guest Robin de Haas Born and raised in Switzerland, Robin De Haas has received many prizes in his singing and academic studies. He pursued a grant as soon as he started his professional singing studies and studied with many teachers in Europe and the U.S.A, such as Kurt Widmer, Anne Ramoni and Cornelius Reid. Attracted by pedagogy, he pursued the Diploma of Teaching Singing at The Conservatory of Music of Lausanne, Switzerland, which was completed with an award for his diploma work, “Lyrical Singing and Modern Singing, Two Worlds That Are Completely Opposed?” It was in the...2018-08-3000 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsLifting the arc: Hazelwood’s Tim Smith & grassroots energy bring a new future to this riverfront community S01EP20The story of Hazelwood is a familiar one: A vibrant riverfront community with an industrial past flourished until the late 1980s when the steel industry bottomed out, leaving longtime residents with a decimated economy.
But this archetypal American story is different, too, and the Rev. Tim Smith is a big reason why. As CEO of Center of Life and pastor of Keystone Church of Hazelwood, Tim has a daily insight into the struggles, hope and beauty of those who are determined to keep the soul of their Pittsburgh neighborhood alive and thriving.
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We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsSan Juan, PR Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz: speaking truth to power, green energy & her grandmother’s enduring impact. (S01EP19)San Juan, Puerto Rico Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz is the star of a grainy 8mm home movie that shows her as a toddler in her mother’s arms. Off-screen, her father asks what she wants to be when she grows up.
Her answer: “Alcalde de San Juan” – the mayor of San Juan.
She did indeed grow up to be the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the certainty she exuded as a small child flourished into a strong, confident voice.
Yulin showed the world that voice – and came to int...2018-07-1826 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsTruthful Art: Jasiri X on Trayvon Martin, Antwon Rose Jr. & the cross-section of unity that gives him hope. (S01EP18)Jasiri Oronde Smith’s mom knew what she was doing when she chose the first name for her baby boy, the Swahili word for “brave.”
That baby grew up to be lauded hip-hop artist and activist Jasiri X.
As a co-founder of 1Hood Media, a collective of socially conscious activists who utilize art to raise awareness about social justice matters, Jasiri X is fostering a new generation of artists and media professionals who use their voices to challenge inequity and unify humanity.
He has raised his own voice by w...2018-07-1131 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsLove Canal’s accidental environmentalist Lois Gibbs on the movement she sparked & what today’s activists need to know to save our world (S01EP17)In 1978, Lois Gibbs was a young mother with a child in a school that was found to be built over a toxic chemical waste dump site. Lois gained international attention and incredible momentum in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s as she led the fight for environmental justice for children and families affected by the environmental disaster identified with the neighborhood where it occurred, Love Canal.
“I was waiting on someone to knock on my door and tell me what to do, to explain how I could help,” says Lois of the early days of revelatio...2018-06-2727 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsWhat the Eyes Don't See: Mona Hanna-Attisha & Flint’s lead water crisis. (S01EP16)“Flint is a story about what happens when the very people that are charged with keeping us safe care more about money or power than they do about you or your children,” says Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha.
Known as “Dr. Mona,” the pediatrician came to national prominence for exposing the water crisis in Flint, Mich., caused by high lead levels, and standing up to government officials who tried to downplay the seriousness of the contamination. In the aftermath, she become a passionate voice for speaking out against what she – and many others – have accurately termed “environmental racism.”
2018-06-2029 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsThe 45 Words that Define Us: Max King on a First Amendment under fire, why we let rights slip away & how we can save them (S01E15)One of the most fundamentally important sentences for the United States of America is this: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
A single sentence. A mere 45 words.
Those 45 words are the entirety of the First Amendment found in our Bill of Rights, and they have been a powerful cornerstone of our identity and ou...2018-06-1330 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsEnvironmental justice superhero Mustafa Santiago Ali and the Hip Hop Caucus are shifting minds and votes one community at a time. (S01EP14)It is no understatement to say that Mustafa Santiago Ali is a superhero in the environmental justice world. He earned his stripes serving in the Environmental Protection Agency for more than two decades, becoming a founding member of the Office of Environmental Justice and, most recently, serving as senior advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization.
As winter 2017 lingered on, Mustafa resigned from the EPA when deep cuts in budget and staff were being proposed. He cited concerns about the dedication of the agency’s new leadership to environmental justice in poor and minority communities. “The s...2018-06-0627 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsBorn for Storms: Angela Blanchard was a rock during Houston’s Hurricane Harvey & now she’s out to change the world for good (S01EP13)The late-summer evening of Friday, Aug. 25, 2017, is forever etched in Angela Blanchard’s mind. National Weather Service maps showed increasingly ominous swirls of blue, green, yellow and red hovering over the Gulf of Mexico as the force of Hurricane Harvey amped to a top speed of 132 miles an hour.
The Category 4 storm wreaked havoc on Louisiana, Nicaragua, Honduras and Belize, saving its most brutal impact for Houston, Texas. The number who died reached 107, and the storm caused an astounding $125 billion in damage, affecting13 million people in Texas and the other southern Gulf States. At one point...2018-05-3026 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsNew Power: Author Henry Timms explains what it is, how to get it & why it’s changing our hyper-connected world. (S01EP12)For most of recorded history, the rules of power were clear: Power was something to be seized and then guarded at any cost. This "old power" was owned by a tiny fraction of humankind, and beyond reach for the vast majority of people.
But the ubiquitous connectivity of our world today is allowing something altogether new to occur, and makes possible an extraordinarily different kind of power: people-centric, participatory-focused and spreading with lightning-fast speed.
“If you are able to harness this new power, you are likely to come out on top,” says H...2018-05-2328 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsBrick by brick: Steve Shelton got his second chance & now he makes certain others have a shot at their own redemption (S01EP11)In the summer of 1972, The Staple Singers’ “I’ll Take You There” was a No. 1 hit, the Watergate scandal was in the news, and “The Godfather” was the top movie. Steve Shelton has his own vivid memory of that time: He was 12 years old, riding in the back of a pickup truck with a cast of characters from around his neighborhood on the way to bricklaying jobs.
And he loved it.
That camaraderie etched into his mind, and it is part of what guided him to found a building trades program that trains me...2018-05-1625 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsSpinning our moral compass: Rabbi Ron Symons on why centuries-old traditions may be the secret to navigating race, wage & immigrant issues. SE01E10Rabbi Ron Symons grew up a few train stops away from vibrant, multi-cultural Manhattan in New York City. He now shares his world view of accepting everyone as part of his leadership role at the Center for Loving Kindness and Civic Engagement, an initiative of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh.
His journey has taken some eye-opening turns — including a 2014 arrest for standing up for living wages — as he has become an outspoken voice on social justice issues, including race relations, gun violence, and immigrant and refugee causes.
Rabbi Symons believ...2018-05-0928 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsR2-D2, Illah & Ethics: How robotics & AI genius Illah Nourbakhsh was inspired to use his superpowers for good SE01E09Illah Nourbakhsh’s journey began with his birth in Iran, and has since taken him around the world as a leader in robotics and artificial intelligence. The Carnegie Mellon University robotics professor and director of the Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment (CREATE) Lab stands out among roboticists for the projects he works on — most notably not Department of Defense programs — and for his commitment to never losing sight of the humans that interact with his creations.
“What I do is fundamentally about empowerment,” says Illah, “and I believe technology should always be used for good.”
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We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsCircles of love: Tammy Thompson draws on her own remarkable journey in her work to break poverty trauma cycles (S01EP08)Tammy Thompson was nine when she and her family left a West Virginia coal mining town for the promise of a good-paying job and a new life in Pittsburgh. They shot through the Fort Pitt tunnels, where on the other end the golden bridges and sparkling lights of the city and its rivers burst into dazzling view.
Then it all went wrong.
As a third-grader, Tammy saw her family’s high hopes and financial stability crumble in ways that still affect them today. But she now heads an arm of national anti...2018-04-2529 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsHumor, Rap, Poetry & Love: the New Muslim Cool of Hamza Perez (S01E07)“God writes straight with crooked lines” is a popular adage that has been used to describe the journey of Hamza Perez, and he good naturedly agrees. With a life story that’s movie script-worthy, Hamza has walked his path with humor, humility, music and openness. He is founder of the YA-NE (Youth Alliance of Networking and Empowerment) at the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh, co-founder of Light of the Age Mosque and a spiritual advisor for communities in Hartford, CT and Springfield, MA.
In this conversation, he shares why Emma González is the future, tackles the role...2018-04-1828 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsA Story of Two Wilsons: Janis Burley Wilson grew up in an arts-loving family in playwright August Wilson’s hometown, and now she leads his namesake Center for African American Culture. (S01E06)Two Wilsons – Janis Burley Wilson and playwright August Wilson – have intersected in ways both meaningful and magical. The first Wilson is Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson, and the present-day Wilson is Janis Burley Wilson, who leads the August Wilson Center for African American Culture as its president and CEO.
Having grown up in August Wilson’s hometown, when Burley Wilson read his plays she recognized the locales he wrote about as places where her extended family lived and thrived. As Janis herself says, that she grew up in the world-renowned playwright's hometown and now leads his nam...2018-04-1125 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsFrom Miami to the Midwest: Change Agency’s Betty Cruz has made it her life’s work to make her city a welcoming place for immigrants. (S01E05)All across the Untied States, cities that grew out of the industrial age were founded on the strength of immigrants who provided power to steel mills, gave rise to majestic buildings and infused life into its streets and neighborhoods.
While today’s immigrants encounter many of the same biases and obstacles that their predecessors faced, they have a champion in Change Agency Founder and Director Betty Cruz. Ms. Cruz joins The Heinz Endowments’ Grant Oliphant in a conversation about what it means to truly be a nation, a community, of We.
Our nati...2018-04-0426 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsCenter for Coalfield Justice’s Veronica Coptis and her fight for one rural America county’s environmental justice (S01EP04)Those living in rural towns where coal has long been the backbone of their economy and culture are often doubly hit with the realities of the shrinking industry: jobs are disappearing while the environmental and health aftereffects of mining adversely affect their mortality.
Veronica Coptis tells her story of being born in Pittsburgh, leaving for rural Greene County in the southwestern-most corner of Pennsylvania when she was in the third grade, and finding a love of the outdoors that to this day fuels her passion for her work as Executive Director of the Center for Co...2018-03-2825 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsActor/writer David Conrad’s long journey home, identity of place, and the key role artists play in shaping our future (S01 EP03)Actor/writer David Conrad discusses why the most striking sound in an industrial town is silence, where his own creative plans will take him next and the integral role the arts play in the future of our communities and nation.
Actor (Wedding Crashers, Ghost Whisperer, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) and writer (Pittsburgh Magazine columnist) David Conrad splits his time among a diverse slate of places - Los Angeles, New York City, London and Braddock, Pa., and talks about what made him realize his place, how the identity of a place can ch...2018-03-2125 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsKazakhstan candy, a Wisconsin dairy farm, PBS and innovative investigative news: the fantastic journey of PublicSource Exec. Director Mila Sanina (S01EP02)Born in the Soviet Union and raised in Kazakhstan – with stops at a Wisconsin dairy farm and CNN and PBS News Hour along the way - Mila Sanina’s journey to leadership in the investigative news field is extraordinary.
As Executive Director of PublicSource, Mila believes in the power of ideas, words and stories to change our brain chemistry and the character of our interactions with each other and the world.
Hear her stories of childhood entrepreneurship selling candy on the street in Kazakhstan, the threats against her family during her first reporting job, and how...2018-03-1425 min
We Can Be podcast - The Heinz EndowmentsPost-9/11 vets' unique role in a more perfect union w/ Nick Grimes of Veterans Breakfast Club (S01EP01)The role post-9/11 vets can play in bridging racial and cultural divides comes to light as Veterans' Breakfast Club's Nick Grimes talks about his journey with The Heinz Endowments' Grant Oliphant in the inaugural episode of We Can Be.
Learn about the misconceptions that post-9/11 veterans face, the culture shock they experience when returning home and why saying "thank you for your service" can be discomforting for them. Grimes details his evolution from being a young evangelical conservative from Mobile, Ala., to the open-minded director of The Veterans Breakfast Club's Post-9/11 Veterans Storytelling Project and an advocate for...2018-02-2825 minThe Creator Mindset PodcastRadio Plays? How-to Download BIO: D Grant Smith is an award-winning, syndicated radio show host (The Appetizer Radio Show), host of the DIY Artist Route Podcast, coach, author (The DIY Musician's Radio Handbook) and speaker. He calls himself "The Audience Growth Farmer" and helps musicians learn how to build strong relationships with music fans, media, music curators, and influencers to create more success in their careers. His experience in radio and media dates back to 1998, and he's been an integral part of the growth and success of countless indie & unsigned mu...2018-01-2200 min
CommsCastGrant Oliphant, President of The Heinz Endowments, Keynote at ComNet17Grant Oliphant, President of The Heinz Endowments, Keynote at ComNet17 by The Communications Network2017-10-2353 min
West of Everest: An Oklahoma Football PodcastEp. 6 - Talking Tulane and Top 10 TeamsGrant tackles the national perception of this current OU football team in the opening take. Then Lee joins in to talk Baker Mayfield, the most surprising things we've seen from OU in the first 2 weeks, Tulane compared to UTEP, and we unveil our first Top 10 of the season!
5:05 Lee explains why Josh Heupel and Jarrail Jackson were featured in this episode's intro
5:45 Additional thoughts on OU-Ohio State
7:10 Lee shines the spotlight on DJ Ward's performance against Ohio State
7:50 Mike Stoops praises the media for helping OU in the Sooners preparation for the Buckeyes
10:30 Baker Mayfield and the flag. (sigh)
11:35 Lee...2017-09-1458 min
Thought CopsCase File 24 with Deputy RussellFragile masculinity ruins the party once again on this week's episode of THOUGHT COPS. Today, Deputy Russell joins us on Skype all the way from the cyberpunk district of Los Angeles. The smog in L.A. is apparently real bad, which explains all the coughing this episode.
This week on the show, we're talking about female doctors, ketchup on hot dogs, the civil war, and accidental swastikas. Apparently a lot of people online are upset that for the first time in 50 years, British cultural icon and face-shifting television character Doctor Who is now a woman. Even though...2017-07-251h 02
Sales Pipeline RadioHow to increase your results 10X with Grant Cardone
If you don't know him yet, it's time to know Grant Cardone. Join us for the provocative, maybe controversial conversation with a sales legend. While you are waiting for the show, don't miss his core package of MP3 books for your commute or flights. His success is legendary, his energy infectious. You do not want to miss this.
2017-07-1222 min
Grant’s Current Yield PodcastBig, dumb Japanese banks:07 Intro 1:16 Japanese banks and their #dollars 5:55 TCW's Tad Rivelle channels David Stockman 8:14 Janet #Yellen isn't worried 11:30 "The way forward is clear." Is that so? 14:02 #Kraft Heinz CEO responds to critics Subscribe to Grant’s Podcast on iTunes & Stitcher. Grant’s Interest Rate Observer is available at http://www.grantspub.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit grantspub.substack.com2017-06-3017 min
Grant’s Current Yield PodcastBig, dumb Japanese banks:07 Intro 1:16 Japanese banks and their #dollars 5:55 TCW's Tad Rivelle channels David Stockman 8:14 Janet #Yellen isn't worried 11:30 "The way forward is clear." Is that so? 14:02 #Kraft Heinz CEO responds to critics Subscribe to Grant’s Podcast on iTunes & Stitcher. Grant’s Interest Rate Observer is available at http://www.grantspub.com2017-06-3017 min
Going Deep with Aaron Watson187 Grant Oliphant, Fighting for a more Just Community at the Heinz EndowmentGrant Oliphant is president of The Heinz Endowments. For nearly two decades, Grant held several senior management posts with Heinz family foundations, including vice president for programs and planning at the Endowments, his position before taking over the helm at The Pittsburgh Foundation in 2008. He also served as press secretary to the late U.S. Sen. John Heinz from 1988 until the senator’s death in 1991. If there’s a major project happening in Pittsburgh, chances are that Oliphant is pulling the strings. His six-year tenure atop The Pittsburgh Foundation saw that organization increase its assets by a...2017-02-1339 min
Tiny SparkHeinz Endowments Chief: Philanthropy Faces Critical Test on Racial EquityIs philanthropy doing enough to address racism and inequity in the U.S.? We speak to Heinz Endowments President Grant Oliphant. He’s among the few philanthropic leaders who has spoken up about the shooting deaths of two black men by white police and the sniper attacks of five Dallas police officers. He says it’s a problem that philanthropy shies away from these contentious issues. “Our silence is damning,” he tells us.2016-07-1514 min