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Bringing Humanity Back to Schools: A Conversation with Dr. Taquan Stewart
Heal, Grow, Thrive: The Podcast
07/28/20 • 51 min
Dr. Rhonda Bryant talks with Dr. Taquan Stewart about his experience as a principal in South Los Angeles where he re-created his school as a caring institution. He shares many insights about how to focus on the humanity of students, as well as fundamental questions about the role of police in schools.
Biography:
Dr. Taquan Stewart serves as Faculty Advisor for the CalStateTEACH and Los Angeles Urban Teacher Residency (LAUTR) programs at California State University, Los Angeles. In addition, he is Program Director for Project Youth California– a non-profit organization designed to provide additional educational services to underserved youth of the Los Angeles Metropolitan area. From 2007 through 2012, Dr. Stewart served as a secondary principal in South Los Angeles. As a teacher educator, Dr. Stewart stresses a humanizing pedagogy.
Resources:
Transforming Practices in Urban Education
Thoughts of a Ghetto Scatterbrain: The EP
Disrupting Dehumanization and Affirming the Humanity of Boys and Young Men of Color and their Villages

Healing Bias, Racism & Other STDs (Socially Transmitted Diseases)
Heal, Grow, Thrive: The Podcast
10/27/21 • 33 min
Our guest for this episode is Dr. Dana Crawford, a pediatric and clinical psychologist. She is a graduate of Howard, Temple, and Miami universities and has degrees in African-American studies, education, and psychology, and certifications in practical nursing, medical hypnosis, and biofeedback. She is also a Scholar-in-Residence in Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute. Finally, she is the developer of the Crawford Bias Reduction Theory & Training (CBRT) and has provided hundreds of trainings across the US.
In our conversation with Dr. Crawford, she breaks down how we must "move our jaws" to disrupt dehumanization rooted in racism, prejudice, and bias - or the other STD's...Socially Transmitted Diseases and shares some practical, yet transformative approaches for doing so!
Episode Resources:
1. Cornell University's annual conference on DEI keynote “Turning Awareness into Action”
2. Cultural Reflections, Reducing Bias podcast (15 minutes): https://open.spotify.com/show/4HSpcWB2rYcw9yWJxya1dg
3. Short talk I gave with a brilliant colleague on racism, the brain and a call to action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYY4bJjafT4
4. Crawford Bias on News 12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa9nBYL23Ak&t=89s
*The views and opinions expressed by our guest do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of Forward Promise, The Moriah Group, or its employees.

Southern, Queer, & "Pritty": Liberation at the Intersection of Race, Gender, & Sexual Identity
Heal, Grow, Thrive: The Podcast
06/21/21 • 49 min
In this episode, we will have a conversation with Keith Miller regarding the importance of holding space for the LGBTQ+ community. The history, identities, experiences, and needs of LGBTQ+ people are often overlooked when it comes to their intersecting racial identities.
Keith Miller is the Deputy Director at the Deep Center and founder of Healing By Any Means. In his work and art, he explores concepts of masculinity, sexuality, intimacy, and art as a form of resistance, transformation, and healing. In our conversation with him, we unpack why intersectionality matters deeply, the power of representation through his work Pritty: The Animation, and how to honor and respect the narratives of LGBTQ+ people of color.

Healing Lessons from the Pacific Islander Community
Heal, Grow, Thrive: The Podcast
06/04/21 • 41 min
“Every month is PI Heritage Month for me. Colonization meant the banning and suppression of our cultures, so to claim and study it now feels revolutionary.” – Tavae Samuelu
In this episode with Tavae Samuelu, she shares healing lessons from the Pacific Islander community from historical trauma and toxic stress rooted in the dehumanization of people of color. Although AAPI Heritage Month is celebrated nationally in May, we should uplift Asian and Pacific Islander peoples, cultures, and heritages all year round.
Tavae Samuelu (she/her) is the daughter of a pastor from Leulumoega and a nurse from Saleimoa. As the Executive Director of Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (EPIC), she's a passionate advocate for Native Hawaiians & Pacific Islanders and is committed to liberation for all. Tavae was born and raised on Tongva land and credits her time on unceded Ohlone territory for her political identity and consciousness. Before joining EPIC, she served as the Development Director for the RYSE Center in Richmond and has since become a member of RYSE's Board of Directors. Tavae is also the Vice President of the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council (A3PCON) and an alumna of the Forward Promise Fellowship for Leaders. The pandemic has taught her that her most important title is Aunty Vae.
Episode Mentions & Resources:
- Dr. Maile Arvin's Possessing Polynesians
- Dr. Jamaica Osorio
- Dr. Joyce Pualani Warren
- Zora's Daughters Podcast
Books
lep Jaltok: Poems From A Marshallese Daughter
Remember We Have Choir Practice
Polynesian Panthers
Samoan Queer Lives
Tales of the Tikongs
Night Is A Sharkskin Drum
From A Native Daughter
Decolonizing Methodologies
Pouliuli
Check out this IG account for more recommendations.
Films
For My Father's Kingdom
A Place in the Middle
Leitis in Waiting
Kapaemahu
The Rogers
Power Meri
Island Soldier
Vai
Check out more at PIC's website.

The South Has Something to Say: A Conversation with Tamieka Mosley & Nathaniel Smith
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06/16/20 • 41 min
Forward Promise Co-Director, Dr. Rhonda Bryant talks with Tamieka Mosley and Nathaniel Smith about the issues faced by African Americans in the South during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and this time of heightened racial tension.
Biography:
Tamieka Mosley is Director of Grantmakers for Southern Progress (GSP). GSP seeks to engage Southern-based and national funders on the importance of supporting and achieving equity focused structural change in the South.
Nathaniel Smith is Founder and Chief Equity Officer of the Partnership for Southern Equity (PSE). PSE advances policies and institutional actions that promote racial equity and shared prosperity for all in the growth of metropolitan Atlanta and the American South.
Resources:
COVID-19 Community Impact & Response
Grantmakers for Southern Progress
Partnership for Southern Equity
The South Has Something to Say: COVID-19 and our Chance for Transformation
Forward Promise

COVID-19 Community Response: A Conversation with Anpao Duta Flying Earth
Heal, Grow, Thrive: The Podcast
05/11/20 • 28 min
Forward Promise Co-Director, Dr. Howard Stevenson talks to Anpao Duta Flying Earth, Head of School at Native American Community Academy (NACA) in Albuquerque, NM, about the issues faced by the Native American community during the COVID-19 crisis.
Biography:
Anpao Duta Flying Earth grew up on the Standing Rock Reservation in rural South Dakota and North Dakota. He is of the Lakota, Dakota, Ojibwe, and Akimel O’odham tribes. Duta joined NACA to assist in founding the charter school in 2006. In his capacity as co-founder and Head of School at NACA, Duta has been instrumental in representing NACA as a premiere example of Indigenous education nationwide.
Resources:
COVID-19 Community Impact & Response
Native American Community Academy
Forward Promise

COVID-19 Community Response: A Conversation with Angela Diaz
Heal, Grow, Thrive: The Podcast
05/08/20 • 21 min
Forward Promise Co-Director, Dr. Howard Stevenson talks to Dr. Angela Diaz,
Director of the Mt. Sinai Adolescent Health Center, about how their center has shifted rapidly to respond to the COVID-19 crisis and needs of the youth they serve in one of the hardest-hit regions of the country, New York City.
Biography:
Dr. Diaz, an international leader in adolescent medicine, is the Jean C. and James W. Crystal Professor in Adolescent Health, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine, and a member of the Governing Council of the National Academy of Medicine. She is also a member of the Forward Promise National Advisory Committee.
Mt. Sinai is one of the nation’s largest adolescent health centers, known for outstanding research and training, and for serving more than 12,000 vulnerable youth each year with confidential health care at no cost to them.
Resources:
COVID-19 Community Impact & Response
Mt. Sinai Adolescent Health Center
Forward Promise

Being a Black Woman in Law School & Advocating for Racial Equity Policies
Heal, Grow, Thrive: The Podcast
08/04/21 • 29 min
In this episode, Moriah Group intern, Bikhari Reyes - an aspiring law student and future lawyer - has the opportunity to chat with former intern, DaNia Henry, a recent graduate of Georgetown University Law Center beginning her career in law.
They discuss DaNia's experiences as a young professional Black woman navigating institutions of higher learning and now, the professional world of law and how these experiences have shaped her and solidified her commitment to upholding the humanity of marginalized individuals.
*The views and opinions expressed by our guests do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of Forward Promise, The Moriah Group, or its employees.

College, COVID, & Career: Meet the Interns!
Heal, Grow, Thrive: The Podcast
07/13/21 • 39 min
In this episode, the first of our Summer Series featuring youth and young adult voices, we give our audience a deeper look into the lives, perspectives, and experiences of our dynamic Moriah Group interns. Bikhari & Jaela have a conversation with one another about how they have navigated COVID, college, and racial unrest over the past year as well as the impact of attending HBCUs, interning, and their aspirations as emerging leaders in the world.

Disrupting Dehumanization in Mental Health Services: A New Paradigm
Heal, Grow, Thrive: The Podcast
12/01/21 • 50 min
Listen and share this dynamic conversation with Clifton Uckerman! Clifton is no stranger to the Forward Promise family as he is one of our beloved Fellow alums from the inaugural cohort of the Forward Promise Fellowship for Leaders. Additionally and most importantly, perhaps, Clifton is a Neuro-Psychotherapist With an Evolutionary Medicine Perspective and Medical Approach who tirelessly advocates for exceptional clinical services for people overcoming mental health and addiction problems within the socio-political and cultural systems that influence or exasperate the symptoms of those affected. He is on a crusade and life-mission to empower others to #HealGrowThrive in ways he also has been able to in all of his personal and lived experiences.
As part of the competent leadership team at Altium Health, located in Utah, Clif is striving to forward the promise; that all who are receiving services are treated without stigmas and stereotypes and individually with love, respect, and dignity. Clif believes in the re-humanization of persons in recovery from the often destructive effects of trauma, shame, and loss & grief; a triangle-cycle and recipe for the pain-avoidance, reward-seeking behaviors we see as addiction.
The views and opinions expressed by our guest do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of Forward Promise, The Moriah Group, or its employees.
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How many episodes does Heal, Grow, Thrive: The Podcast have?
Heal, Grow, Thrive: The Podcast currently has 24 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Non-Profit, Podcasts and Business.
What is the most popular episode on Heal, Grow, Thrive: The Podcast?
The episode title 'Supporting Healing & Creating Structure Amidst Chaos' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Heal, Grow, Thrive: The Podcast?
The average episode length on Heal, Grow, Thrive: The Podcast is 32 minutes.
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Episodes of Heal, Grow, Thrive: The Podcast are typically released every 14 days.
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The first episode of Heal, Grow, Thrive: The Podcast was released on Apr 28, 2020.
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