S1:E5 Public Health in Chicago with Taneka Jennings
12/02/21 • 10 min
In our fifth episode, we introduce our final topic, Public Health, as seen through the eyes of Taneka Hye Wol Jennings, an adoptee and immigrant rights activist. Jennings was born in Cheongju, South Korea. As a Korean American and a transracial, inter-country adoptee, she is dedicated to adoptee and immigrant rights work, as well as building authentic solidarity with others who have been marginalized by systems and structures that perpetuate injustice. She is a Campaign Director with Adoptees for Justice, a project of the National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC) and an active volunteer for intersectional justice causes. For Jennings, citizenship is a public health issue, determining who does and doesn’t have access to health care. In the photo she shares, Jennings stands in front of the US Capitol Building, about to be willingly arrested as part of a Citizenship for All protest.
Interviewer Kaylen Brandt is a rising senior at Lindblom Math & Science Academy in Chicago’s West Englewood neighborhood. When she’s not interviewing community members, the aspiring Chicago alderperson is busy applying for colleges.
Music: Malci
Artwork: Dan MacDonald Studios
Audio Producer: Samantha Gattsek
Executive Producers: Mareva Lindo & Elissa Yancey
This podcast is brought to you by Public Narrative and A Picture’s Worth.
Resources and Links
- Adoptees for Justice: http://adopteesforjustice.org/
- National Korean American Service & Education Consortium: http://nakasec.org
- Beyond Speaking Out, a blog post by Jennings: https://www.wearekaan.org/post/beyond-speaking-out
In our fifth episode, we introduce our final topic, Public Health, as seen through the eyes of Taneka Hye Wol Jennings, an adoptee and immigrant rights activist. Jennings was born in Cheongju, South Korea. As a Korean American and a transracial, inter-country adoptee, she is dedicated to adoptee and immigrant rights work, as well as building authentic solidarity with others who have been marginalized by systems and structures that perpetuate injustice. She is a Campaign Director with Adoptees for Justice, a project of the National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC) and an active volunteer for intersectional justice causes. For Jennings, citizenship is a public health issue, determining who does and doesn’t have access to health care. In the photo she shares, Jennings stands in front of the US Capitol Building, about to be willingly arrested as part of a Citizenship for All protest.
Interviewer Kaylen Brandt is a rising senior at Lindblom Math & Science Academy in Chicago’s West Englewood neighborhood. When she’s not interviewing community members, the aspiring Chicago alderperson is busy applying for colleges.
Music: Malci
Artwork: Dan MacDonald Studios
Audio Producer: Samantha Gattsek
Executive Producers: Mareva Lindo & Elissa Yancey
This podcast is brought to you by Public Narrative and A Picture’s Worth.
Resources and Links
- Adoptees for Justice: http://adopteesforjustice.org/
- National Korean American Service & Education Consortium: http://nakasec.org
- Beyond Speaking Out, a blog post by Jennings: https://www.wearekaan.org/post/beyond-speaking-out
Previous Episode
Public Safety in Chicago with Tynetta Hill-Muhammad
Chicago community organizer and abolitionist Tynetta Hill-Muhammad grew up in Louisiana. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, as thousands of residents waited to be rescued, they watched police arrest, shoot, and in some cases kill residents seeking basic supplies from local stores. That was the only spark Hill-Muhammad needed to envision a safer world without police. After moving to Chicago, they encountered the work of Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100), a national, member-based organization of young Black organizers and activists dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all Black people. Today she’s the Chicago Chapter Organizer with BYP100, and works in organizing spaces across the city on initiatives around food sovereignty, transformative justice, and public health.
Interviewer Andrea Hernandez began serving as a member of the Youth District Advisory Council when she was in high school. Now 20 years old, Hernandez is completing college coursework and pursuing plans to work as a Chicago Police Department officer. She credits YDAC for her growth and understanding of the importance of public and community safety.
Music: Malci
Artwork: Dan MacDonald Studios
Audio Producer: Samantha Gattsek
Executive Producers: Mareva Lindo & Elissa Yancey
This podcast is brought to you by Public Narrative and A Picture’s Worth.
Resources and Links
Our Stories Our World podcast site: http://apicturesworth.org/publicnarrative
Public Narrative: http://publicnarrative.org
A Picture’s Worth: http://apicturesworth.org
BYP100 Chicago Chapter: https://www.byp100.org/copy-of-new-page
Cathy Cohen: http://blackyouthproject.com/about-us/cathy-j-cohen/
16 Shots: The Police Shooting of Laquan McDonald:https://www.wbez.org/shows/16-shots/55c63c72-d518-4ad9-b5dc-dd0d841d79a7?gclid=Cj0KCQiAys2MBhDOARIsAFf1D1czFcyHIcOl_vyZ3g7m3Xl1kjbSeOGoRIaq7stbiDCAR6E7hfgGKz8aAq38EALw_wcB
Activists Want City to Cut Ties with ShotSpotter:
Next Episode
S1:E6 Public Health in Chicago with Shyam Prabhakaran
In our sixth and final episode, we once again focus on Public Health, from the perspective of Dr. Shyam Prabhakaran, an internationally recognized leader in vascular neurology and stroke research and treatment. Prabhakaran, who grew up in New Jersey and moved to Chicago in 2006, currently serves as principal investigator of the Chicago regional coordinating center in the National Institutes of Health’s stroke trials network (NIH StrokeNet). He is also an active community-engaged health researcher who partners with neighbors and community leaders to translate and share research findings to those most impacted by them.
In this episode, Prabhakaran shared a screenshot of a virtual meeting of the Chicago Community, Media & Research Partnership (CCMRP) that took place during the first month of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, the partnership of community leaders, community media journalists, and community-engaged health researchers was just a few months into a two-year project dedicated to making health research more accessible through community media. Looking at this photo, Prabhakaran sees a group of people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences who came together with a common goal: improving health equity. That diversity, he said, is essential to his work in public health—and to finding creative and impactful solutions to the problems we face throughout our society.
Daniel Animashaun is a rising junior at Lindblom Math & Science Academy in Chicago’s West Englewood neighborhood. In addition to expertly interviewing community members, he enjoys participating in track and Real Men Talk, a leadership development program run by his school’s Dean of Students, Shohn Williams, who was featured in Our Stories, Our World’s first episode.
Music: Malci
Artwork: Dan MacDonald Studios
Audio Producer: Samantha Gattsek
Executive Producers: Mareva Lindo & Elissa Yancey
This podcast is brought to you by Public Narrative and A Picture’s Worth.
Resources and Links
- Chicago Community, Media & Research Partnership: https://publicnarrative.org/partnerships/
- Framework for making research accessible through community media: https://publicnarrative.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Framework_-Making-Research-Accessible-through-Community-Media.pdf
- Shyam Prabhakaran bio: https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/find-a-physician/physician/shyam-prabhakaran
- Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities: https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/sites/cch/get-support/arcc/index.html
- Patient-Centered Outcome Research Institute: https://www.pcori.org/
- Does a Community Education Program Help Increase Early Hospital Arrival and Ambulance Use for Patients Who Experience Stroke? -- The CEERIAS Study: https://www.pcori.org/research-results/2014/does-community-education-program-help-increase-early-hospital-arrival-and
If you like this episode you’ll love
Episode Comments
Generate a badge
Get a badge for your website that links back to this episode
<a href="https://goodpods.com/podcasts/our-stories-our-world-a-community-driven-podcast-series-187720/s1e5-public-health-in-chicago-with-taneka-jennings-17856562"> <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/goodpods-images-bucket/badges/generic-badge-1.svg" alt="listen to s1:e5 public health in chicago with taneka jennings on goodpods" style="width: 225px" /> </a>
Copy