ACROSS THE RIVER: BRIDGING CONVERSATIONS | KIM JORGENSEN GANE | Candidate for Michigan State Senate
05/23/22 • 27 min
KIM JORGENSEN GANE is a midwestern mom, a speaker, author and activist community leader; a democrat, running for State Senate in Michigan’s District 20. For this candidacy, she leads with an approach of ‘care’, informed by her deep connection and understanding of the place she has lived most of her life and its complex politics. She brings her ‘every mom’ passion to issues of class, gender and race in her still deeply segregated state, helping the public connect to their values, stories and lived experiences with how they vote.
KIM JORGENSEN GANE is a midwestern mom, a speaker, author and activist community leader; a democrat, running for State Senate in Michigan’s District 20. For this candidacy, she leads with an approach of ‘care’, informed by her deep connection and understanding of the place she has lived most of her life and its complex politics. She brings her ‘every mom’ passion to issues of class, gender and race in her still deeply segregated state, helping the public connect to their values, stories and lived experiences with how they vote.
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WHEREING: A Podcast about Belonging and Design - ACROSS THE RIVER: BRIDGING CONVERSATIONS | KIM JORGENSEN GANE | Candidate for Michigan State Senate
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ACROSS THE RIVER | BRIDGING CONVERSATIONS
Kim Jorgensen Gane | Candidate for Michigan State Senate
S2 EPISODE 5: TRANSCRIPT May 22, 2022
[00:00:00] Kim:
"I love this place and I love the people in it. I have made friends across the river and had to make great effort to do that. I was raised to, I think, unsee the differences, to unsee that there were people right across the river who were having a very different experience because of where they grew up
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