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CreateNow

by Robert Ransick

CreateNow is a podcast that explores creative and generative approaches to changing the systems that rule our world. Guests include innovators from finance to activism, business to art–we’re interested in people who are causing a ruckus creatively rethinking and remaking sectors once thought unchangeable. We are hosted on the Bennington College Campus at the Center for the Advancement of Public Action. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episodes

  1. EP 10 Judith Enck

    On this episode, I speak with Judith Enck, who is currently the Senior Advisor at the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development and visiting faculty at Bennington College’s Center for the Advancement of Public Action. Judith began her work as an environmental activist when she was a...

  2. EP 9 Lauren Ruffin

    On this episode, I speak with Lauren Ruffin, who is Vice President of External Relations for Fractured Atlas, a national organization which empowers artists by eliminating practical barriers to artistic expression. This past fall, she spearheaded the Artist’s Campaign School - an intensive…

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  3. EP 8 Mary Powell

    On this episode Robert spoke with Mary Powell, Chief Executive Officer of Green Mountain Power in Vermont via Skype. Mary grew up in New York City with two parents who were artists and attended the prestigious LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. After working for America’s...

  4. EP 7 Cannupa Hanska Luger

    CreateNow team members Chloe Shelford and Anna Saldinger spoke with multi-disciplinary artist Cannupa Hanksa Luger last fall, when he was at Bennington College as part of the Visual Arts Lecture Series. Cannupa was born in North Dakota on the Standing Rock Reservation and his work engages deeply...

  5. EP 6 John Fullerton

    Robert spoke with John at the first Regenerative Futures Summitin Boulder Colorado about his work at the Capital Institute. John founded the organization in 2010 to explore and affect the economic transition to a more just, regenerative, and thus sustainable way of living on this earth through…

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  6. EP 5 Ben Hall

    On this episode, Robert spoke with Ben Hall, a Bennington College alum who received the 2017 Elizabeth Coleman Visionary Leadership Award this past fall for his work as co-owner of Russell Street Deli in Detroit, Michigan. Ben and his business partner Jason Murphey started as dishwashers there in...

  7. EP 4 Stephanie Dinkins

    Robert spoke with artist Stephanie Dinkins this fall about her work creating platforms for ongoing dialog about artificial intelligence as it intersects race, gender, aging and our future histories. She is particularly driven to work with communities of color to develop deep-rooted AI literacy…

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  8. EP 3 Kate Raworth

    Robert spoke with Kate Raworth at the first Regenerative Futures Summit in Boulder Colorado about her book Doughnut Economic: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist. They also discussed the power of images, her upbringing in a home with a photographer father, jazz singing and how she...

  9. EP 2 Ruby Lerner

    Ruby Lerner, Founding Executive Director, Creative Capital Robert spoke with Ruby Lerner at Bennington’s Center for the Advancement of Public Action this fall about the trailblazing organization she founded in 1999, Creative Capital. Bringing a venture capital model of support to artists…

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  10. EP 1 Donna Morton

    Donna Morton, CEO of Change Finance This past May, Robert spoke with Donna Morton at the first Regenerative Futures Summit in Boulder Colorado about her background in the performing arts and how this foundation informs all of her work. After many years working as an activist in the environmental...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

CreateNow is a podcast that explores creative and generative approaches to changing the systems that rule our world. Guests include innovators from finance to activism, business to art–we’re interested in people who are causing a ruckus creatively rethinking and remaking sectors once thought unchangeable.

We are hosted on the Bennington College Campus at the Center for the Advancement of Public Action.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

HOSTED BY

Robert Ransick

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CreateNow is a podcast that explores creative and generative approaches to changing the systems that rule our world. Guests include innovators from finance to activism, business to art–we’re interested in people who are causing a ruckus creatively rethinking and remaking sectors once thought...

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