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In Praxis
by The Praxis Project
The Praxis Project's In Praxis podcast shares the stories of our community-based partner organizations and how they are impacting health disparities through local initiatives, policy change, and advocacy. Each episode highlights how these diverse organizations are creatively addressing social justice issues across the country, all with the same goal of health justice. By uplifting our partners’ strategies and tactics to solve local issues, we hope other organizations will find value in these lessons and experiences.
Episodes
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Organic Community Power - Albino Garcia
Albino Garcia is the Executive Director and Founder of La Plazita Institute. Over the last 18 years, La Plazita has been serving New Mexico's communities through economic, cultural, agricultural and community revitalization through organizing and power building. In this episode, Albino gives a…
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Building A Community of Earthseed - Ashely Gripper
Dr. Ashley Gripper is the co-creator and co-director of Land Based Jawns, a Philly based organization committed to reclaiming ancestral, earthly, and spiritual relationships with Mama Earth and land for Black folks. In this episode, Ashley tells an in-depth story of her life—sharing all the...
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[Spanish] Derechos de los Trabajadores, ¡Justicia Alimentaria! / Workers' Rights, Food Justice! - Lupe Gonzalo
Nuestra lucha por la justicia alimentaria debe incluir a los que trabajan más cerca de nuestros alimentos. La organizadora de trabajadores agrícolas, Lupe Gonzalo, de la Coalición de Trabajadores de Immokalee (CIW) comparte el profundo poder que se encuentra dentro de las voces de los…
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The Power of Youth Led Food Justice - Bevelyn Afor Ukah
Bevelyn Afor Ukah believes that youth power holds the key to our survival and collective freedom. Only through our ability to be in multigenerational relationships with one another in our organizing efforts, will we be able to achieve the just world we know we deserve. Bevelyn's work at the Food...
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Getting Back to Mother Earth - Donne Gonzalez & Emily Arasim
In this episode of In Praxis, we are joined by Donne Gonzalez and Emily Arasim from New Mexico Acequia Association (NMAA). Donne is the Farm Trainer/Farm Manager and Emily serves as the Youth Education Coordinator. Both Donne and Emily are deeply committed in serving as caretakers, and passing on...
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Rooted in Praxis - amaha sellassie
amaha sellassie is a public-sociologist working to transform communities through a love ethic. In this episode, amaha shares the story of how Gem City Market, a worker owned cooperative, came into existence. Gem City Market is the first full service grocery store in West Dayton, Oh. amaha shares...
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Planting Seeds to Grow Community - Angela Patel
As a second generation Pan-Asian American, Angela Patel (she/her) uses her cultural history to shape and influence her work at Danny Woo Community Garden as the Sustainable Community and Educational Coordinator. Danny Woo Community Garden is situated in the heart of Seattle's...
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History Bearing Fruit to the Present - Kyle Tsukahira
Kyle Tsukahira is the Co-Director of Asian Pacific Islander Forward Movement (APIFM) based in Los Angeles, CA. In this episode, Kyle shares his journey into food justice work, starting with a memory of foods that remind him of home. Kyle tells us about his lineage and the ancestors that brought...
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Feeding the Generations to Come - Carleton Turner
Co-founder, co-director, and lead artist of the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production, Carlton Turner works at the intersection of arts, culture, and agriculture. Carlton comes from a long lineage of workers of the land and believes in the power of storytelling through food. In this episode,...
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Finding Freedom in Food - Emanuel Brown
Space Curator, Facilitator and conjuror of spaces for freedom, Emanuel H. Brown (he/him), Executive Director and Steward of Acorn Center for Restoration and Freedom, life's work centers around the question of How can people get free? How can people feel free? In this episode, Emanuel explores…
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Taking on the Giant - Janna Cordeiro
In 2014, when Berkeley, CA passed the nation's first soda tax, advocates and public health practitioners in San Francisco made a parallel effort to enact a similar tax on sugar sweetened beverages in their city. A testament to the beverage industry's massive funds, the measure failed in San...
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Centering Community in Soda Taxes - Christina Goette
Christina Goette, co-founder of Shape Up San Francisco Coalition, discusses the wide range of efforts to reduce sugary drink consumption in the Bay Area and situates SSB work along the spectrum of prevention. From education initiatives, to organizational culture change, to policy advocacy, the...
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Building on Historic Public Health Efforts - Holly Scheider
Holly Scheider, chair of Berkeley's Sweetened Beverage Product Panel of Experts, discusses Berkeley's work to reduce sugary drink consumption and their fight against the beverage industry. She touches on the ways Berkeley's Measure D has been used to invest in community-led health initiatives for...
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Community-led Participatory Policymaking - Sara Soka
In 2014, Berkeley, California passed Measure D, the first local tax on sugar sweetened beverages in the nation. Sara Soka, fellow at the Beeck Center and the campaign manager for Measure D, discusses the process of passing Measure D and the importance of community in moving SSB work forward....
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Sweet Danger - Jeff Ritterman
Jeff Ritterman, cardiologist and board member of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility working to combat medical racism and climate change, discusses his experience and lessons learned from proposing the first municipal soda tax in Richmond in 2012 and his…
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Combatting the Rise of Soda - Mike Jacobson
Michael Jacobson, senior scientist at and co-founder of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), tracks the rise of soda consumption, proliferation of research on its health effects, and industry responses over the years. As former Executive Director of CSPI for 40 years until 2017…
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The Power of Personal Connections - Winnie Huston
Winnie Huston, Policy Strategist at DC Greens, discusses the importance of relationship building in the work of food justice and shares her personal journey to the work. Through wisdom garnered being on the ground in DC, Winnie speaks to the power of connecting personally with community members…
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The Case for Equity-based Policy Processes - Rod Lew
Rod Lew, Executive Director of Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment, Advocacy and Leadership (APPEAL), discusses how the negative health impacts of sugary beverages can be best understood in the context of a long history of racism and structural oppression as well as toxic relationship building...
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Reclaiming Indigenous Lifeways & Foodways - Denisa Livingston
According to the USDA, 99% of Navajo Nation is a "food desert." However, Denisa Livingston from Dine Community Advocacy Alliance and the Slow Food International Council, holds that the lack of healthy foods in the Navajo Nation is more accurately described as food apartheid. Reflecting on the...
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A Systems Transformation Approach - Xavier Morales
According to the CDC, half of Black and Brown children born in 2000 can expect to develop diabetes in their lifetime. Xavier Morales, Executive Director of the Praxis Project, reflects on the structures that drive such inequities in communities of color and makes the case for a transformative...
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Tere Almaguer - PODER
This podcast episode in Communities Building Power for Health (CBPH) Series features Tere Almaguer of PODER, an organization based in the San Francisco's Mission District. Brought to you by the Praxis Project.
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Joseph Martinez II - Miami Children's Initiative (MCI)
Miami Children's Initiative (MCI) is #BuildingPowerForHealth in Liberty City, FL. Joseph Martinez II, MCI's Health & Wellness Coordinator, shares with The Praxis Project how MCI operates as well as his experiences organizing the Fresh Food Co-Op program, promoting healthy food access, and his…
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Guy Reiter of Menikanaehkem Community Rebuilders
In this podcast episode of Communities Building Power for Health, we speak with Guy Reiter (Anahqwet) on the Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin about his organization Menikanaehkem and their work in rebuilding their community by fostering language and cultural revitalization.
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Genoveva Islas - Cultiva La Salud's Vendors For Health Project
In this second webisode of Communities Building Power for Health, The Praxis Project interviews Genoveva Islas, the director of Cultiva La Salud, an organization working for health and social justice in Fresno, CA. Fresno is a food desert and obesity and diabetes are a major issue...
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Janet Robinson-Flint - Black Women for Wellness
In our 3rd webisode of Communities Building Power for Health, The Praxis Project interviews Janet Robinson Flint, the Executive Director of Black Women for Wellness, an organization focusing on improving health and social justice conditions for black women. We sent Jeremiah Headen to Los Angeles…
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Kelly Carlisle - Acta Non Verba Youth Urban Farm Project
Acta Non Verba: Youth Urban Farm Project (ANV) elevates life in the inner-city by challenging oppressive dynamics and environments through urban farming. Founded and led mainly by women of color from the surrounding neighborhood and larger community, ANV creates a safe and creative outdoor space...
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The Praxis Project's In Praxis podcast shares the stories of our community-based partner organizations and how they are impacting health disparities through local initiatives, policy change, and advocacy. Each episode highlights how these diverse organizations are creatively addressing social justice issues across the country, all with the same goal of health justice. By uplifting our partners’ strategies and tactics to solve local issues, we hope other organizations will find value in these lessons and experiences.
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