The Augsburg Podcast
by Augsburg University
The Augsburg Podcast features the voices of Augsburg University faculty and staff. We hope this is one way you can get to know the people who educate our students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.
Episodes
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Barclay Bates: Lessons in Leadership
Barclay Bates, Augsburg alumn and former intern (now employee) at Midco, has learned what separates leaders from managers. His years as captain of the Augsburg football team as well as intern and career positions at Midco have given him deep insight into what it takes to do great work with a…
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Hannah Dyson: Putting the "Story" in "History"
Hannah Dyson discovered a remarkable overlap in her theatre and history interests when interning at the MN Historical Society. Writing stories for MNopedia about fraudulent towns and journalistic assassinations, Hannah developed a passion for storytelling that connects past and present – and her...
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Bjorn Melin: Discoveries in Data
Bjorn Melin, intern at Cteq Data Consultants and 3M, is proof that drive and work ethic really do make a difference. Not about to allow his Edina upbringing to afford him any opportunities he didn’t earn, Bjorn tackled a challenging double major in Computer Science and Math and forged his own...
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Miracle Adebanjo: The Gift of Giving
Miracle Adebanjo, weathered a challenging transition from his international upbringing moving from London to New Jersey, and Minnesota that was punctuated with homelessness, culture clash, and lack of structure. But business, social work, and internship opportunities introduced Miracle to friends...
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Oliva House: The Art of Activism
Olivia House, intern at Wingnut Advertising (via Brand Lab), uses design to advance the causes of justice and activism. Through her work, she strives to elevate underrepresented voices, share stories that aren’t told, and promote history that has been erased. Mentors in Augsburg arts and…
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Ethan Quezada: A Calling to Service
Ethan Quezada, 1st year class president and intern with Senator Tina Smith, tells a story of purpose and belonging. He grew up in an environment where Ethan struggled to make his dreams of public service a reality. At Augsburg, his rapid rise through student government, encounters with meaningful...
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Exploring Student Vocations: Season 3 Trailer
Barclay Bates: I think anytime you have the ability to positively influence a group of people, you have to take full advantage of that. Olivia House: I really want to use graphic design to impact the world around me in a positive way. Uplifting people's voices that have been taken away or haven't...
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Lamont Slater: Decolonizing the Mind
Lamont Slater: I always keep track of my students when the semester ends, and a lot of times, they say that it has transformed them in a way that now they're able to confront wrong information or biased information or racist information in a way that is constructive and academic and leads to…
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Stacy Freiheit: Applied Psychology
Stacy Freiheit: The value that I want to impart is that people become aware of their own values so that students are able to articulate what their values are. Once they know what their values are, that can help them in their interactions with other people, to recognize that not everybody is going...
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Sarah Degner Riveros: Language for Life
Sarah Riveros: I cannot teach Spanish for tourism. So many times, I take a critical eye to the textbook and recognize that I'm not preparing students for future vacations. We learn Spanish from our neighbors, and being bilingual makes us more able to listen and believe that there isn't one way of...
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Ankita Deka: Lifelong Learnings in Social Work
Ankita Deka: My goal is to create these critical pedagogical experiences for the students where they master these concepts and learn to develop skills, but more importantly, where there is also some critical consciousness raising, where they're able to question how normative values around...
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Lori Brandt Hale: Lived Theology
Lori Brandt Hale: Pay attention is one of those phrases in my class, so by the end of the semester people start to roll their eyes just a little bit because I've said so many times, "Pay attention," or, "Look at this story, this person was paying attention." We talk a lot about vocation and…
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Jill Dawe: The Connectivity of Music
Jill Dawe: I seem to still go back to this idea that there is a simple way to connect with people and to believe in the multifaceted dimensions of individuals and their creative possibility and their talent and their experience, and to build out from that. And I am incredibly honored and...
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Vivian Feng: Chemistry & Curiosity
Vivian Feng: I consider myself always a learner, learning new things always excite me. I am really at the bench learning with my students because we're doing things that I don't have the right answer for and I'm reading papers together with them. I hope that by coming through my classes, my...
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Jeremy Myers: Pathways in Public Theology
Jeremy Myers: How do we help our young people think about God as moving in our world, working in our world? How do we teach our young people to be in our world, partnering with God in the redeeming work that God's doing in our world? So how do we teach them how to listen, engage, seek out places…
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Jennifer Forsthoefel: The Exercise of Writing
Jennifer Forsthoefel: I think it is important to establish a writing culture on campus, really starting out with thinking what is the culture of writing on our campus currently, and what do we want it to be in the future? I think there should be an investment in considering that. Paul Pribbenow:...
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Katie Bishop: The Many Meanings of Success
Katie Bishop: Every person at Augsburg is carrying something. Our students are carrying heavy burdens, some of them, many of them. And they have to share some of those burdens in order to be here in this space. That requires a lot of empathy and that costs something. There is a cost associated…
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Doug Green: Self-Discovery in Literature and Drama
Doug Green: As a teacher of literature, as long as students can ground what they're saying in the text, I'm happy. It's rich stuff, so you can pull a lot of different things out of it. Probably the thing they most take away from my class is what's exciting about literature because I can't help...
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Terrance Kwame-Ross: Empathy in Education
Kwame-Ross: As an African American coming from Chicago or African American living in Minneapolis, versus a white teacher who teaches in Minneapolis, but comes from Minnetonka, you have a discrepancy of knowledge. How do you get white teachers who grew up differently, who have different…
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The Augsburg Podcast features the voices of Augsburg University faculty and staff. We hope this is one way you can get to know the people who educate our students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.
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