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This Epoch Life
by Epoch Education Inc.
This Epoch Life podcast discusses topics related to our diverse world and how to build inclusion. Guests share their lived experiences to enhance listeners' awareness of different perspectives coming from diverse identities. This podcast is a resource from Epoch Education, a company that trains and transforms with innovative in-person and online equity workshops that support school districts, companies and leaders to build capacity to carry on equity work internally.
Episodes
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Challenging How History is Taught: Follow-up discussion
Host of This Epoch Life Podcast, Bailee Bennett-Andrade, interviews Dr. Nancy Dome about some points which were brought up in last week's episode with Nicole Kukral. They examine why there needs to be concern regarding the current history curriculum being taught in public education and the call…
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Challenging How History is Taught
Guest, Nicole Kukral, is a program specialist and the creator of the Equity Audit Rubric. This Rubric was created to challenge problematic policies, procedures, curricula, etc. that we see in our public education system today. In this episode she breaks down how she recognized problematic...
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A Story on Access and Higher Education for a Non-Binary Student
Assistant Professor in Theatrical Arts, Roy Lightner, shares his experience when a non-binary student was restricted access to his theatre department due to the current structure of higher education admissions. He advocated for this student because he recognized the problematic policies and...
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Tools for Better Communication, Compassionate Dialogue, and the RIR Protocol
This episode marks the official beginning of Season 2! Dr. Nancy Dome and Dr. Jennifer Jeffries founded the RIR protocol many years ago at CSU San Marcos as a means to improve communication around issues of equity. Today the protocol has transformed into a universal tool to be used in...
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Ericka Huggins-Part II
In this episode we feature Ms. Ericka Huggins for part II of her incredible life story. Ericka was a founding Black Panther Party Member, activist, and political prisoner. In the last episode she told her story of being a young black woman in the Black Panthers, this time she tells a different...
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Speaking with a Professional in Community Engagement.
In this episode the CEO of Epoch Education, Dr. Nancy Dome, talks with our guest Patricia Prado-Olmos who sits as the current Vice President of Community Engagement for CSU San Marcos. Patricia shares the evolution of her career and how she promotes community engagement at a university which…
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Back to School- Teacher commentary on how to prepare for the year to come.
In this episode of the podcast we talk with Stephanie Woodham, middle school teacher at Thomas Russell Middle School. She shares with us how she is preparing for the upcoming school year of distance learning including how to stay engaged with her students and keeping up her equity protocol.
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Shifting Cultures Part III
In this episode we speak with Veline Mojarro, one of the three co-founders at SHIFT. We discuss what our current socio-political situation means for the anti-racist movement and her perspective on being an ally at a time like this.
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Shifting Cultures Part II
In this episode we are talking with Natalie Bui, who is one out of the three co founders over at SHIFT, a DEI consulting company that focuses on building equity, diversity and inclusion along with sexual harassment prevention. she shares with us her experiences of being a first generation, Asian...
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Shifting Cultures
In this episode we have Kausar Mohammed here to share her story with us. Kausar is the co-founder of Shift, a consulting company addressing the major cultural shift in the wake of the #metoo movement by creating spaces for honest dialogue, understanding and change. She is also an actress and...
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Bringing Back Our Sense of Community
Our guest, Dr. Yvette Latunde, is a dedicated Teacher-Scholar who brings her insights from local levels all the way to international platforms. She promotes inclusive communities in academics applying the concepts of hospitality and critical theory. Her main area of focus are safe/ welcoming...
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The Ever Forward Club
This episode features Ashanti Branch who is the founder and Executive Director of the Ever Forward Club which mentors young men in middle and high school by providing them with safe, brave communities that build character and transform lives.
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Cultural Proficiency for Our Current Civil Rights Movement
In this episode we talk with Delores and Randy Lindsey. The husband and wife were part of the educational restructuring after desegregation in the 1960's and have a long career history around creating cultural proficiency in education. They currently collaborate with colleagues interested in...
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Preparing Young Scholars for Higher Ed
In this episode we talk with Nicholas Haystings, the Executive Director at Square Root Academy. Square Root Academy is a S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) based non-profit organization dedicated to educating underrepresented youth on the fundamentals of S.T.E.M. while...
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Distance Learning Exposing the Digital Divide
In this episode of the podcast we sit with Dr. Leilah Kirkendoll, Principal at San Diego County Office of Education. We discuss some of the digital inequities we see surfacing due to our global pandemic, and what we should be doing to maximize our efficiency during this time of distance learning.
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A Fifth Grade Superhero
In this episode our guest, Stephanie Hammer, fifth grade teacher at Theodore Jonah Elementary School, shares her journey as she discovered the benefits of equity in her classroom through Epoch Education’s Trainer of Trainers Program. She stands as a perfect example of what it takes to create an...
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Creating Access for Youth Leadership
In this episode we are focusing on building youth leadership. Our guest, Armoni Easley, is the co-founder of the non profit organization, Project Optimism, which works on empowering leadership mindsets for underprivileged youth and young adults. They provide programs and events that inspire...
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Leading with Gratitude
This week's special features Epoch Education Equity trainer, Deraan Washington, interviewing Equity trainer, Janecia Rolland, about her faith and leading with gratitude during trying times.
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Dream Big, Work Hard, Make it Happen!
Our guest, Bonnie Barron, was a former principal at a school site which had the opportunity to work with Epoch Education. Through her openness and willingness to lean in to the process of building equity, she was able change the culture of her school into an all inclusive and engaging atmosphere....
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Disrupting Systems of Oppression
Our guest, Dr. Talisa Sullivan, shares her passion for eliciting the historical systems of oppression and marginalization of different groups in our society and how we can use compassionate dialogue to disrupt them. She has a book in the works which speaks to these topics and involves the voice…
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Ms. Ericka Huggins and the Heart of the Black Panther Party.
In this episode we have the privilege of talking with Ericka Huggins who was a professor of Sociology and African American studies at Merritt College in Oakland along with other institutions and for 35 years she has advocated for restorative justice. She is also a member of the iconic Black…
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Our Bodies, Our Rights.
In this episode we address the difficult topic of access when it comes to reproductive rights. Women of color along with women of low economic status are disproportionately affected when it comes to policy which determines what they can and cannot do with their own bodies. Our guest Monika…
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How to Use Grief as an Asset
Grief. It’s something that can make you feel desperate and uncomfortable. Everyone experiences it, but not everyone knows how to understand it. Nancy Dome and Bailee Bennett-Andrade get to sit with Laura Thomas as she shares her journey with grief. We hope you may all have a chance to learn and...
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Navigating Womanhood as a First-Generation Immigrant
In this episode Epoch Equity Trainer, Deraan Washington, interviews Equity Trainer, Rozina Kapadia, about the intersection of her womanhood as she grew up in an immigrant household. Rozina’s family is Pakistani, therefore she represents East meets West when it comes to her cultural standing.
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Two sisters and Women's History
In this episode Epoch Education CEO and co founder, Nancy Dome, sits with co founder, Dora Dome, to talk about Women’s History and some of the legal statutes created around protecting women in our schools.
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It is Not the Responsibility of Black and Brown Educators to Qualm Racism
This week we discuss with Marie Smith and Nancy Dome the power of using Critical Race Theory to build narratives for the lived experience of educators of color. Marie is an attorney and educator who is the co author of a research paper called Experiences With Racism: Narratives From Black...
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Free? Or Just Unbonded?
In this episode we get to feature our first student voice. Lily wrote a powerful essay about inequitable practices in our criminal justice systems for her high school English class. Along with her Godmother, Epoch Equity trainer Kelly Cole, we dive deep into structural racism and how future...
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Getting real with STEM4Real
In this episode we get real with Dr. Leena Bakshi. Leena shares an inspiring journey which leads to her building STEM4Real, a company which teaches STEM based learning with a social justice lense. CEO, Dr. Nancy Dome, Leena and myself discuss tracking, environmental racism, and the physical...
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Why they leave.
In this episode we sit down with Epoch Equity Trainer, Dr. Erikca Brown, to discuss the difficulties of being a teacher of color in white-dominated education systems. Dr. Brown has published research which analyzes the disparity of turn over rates for African American teachers in the U.S.
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"You're pretty, for a black girl."
In this episode of the podcast we sit down with Epoch Education’s equity trainer, Deraan Washington, to discuss the harmful connotations behind the statement “You are beautiful, for a black girl.” and the microaggressions we experience when it comes to Eurocentric beauty standards.
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The Unintended Consequences of Desegregation
This week we commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement. Guests Dr. Erikca Brown and Dr. Gina M. Newton discuss their different points of research to unfold the unintended consequences of desegregation. Dr. Brown is an equity trainer for Epoch Education and has conducted...
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Special Education-the last accepted form of segregation.
In this episode we talk with Rozina Kapadia, equity trainer for Epoch Education, about the downfalls of Special Education in the United States. Rozina was a teacher for children in Special Education for years before becoming an equity trainer for Epoch Education. She discusses with us how Special...
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Where do we tend to miss the mark with diversity, equity, and inclusion?
Todays episode of the podcast features two exceptionally special guests, Dr. Nancy Dome and Cassie Bennett-Porter. Nancy is the co Founder and CEO of Epoch Education and Cassie is the Director of Elementary for the San Juan School district. In this podcast we reveal the difficulties behind…
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This Epoch Life podcast discusses topics related to our diverse world and how to build inclusion. Guests share their lived experiences to enhance listeners' awareness of different perspectives coming from diverse identities. This podcast is a resource from Epoch Education, a company that trains and transforms with innovative in-person and online equity workshops that support school districts, companies and leaders to build capacity to carry on equity work internally.
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Epoch Education Inc.
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