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What a Word is Worth
by Marianela Medrano
Conversations with creative people on collective healing using innovative means.
Episodes
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In conversation with writer Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond has written for AOL, Parenting Magazine, the Village Voice, Metro, and Trace Magazine. Her short story “Bush Girl” was published in the May 2008 issues of African Writing and her poem, “The Whinings of a Seven Sister Cum Laude Graduate Working Board as an Assistant,” was...
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In conversation with professor & writer Stephanie Fetta
Stephanie Fetta holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. Her monograph Shaming into Brown: Somatic Transactions of Race in Latina/o Literature (The Ohio State University Press, 2018) uncovers a new analytical lens Dr. Fetta identifies as the soma, loosely defined as the gestural...
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In conversation with spiritual teacher and writer Mark Matousek
Mark Matousek is an award-winning author of seven books, Sex Death Enlightenment: A True Story, The Boy He Left Behind, When You’re Falling, Dive, Ethical Wisdom: The Search for a Moral Life, Ethical Wisdom for Friends, Mother of the Unseen World, and Writing To Awaken: A Journey of Truth,...
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In conversation with poet, healer and founder of the Institute for Poetic Medicine, John Fox
John Fox, Practioner of Poetic Medicine (PPM), is a poet and author of Finding What You Didn't Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity through Poem-Making and Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making. He teaches regularly at the collegiate and post-graduate level as an adjunct faculty...
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In conversation with poet, writer and educator David Ebenbach
David Ebenbach: A writer. Chronically preoccupied with the human condition. As a result of all that writing and preoccupation, David is the award-winning author of nine books: novels, short story and poetry collections, and books of non-fiction. He lives in Washington, DC, with his family. His...
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In conversation with Haitian writer and educator Danielle Legros Georges
Danielle Legros Georges is a professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University. She is also the former Poet Laureate of the City of Boston, where she was tasked with raising the status of poetry in the everyday consciousness of Bostonians, acting as an advocate for poetry,...
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En conversación con el poeta y ensayista dominicano Médar Serrata
Médar Serrata (Santo Domingo, 1964) Poeta y ensayista residente en Estados Unidos. Doctor en Literatura Hispánica de la Universidad de Texas en Austin. Profesor de literatura en Grand Valley State University, Michigan, y autor de los poemarios Las piedras del ábaco (Colección Egro de Poesía,1986)…
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En conversación con el escritor, investigador y educador Carlos Decena.
Carlos Ulises Decena is an interdisciplinary scholar, whose work straddles the humanities and social sciences and whose intellectual projects blur the boundaries among critical ethnic, queer and feminist studies, social justice and public health. His areas of interest include critical theory as...
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In Conversation with Writer Sandra Hunter
Sandra pivoted from 19+ years as an English and Creative Writing professor to start her business in January 2022, Wild Women Leaders of Color (WWLoC). She is a life coach helping professional women release stress caused by workplace racism and patriarchalism, and centering them in their…
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In conversation with beloved poet, writer, educador and coach Reggie Marra.
Reggie Marra is the author of Healing America's Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow (October 2022), and most recently, of Enough with the Talking Points (nonfiction, 2020), Killing America(poetry, 2018), and And Now, Still (poetry, 2016). His first work of...
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In Conversation with Gregg Westwood, founder of Depth Integration
Gregg Westwood is a spiritual risk-taker committed to manifesting the most authentic expression of his soul on this planet and supporting others in discovering their soul’s unique creative expression by transforming their fears and challenges into flow, love, and joy. A former professional…
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In Conversation with Dr. Shelly P. Harrell, a healer and mindfulness practitioner
Dr. Harrell is a licensed psychologist with areas of specialization in multicultural and community psychology. Her research interests include cultural dimensions of wellness and positive well-being, racism-related stress, resilience-oriented stress management interventions, culturally-diverse...
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In Conversation with Dr. Amy Banks and Isaac Knapper, authors of Fighting Time
Listen to my conversation with the authors of Fighting Time. Dr. Amy Banks, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist, and founding member of the Relational Cultural Theory (RTC) model, truly walks her talk in this book. Issac Knapper, the head trainer of the Crescent City Boxing Gym in New Orleans…
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En Conversación con la artista e investigadora Dominicana Irka Mateo
Durante muchos años, Irka Mateo ha estado investigando las raíces de la música dominicana. Viajó durante diez años (1997-2007) por las zonas rurales de la República Dominicana documentando más de trece géneros de tradiciones musicales folclóricas, desconocidos en la cultura dominicana más amplia…
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In Conversation with Professor Lorgia García Peña.
Prof. García Peña is the author of The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nations and Archives of Contradictions (Duke University Press, 2016) a study of the impact of stories — historical and fictional — on the national and racial identity of a people. Offering the Dominican experience as case…
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En Conversación con la Antropóloga dominicana Fatima Portorreal Liriano.
Fatima Portorreal Liriano. Antropóloga, especialista en estudios de género y desarrollo. Profesora de INTEC.
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In Conversation with Ann Filemyr, poet and President of SouthWestern College
Ann Filemyr, Ph.D. is the fourth President of Southwestern College following four and a half years of service as the Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean. She also serves as the Director of the Ecotherapy Certificate.
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Poeta y Académico Rei Berroa en Conversación
Rei Berroa. Poeta y catedrático (George Mason University). Autor de más de 50 libros (versos, antologías y crítica). Premio Internacional Trieste Poesía por el conjunto de su obra (2010) y Premio Mihai Eminescu (Rumanía, 2012). Le fue dedicada la VIII Feria del Libro de Nueva York. Ha sido...
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In Conversation with Haitian Singer-Lyricist and activist Laurie Amodeo
Laurie Amodeo, MBA, RYT is a singer-lyricist, yoga teacher and activist, founder of the BIPOC Meditation Collective in Boulder, Colorado.
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En Conversación con el poeta chileno Javier Campos
Poeta y narrador chileno residente en los Estados Unidos.
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A Conversation with astrologer Deb McBride
Deb McBride has been practicing astrology for most of her life, in addition to holding degrees in chemistry & mathematics. Astrology has always been a vocation as Deb was first drawn to it as a child in the late 1960’s when it was very much a part of her life and surroundings. As an adult, she...
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A Conversation with Anthony Peterson
Anthony Peterson has studied, taught, and written about cultural and racial realities for more than 30 years. I discovered him through one of his Tedtalks and was so impressed by his words that I conquered my shyness and contacted him; my gesture was met with utmost kindness and openness. Since...
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Una Conversación con el escritor colombiano Carlos Aguasaco
Carlos Aguasaco, Ph.D (1975) Profesor Titular de estudios culturales latinoamericanos y español en el Departamento de Estudios Interdisciplinarios de City College of the City University of New York. Ha editado diez antologías literarias y publicado seis libros de poemas, los más recientes Poemas...
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A Conversation with Poetry Therapy Pioneer Dr. Sherry Reiter
Sherry Reiter, Ph.D., LCSW, PTR-M/S, RDT-BCT, Registered Poetry Therapist/Mentor-Supervisor (PTR-M/S) and Registered Drama Therapist/ Board Certified Trainer (RDT-BCT), is an international speaker and author of Writing Away the Demons: Stories of Creative Coping Through Transformative Writing...
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A Conversation with American Diplomat and Human Rights Advocate Francisco Palmieri
In this conversation Francisco Palmieri, shares his experience advocating for human rights, diplomacy, sovereignty and much more. Francisco (Paco) Palmieri is the Acting Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, where he previously served as Principal Deputy Assistant...
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Marianela Medrano en Conversación con Mateo Morrison
MATEO MORRISON FORTUNATO Escritor dominicano En la historia de la literatura dominicana corresponde a la Generación de Posguerra. Es el primer dominicano egresado en Administración Cultural. Estudió en el Centro Latinoamericano y del Caribe para el Desarrollo Cultural. Licenciado en Derecho…
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In Conversation with Francesca Maximé
In this conversation we discussed somatic language, anti-racism, and other important topics. Francesca Maximé is a Haitian-Dominican Italian-American somatic psychotherapist, life coach, and embodied antiracism educator in New York. She’s also an award-winning poet and author, former television...
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A Conversation with Dr. Maureen Walker
Dr. Maureen Walker, is a great mind of our times who has been advocating for anti-racist, feminist rights. We talk about the codified language that sustains racism, about the black and brown body's constriction in white spaces, and about how we code-switch to protect ourselves. She also talks…
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In Conversation with Jamie Figueroa, author of Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer, a novel
Jamie Figueroa, a Boricua sister, self-described as Afro-Taína by way of Ohio. She is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer, a powerful statement on recovering from colonialism and other isms, in my view. Jamie is a longtime resident of northern New…
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Conversation with John Evans
John F.Evans, MAT, MA, Ed.D is a writing clinician and integrative health coach who works with groups, individuals, and health care professionals, including physicians, nurses, therapists, counselors, psychologists, social workers, educators, personal coaches, and alternative health care...
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Preserving Indigenous Wisdom: A conversation with Monique Lang
An episode with Monique Lang, a psychotherapist, teacher, writer and healer. For over 40 years she has worked with and helped individuals, groups and communities to find healing. Trained in Internal Family Systems, Past Life Regression, EMDR, Gestalt, Psychoanalysis, Comprehensive Resource Model,...
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The Healing Power of Difficulties: A conversation with Dr. Carly Hudson
Dr. Carly believes that bringing more movement into your day is just one way to improve your health and well-being. As an infant, Dr. Carly suffered a devastating and life-threatening illness. She was left with “invisible handicaps” including balance disorders, muscle spasticity, and hearing…
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Being Medicine, a conversation with Dr. David Kopacz
Dr. David Kopacz is a psychiatrist at the Seattle Veterans Affairs primary care clinic. He is an education champion with the National VA Office of Patient Centered Care & Cultural Transformation, where he teaches Whole Health to VA Staff across the USA. He is board certified in psychiatry and...
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Conversation with Eden Tull on Relational Mindfulness
This is a conversation on Relational Mindfulness and the healing that can come from it. DEBORAH EDEN TULL, founder of Mindful Living Revolution, teaches the integration of compassionate awareness in every aspect of our lives. She is a Zen meditation and engaged dharma teacher, public speaker,...
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A Conversation with Patricia Dunn
Patricia Dunn is the author of Last Stop on the 6 (Bordighera Press, 2021) a novel that depicts the lives of Italian-Americans in the Bronx in the 1980s. Patricia Dunn is the author of the young adult novel Rebels by Accident (Sourcebooks Fire). Her writing has appeared on Salon, in The Village...
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Mindful Writing: a conversation with Alexandria Peary
This episode is a lively conversation with poet and professor Dr. Alexandria Peary. Here is more about our guest: Alexandria Peary (MFA, MFA, PhD) serves as New Hampshire Poet Laureate. She is the author of nine books, including Control Bird Alt Delete, Prolific Moment: Theory and Practice of...
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What a Word is Worth: An introduction
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