Meg and Alex are back for the first episode of the 53206 Cast in 2024. This week, the two talk about how to overcome the fear of being labled a white savior.

This week, Meg and Alex are back with another episode on access. The inner city can be an isolating space and the more we can provide access to everything the world has to offer, the more a young person can envision themselves beyond their own circumstances and the more the world opens up to them.

Traumatic events seem to happen more reguarly in the inner city and the inward affects of that trauma is often hidden from outside world. This week, Meg and Alex talk about truama in the inner city and how that trauma affects day to day life.

This week Meg and Alex are joined by longtime friend of the podcast Jamie DeJesus and Adelle Quick, a junior at Marquette University. The group talks about the value of the EPP program at Marquette which is designed to provide educational opportunities for those affected by the criminal justice system and Adelle gives some insight on what she learned from taking a class at a correctional institution.

This week Meg and Alex give an update on the white house on the corner and discuss the transformative power of tulip bulbs.

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This week, Jamie DeJesus returns to give his annual Thanksgiving update. Jamie is a long time advocate for the justice involved and helps manage the Innovative Educational Solutions Institute which provides CNC and manufactoring skills training programming. You can find out more about IES at https://iesinstitute.org/.

This week Meg and Alex discuss the trick or treat habits of their neighborhood and give some advice on how to expidite the process of deconcentrating of areas of poverty.

Things happen in areas of concentrated poverty that can make someone unfamiliar with those spaces uncomfortable, but does that mean we should avoid them? This week Meg and Alex talk about being ok with being uncomfortable and the surprise benefits of intentionally leaning in to uncomfortable situations.

Meg and Alex are back talking about an old friend and neighbor.

This week Meg and Alex welcome special guests Jodi Delfosse, Lynn Charnitz, and Claudia Morris also known as the lunch ladies from We Got This. The group talks about their experience and gives some insight on how to serve well.