For 15 years Alex and Meg have lived in the 53206 zip code - the poorest zip code in Wisconsin. Naively, the thought they were moving in to change the world. Predictably, that didn't happen, but the desire to create lasting change in their neighborhood never left the two. On this episode of the 53206 Cast, Meg and Alex share what they they have learned about creating social change and offer three areas to focus on. 

On this episode of the 53206 Cast, Meg and Alex get a little controversial and talk about white saviors or, more specifically, how they interpret and interact with the idea that someone could be a white savior.  

Meg and Alex are back in the sitting room talking about creating change through system disruptions and how that might actually play out. 

School, everyone has to go, but not everyone has the same results when they are done. On this episode of the 53206 Cast Alex and Meg talk about education, specifically whats working, what isn't, and what the point of all of it is. 

On this episode of the 53206 Cast Meg and Alex talk about passing our girl scout cookies and how something simple in one area becomes complicated in the inner city. Then the two make the correlation between decreasing personal comfort and increasing purpose and share how that can be done in an intentional way to increase diversity in inner city spaces.  

On a Sunday morning while trying to avoid a pile of leftover work tasks from the week, Alex stumbled upon an argument on Facebook. The argument more or less divided people into two camps: personal responsibility and communal responsibility. On this episode of the 53206 Cast, Alex and Meg talk about a third approach, one that integrates the other to and creates plans for actual change. 

On this episode of the 53206 Cast, Meg and Alex share some of their thoughts on whose responsibility it is for some of the injustices happening in their neighborhood.  

A lot of crazy things happen in the inner city. On this episode of the 53206 Cast, Meg and Alex share some of the recent oddities they have come across in their neighborhood. 

Meg and Alex are back talking about a couple of quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. and some of the parallels from the early 1960's and life in a poor almost all black neighborhood today. While a lot has changed in the last almost 60 years, there are still steps needed to put things back to how they should be.  

Meg and Alex sit down and share a big announcement on this episode of the 53206 Cast. Plus the duo talk through an interesting multi-generational drug deal and how the cycle of poverty is many times perpetuated through educational structures.