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- Rose Osburn - Thrive DC
On this 10th episode of the podcast, we feature a young woman who is dedicated to housing and food security, Rose Osburn. Rose is a Volunteer and In-Kind Coordinator at Thrive DC, an organization that works to prevent and end homelessness in Washington, DC by providing vulnerable people with a wide range of services. She has worked with food in many forms over her early career and loves interacting with others and learning about their true needs In this episode, Rose shares where her passion came from, her experience working as a farmer, and how to navigate work-life balance when the demand for what you do is simply unending.
Thrive DC works to prevent and end homelessness in Washington, DC by providing vulnerable people with a wide range of services to help stabilize their lives. They act as a safety net for people experiencing homelessness, unemployment, housing instability, and food insecurity, serving more than 2,000 men, women, and children each year.
Rose can also be reached via email here.
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Music: Spark of Inspiration by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com27 min - Austin Lee - ideas42
On this episode, you'll hear from a guy who has quite the story and is someone I've known for a decade, Austin Lee. Austin is a senior associate in people operations at ideas42, a non-profit design and consulting firm that uses insights from the behavioral sciences to address complex social problems. Austin lives his life as an experiment, having gone from giving the commencement speech at his graduation to having a high-end job to leaving it all behind to travel the world for a year. He actively works to create real connections between people that will lead to changing the world.
Austin can be reached via email here or via LinkedIn here.
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Music: Spark of Inspiration by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com33 min - Mena Ayazi - Search for Common Ground
This episode features a young woman who has a true passion for youth peacebuilding, Mena Ayazi. Mena is a Youth, Peace and Security Advisor at Search for Common Ground. She's using her career to help improve the relationship between citizens and their governments, particularly focusing on the encouragement of citizen participation in democracy, both in the U.S. and internationally. In this episode, Mena shares where her passion came from, what peacebuilding really looks like, and the challenges she has faced as a Muslim American in a post-9/11 world.
Search for Common Ground is an international peacebuilding organization. Launched during the Cold War, their mission is to transform the way the world deals with conflict, away from adversarial approaches, toward cooperative solutions.
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Music: Spark of Inspiration by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com23 min - Claire Brawdy - The Democracy Collaborative
The first episode of the new year features a young woman who is dedicated to improving our democracy through her role as a Senior Associate at The Democracy Collaborative, Claire Brawdy. Claire is a skilled project manager with extensive experience in facilitation, strategic planning, and program design for an array of federal, commercial, and nonprofit partners. In her Senior Associate role, Claire manages a portfolio of work with organizations across the country that are building their local economies through strategies like impact investing, worker-ownership, or cross-sector collaborations. Through her early career, she’s changed roles a few times, moving from the for-profit sector into the non-profit world, landing where she is today at TDC.
The Democracy Collaborative's mission is to help catalyze a moral and political transformation of the US political economy into a next system that is inclusive, just, and ecologically sustainable.
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Music: Spark of Inspiration by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com35 min - Sam Gerard - American Atheists
For this last episode of 2020, you'll hear from someone who’s passionate about ensuring the separation of church and state, Sam Gerard. Sam is the membership manager at American Atheists. He just transitioned into this role recently, having worked in communications for the American Humanist Association up until a couple of months ago. He’s done other work in the areas of environmental activism and politics as well. Overall his passions lie in the areas of voting rights and various science and technology issues, with an interest in working at the intersection of public policy and political engagement. Sam can be reached via LinkedIn here.
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Music: Spark of Inspiration by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com37 min - Amber Lee Todoroff - Environmental and Energy Study Institute
This episode features someone who is passionate about creating real political change as it pertains to the environment, Amber Lee Todoroff. Amber is a policy associate at the Environmental and Energy Study Institute where she creates a biweekly policy newsletter, develops Congressional briefings, works on programmatic efforts with Congressional staffers and policy professionals, and creates fact sheets, reports, and articles on environmental policy for distribution to a Congressional audience.
Amber can be best reached on LinkedIn here.
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Music: Spark of Inspiration by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com23 min - Justine Zawatski - Upwardly Global
On this episode, you'll hear from a young woman who’s passionate about helping others, especially minorities and the disadvantaged, Justine Zawatski. Justine is a program manager at Upwardly Global, a national non-profit, helping immigrant, refugee and asylee professionals rebuild their careers in the United States. There, she leads a team that serves job seekers by managing employment services, onboarding, events, partnerships, as well as the Career Pathways grant program. Her work involves building strategic relationships with local and national corporate and nonprofit partners, and doing outreach to grow the organization’s local community, employer and referral partners. Before Upwardly Global, she worked for SEEC, a progressive nonprofit agency providing workforce development strategies for transitioning youth and adults with disabilities. Justine can be reached best via LinkedIn here.
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Music: Spark of Inspiration by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com27 min - Nathaniel Turner - Democracy Fund
On this week's show, you'll hear from a guy who works to strengthen our democracy, Nathaniel Turner. Nathaniel is a Senior Program Associate at Democracy Fund, a private foundation that confronts deep-rooted challenges in American democracy while defending against new threats. Nathaniel supports the Governance Program in its mission to strengthen safeguards that ensure our government is transparent and accountable to the public. He's based in the DC area and graduated from American University with his MPA in 2018. He can be reached via email here.
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Music: Spark of Inspiration by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com41 min - Desmond Jordan - United States Institute of Peace
Today's episode features a guy who works as a global peacebuilder, Desmond Jordan. Desmond is a Senior Program Assistant for the United States Institute of Peace, focusing his efforts on international programs to convene civil society practitioners to share their country's perspectives on pressing global issues. He's based in the DC area and graduated from George Mason University in 2016. He can be reached via email at [email protected].
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Music: Spark of Inspiration by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com26 min - Connor Kippe - League of Conservation Voters
The first episode of a brand new show where you'll hear the stories of young non-profit professionals working to change the world. In each episode, you'll hear the background story of a different individual and learn more about the work they're doing, why they're doing it, and how you too can get involved.
We're starting things off with a guy who has been committed to environmental efforts from a young age and continues the fight against climate change through his work today, Connor Kippe. Connor is a Climate Action Organizer for the League of Conservation Voters, focusing his efforts on community building around the water, food, and energy systems issues. He's based in North Carolina and has worked on various projects pertaining to his home state. He can be reached via email at [email protected]
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Music: Spark of Inspiration by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com35 min
About Aspiring Altruists
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The show where you’ll hear the stories of young professionals in the non-profit sector working to change the world. We’ll dive into their backgrounds, hear about the work they do, and ultimately learn…
how they got to where they are and how you can do the same. With the non-profit sector comprising one of the largest US workforces by tackling the world’s biggest problems across 9 major categories, you may just hear something that could change your life, and through it, the lives of countless others.