Atlantic Fellows

IN CONVERSATION WITH THE AUTHOR

Join BRIAN LAWLOR, Deputy Executive Director, Global Brain Health Institute, in conversation with CINDY WEINSTEIN, Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health & author of FINDING THE RIGHT WORDS (written in collaboration with BRUCE MILLER, Co-Director, Global Brain Health Institute & Director, Memory & Aging Center, University of California San Francisco).

Moderator | JEMMA STRINGER, Program & Impact Lead, Atlantic Institute.

Part of the ATLANTIC FELLOWS (www.atlanticfellows.org/) LITERARY & STORYTELLING FESTIVAL 2022.

The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE is based in Oxford, England and works to promote connection and collaboration among Fellows from the seven Atlantic equity-focused programs around the world in the pursuit of fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies.

AUTHOR'S JOURNEY: FROM IDEA TO PUBLICATION

Literature and storytelling have the power to spark change, within ourselves, and collectively with others. Join Atlantic Community storytellers, authors, poets and artists as we celebrate, explore, and find connections at the ATLANTIC FELLOWS (https://www.atlanticfellows.org/) LITERARY & STORYTELLING FESTIVAL 2022.

SPEAKERS

(1) DURKHANAI AYUBI, Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity, author of PARWANA: RECIPES & STORIES FROM AN AFGHAN KITCHEN.

(2) PRIYANKA KOTAMRAJU & APPU ESTHOSE SURESH, Atlantic Fellows for Social & Economic Equity, co-authors of THE MURDERER, THE MONARCH & THE FAKIR.

(3) ADEKEMI ADENIYAN, author of THE GIRL WHO FOUND HER SMILE, & her editor, ELIZA SQUIBB, both Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity, US & Global.

Moderator | FIONNUALA SWEENEY

The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE is based in Oxford, England and works to promote connection and collaboration among Fellows from the seven Atlantic equity-focused programs around the world in the pursuit of fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies.

Technology has introduced and promoted new ways of shaping global narratives, but these have brought their own challenges.

In May 2022, the ATLANTIC INSTITUTE hosted a webinar with ROBERT REICH, former US Secretary for Labor and co-founder of Inequality Media (https://www.inequalitymedia.org/team) to discuss NARRATIVE SHIFT IN THE DIGITAL AGE.

INTRODUCTION I Evie O'Brien, Executive Director, Atlantic Institute

MODERATOR | TANYA CHARLES, Atlantic Fellow for Social & Economic Equity.

The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE is based in Oxford, England and works to promote connection and collaboration among Fellows from the seven Atlantic equity-focused programs around the world in the pursuit of fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies. https://www.atlanticfellows.org/

In August 2021, the ATLANTIC INSTITUTE appointed DR AMARA ENYIA and Atlantic Fellow TRACY JOOSTE as Leaders-in- Residence. One of their tasks was to assess the landscape of policy and policy change across the global Atlantic Fellows community. In this podcast, moderated by Atlantic Fellow KAREN MEENAN, they discuss their findings in conversation with Elder and social activist JAY NAIDOO.

MODERATOR | Karen MEENAN, Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health

SPEAKERS

(1) Tracy JOOSTE, Head of Special Projects, International Budget Partnership (IBP), South Africa & Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity.

(2) Dr Amara ENYIA, Managing Director, Global Black & Policy & Research Manager, Movement for Black Lives.

(3) Jay NAIDOO, Elder, social activist & founding General Secretary, Congress of South African Trade Unions & Board Member, Mo Ibrahim Foundation.

The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE is based in Oxford, England and works to promote connection and collaboration among Fellows from the seven Atlantic equity-focused programmes around the world in the pursuit of fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies.

ATLANTIC FELLOWS | KOTCHAKORN VORAAKHOM & JOHNNY MILLER

In this conversation, landscape architect KOTCHAKORN VORAAKHOM, Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity in Southeast Asia, and photographer and filmmaker JOHNNY MILLER, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity, discuss their work exposing and addressing social and economic inequities.

Produced by StoryCorps in collaboration with the Atlantic Institute.

ATLANTIC FELLOWS | DURKHANAI AYUBI & DANA WALRATH

In this conversation, DURKHANAI AYUBI, Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity, and DANA WALRATH, Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, discuss the power of narrative and storytelling in their work. Dana is a writer, artist and anthropologist whose family came to the US as refugees from Armenia. She has written books about the Armenian Genocide and her mother’s dementia. Durkhanai is a restaurateur and writer whose family fled from Afghanistan to Australia when she was a baby. She recently published a cookbook called Parwana: Recipes and Stories from an Afghan Kitchen.

Produced by StoryCorps in collaboration with the Atlantic Institute.

ATLANTIC FELLOWS | BETSY HODGES & MAUREEN SIGAUKE

In this conversation, BETSY HODGES, Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity, and MAUREEN SIGAUKE, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity, discuss their work fighting against racism and for marginalized communities. Betsy is a former Mayor of the US city of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Maureen is a social justice and labor activist who lives in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Produced by StoryCorps in collaboration with the Atlantic Institute.

ATLANTIC FELLOWS | LAWRENCE ARITAO & SARAH HOOPER

In this conversation, Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity, LAWRENCE ARITAO and SARAH HOOPER, share stories about advancing equity in the work they do. Law—who is based in Manila, Philippines — works to defend human trafficking survivors in court. Sarah works on health advocacy in San Francisco. She is Executive Director of the UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science and Health Policy at the University of California San Francisco. She is also lecturer in Law at the UC Hastings College of the Law. The law school has a clinic that provides free legal assistance to low-income patients in the health care system.

Produced by StoryCorps in collaboration with the Atlantic Institute.

ATLANTIC FELLOWS | TALA AL-ROUSAN & JOSH KORNBLUTH

In this conversation, Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health TALA AL-ROUSAN and JOSH KORNBLUTH discuss their shared work around health and empathy. Tala works with refugees and displaced people around the world. Josh is a writer, performer, and filmmaker whose current work aims to connect brain science and social justice. The Global Brain Health Institute, where they are both Fellows, works to protect the world’s vulnerable and under-served aging population from threats to brain health.

Produced by StoryCorps in collaboration with the Atlantic Institute.

BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL 03 | CREATIVE & ACTIVIST POTENTIAL OF VIRTUAL SPACE

Join Atlantic Fellow FIONNUALA SWEENEY in conversation with ALICE WROE, Augmented and Virtual Realities Lead at the ATLANTIC INSTITUTE, as they discuss the creative and activist potential of virtual space.

Featuring SHARI FRILOT, Chief Curator, New Frontier, Sundance, and CEDRIC BROWN, Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity.

BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL PODCAST SERIES

(1) Introduction

(2) Narrative Change

(3) The Creative & Activist Potential of Virtual Space

(4) Virtual Health

(5) Indigenous Approaches

(6) Ethical Issues

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