Nilsa RIvera, Judy Talaugon, Martha Cinader

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Episode 10
October 25, 2025, December 20, 2025

Our Season 2 begins in January, 2026. Please enjoy this rewind during our production break.

Nilsa Rivera, in Florida, brings her professional and personal experience of home insecurity to a conversation with Judy Talaugon, in California, and Martha Cinader, in New York. The conversation covers housing policies, motherhood, experiencing houselessness and other forms of housing insecurity, the punitive treatment of mothers and children, land trusts and more.

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CREDITS– HOSTS: Judy Talaugon, Martha Cinader. Featured Guest: Nilsa Rivera. Music: Rain Walker by Jay Rodriguez Sierra, live at the 55 bar, Jonathan Crayford and Barney Mcall – keys /piano, Ernesto Simpson -drums , Yossi Fine – Bass. Sound Design: Jay Rodriguez Sierra. Theme Music: Mana Luca, arranged by Jay Rodriguez Sierra.

Nilsa Rivera “Ni” tells new and multi-media stories about housing, food, and climate insecurity. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Tahoma Review, Hippocampus Magazine, Huffington Post, 50 GS Magazine, Six Hens Literary Journal, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, Selkie Literary Magazine, Writing Class Radio, and Turning Dark into Light: A Mental Health Anthology.…

Martha Cinader is a poet and author living in Harlem, NY. Her young adult novel, Marq and the Queen Fish, is forthcoming in 2026 from Atmosphere Press. Cinader is the founder and Director of the Listen & Be Heard Network, where she hosts and produces The Listen & Be Heard Hour, and Beyond Borders, both non-commercial podcasts and syndicated radio shows…

Judy Talaugon is a Chumash and Filipina Land Protector from the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians. She is the daughter of farmworkers and immigrant leaders. Growing up among Mexican and Filipina communities in California, she has been a long-time activist in numerous struggles, ranging from human rights to housing, land rights, and the fight…

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