I have a highly anticipated conversation with Educator, Activist, Fellow at the Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution, and friend, Meleiza Figueroa. We discuss Meleiza’s formative years growing up in Los Angeles with artistic parents, exploring her Filipino roots, loving musical theatre as a child, feeling acknowledgement as a human being through performance, depression due to being exploited from working in an internet company, discovering the writings of Karl Marx, becoming a social justice activist, working in academia, living within the precarious era of climate change, being an ally for indigenous land stewardship, how to rediscover hope in this uncertain world, her work with the Chico Traditional Ecological Stewardship Program, and much more. Recording Date: Wednesday, February 9th, 2022. To learn more about Meleiza’s current work, please visit: www.tekchico.org To learn more about me, please visit: www.blindmaninblack.com