Brave Space Conversations

Ashley Boucher, Owner and Responsible Vendor Trainer of Quality Control Analytics helps keep the cannabis industry safe, and is working to make it more inclusive.

TRUE Diversity founder Tanya Lobo shares stories of growing up female in a Latinx household, how owning daycare businesses opened her eyes and heart to all the human needs not being addressed by current infrastructure, and her mission to fix that through TRUE initiatives and her run for a seat on Taunton’s City Council.

Founder of Community Coalition for Change, Gisela Morton shares her story of growing up in Cape Verde, envisioning a different life for herself, and immigrating to the US by herself as a teenager, by way of Cuba!

My friend Reem passionately educates us on what’s really happening in Palestine and other sovereign nations that the US polices, what it’s like to grow up Muslim in Boston, and gives her perspective on why the celebration of military is so important to Americans.

My guest Suzi Robinson is the co-president of Diversity and Inclusion for Community Empowerment aka DICE Massachusetts. She shares stories from her childhood as a Korean American adoptee in a white family in a small Connecticut town, and how through her direct experiences with racism developed the empathy that fuels her passion for activism today.

My mom opens up about her Conservative Christian upbringing, her marriage to my Mexican Immigrant dad, and all that is left unresolved between the Fundamentalist world she came from and the world she helps to create through her current involvement in social justice efforts.

Alison Rosa shares her experiences challenging racism in schools as a student, a mom, and an educator.