By Matt Dundas
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The podcast currently has 43 episodes available.
Writer and one-time campaigner Sadie Dingfelder joins Matt to share some great campaigning stories.
When I challenged my network to publicly disagree with me about something, Russell Kramer obliged. Here, the woodworker, dad and otherwise private citizen outlines why he’s still unvaccinated and opens my mind to the possibility that I’m not right about everything.
My guest today is Rob Perks, Managing Director of Campaigns & External Affairs at the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the most effective environmental groups in America. We chat about his unreasonableness. It’s great. Tell your friends.
https://www.nrdc.org/experts/rob-perks
Wisconsin Democracy Campaign Executive Director Matt Rothschild joins Matt to discuss upholding democracy in the Badger State.
Learn more about and/or support the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign: https://www.wisdc.org/
Dr. Gregory Engel of Doctors For America joins Matt to discuss firearm injury prevention.
Max Wilbert from Protect Thacker Pass joins Matt to discuss why we need to stop mining in beautiful places, scale back our capitalist ambitions and live in peace with the earth, forever. Nothing big.
Visit www.protectthackerpass.org for more information or to get involved.
Washington, D.C.-based comedian Nathan Luft chats with Matt about where he falls on the Democratic Socialist-to-Socialist spectrum. (Spoiler alert: it’s somewhere in the middle.)
Great Old Broads for Wilderness Executive Director Shelley Silbert and Board Co-Chair Rynda Clark join Matt join a brief history of their work.
Get involved: https://www.greatoldbroads.org
About the guests:
Shelley Silbert, Executive Director – Shelley joined Broads in 2012, bringing 20 years of experience in the fields of conservation and sustainability. She served as Associate Director for San Juan Citizens Alliance from 2011–2012, Director of Strategic Initiatives at Northern Arizona University from 2003–2011 where she advanced environmental and Native American programs. From 1994–2003, she directed The Nature Conservancy’s Northern Arizona Program, managing three nature preserves and working on conservation priorities, ecological restoration, regional planning, and public open space campaigns. She grew up in Tennessee, and fell in love with the wide open spaces of the west on a backpacking trip. Fluent in Spanish, she has worked in various Latin American countries.
Shelley has an M.A. in Watershed Management (Dryland Forestry specializations) from the University of Arizona. As Executive Director, she is responsible for the implementation of the Strategic Plan and setting the vision and direction of the organization, along with the Board of Directors. She determines the wild lands advocacy agenda, achieves fundraising goals, and represents Broads to the media, to our members, to our partner organizations, and to the great wild world.
Rynda Clark, Board Co-Chair – Rynda Clark is passionate about wilderness, women, healing, and education. She directed the Department of Continuing Medical Education (CME) at UC San Diego for 17 years and was responsible for the needs assessment, planning, execution, and evaluation of national and international medical education programs.
After relocating to Central Oregon in 2007, Rynda began hiking with women in wilderness areas and rekindled her love for wild places that began when she was growing up in New Mexico. She shared, “…wilderness allowed me to connect with my health and spirituality in a way that nothing else did. I wanted to protect it for our future generations”.
Rynda was attracted Broads because of her love of wild things, but also for the humor, wisdom, and humility she witnessed from Broads members and staff. Three years ago, she volunteered to be the Co-lead for the newly forming Central Oregon Broadband chapter, where she helped build a shared leadership model that allows opportunities for many passions and visions. She also completed the Oregon Master Naturalist program to learn more about environmental issues in her region. Although Rynda stepped down from a Broadband leadership role, she continues active engagement with her chapter, and has join Broads’ Board of Directors.
OutFront Minnesota Executive Director Monica Meyer and Policy & Outreach Director James Darville join Matt to discuss the state of LGBTQ rights in Minnesota and beyond.
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Executive Director Monica Meyer has been leading organizing, activism and policy advocacy on behalf of issues of equity and justice since 1992. She joined the staff of OutFront Minnesota as Public Policy Director in 2001 and became Executive Director in 2010. Some of her recent recognition include the Humphrey Institute’s Public Leadership Award, the Lynx’s Inspiring Women Award, the Charlotte Striebel Long Distance Runner Award from MN NOW and the MN School Social Work Association’s Friend of Social Work Award. Monica received her master’s degree in public policy from the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota, and her undergraduate degree from Hamline University. Monica is currently a board member with TakeAction Minnesota and the co-chair of the Equality Federation. She is constantly inspired by courageous people she meets who work tirelessly for LGBTQ equity and racial and gender justice.
James Darville joined the Policy and Organizing Team as our LGBTQ+ Voter Outreach Manager in March of 2020. James will be working with Queer Communities and Communities of Color to register folks to vote throughout the state of Minnesota.
Raised in North Carolina, James attended North Dakota State University and studied Strategic Communication. After graduation, James worked as a cheesemonger before getting hired as the Grassroots Organizer for Planned Parenthood in North Dakota. In that position, he helped run election campaigns throughout the state, collected stories from queer folks, and organized groups at college campuses across the state. Moving to Saint Paul, he was hired to be the Coordinator of Volunteer Programs for Planned Parenthood North Central States. He organized and oversaw all volunteer programs across five states. He is excited to continue his work building progressive communities and advocating for reproductive justice and queer liberation at OutFront.
In his free time James loves concerts, throwing cheese parties, and a really good cocktail.
Fun Facts about James:
·I am an avid hiker and camper.
·I am allergic to cardboard boxes.
·My favorite cheese is Quattro Latti, a cheese made from four different types of milk: cow, goat, sheep, and donkey
Seattle Opera Development Officer Matt Lider reminisces with Matt about their experiences going door-to-door together back in the early 2000s, raising big money for the opera, and everything in between. Lots of laughs!
The podcast currently has 43 episodes available.