Community Chats

In the final new episode of Community Chats for the semester, we sat down with Katelyn Winstead from the Andrew Goodman Foundation! As team leader for the AGF team at the University of Mississippi, Katelyn advocates for every person's right to vote. Tune in to hear about what the AGF team is doing to make voting easy and guaranteed for everybody in our community!

In this episode of Community Chats, we sit down with Joel Amidon, Assoc. Prof. of Secondary Education and Servant Leader of Amidon Planet. We chat about what it means to teach with unconditional love and how Joel goes about teaching teachers. Serving the community through education is not lost on Joel, and it comes through in this interview. Tune in now!

In this episode of Community Chats, Erin Oeth and guest host Will Corley are joined by Laura Martin, Assoc. Dir. of the McLean Institute to chat about her role in fighting poverty through education. She discusses her background in community engagement and advocacy and highlights some of the programs at the Institute. Tune in to hear how you can get involved in the great work the McLean Institute is doing here in the LOU community and throughout the state of Mississippi.

On this episode of Community Chats, we chat with Dr. Patrick Perry and Senora Miller Logan from the Luckyday Scholars Program. They discuss the work of their student scholars as they engage with their community through four areas of success: scholarship, community, service and leadership.

Tune in to this episode of Community Chats where we chat with Dr. Jaime Harker, director of the Sarah Isom Center at the University of Mississippi, about her passion for fostering a diverse and inclusive community. Her love for the overlooked communities of our area shines through in this interview as she recounts multiple stories of community-driven action to create that inclusion and shine a light on those communities.

On this episode of Community Chats, Kenorus Wilson, director of the LOU Boys & Girls Club, talks with our team about his role in shaping the next generation of community leaders. His work fostering responsibility, leadership and success in the youth of our community is incredibly valuable, so tune in now!

In this episode of Community Chats, the team chats with April Grayson about her work at the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation. Through the institute, April and her team work with communities across the state to come together, discuss the hard topics around the histories of these communities, and move forward to heal together. Tune in to hear about how her work at the institute is changing the conversation around the history of race in every community.

In this episode of Community Chats, Afton Thomas joins us to discuss her role with the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. As associate director of programs, Thomas collaborates with campus and community partners to foster community engaged learning and service. Tune in to learn about the challenges and rewards of the job and the plans the Center has for the upcoming months as they preserve the history of Mississippi and all its voices.

In this episode of Community Chats, Estelle Roberts joins Erin and Jody to chat about her work with Wild Again in Mississippi, a nonprofit dedicated to rescuing, rehabbing, and releasing indigenous mammals of Mississippi. Roberts’s passion for her work shines through in this interview as she describes the experiences she has had helping animals be, as the name states, wild again. Tune in to hear why she does the work she does and how you can get involved rescuing the indigenous mammals of Mississippi.

In the first new episode of 2021, Anthony and Jody chat with Nicholas Crasta, president of the UM Black Student Union (BSU). He discusses the role of the BSU on campus and their goals for the new year. Tune in to hear how the BSU is working towards making our community and campus a welcoming space for everyone.