Engaging Austin

Engaging Austin Podcast turns one year old! To celebrate, we're bringing back former guests for a series of panels to check in on what our guests have been up to.

Kyle Kerrigan and Pooja Sethi joined our first panel to talk about the updates in federal immigration policy, as well as the local Austin May ballot provisions: the proposed Strong Mayor shift, Democracy Dollars, and moving the Mayoral elections to a Presidential Election Year.

Engaging Austin is a weekly podcast where I interview leaders in Austin's nonprofit and civic engagement spaces.

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Watch video of this episode at https://youtu.be/3ifFqHQopEw

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Kyle's episode can be found here: https://khitchingham.podbean.com/e/episode-5-1582846111/

Pooja's episode can be found here: https://khitchingham.podbean.com/e/017-pooja-sethi/

Sign up for the Engaging Austin Book Club: www.engagingaustinpodcast.com/bookclub

Courtney Clark is an author, public speaker, and expert on nonprofit board service. She joined Engaging Austin's Nonprofit Masterminds to discuss how to be a better board member, what a board should and shouldn't do, and why you should ditch your board composition matrix.

Engaging Austin is a weekly podcast where I interview leaders in Austin's nonprofit and civic engagement spaces. 

You can find Courtney’s work at www.courtneylclark.com

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For more information, go to www.engagingaustinpodcast.com and follow us on Instagram at www.instagram.com/engagingaustinpodcast

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Sign up for the Engaging Austin Book Club: www.engagingaustinpodcast.com/bookclub

Denise Hernandez is a lawyer by day and social entrepreneur by night, and she joined Engaging Austin in March 2020 to talk about social impact and entrepreneurship as the founder of Hustle for the Cause and Chingona Fest Texas. In this interview, we dive into Denise’s  passion for amplifying Latina voices, businesses, and cultural spaces, and what that looks like in Austin, creating cultural spaces and having difficult conversations, and the best models for social impact businesses.

For more information about our guests, please go to www.engagingaustinpodcast.com

Colin Swanson, Business Manager at Austin's Mainspring Schools, draws upon her experience in the theater to inform her accounting and businesses career. In this conversation, Colin explains how budgets can tell stories and illustrate the values of a nonprofits.

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In the first episode of The Tea About the Texas Lege, a collaboration between The Tea with Bri and Engaging Austin, Warren Burkely talks about criminal justice reform at the state level.

Briona Jenkins is the host of The Tea With Bri Podcast, and Warren Burkley is a is a Texas native with a history of involvement with advocacy and justice movements. As a tech professional, he works to create equity in workplaces where employees of color are often underrepresented. As a musician and painter, he is an active member of the DIY arts scene in Austin, always uplifting the profiles of artists of color and in marginalized communities.

For more information, please go to www.engagingaustinpodcast.com. 

In one of our favorite interviews of 2020, recorded March 6th,  the day SXSW was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ruben Cantu joined us at Capital Factory studios to talk about the role of entrepreneurship and innovation in his career. He has worn many hats over the years and...well, just listen for yourself. It's a treat. 

For more information, please follow @engagingaustinpodcast on Instagram and go to www.engagingaustinpodcast.com for more information about our guests. 

Cassie Davis, an Austin-based data and policy researcher, explains the critical role of data collection in drafting strong public policies that affect nonprofits and legislation. We discuss how service-based nonprofits can use key representation and "data walks" to frame and evaluate their programs and better serve the community. 

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"If you can't measure it, you can't manage it" is a common saying in nonprofits, but it can be difficult for smaller organizations to know where to start, what data to collect, and how to effectively tell their story using numbers. Dr Christian Bell of Eleven 11 Consulting explains the best questions to ask, how to sift through the noise in the numbers, and setting up your nonprofit to most effectively evaluate your work. 

For more information, please visit https://www.christianmbell.com/ or www.engagingaustinpodcast.com. 

Briona Jenkins of Briona Jenkins Consulting joins Engaging Austin to discuss her career as a nonprofit fundraising and marketing professional and the key steps an organization needs to take in order to create an effective and innovative fundraising campaign. We also discuss the nature of nonprofit culture and how board service can impact your professional development. 

For more information, please visit www.brionajenkins.com and www.engagingaustinpodcast.com