Humanity Rising VOICES

Humanity Rising VOICES

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Humanity Rising VOICES episodes

  • Kajal & Kanchan - Empowerment Through Dance

    Kajal and Kanchan are both graduates and instructors of Aerodance Academy and have used their dance training to fundraise thousands of dollars for causes such as the Black Lives Matter movement and COVID-19 rehabilitation. Kajal graduated from UC Davis and was awarded the Outstanding Senior Award for her academic, professional, and leadership accomplishments. Through ASB's Community Committee, Relay for Life, and MSJ's Bollywood team Ishaara, Kanchan spent much of her high school career using the arts to make a difference in the causes she is passionate about.


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    38 min
  • Ishan Goyal - Essentials 4 Homeless - Student Feature

    https://essentials4homeless.org/ 

    Ishan is the Founder and President of Essentials4Homeless, an international student-run not-for-profit organization that works to provide access to toiletry items for everyone.  As a Humanity Rising Ambassador, he is deeply passionate and hopeful about the power of people, especially youth, coming together to make unheard-of differences in their communities.  

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    18 min
  • Rahul Kumar - Using Technology to Save Lives - Student Feature

    Episode 6: Rahul Kumar on #rWhatCauseInspiresYou podcast series! Alisha Gupta will be live with the both of them on Wednesday, June 24th at 7PM CST.


    Rahul Kumar is the founder of ShareandChange.org, a non-profit that uses mobile technology to promote blood donations. He enjoys learning about integrating the healthcare and social service industry with emerging technologies to make global impacts.


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    https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahuldvhs

    Instagram: @humanity.rising 

    Tik Tok: @humanity.rising


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    16 min
  • Smitty & David - Racial Unity

    David McCullough founded a nonprofit that takes the model of a foreign exchange program and applies it to towns with different demographics across the United States—“study abroad in your own country,” he likes to say.  It’s called The American Exchange Project, and David now serves as its Executive Director.  He hopes the program will help American students from different backgrounds develop more empathy and respect for one another, and maybe even make a few friends.

    Smith is producer and co‐writer of the award winning documentary "Invisible Soldiers: Unheard Voices" which aired nationally on PBS. He is the concept creator and Co-Executive Producer and Senior Writer for the 2018 documentary, "An American Story: Race Amity" and "The Other Tradition" airing on public television (http://raceamityfilm.org).


    Through Smith’s leadership, the NCRA organized the Metro Boston Race Amity Festival which has been held for the past seven years on the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston. It also hosts the annual National Race Amity Conference (http://raceamity.org) and organized the legislative initiative that culminated December 29, 2015 in Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signing into law Massachusetts Race Amity Day. The bill “Authorizes Race Amity Day To Be Celebrated Annually The Second Sunday in June ” and directs the sitting Governor to issue an annual proclamation to the 351 cities and towns in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.  In June 2016 the US Senate passed a Resolution designating June 13, 2016 as National Race Amity Day.

    35 min
  • Sydnee Floyd - Creating Dreams, Changing Lives - Student Feature

    Episode 4: Sydnee Floyd on #WhatCauseInspiresYou podcast series! Alisha Gupta will be live with Sydnee on Wednesday, June 10th at 7PM CST.


    Sydnee is a 15 year old founder of nonprofit Jumbled Dreams Changing Lives , aiming to inspire and teach others on how to make a difference and inspire them to make a change in their own community. Her journey started by raising money for the American Cancer Society and then for underprivileged youth across the world. Since then, Sydnee has raised over 90,000 pounds of food, 30,000 toiletries, and she has partnered with over 15 organizations to make a change go further.

    24 min
  • Michael Fine - Overcoming Obstacles

    Michael’s life was tragically altered on the morning of April 14, 2010, when

    driving to work in his convertible; he was struck head on by a truck at approximately 50 MPH, the result of which was the traumatic amputation of his left arm at the shoulder.

    Michael lost both of his parents within 2 years of the accident. After months of dependence on narcotic drugs, antidepressants and other medications, his Mom’s illness, the attempted cancellation of his health insurance and more than $600,000 in medical bills, the insolvent truck driver having minimum auto insurance coverage, and little to no relief from the pain, Michael fell into a deep, dark depression and attempted suicide.


    He sought out untraditional, non pharmaceutical methods to help him deal with the pain, like acupuncture, Reiki, cranial sacral therapy, sensory deprivation, floatation and the foundations of it all, Hatha Yoga – the Bikram method.

    Michael now realizes that there is no “magic-bullet” to pain relief but rather a regular regime of various modalities, all working in unison, to treat the entire person, body, mind and spirit. Through a resilient spirit Michael has battled his condition and created positivity, soulfulness and openness in his community.

    Participants will have the opportunity to speak directly with Michael during our Q&A session.  There will also be a call to action at the end of the podcast where you will have an opportunity to turn your passion into action and be eligible for scholarships and other awards!


    This is your world. Your community. Your city. Join us to build your leadership and life skills, and be inspired to change the world with us.

    47 min
  • Jonathan Bell - What Cause Inspires You? - "On Stuttering"

    Jonathan's "On Stuttering" Documentary Film: https://youtu.be/9A_ADc-0UN8?t=285

    Jonathan's Website: https://jonathanparkerbell.com/advocacy/ 

    Jonathan Bell, a higher school junior from Louisville, KY, is an advocate for stuttering awareness and has created a Youtube documentary called On Stuttering to bring light to the issue. Jonathan is also a self-published author, a writer, an environmental activist, and a filmmaker.


    Organizations You Can Support

    National Stuttering Association: https://westutter.org/

    Stuttering Foundation: https://www.stutteringhelp.org/

    Stuttering Association for the Young: https://www.say.org/ 

    American Speech-Language-Hearing Association: https://www.asha.org/

    26 min
  • Devin Moore - What Cause Inspires You? - Cyberbullying

    Petition Link: https://www.change.org/p/ny-state-sen... 

    Devin is a 16-year-old sophomore in high school with plans to make impactful changes in this world. He is the founder of #RaceToSpeakUp, an anti-bullying organization and was inspired to create the #RaceToSpeakUp organization after being racially cyberbullied in middle school.

    30 min
  • David Cherry - All-Stars Project, Chicago
    For more than 25 years, David Cherry, a highly skilled and dedicated community organizer and activist, helped diverse communities develop around issues of democracy, social justice and inclusion. Today, David is City Leader of the ASP of Chicago and a member of the Senior Leadership Team of the All Stars Project. His extensive and first-hand knowledge of the social issues in poor African-American and Latino communities, particularly those confronting inner-city youth, has been invaluable in his work to replicate the All Stars Afterschool Development model in Chicago and to provide input and expertise in shaping the organization’s strategies nationally.
    49 min
  • Alisha Gupta - What Cause Inspires You? - Cyberbullying
    Entrepreneur and social justice activist, Alisha Gupta, will be starting off the podcast on May 6th with an episode called “Behind the Screen: The Harms of Cyber Bullying.” Alisha Gupta is the CEO of her expanding non-profit, Needed but Forgotten, that donates suitcases to foster children, as well as partners with international organizations such as Maitri to bring youth awareness to topics such as bullying, partner violence, and gender inequality.
    25 min

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Humanity Rising is focused on inspiring the next generation of leaders and social innovators. Through our VOICES podcasts, we're able to provide young people with new perspectives on life and bring them inspiration to take action and bring positive impact to their communities.