Intersections - Oklahoma

Episode 33

Maybe Bumbershoot PR firm takes different paths because that’s what founder Tracey Zeeck does. Starting at a small desk in her bedroom at home, she has developed a firm with four full-time employees and a summer intern, each carrying out multiple tasks to help a unique assortment of people and organizations reach their goals.

Episode 32

The 16th deadCENTER Film Festival just wrapped up their 16th festival. While using hundreds of dedicated volunteers, the festival’s staff is made up of only 4 people. As Director of Programing and Education, Kim Haywood is one of those. I talk with her about how this year’s dC went and how they put together such a big event each year.

Episode 31

Bonus episode from the deadCENTER Film Festival in Oklahoma City

“Yes, we are open” is the title of the short film that was on the Okie Shorts program at this year’s deadCENTER Film Festival. This is Yousef’s first film, so his reaction to the Q&A and the comments film-goers made afterward are touching.

Episode 30

Bonus episode from the deadCENTER Film Festival in Oklahoma City

In the film Great Plains, an abused mother and son go on the run to escape her current husband’s abuse. There is a particular power in this drama which also includes humor. It’s because the idea for the movie has its seeds in Kristofer’s own childhood. Recorded during deadCENTER, I visit with him about the dynamic of making an entertaining movie that was so close to his own experience.

Episode 29

This episode is from the deadCENTER Film Festival in Oklahoma City. 

The full-length documentary Two Trains Runnin’ is taken from over 125 hours of source film, audio, and animation. Ben wrote the script, and then was the producer on the film. It was shown on the first night of deadCENTER Film Festival.

Episode 28

When Ornella’s father was killed in the Rwandan genocide of 1994, her extended family took on the responsility of raising her. Now a new college graduate of Okla. Christian University, she is positive and ready to develop an import/export business.

Episode 27

First Elected to his Ward 2 Oklahoma City Council seat in 2011, Dr. Ed Shadid has been a proponent of open government and citizen engagement. Here he talks about the critical intersection that the people of Oklahoma City are in as we enter summer with a presidential election in November.

Episode 26

It was hardly a thought process for Courtney. She came home to help with the family business when one of her parents was ill. And now she has become a part of their business. She also is a catalyst for starting Debate Night OKC for black young adults in Oklahoma City.

Episode 25

For Laura Massenat, life is a flow of seeing opportunities and saying “yes.” She co-owns the ever-popular Elemental Coffee in Midtown. She just completed a four year term on the Oklahoma City Public Schools Board. She was one of the founders of the popular H&8th Monthly Food truck festival. Among her many decisions, she tells about one in particular, though, that set the course for the rest of her life.

Episode 24

Sometimes the decisions we make just don’t seem that important at the time, but then later we realize that they were. That was the case with Julia Kirt’s “temporary” stay in Oklahoma that placed her in a key position to develop support for the arts at a critical time of state budget failures.