In the first episode of Season Three, Kim Baldwin chats with Odessa Kelly, co-founder and Executive Director of Stand Up Nashville, a non-profit community organization that fights for working families. A Nashville native, Odessa is a graduate of Stratford High School, Tennessee State University (BA) and Cumberland University (MPS). Prior to co-founding Stand Up Nashville, she worked as a civil servant for Metro Parks & Recreation for 14 years, leading at Napier Community Center. Most recently, Odessa is the first person recruited by Justice Democrats for the 2022 Congressional election cycle.

Join us for a conversation about the “stranger danger” of Amazon, fighting to ensure Metro government looks like the people it represents, and the pivotal moment Nashville began to lose its soul.

Find Odessa on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and at odessaforcongress.com. Find Stand Up Nashville on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and at standupnashville.org. Sign up for their newsletter at standupnashville.org/mailer-signup.

To get full show notes and learn more about Ladyland, visit us at ladyland.show and follow us on Instagram at @ladyland_podcast.

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In this episode, Kim Baldwin sits down with Dawn Little, General Education and Special Education teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Dawn specializes in Project Based Learning, STEAM, Learning Technologies, and Inclusion instruction. She has a MA in Elementary Education, M.Ed in English Language Acquisition, and MA in Learning Technologies. Dawn is working on National Board Certification and is a member of ISTE and CUE. She also lived in Japan for seven years working as an ESL teacher and has a strong grasp of conversational Japanese. Kim and Dawn met in middle school and went on to become best friends, roommates, and a constant in each otherâ€s lives for going on 32 years now.

Join us for a serious conversation about misconceptions about teachers and why they strike, and a less serious conversation about dog-stalking as a midlife crisis.

Are you interested in learning more about the students Dawn teaches? Here are some nonprofits that sheâ€d like to highlight:

To get full show notes and learn more about Ladyland, visit us at ladyland.show and follow us on Instagram at @ladyland_podcast.

Music by You Drive.
Logo by Elizabeth Williams.