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  • Clint Smith III: Passing the word, doing the work (ft. Charlotte Rose LaMotte, Ra'mya Davis, Chris Cole, Kayla Waysome, & Scott Rechler)

    Often, we overlook the power of young people to create change. Yes to Youth is a podcast series getting to know changemakers who started early and are making a real impact, in spite of and often because of their age and identity. Yes to Youth is presented by Let’s Care in collaboration with LearnServe International. Your host is Matt Scott, creator of Let's Care and longtime LearnServe volunteer.

    Today's episode features a bonus episode centering Clint Smith III, recipient of LearnServe's 2022 Civic Champion Award and featuring the voices of LearnServe Co-Director and CEO Scott Rechler and alumni Charlotte Rose LaMotte, Ra'mya Davis, Chris Cole, and Kayla Waysome.


    Civic Champion Awardee Clint Smith

    Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of the narrative nonfiction book, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, which was a #1 New York Times bestseller and was selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 best books of 2021. He is also the author of the poetry collection Counting Descent, which won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award.

    Clint has received fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New America, the Emerson Collective, the Art For Justice Fund, Cave Canem, and the National Science Foundation. His essays, poems, and scholarly writing have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, the Harvard Educational Review, and elsewhere. He is a 2014 National Poetry Slam champion and a 2017 recipient of the Jerome J. Shestack Prize from the American Poetry Review.


    Previously, Clint taught high school English in Prince George’s County, Maryland where, in 2013, he was named the Christine D. Sarbanes Teacher of the Year by the Maryland Humanities Council. While teaching, Clint served as a LearnServe Advisor, nominating and supporting students through the LearnServe Fellows, Incubator, and Abroad Programs.He is the host of the YouTube series Crash Course Black American History.

    Clint received his B.A. in English from Davidson College and his Ph.D. in Education from Harvard University. Born and raised in New Orleans, he currently lives in Maryland with his wife and their two children.

    For more on LearnServe International, visit www.learn-serve.org.

    For more on Let's Care, visit www.lets.care.

    1 hr 15 min
  • Amy "Lita" Dumas: Act Like You're Supposed To Be There

    Amy Dumas is best known as WWE wrestler and Hall of Famer Lita. Over the last 20+ years, she has made her mark in sports entertainment, paving a way for women (and so many others) in pro wrestling and beyond to make road where there weren't roads. This weekend, Amy is taking part in WWE's Royal Rumble PPV, which reminds us of a few years back, when she wore a "Time's Up" shirt on a global stage, sending a message about the treatment of women and abusers in the entertainment industry.

    This interview appears in the 20s & Change: San Francisco film, which has been recognized at the 2021 San Francisco Black Film Festival and Las Vegas Queer Arts Film Festival. Watch the film at www.lets.care.

    Amy is an animal activist, a musician, a mental health advocate, a supporter of women's rights and justice for women dealing with insane laws to control their bodies, and someone who can not be contained. Amy is making an impact while dancing to the beat of her own drum, bringing the punk rock D.I.Y. spirit to the table each and every day. Follow Amy on Twitter @AmyDumas and on Instagram @MacheteGirl.

    For more on Let's Care, visit www.lets.care.

    Follow Matt Scott on social media @MattScottGW.

    52 min
  • Identity, Inspiration, Impact | Listen to the film 20s & Change: San Francisco

    20s & Change: San Francisco (hosted by Matt Scott) is our pilot film to “pass the mic” to the changemakers who often go unheard. It has been honored and screened at the 2021 San Francisco Black Film Festival and Las Vegas Queer Arts Film Festival.

    20s & Change features a number of themes that are relevant to young changemakers, in particular. Those themes include:

    • using your unique talents to make a positive impact in the world
    • creating a way out of (seemingly) no way
    • prioritizing diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice
    • the power of representation and storytelling
    • having “uncomfortable” conversation about identity and impact

      • The film is meant to model conversations about impact and identity. These are conversations that our world needs, in order to help others see their own identities as superpowers in changing the world for the better.


      Watch the film at www.lets.care/film.

      Celebrate 5 years with us at www.lets.care/five.

      Learn more about Let's Care at www.lets.care.

      Follow Matt Scott: @MattScottGW on all platforms

      1 hr 36 min
    • Erin Alexander: Where in the World is Erin? | Let's Care LIVE Conversation Series

      Watch the YouTube video here, or listen in as Let's Care (www.lets.care) founder and host Matt Scott (@MattScottGW) interviews Erin Alexander (@MelaninErinVA) as part of the Let’s Care LIVE Saturday Conversation Series. Erin Alexander is the founder of Master Your Glo, the Business of Soul Searching (BOSS) podcast, and Melanin Erin Virtual Assistance. Learn from Erin's perspective, rooted in mental health, to find how you can design the lifestyle you deserve. Watch more conversations from this series at www.lets.care/live.

      "Melanin Erin Virtual Assistance amplifies businesses by executing high level tasks so you can show up authentically in your business. Erin's high attention to detail, strong sense of communication and dedication to deadlines is what has secured her residual clients. If hired she will not only infuse her dynamic radio and tech knowledge into your strategy but help you articulate all needs to strengthen the voice of your business in 2021 and beyond.


      Erin Alexander is a Virtual Assistant Professional and established Podcast Host whose mantra “Design the Lifestyle You Love and Deserve” has been featured on podcasts such as Minding My Black Business and Bad Girls Guide to Love by Ayo Gathing.  Her podcast reached its peak when it was added to Brown University Student Radio Station Roster late 2019. Erin utilized her media networking skills to build her listenership and feature her brand on numerous different media outlets."

      www.melaninerinvirtualassistance.com

      59 min
    • Attia Taylor: The Mildest Winner | Let's Care LIVE Conversation Series

      Watch the YouTube video here, or listen in as Let's Care (www.lets.care) founder and host Matt Scott (@MattScottGW) interviews Attia Taylor (@AttiaTaylor) as part of the Let’s Care LIVE Saturday Conversation Series. 

      Attia Taylor is a NYC based musician, writer, and content producer. She is the founder of Womanly, The Dorothy and a member of The Art Dept Collective. Her work is rooted in social justice, art, and design, to bring inclusive and culturally relevant content to sound, print and digital realms. She is passionate about building and cultivating communities through journalism, music, storytelling, and research.

      www.attiataylor.com

      1 hr 5 min
    • Roxann Stafford: Unrestrained as the Wind | Let's Care LIVE Conversation Series

      Watch the YouTube video here, or listen in as Let's Care (www.lets.care) founder and host Matt Scott (@MattScottGW) interviews Roxann Stafford (@jroxann) as part of the Let’s Care LIVE Saturday Conversation Series. Roxann Stafford, is a systems alchemist and architect co-creating universal prosperity. She brings a lens of justice, interdependence and well-being, as well as history and ancestry, to her work supporting local journalism at the Knight Foundation, and beyond.

      “Roxann Stafford is the managing director of the Knight-Lenfest Local News Transformation Fund, a $20-million initiative that works to empower local news organizations to build trust with their audiences while producing outstanding journalism and developing new revenue streams that can enable them to reach long-term business sustainability.” 

      Connect with Roxann: http://linkedin.com/in/roxannstafford/

      1 hr 9 min
    • Amy J. Wilson: Empathy for Change | Let's Care LIVE Conversation Series

      Watch the YouTube video here, or listen in as Let's Care (www.lets.care) founder and host Matt Scott (@MattScottGW) interviews Amy Wilson (@AmyJWilson), Author of “Empathy for Change” and an epic storyteller, social impact entrepreneur, ecosystem builder, strategist, and innovator , as part of the Let’s Care LIVE Saturday Conversation Series.

      “In Empathy for Change, former White House entrepreneur-in-residence Amy J. Wilson dives into the intricate science of empathy, debunking common myths and sharing practical uses for a better society. Having built cultures of innovation and change across multiple sectors, she knows that when we do not design with compassion, we remove the humanity and closeness we have to one another.”

      Learn more about Amy: https://www.amyjwilson.com

      Get her book: https://www.amyjwilson.com/empathyforchange

      1 hr 2 min
    • Honoring the late Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar: Her Horse on High, Her Flag Unfurled, She Rode Away to Right the World

      "Laleh Bakhtiar, an Islamic and Sufi scholar and the first American Muslim women to produce a translation of the Quran, passed away peacefully on Sunday October 18, 2020 in Chicago, from Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), a rare blood disorder. She was 82."

      Dr. Bakhtiar wasn't only a Let's Care interviewee but was so much more. She was bold, and stood up for positive impact she believed in -- regardless of the risk. Even in her passing, the world is left with countless artifacts of her impact -- including 25 published books about Islam, Sufism, and more, and numerous interviews, videos, and storytelling pieces by a variety of outlets and storytellers, including her daughter Davar Ardalan (NPR, SecondMuse, White House Presidential Innovation Fellows, National Geographic). Laleh has a legacy like no other, and it will continue to live on and change lives far beyond her passing -- through her family and those who loved her and through all she touched.

      Read "Courage, Temperance, Justice and the Enduring Wisdom of the late Scholar Laleh Bakhtiar" by Davar Ardalan

      Read "Trying to digest the grief-soaked digital breadcrumbs" by Matt Scott

      For more on Let's Care, visit www.lets.care. Questions, comments, changemaker suggestions? Get in touch at [email protected].

      57 min
    • B. Monét: Who Am I - Dissecting the Truth!

      This week's episode of Let's Care: The 180º of Impact Podcast features writer, director, filmmaker B. Monét. Scroll to see her bio and learn more about her story or, better yet... listen to this episode!


      For more on Let's Care, parent company of 180º of Impact and the social change docuseries for underrepresented changemakers 20s & Change, visit www.lets.care or email us at [email protected]. My name is Matt Scott (connect with me on LinkedIn) and I'm your host. Thanks for listening!

      For more, visit www.lets.care.

      Your host, Matt Scott:
      Twitter: @MattScottGW
      Instagram: @MattScottGW
      LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/MattScottGW

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      Brittany “B.Monét” Fennell is a writer/director who graduated from Spelman College with a B.A. in English. She hails from Silver Spring, Maryland and holds an MFA from New York University in Film and Television with a concentration in writing and directing. In her films, she poses questions about identity, society, race, and culture. It is vital to her that under-represented people are shown in film, media, and television.

      Her award-winning short film Q.U.E.E.N. has screened at over a dozen of festivals including Cannes Short Film Corner and premiered on Magic Johnson’s channel ASPiRE. Additionally, she was a runner-up in the First Time Female Filmmakers Contest with Women and Hollywood. She was also named the 2017 Horizon Award Winner through Cassian Elwes, Christine Vachon and Lynette Howell – Taylor at the Sundance Film Festival. As well as a recipient of the Adrienne Shelly Foundation grant and a directing fellow for Film Independent’s residency program Project Involve.

      Additionally, she is one of the winners for the #NewView Film Competition with Glamour and Girlgaze which champions the voices of female filmmakers. She is also one of the filmmakers in the Tisch Other Showcase that focuses on diverse artists whose voices are underrepresented in the television industry. She directed a branded short film entitled She’s Revolutionary on the #MeToo founder Tarana Burke for Levi’s and Girlgaze.  

      B.Monét won the 2018 Best Graduate Feature Screenplay for her feature film Q.U.E.E.N. She is a recipient of the Will & Jada Smith Family Foundation grant at Fusion Film Festival as well as a finalist in the Women in Film Mini Upfronts Program and a Sundance Women’s Financing Intensive Project Fellow for her first feature film Q.U.E.E.N.  Most recently, she was selected as one of the winners for the Queen Collective in partnership with Queen Latifah, Tribeca and P&G.

      46 min
    • Astronaut Cady Coleman: Lessons from space on collaborative innovation
      In this week's edition of Let's Care: The 180º of Impact podcast, we have a very special interview with Astronaut Cady Coleman. Wearing his hat as global community manager for NASA's International Space Apps Challenge, host Matt Scott interviews Cady, who he first met in 2016, about her wisdom for the 15,000 participants across 150 countries in the Space Apps COVID-19 Challenge. In this interview, Cady talks about her experiences with diverse collaboration, working with other Astronauts across countries in the close quarters of the International Space Station, of all places. Pretty unique!
      Speaking of diversity, recently, we shared Day 0 of 20s & Change, a social change docuseries for underrepresented changemakers and the communities that rally around them, and that can be seen here. If you're interested in supporting the vision of 20s & Change and Let's Care more broadly, email us at [email protected].
      For more on Let's Care, visit www.lets.care and follow us across social media platforms (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook) at @LetsYouCare.
      Watch the video interview with Cady: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3654s0bCfC4
      33 min

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    Let's Care, initially founded as 180º of Impact, is a platform to pass the mic to those that often go unheard in the social change space. We've interviewed 100+ underrepresented changemakers to-date.…