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Notes go hereOn this episode, SunAh is joined by Dr. Heather Brandt, Director of the HPV Cancer Prevention Program and Co-associate Director for Outreach at St. Jude Comprehensive Cancer Center. Did you know that nearly everyone will get HPV at some point in their lives? HPV causes six kinds of cancers in women and men. Dr. Brandt explains the importance of the HPV vaccination and addresses common misconceptions.

On this episode, SunAh sits down with Dr. Leann V. Smith, founder of The Mending Place, PLLC and a licensed psychologist. She shares why she created The Mending Place and the importance of culturally affirming therapeutic services. Leann details the various contributing factors to our mental wellness and the relationship between our support systems and stressors. For more on The Mending Place, visit letsmend.org

On this episode, SunAh welcomes Dr. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy, an Associate Professor at New York University in the Sociology of Education program in the School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He how the suburbs are changing both schools and communities and the changes that must be made to make the suburbs an “American Dream” worth having.

On this episode, SunAh is joined by Dr. Ash Woody, Assistant Professor of African American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Dr. Woody details their concept of ambient racism and how it can help us think about the effects of structural racism in our everyday experiences of space and place.

On this episode, SunAh talks with Dr. Héctor de Jesús-Cortés, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Director of the Sagrado-MIT Neuroscience Pre-college Program. He shares his research on neuropsychiatric disorders and possible interventions as well as the rather happenstance way he became interested in neuroscience. If you’d like to learn more about the research Dr. de Jesús-Cortés’s shared in this episode, he can be reached via email at [email protected]

On this episode, SunAh is joined by Kebo Drew, managing director of the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP). Kebo talks about the importance of creating and showing a wide-range of diverse stories and how QWOCMAP helps equip aspiring filmmakers to do so. She also shares the healing power of art and why art cannot be separated from community, politics, and empowerment.

On this episode, SunAh sits down with Lyman Aldrich, Chairman Emeritus of the Memphis in May International Festival. Lyman served as the president of the first Memphis in May, and in our conversation he shares the history behind this now famous festival. He describes how and why he intentionally created an interracial committee of young men and women and the primary goal of the first festival. To learn more about the upcoming documentary about this history, visit revival-memphis.org

On today’s episode SunAh sits down with Dr. Deadric Williams, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Deadric provides historical context for how we think about families and family inequality today before outlining policies and programs that are needed to ensure the well-being of our communities.

On today’s episode, SunAh welcomes Natasha Hemmingway, a corporate and entrepreneurial-based Sales Coach and Speaker and the creator of Heart Not Hustle coaching firm. Natasha discusses why mindset is foundational to your business and shares several tips on how to shift your mindset. She details how to move through fear to take inspired action and how, as an entrepreneur, you should think about sales. Follow Natasha on Instagram @natashahemmingway to learn more about Heart Not Hustle.

On today’s episode, SunAh sits down with Dr. Earl Wright, II, a professor of sociology at Rhodes College and the nation’s leading expert on W.E.B. DuBois and the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory. He discusses the importance of DuBois as well as many other Black sociologists to the field and why their early contributions were, and continue to be, largely excluded from the sociological canon. He draws connections between historic exclusion of Black sociology in the founding of the discipline and the contemporary marginalization of Black scholarship within the field of study.