Black Women Roc 2020 continues with our interview featuring Ngozi Udo a Brooklyn native who moved to Rochester in 2014 and now works as a Health Educator with the Healthy Baby Network. Ngozi is dedicated to improving maternal child health outcomes by addressing inequity in the social determinants of health through education and community based participatory research. Learn more at www.healthy-baby.net

This very special episode host Calvin Eaton sits downs with Dr. Celia McIntosh one of three finalists for 540WMain's annual Black Women Roc campaign. Learn more at www.540westmain.org and support our work by becoming a monthly sustaining member www.patreon.com/540WMain

This episode we discuss the top books about urbanism with Rochester area developer Matt Denker. Thank you for your support of the podcast. Consider becoming a sustaining member of 540WMain www.patreon.com/540WMain

With rapidly changing world events it can be difficult to sift through the noise and ascertain what conversations are worth time, energy and resources and how to have them. This episode we did into strategies on how to better engage with the people we love and care about. Learn more (www.breakingthroughgridlock.com) and continue to support dynamic digital content from 540WMain (www.patreon.com/540WMain)

Keeping positive energy during this pandemic can be hard to do. In this episode we share ways to maintain positive energy in spite of the chaos of the world. Support the work of 540WMain by becoming a monthly sustaining member // www.patreon.com/540WMain

In this episode we explore how we can set boundaries and mindfully create a new normal during this global health crisis with Jeff Hoffman, Founder of the VisibleMan a platform promoting suicide prevention for men. Learn more at www.visibleman.org and consider becoming a 540 monthly sustaining member, www.patreon.com/540WMain

With COVID-19 forcing everyone to work from home those of us in the disability community are noticing accommodations at a scale that was never provided to those in the disability community. Marisa Zeppieri Founder of LupusChick.com joins Calvin to unpack what this means and how employers and our culture at large can keep this same energy for all employees long after the dust of the pandemic settles. For more dynamic digital content become a 540 monthly sustaining member: www.patreon.com/540WMain

How can we practice self care, sanity and grace for ourselves and others as we tackle the disruption of COID-19 pandemic? Become a 540 monthly sustaining member and help scale up our antiracism work online and in the community, www.patreon.com/540WMain // Learn moe about 540WMain at www.540westmain.org

In this episode Calvin breaks down the timeline of events that ensued after the unceremonious firing of former Chief Diversity Officer Dr. Cephus Archie and what the college needs to do to repair the harm done and hold its President Dr. Heidi Macpherson accountable for maintaining white supremacist status quo under her tenure.

In this episode host Calvin Eaton provides insight on the challenges and internal burden and anxiety that working as a antiracism consultant sometimes elicits. Institutions that are not committed to true transformative change are doing more harm than they could ever know.