Our Executive Order

In this episode, we spoke with several guests, each with a different background and perspective regarding campus safety and security.

Their perspectives, research, and experiences are valuable in working to understand the complex subject of policing and campus safety at educational institutions.

We want to thank each of our featured guests for taking the time to meet with us and share their valuable work.

The Complex Social Interaction Lab

Washington State University

David Makin

https://labs.wsu.edu/csi/

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Forward Montana

Grace Benasutti

https://forwardmontana.org/

More about Montana House Bill 102

https://leg.mt.gov/bills/2021/billpdf/HB0102.pdf

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The second ID: critical race counterstories of campus police interactions with Black men at Historically White Institutions

By DeMarcus A Jenkins, Antar Tichavakunda, and Justin Coles

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13613324.2020.1753672

In this episode, Nathalie and Anna Corinne sit down with Makela, a Western graduate and community member with experience serving folks facing housing insecurity and homelessness. Makela offers some helpful background regarding the causes of houselessness; she dispels some common misconceptions; and she offers steps that Western students can take to serve our neighbors experiencing homelessness.

Resources:

https://plymouthhousing.org/

https://www.desc.org/what-we-do/housing/housing-first/

https://www.oppco.org/publications/

https://www.wliha.org/

https://evictionlab.org/

In this episode, Adah and Anna Corinne sat down with Teri from the Opportunity Council to discuss the issue of homelessness in the Bellingham area. Teri offered some great examples that helped clarify the meaning behind some of the terms we often hear when discussing homelessness. She also provides concrete examples of how to help serve people experiencing houselessness and how to meet people where they are to serve them.

https://www.facebook.com/OCHomelessServices

GoodSpaceGuy is a long-time Washington resident and has run for elected positions over 20 times.

His platform includes improving our communities through meaningful engagement, a competitive market approach, and investment in orbital space colonies.

Running as a third-party candidate has allowed him to experience community and political life in a unique way.

In this episode, Good SpaceGuy joins us to talk about his experiences running as a third-party candidate, key aspects of his political platform, and a new take on how to better our communities.

He emphasizes the possibility of orbital space colonies as a way to improve the quality of workers' lives and protect our planet.

Thank you, GoodSpaceGuy, for joining our podcast!

In this episode, Jude and Stephen from the OCE sit down with Yasmin, Tara, and Liam from FairVote Washington. FairVote is a non-profit, volunteer-based organization that pushes for election reform. Yasmin, Tara, and Liam share their experiences with FairVote and their efforts in pushing for election reform. They also help break down what ranked-choice voting is and its benefits compared to our current system of voting in Washington State and the U.S.

https://fairvotewa.org/

https://www.instagram.com/fairvotewa/

https://www.facebook.com/FairVoteWA/

This episode is part two of our "Reasonable Accommodations?" episode released on April 5th. You can listen to this podcast as a stand-alone or go back to part one for some more context. In this episode, Adah and Jude continue the conversation with Iris (a recent WWU graduate) and Charlotta (a coordinator in the Disability Outreach Center) who share their experiences as students with disabilities. They talk about institutionalized ableism, issues within the medical field, and they discuss ways that we can work to support our peers with disabilities. We want to thank both Iris and Charlotta for their time and for the valuable conversation.

Disability Outreach Center (DOC) https://as.wwu.edu/sairc/disability/

Disability Access Center (DAC) https://disability.wwu.edu/

In this special episode, Jude is joined by Malik, ASWWU’s President, to talk about Ramadan and their own experiences. They talk about fasting, their unique experiences growing up, the Muslim community at Western, and religious accommodations in education institutions. 

In this episode, Chelsea and Jude delve into the topic of jury duty and jury selection, how the court system can be incredibly biased, and how this applies to a case that many of us currently have our eyes on: the Derek Chauvin case. 

Resources

Jury Selection https://www.uscourts.gov/services-forms/jury-service/learn-about-jury-service

https://www.readfrontier.org/stories/prejudice-and-prosecution-juror-racism-at-issue-in-tulsa-county-da-election/

https://eji.org/reports/illegal-racial-discrimination-in-jury-selection/

Court TV https://www.courttv.com/

Full Ballot Talk with Professor Ceci Lopez Ballot Talk: Why do we elect state Justices and Judges? With Professor Ceci Lopez.

In this episode, Adah and Jude sit down with Iris (a recent WWU graduate) and Charlotta (a coordinator in the Disability Outreach Center) to talk about their experiences as students with disabilities. They talk about reasonable accommodations and how professors don't always create equitable learning conditions or standards. We want to thank both Iris and Charlotta for their time and for the valuable conversation. 

Disability Outreach Center (DOC) https://as.wwu.edu/sairc/disability/

Disability Access Center (DAC) https://disability.wwu.edu/

In this episode, Anna Corinne sits down with Professor Melina Juarez from the Political Science and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies departments to talk about intersectional feminism. Professor Juarez helps unpack the topic of feminism in the United States and beyond, the dominant narratives of feminism that have been pushed forward, the importance of pushing back against a single narrative, and how we can work to "decolonize our minds" to become better intersectional feminists.