Etzer Catave is the president of the DuSable Heritage Association whose  mission is to promote the legacy of Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable,  founder of Chicago, through educational and cultural activities.  

He is an assistant director of operations at the Office of Sponsored  Research at the University of Illinois Chicago.   

https://www.dusableheritage.com/ 

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At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no  language and all languages are spoken…  

It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages,  interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the  students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’…  

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Radio Aula Mundi  

Centro Cultural & Turistico Aula Mundi  

Aula Mundi Cultural Travel Center 

https://radioaulamundi.bandcamp.com/

Dallas Hunt is Cree and a member of Wapsewsipi (Swan River First Nation)  in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta, Canada.   

He has had creative and critical work published in the Malahat Review,  Arc Poetry, Canadian Literature, and the American Indian Culture and  Research Journal. His first children’s book, Awâsis and the World-Famous  Bannock, was published through Highwater Press in 2018, and was  nominated for the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award.   

His teaching and research interests include Indigenous literature,  Indigenous theory & politics, Canadian Literature, speculative  fiction, settler colonial studies, and environmental justice.   

https://languagesciences.ubc.ca/news-events/announcement-research-news-story/jul-22-2021-how-hunt-bannock-inspired-cree-language

This is an excerpt from an online conversation with Jonathan Balcombe,  who was born in England, raised in New Zealand and Canada, and has lived  in the United States since 1987.  He is a biologist with a PhD in ethology, the study of animal behavior.  

He is the author of four popular science books on the inner lives of  animals, including Pleasurable Kingdom, Second Nature, and What a Fish  Knows, a New York Times best-seller. He has published over 60 scientific papers and book chapters on animal behavior and animal protection.  

Jonathan currently lives in southern Ontario, where in his spare time he enjoys biking, baking, birding, Bach, and trying to understand the squirrels in his neighborhood. 

https://jonathan-balcombe.com/

This is an excerpt from an online conversation with Daria  Marmaluk-Hajioannou who has been called “an ambassador of song” by US  newspapers. Her live performances include songs and lectures in several  languages, including English, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, Zulu, German,  Quechua Indian and Oneida (Iroquois). Here she describes her favorite  Peruvian dish and how to eat it...  

https://www.dariamusic.com/

This is an audio excerpt from an online conversation with Peregrine  Church and Xack Fischer, two Seattle artists who keep decorating the  streets of their hometown with rainy-day art. The goal: to give people a reason to smile on rainy days.  Nearly every day, people are sharing photos of new rainworks they've  made with the official hashtag: #Rainworks.  

https://rain.works/