Today's episode is in collaboration with our partners at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center. You can find out more about our guests, Lois Martin and Shawn Thurman, in their online exhibit Facing Forward - Essential Workers, Essential Stories.

Lois is the director of the Community Day Center for Children in the Central District and Shaw is a registered nurse at the Seattle Indian Health Board working out of the Chief Sealth Club in Pioneer Square.

In this episode, our guests tell their stories and have a great discussion about essential workers, the pandemic, and belonging. Listen as Lois talks about how she went from a career at IBM to taking over her mother's early education center and as Shawn talks about growing up in the Sac & Fox nation in Oklahoma and how he and his wife sought out careers in the healthcare field.

If you have little ones that need a vaccination, please check out the Community Day Center for Children's vaccination program. The next date will be on October 13th for children ages 6 months to 4 years old.

Thanks again to Bobby Choy (aka Big Phony) for letting us use his music for our intros and outros!