Social Action Briefing

In what amounts to our Season 2 Finale, Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch participate in a special episode produced by Martina Stephenson on her last day as SAB's official Social Work Intern. They commemorate Mental Health Awareness Month, review this past season, how often topics recurred, and how they have progressed, and close with a discussion on perhaps our most favored topic, voting. Thanks to all who listened and contributed to this season we will see you next time.

Professor Jessica Mitchell, Martina Stephenson, and Craig Milch discuss Biden's 2024 announcement, the debt ceiling and cuts to Medicaid, Tucker Carlson's ouster at Fox News, more (!) SCOTUS ethics violations, FL surgeon general's covid lies, housing first in NYC, and attacks on civil rights in Mississippi and Texas.

This week, Professor Jessica Mitchell, Martina Stephenson, and Craig Milch discuss Clarence Thomas, NYS bail reform and budget talks, the social work licensing exam, new NYS judge nominees, abortion and trans medical care bills in CO, MO, and FL, Black maternal health, a ban of the study of racism in Louisiana, recent shootings, and heinous leaked audio in OK.

Professor Jessica Mitchell, Martina Stephenson, and Craig Milch are back together to record, coincidentally after Trump has (finally) been indicted. They discuss the indictment, the elections in Wisconsin and Chicago, new SCOTUS ethics rules, the next shadow docket-like procedure SCOTUS conservatives are taking advantage of, legislative and policy developments across a slew of states, the aftermath and protests following the Tennessee school shooting, a Tennessee family improperly separated by DCS, reparations in Evanston, Illinois, and an NYPD shooting in response to a mental health crisis call.

In her last interview for Women's History Month, Martina Stephenson speaks with health and wellness coach Vanessa Farrell (vihealthcoaching.com) about her background, health coaching, challenges women face in taking care of their heart health and overall wellness, easy and helpful changes, what success looks like, and the nature and importance of self-care.

This week Martina Stephenson continues to honor Women's History Month and celebrates International Women's Day by welcoming back Nicole Tarangelo LMSW to the podcast to have a wide-ranging conversation about contraception and the disproportionate burden placed on women to prevent pregnancy.

Martina Stephenson kicks off Women's History Month and National Disability Awareness Month by interviewing teacher, advocate, social work student Marc Esposito about his background, how he found his way to social work, working with differently abled clients, Haitian American model and disability advocate Mama Cax, advocating for clients and yourself, and his family's non-profit, Forgotten Children of Haiti.

In this final edition of this year's series of Black History Month interviews, Martina Stephenson speaks to Corey Grant (@coreyg_21) of Granted Access Production (@granted_access_production) about his career as an actor, producer, and educator, the importance of storytelling, and what it means to be an artist.

In the next edition of our series of Black History Month interviews conducted by Martina Stephenson, Randy Ficklin, MSW, CASAC-T returns to talk about the meaning of Black history, who inspires them, social work in Black history, Clarence 13X, the Nation of Islam, the Nation of Gods and Earth (aka the Five Percenters), and Huey Newton. 

This week, Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch discuss the State of the Union, voting rights and the possible mooting of Moore v. Harper, a democracy voucher proposal in New Hampshire, the potential abortion pill ban, and the pride of Nassau County, George Santos.