Social Changemakers

Welcome back to another episode of the AA of Social Media. In this episode, Abbey and Ellie discuss how social media has strongly influenced our lives. From things like our shopping patterns, relationships and even education. This can alter our behaviours, beliefs, and even basic health. We also discuss the historical context of social media. Listen in to hear the good, bad and the ugly.

In this Episode, we meet Gayle from Food4Kids in the Halton area. We talked about what they’re doing at Food4kids and learned about stories of people the charity was able to help. We dive deeper into how poverty affects kids in local areas. Listeners at home can help the cause by donating food, money or time to your local branch of Food4Kids. Check out the list of needed goods online!

Welcome back to The AA of Social Media. This week, Ellie and Abbey discuss the power of social media. How can social media shape good social change? Can social media create dangerous ideologies? Listen in and hear us dish it out.

Welcome to The AA of Social Media - a new podcast where we talk about all things social media. In this podcast Abbey and Ellie talk about the different types of Social Media, everyday life impact and most importantly how everything you put online stays online forever!!! We will also give you some insight for what to expect for the series. Enjoy!

In this episode, R.I.S.E academy student Kirsten Downs is joined by Olympic gold medalist Tessa Bonhomme. The two of them talked about gender equality in women's hockey along with much more! Listen to hear about Tessa’s experiences, life lessons and her hockey career!

In this wrap up podcast for Zenya's passion project, she and facilitator, Abbey, talk about scientific illustration, which was the topic of her project. During their discussion, they touched on communicating scientific illustration through writing and podcasting, interviewing scientific illustrators and discussing why that's important to communicate, what were some of the key things that Zenya took away from her passion project, and what she learned and what skills she gained throughout her passion project.

This week, Tessa had the chance to sit down and talk to sports coach and mentor, John Haime. He has his own business who believes everyone can succeed in what they do. He is there to help athletes get to the next level of their sports whether that is the olympics, college level or university. He talks about how it is not only skill but a big part of it is mentality for the sport. He is there to make them better and to believe in you to follow your dreams. It was an amazing talk, especially because Tessa is interested in going into the same field as he is in. She continued to learn about the schooling involvement and the different paths I could go through to get there!

On this episode of the social changemakers podcast we're joined by Sam from Waterfirst. Hosted by Timalma Abukari and Emma Shipman, In this podcast we get to learn about waterfirst and find out who they are and what they do. There were multiple insightful questions such as, “what is waterfirsts goal”, “what kinds of projects waterfirst is working on right now” where asked. We find out more about their water quality programs, how online has changed their operations and accessible water worldwide.

My name is Tessa Shimizu and this is my second time doing a podcast throughout this course (Leadership and Healthy Active Living). During this podcast, I had a chance to talk with Anna who is very knowledgeable in many fields surrounding health, nutrition and fitness. At the beginning of this conversation Anna talks about who she is and what roles she plays in the healthy living industry. What is unique about this podcast is that Anna, Abbey and I focused mainly on the struggles in social media and being a woman trying to start a healthy life. Anna explains to me that the social media posts are very misleading, but at the same time we cannot blame them as that is how they make money. This subject interested me a lot and I am glad I learned more about it!

Gracie is a grade 12 student at St. Mark High School and R.I.S.E. Academy. She has spent the last year and half going to both of these schools. Over this time she has been able to really look at herself and become an advocate for herself as well as those who don't necessarily fit in the school box. Listen to her first episode in her series (name TBD) on what school has done to her over the years.