Dr. Adrienne Keene is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She’s an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University, co-hosts a podcast called “All My Relations” and she’s the author of the new book: Notable Native People.

Here are links to some resources that Dr. Keene mentions in this episode:

Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present by Adrienne Keene. Illustrations by Ciara Sana

Sarah Winnemucca Devoted Her Life to Protecting Native Americans in the Face of an Expanding United States, Smithsonian Magazine, 2016

Landback.org

NDN Collective

Why Native Hawaiians are fighting to protect Mauna Kea from a telescope

Vox.com, 2019

Indigenous Opposition to Line Three

Reuters, 2021

Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn. The show's managing producer is Sachar Mathias and the executive producer is Mia Lobel.

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Dr. Maya Shankar is the founder of the White House's Behavioral Science Team. She served as a senior advisor during the Obama administration and in 2016, Shankar was the first behavioral science advisor to the United Nations.

She is the host of the podcast, A Slight Change of Plans.

Here are some resources that Dr. Shankar mentions in this episode: 

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

“A Slight Change of Plans” with Adam Grant

“A Slight Change of Plans” with Dr. Katy Milkman

Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, The managing producer is Sachar Mathias and the executive producer is Mia Lobel.

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Matthew Johnson is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University where research is underway to explore the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs to break through the crushing impact of addiction and other mental health disorders.

Here are some of the resources Johnson mentions in this episode:

Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research

https://hopkinspsychedelic.org/

National Institutes of Health Clinical Trials 

https://clinicaltrials.gov/

Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) 

https://maps.org/

Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, managing producer is Sachar Mathias and the executive producer is Mia Lobel.

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Host Ronald Young Jr. sits down with Malcolm Gladwell to talk about climate change: the power of individual choices, cultural shifts and what to expect from the business sector too. 

Meaningful climate action requires thoughtful engagement from across all sectors, regions, nations -- from all of us. Check out these recent Solvable episodes for additional solutions and for ways that you can get involved.

Destructive Agriculture is Solvable with Rachel Stroer

Wildfire Ignition is Solvable with Eric Appel

The Lack of Basic Sanitation in the United States is Solvable with Catherine Coleman Flowers

The Slow Regrowth of Vulnerable Coral Reefs is Solvable with Sarah Hamlyn

Fighting Climate Change Through Incentivized Prizes and Innovation with Anousheh Ansari

Making Transportation Systems Eco-friendly is a Solvable Problem with Laura Schewel 

Addiction to Fossil Fuels is Solvable with Bill McKibben

Executive Producer, Mia Lobel

Managing Producer, Sachar Mathias

Senior Producer, Jocelyn Frank 

Researcher, David Zha

Booking by Lisa Dunn

Very special thanks to Royston Beserve, Heather Fain, Nicole Morano, Carly Migliori, Eric Sandler and Maggie Taylor.

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Ben Kirby is the founder of PreachersNSneakers, an Instagram account and book, that both ask, “how much is too much” to spend when it comes to presenting a compelling image of the church and it’s leaders? Kirby's got some answers and some solutions.

Solvable is produced by David Zha, Jocelyn Frank, Sachar Mathias and Mia Lobel.

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Host Ronald Young, Jr. presents a preview of Pushkin’s newest podcast, Some of My Best Friends Are… and talks with the hosts, Khalil Gibran Muhammad (Harvard professor) and Ben Austen (award-winning journalist) about some of their favorite moments together.

Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Ben Austen grew up together on the South Side of Chicago. The two offer an unfiltered take on growing up in a deeply-divided country and navigating that divide as it exists today.

The full season can be found at http://podcasts.pushkin.fm/solvablebestfriends

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Mike Gauyo is a TV writer in LA including work on Insecure (HBO) and Ginny & Georgia (Netflix). He’s the founder of The Black Boy Writes Black Girl Writes Mentorship Initiative that is paving pathways for emerging Black writers in Hollywood. 

Here are some resources Gauyo recommends in this episode:

Black Boy Writes Black Girl Writes

Insecure

Fruit Podcast

The Writer's Room Podcast

The Screenwriters Rant Room Podcast

On Writing Podcast from WGA 

The Screenwriter's Bible, A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script by David Trottier

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Stephanie Cunningham is the director of Museum Hue which supports people of color within the museum field and works to situate and promote culturally informed museum exhibitions and experiences across the nation. 

Here are some of the resources she mentions in this episode:

Museum Hue

Mounting Frustration: Art Museums in the Age of Black Power by Susan E. Cahan

EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art by Kellie Jones

Museums are Not Neutral

Museum Detox

MuseumNext

How to Be an Antiracist

Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, David Zha and Sachar Mathias. Booking by Lisa Dunn.

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Dr. Joy Harden Bradford is a licensed psychologist, author, podcast host and the founder of Therapy For Black Girls – an online resource, and podcast, that supports the mental well-being of Black women and girls.

If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call the National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357)

https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline

Here are some of the resources that Dr. Harden Bradford mentions in this episode:

Therapy For Black Girls

The Loveland Foundation: financial assistance to Black women & girls seeking therapy

https://thelovelandfoundation.org/

Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen: The Emotional Lives Of Black Women, by Inger Burnett-Zeigler

Rwenshaun Miller

Therapy For Black Men

Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn and our managing producer is Sachar Mathias.

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Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News correspondent. He is the author Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and he’s written four #1 New York Times bestsellers including How to Be an Antiracist.

Here are some resources for learning more about, and doing, antiracism work:

Be Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi

Books: 

Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010) 

Carol Anderson, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America (2021) 

Erika Lee, America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States (2019) 

Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (2021) 

Paul Ortiz, An African American and Latinx History of the United States (2018) 

David Treuer, The Heartbeat on Wounded Knee: Native Americans From 1890 to the Present by David Treuer (2019) 

Movies:  

13th  

John Lewis: Good Trouble 

Selma 

Just Mercy 

Hair Love 

The Hate U Give 

Organizations: 

Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research 

Black Lives Matter (US, Canada, United Kingdom) 

Stop AAPI Hate 

Jews for Racial and Economic Justice 

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee 

Hispanic Heritage Foundation 

National Congress of American Indians

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