Speak For Change With Thomas Sage Pedersen

By Thomas Sage Pedersen

Welcome to Speak for Change with Thomas Sage Pedersen! Our mission is to inspire and promote positive and lasting change in our local & global communities.

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July 17, 2020 Ep.33 Interview | Khafre Jay - Hip-Hop as a Social Justice Movement
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Find Khafre:
www.hiphopforchange.org
www.KhafreJay.com
List of Hip-hop Khafre recommends:
https://www.hiphopforchange.org/local-artists

About Kafre:
Khafre Jay hails from Hunters Point San Francisco, a neighborhood that stands in stark contrast to the gilded city we’re used to seeing in media, and his activism is deeply rooted in real communities dealing with real issues. He is at home on the humblest corner, the corporate board room, in the booth, on stage, and at the gaudiest lectern speaking truth to power. Khafre’s experience in merging activism and expressive cultural arts has led him to found Hip Hop For Change, a 501c3 education organization that uses Hip Hop culture to educate and advocate for social justice in the Bay Area.
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45min
July 16, 2020 Ep.32 Interview| Bella Bonner - Black (BIPOC) Youth Organizing, Activism and More
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Find Bella:
Blendedbridge.com

About Bella:
Bella Bonner is a local activist in Santa Cruz County who graduated from Cabrillo College in Sociology and SJSU in Human Resources management. She has been active in making a change in our community by increasing awareness, amplifying Black & Brown voices, exposing implicit bias, and working collaboratively with the community. Bella also co-owns a local community website, Blended Bridge, that holds the same values of bridging the gaps in the community.
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46min
July 15, 2020 Ep.31 Interview | Melody Noceti - How to Create an Environment of Inclusion, Acceptance, & Love in The Classroom
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Find Melody:
https://nurturingnerdinessandknowledge.wordpress.com/
Inspiration:
http://udlguidelines.cast.org/

About Melody(in her words):
I am a high school English teacher with 20 years of classroom experience, and I am committed to supporting students intellectually and emotionally while advocating for educational equity. I strive to foster a warm, nurturing environment that encourages student learning and well-being through the use of research-based practices. To that end, I have also served as a Teacher of Teachers to help build collective capacity across our district. I am also passionate about representing students positively in the community and helping community programs that serve and support our youth. In addition to being a teacher, I am a photographer and artist, and I am driven to capture and convey the special moments in our learners’ lives and share them with students, parents, and the community while encouraging them to also explore various forms of self-expression.
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1h 7min
July 14, 2020 Ep.30 Interview| Mark Myles: Teamwork Makes the Dreamwork
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https://www.selmacenterfornonviolence.org/

About Mark:
Mark Myles is an activist, organizer, and Kingian Nonviolence practitioner. Mark believes if we all do our part this world can truly become a better place. If we all do our part nobody has to do a lot!!

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1h 12min
July 13, 2020 Ep.29 Interview | Lori & Ella Halliday - Vigilant Personal Growth and More!
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Find Ella and Lori
horseandheart.org
wisehorsewoman.com
About Lori.
LORI HALLIDAY, FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AT HORSE & HEART CEO - Wisehorsewoman Lori has 20 years of experience in Natural Horsemanship and has been a certified Equine Experiential Learning trainer for over 15 years. Her training in these techniques is underpinned by formal education in the behavioral sciences —psychology, sociology, criminology, cultural anthropology, dance, experiential learning, and art. Lori has studied with and been inspired by many of the most advanced, generous, compassionate, and skillful teachers of our age: Cathryn Clerc, Linda Kohanov, Carolyn Resnick, Jonathan Field, Pat, and Linda Parelli, and Buck Branaman. She is a voracious student of Movement, Personal Growth, and Vision. Drawing on this rich background, Lori has created in Horse & Heart, a beautiful, tranquil, and safe place for others to study, learn, and grow under her guidance, with a horse partner. Lori works with adults, children, and at-risk youth. She has also worked extensively in the mental health field with adults and youth in institutional, transitional living, group home, and independent living environments. Lori is an avid Life/Congruency Coach with Wisehorsewoman.com
About Ella
This is Ella Halliday, a lifetime local to Santa Cruz who has followed her joy into a career and life living symbiotically with animals. She spent her youth diving into different practices and fields of horsemanship, learning from friends, some of the best riders and horsemen in the world, and often gleaning the most important information from her students, horses, and moments of stillness. She is now a professional in the industry and is blessed to run an inclusive horsemanship program in Soquel with her mother Lori Halliday, Horse and Heart

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1h 40min
July 12, 2020 Ep.28 Thomas Talks | Be Selfish and Go Within
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Find Me:
Thomas-Pedersen.com
Learn to love yourself so that you can love others!
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July 11, 2020 Ep.27 Interview | Dr. Nick Rowell - The Importance of a Healthy Democracy
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Find Nick:
https://www.cabrillo.edu/salsa/listing.php?staffId=2096
About Nick:
Nick Rowell is an instructor of Political Science at Cabrillo College in Aptos, CA. He joined Cabrillo College faculty in 2014. Nick earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of New Mexico in 2012. His research background is on the relationship between the human rights movement and organized religion in Latin America, including fieldwork conducted in El Salvador in 2009. Today he teaches courses on US Government, Comparative Politics & International Relations.
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1h 14min
July 11, 2020 Ep.26 Interview| Aliza(Ali) Wellwisher - Regenerative way of living and why we should care
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https://www.facebook.com/aliza.wellwisher
https://www.10000hours.earth/
About:
Ali Weller became a Climate Reality Leader at the 2018 Mexico City training. She is a Training Content Manager at Apple, where she also volunteers as a Core Leadership Member of the AppleEarth group, with whom she has coordinated several company-wide tree planting events in partnership with environmental nonprofits like the Sierra Club, Our City Forest, the Santa Cruz Land Trust, and the Turtle Island Restoration Network. Ali was certified by Afforestt in the Miyawaki method of regenerative forest restoration, which can be used to regenerate a 100-year native forest in 10-30 years, from the soil-up. She is also a certified permaculture designer, with her PDC from Pun Pun, a regenerative farming school north of Chiang Mai, Thailand. Ali co-founded an environmental education nonprofit in 2008, called Intelligent Play, which has led hundreds of workshops in 15 different countries. Ali gave a TEDx Talk in 2014 about her environmental and community work in an Inuit community in the Canadian High Arctic Circle, where she was the Manager of Communications for the Nunavut Impact Review Board. Ali has spent several years advising on the Boards of Directors for the North American Association for Environmental Education, the Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication, and currently serves as Ambassador for Mission Be. She created an arctic group of the Canadian Water Resources Association, and participated in the creation of the Pan-Arctic Environmental Education Association. During this time, her arctic writing was nominated for a national literary award. Ali has a background in Education, Communications, Biology, Aboriginal Law, World Literature, and a Masters degree in Environmental Studies. She lives on a farm in Soquel with 6 other women who collaboratively tend the land, grow organic food, and create soil by composting. Ali is currently looking for co-founders for a new organization: the BlueGreen Fund, which aims to scale Miyawaki-style forest restoration in North America to plant and protect millions of trees, as part of the World Economic Forum’s 1-Trillion Trees Platform.

I am currently looking for co-founders for a new organization: the BlueGreen Foundation, which aims to scale Miyawaki-style forest restoration in North America to plant and protect millions of trees, as part of the World Economic Forum’s 1-Trillion Trees Platform.
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1h 47min
July 09, 2020 Ep.25 Interview | Faith Brown- Racism in San Lorenzo Valley and How to Fix it
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Find Faith:
https://www.instagram.com/_faith.yeah_
Next Protest Event: A Black Lives Matter March starts at 10 am July 11th at San Lorenzo Valley High School ending at Brookdale lodge!

About Faith:
Faith Brown is a 17-year-old organizer and activist in Santa Cruz California.
She organized her first Black Lives Matter protest on June 20th, 2020 in San Lorenzo Valley which was extremely successful.
She is currently a part of the San Lorenzo valley/ Scotts valley Coalition against racism organization.
After experiencing racism herself in San Lorenzo Valley School system she had to switch schools which have made a profound impact on her life.
She is currently organizing another Black Lives Matter protest for July 11th in San Lorenzo Valley.
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43min
July 08, 2020 Ep.24 Interview | John Leopold: Criminal Justice Reform
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www.friendsofjohnleopold.com
About John:
John Leopold is a Santa Cruz County Supervisor, representing the 1st District which includes Live Oak, Soquel, Santa Cruz Gardens, and the Summit area. He has served for 12 years and helped found Smart On Crime Santa Cruz County, World Surfing Reserve Stewardship Council, and the Live Oak Cradle To Career Initiative. John has been instrumental in the construction of the Boys & Girls Club in Live Oak and Chanticleer Park, the County's first park accessible to all children. He led the Board of Supervisors in becoming the first county to ban fracking in the state drafted the County's Vacation Rental limits, and led the effort to purchase the rail corridor for trail and transit in the future.
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