In this episode, Dr. Andrea Baldwin joins in conversation with leaders from the Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversity and Equality (ECADE) former Chair Lysanne Charles and Executive Director Kenita Placide to discuss their work in advocating for LGBTQ rights in the Eastern Caribbean. This interview covers the organization's origins, mission, and challenges, as well as the current state of queer issues in the region. The guests share insights on ECADE's role in the global movement for gender and queer justice, their vision for the future, and upcoming initiatives.

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In this episode, Dr. Andrea Baldwin and Jenaya Amore sits down with a prominent academic, community advocate, and activist Dr. Brandy Faulkner. Known affectionately as the 'People's President' at Virginia Tech, Dr. Faulkner discusses their journey in balancing work within academia and the Black community, exploring the concept of 'Black aliveness' and its significance. They share insights on supporting minoritized and marginalized students in the current national climate, and offer advice for others engaged in similar work. The conversation delves into the guest's philosophy, their impact on both the academic and community spheres, and their vision for the Black community's future. We examine the challenges and importance of advocacy work, while imagining pathways to achieve positive change in the coming years.

In this episode, Dr. Andrea Baldwin and Jenaya Amore, chat with our guest Alyssha Dairsow, co-founder and executive director of CurlyMe! Ms, Dairsow has engaged with the Utah community since she moved there over 10 years ago. She focuses on young Black girls ages five to 14, at Curly Me! and provides mentoring and hosts events that help children of color embrace their best selves. From book clubs to panels to hangouts, she’s building a village around an underrepresented community and empowering them to embrace their uniqueness.Ms. Dairsow works to provide a platform where the voices in her community are heard, including her own. “Things will not change if I, or anyone else, stays silent,” she says, and laying the foundation for the future of the young Black girls in her community is what she believes will change Utah for the better. I decided to be a reliable resource for parents and Black girls because I noticed there weren’t many fun and reliable resources for our girls, says Ms. Dairsow, describing where the idea for the nonprofit started. I am confident Curly Me! will continue to grow into bigger and better events and outreach that will cross state lines and country borders.Curly Me! continues to hold their quarterly flagship events and is growing their programs as we speak. 

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Community building serves as a bridge to the collectivity of all Black womxn in and outside of the academy. In our final episode of the season, co-hosts Jenaya Amore and Dr. Andrea Baldwin engage in conversation with Producing Collaborator Shalonda Ingram about the importance of relationality between individuals and organizations which informs how mentoring is (re)defined and practiced.
Shalonda Ingram is a social omnipreneur based in the D.C. area. They are the founder of Born Brown: All Rights Reserved and Nursha Project. They also are a Place-maker at the Church of the Holy City in D.C. and Delaware.

"Womanist is to feminist, as purple is to lavender." Following Alice Walker's sentiment, this episode explores and delves into the intricacies of religion and spirituality for Black women during the 18th century. Co-hosts of Standpoints Jenaya Amore and Dr. Andrea Baldwin join in conversation with Dr. Jaimie Crumley to discuss her research and the mentoring impacts of her personal and professional trajectory.
Dr. Jaimie Crumley is an Assistant Professor in the Gender and Ethnic Studies Divisions with the School for Cultural & Social Transformation at the University of Utah.

In an effort to resist multiple oppressions across various spaces, Black women academics and graduate student often create alternative spaces to center themselves within the academy. In this episode co-hosts Dr. Andrea Baldwin and Jenaya Amore speak with co founders of the North Star Collective, Dr. Tatiana Cruz and Dr. Kamille Gentles-Peart.

Dr. Cruz is an Assistant Professor and Interdisciplinary Program Director of Africana Studies at Simmons University. Dr. Gentles-Peart is a Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Roger Williams University.

Guess who's in the hot seat? This episode highlights the long-standing co-mentoring relationship between co-host Dr. Andrea Baldwin and friend of the show, Dr. Nana Brantuo. Jenaya Amore, co-host of Standpoints, interviews both phenomenal scholars on their perspectives of community care and praxis within their pedagogy. Dr. Andrea N. Baldwin is an associate professor of gender and ethnic studies at the School for Cultural and Social Transformation at the University of Utah. Dr. Nana Brantuo is an interdisciplinary social scientist and founder of Diaspora Praxis, LLC.

Within the African diaspora, dance continues to serve as a medium for cultural and self expression amongst BIPOC communities. Today's guest uses dance as a pedagogical tool to combine the performing arts and education to reconnect the (dis)embodied experience of being in the academic space. Co-host Jenaya Amore speaks with Shani Collins and Truth Hunter, about Black feminisms and how this theory informs their experiences as artists and teachers in and outside of the classroom. Shani Collins is an Associate Professor of Dance at Connecticut College. Truth Hunter is a doctoral candidate at the University of Connecticut.

In this episode, co-hosts Jenaya Amore and Andrea Baldwin engages in a conversation with Kimberly Clark surrounding her leadership within a director role at Virginia Tech. From this dialogue, we learn how mentoring includes not only serving as a buffer, but intentionally centering and caring for students' holistic selves against racial oppression at predominantly white institutions. Kimberly Clark is the director of the Black Cultural Center at Virginia Tech.

Mentorship has provided Black women the agency to define their own success while supported by those who have undergone this arduous journey. Particularly, within PWIs, co-mentorship and community have served as a homeplace and solace for Black women while navigating such spaces. Co-hosts Dr. Andrea Baldwin and Jenaya Amore discuss the impact of mentoring on their academic trajectory and personal lives.