This month, we are sharing the conversation we had with the co-founders of We, Ceremony back in the spring. The network of women of color that is We, Ceremony grew from Iliana Panameño and Mu-Chieh Yun's friendship, and their desire to share positive and beautiful stories of women of color, including their own. Listen as they do just that with Lina and Rachel, and hear how they inspired us to be more intentional with holding digital space and the sacred power of storytelling. 

Visit their website and instagram page (@weceremony) to learn more about their work. Read their interview with the founders of Women of Color in Solidarity here, where they discuss the use of the word "activist" as Iliana mentions. 

This season, we are diving deeper on The Activist Hustle. After each interview, our team will learn, reflect, and discuss the issues and themes that our guests bring up. In this episode, Lina and Rachel get passionate about injustices in our health care system. Try to keep up with us as we touch on a variety of related topics from implicit biases to maternal mortality to navigating this confusing system as millennials, all inspired by conversations with our previous guest, Raquel Sofia. 

This month we are sharing our conversation with Raquel Sofia Sandoval, who is a Harvard Med School student and co-founder of the Instagram account @2WOCQueenMDs. She has been a leader for racial justice in medicine and healthcare and her work was borne out of truly wanting to make a difference in underserved communities. In this episode, Raquel Sofia shares her story  openly and honestly with Lina and they relate over immigrating to the states from Colombia as kids and how it has affected their lives and career paths, especially when it comes to being the first or only women of color in the space. 

Check out her Instagram page, which shares stories of women of color in the medical field. 

This season, we are diving deeper on The Activist Hustle. After each interview, our team will learn, reflect, and discuss the issues and themes that our guests bring up. In this episode, Lina and Rachel take a look at college admissions scandal, and what it doesn’t address about the inequities in our education system. Listen for a some bonus audio that didn’t make it into episode 5. 

This month we had the pleasure of speaking to Javier Weddington, a co-founder of MIT BoSTEM Scholars.  He is a neuroscience researcher at MIT, is about to start a PhD program, and is a proud Chicago Public Schools alumn.  Javier shares his experience working towards more equitable access to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education, particularly for youth of color. He also shares his wisdom about raising money, gathering a strong team for your work, and getting enough sleep. You can learn more at the MIT BoSTEM Scholars website and follow him on Twitter. 

Have you been wondering where our April episodes are? Fear not! Your feed is not broken. This week, a short update on what we've been up to. We'll be back next week with a brand new interview to share!

This season, we are diving deeper on The Activist Hustle. After each interview, our team will learn, reflect, and discuss the issues and themes that our guests bring up. In this episode, all four members of our team get together to talk about themes from Lina's interview with Lior and Eyal. From allieship, to love, to patience, we cover a lot of ground. 

We hope you learn and engage with us over these topics so that we can grow as activists together! Send thoughts, comments, resources, stories to @activisthustle on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, or email us at [email protected]

This month we're excited to bring you our first two-guest episode starting Lior and Eyal of the Non-Binary Hebrew Project. They are a recent graduate and an instructor of the University of Colorado Boulder, where they met and encountered a challenge: how to make a gendered language, Hebrew, inclusive to people of all identities.  Listen as they share how this question took them on an unexpected path to activism, and where they are now. You can learn more, or contact them at the project's website.

They're featured in multiple articles, including this one, which they reference in the interview. Lior also mentions Queer Talmud Camp and Momentum-based organizing. And Eyal references Carol's Dweck's work on the growth mindset. Follow the links to learn more about any of these references. 

This season, we are diving deeper on The Activist Hustle. After each interview, Lina and Rachel will research, reflect, and discuss the issues and causes that our guests work on. This month, inspired by Tina's amazing work with refugee communities, they are learning and asking more about refugees and immigration. 

We hope you learn and engage with us over these topics so that we can grow as activists together! Send thoughts, comments, resources, stories to @activisthustle on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

Welcome back to the Activist Hustle! We’re launching season two with Tina Al-khersan, a millennial who loves to travel and explore the world as well as her role in activism. Listen as Lina and Tina explore how identity and language impact activism and service in immigrant and refugee work. Find Tina on Facebook, Instagram, and her blog.