Unheard Voices

Unheard Voices

By William RodriguezArts
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Unheard Voices episodes

  • Hidden Curricula

    Hidden Curricula is a podcast about what nobody puts in the syllabus. We examine how women are perceived and positioned in the workforce and in leadership — not just the visible barriers, but the deeper architecture of stereotypes and Western cultural norms that keep those barriers standing. In conversations with women working in male-dominated fields across academia and industry, we go beneath the talking points to ask harder questions: Where do these assumptions come from? Who benefits from them? And what does it actually take to dismantle them?

    22 min
  • Voices of Equity: Leading DEI in Times of Backlash

    Voices of Equity: Leading DEI in Times of Backlash
    How do we champion equity when the tide is turning against it? This episode dives deep into the state of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts amid cultural pushback. Featuring candid interviews with leaders from education, business, and advocacy, we explore how they sustain inclusive practices under pressure. Personal stories, sound design, and rigorous research illuminate both the challenges and the courage behind the fight to keep equity alive.

    28 min
  • Stolen People on Stolen Land: Uncovering America’s Foundational Hypocrisy

    What happens when immigration policy erases the land’s original caretakers? This provocative episode challenges the moral logic of American immigration by confronting its settler-colonial origins. Using music, archival clips, and testimony, the team unpacks how U.S. law upholds settler power while ignoring Indigenous suffering—especially violence against Native women. This episode is both a history lesson and a call to decolonize justice.

    21 min
  • Breaking Barriers: ICE, Policy, and the Immigrant Narrative


     Team: Breaking Barriers
    In this urgent conversation on immigration enforcement, we center the voices of those most impacted by ICE raids and punitive policies. With insights from protest movements, immigrant communities, and a former ICE agent, this episode confronts how immigrant stories are erased, criminalized, or co-opted. We ask: How can media protect immigrant rights, amplify truth, and resist fear-based policymaking?

    34 min
  • A conversation with BU's own Kasim-Seann - perspectives on today's education and mental health.

    Hear Kasim, a student in the Master's Program in Counseling Psychology and Human. Development share his lived experiences and his take as an African American male navigating the complex bureaucracies of schools and universities.  Listen as out team questions him on how he has been able demonstrate his resiliency. to survive no matter the obstacles and push forward in pursuit of his educational and career goals.  In this podcast the C-town team will inquire Kasims take on what he has been able to observe and provide recommendations for improvement. 

    31 min
  • The Boston Re-engagement Center - Helping youth by re-engaging and reinvesting in their education

    The Unheard Voices REC podcast team examines how the Boston Re-engagement  Center (BREC) dedicates countless hours on youth who have disengaged from  schools.  Listen to this powerful conversation with the Center staff and one of their students, as they share their work, challenges and successes.  More importantly, how this inconspicuous, under the radar Center achieves success and help derail the school-to prison pipeline.





    28 min
  • "An in-depth look at Sociedad Latina Inc. - Transforming Latinx youth into the social justice change agents of tomorrow."

    Hear our Unheard Voices Podcast Team of Students examine and explore the work of Sociedad Latina Inc, a Latinx youth serving institution whose mission has been to primarily equip Latinx youth with the engagement tools and leadership skills to challenge systemic barriers in education, health, environment and public safety.  By engaging the youth in leadership roles they seek equity and inclusion of their voices in program and policy decisions in the city of Boston.

    18 min

About Unheard Voices

From the publisher's feed

A series of conversations from groups in American society who feel invisible in the dominant narrative of race and want to be included. Unheard Voices launched in Spring 2022 include a set of…