Us with Dr. Crystallee Crain - Critical Conversations On The Challenges and Opportunities Of Our Times

Us with Dr. Crystallee Crain - Critical Conversations On The Challenges and Opportunities Of Our Times

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Us with Dr. Crystallee Crain - Critical Conversations On The Challenges and Opportunities Of Our Times episodes

  • Women, Travel, Leadership & Life with Beth Santos
    Today we have a very special guest with us, Beth Santos - the founder and CEO of Wanderful. Beth and I met at the first-ever Wanderfest event in New Orleans in March of this year. She was so supportive and her team created an environment where I felt like I had found my tribe. 
     
    For me, travel has been a major part of my identity, and that's why I resonate so much with Beth. Since I was a teenager I’ve had the joy of the world being my greatest teacher, a tool for my own healing, and a resource for personal and professional growth. 
     
    Stay with us for the next hour as Beth and I talk about travel and leadership.
     
    With a background in international development, thoughtful community building, and social enterprise, Beth Santos is out to change the landscape of travel for women worldwide. In 2009, while cruising her blue motorcycle through the streets of São Tomé and Príncipe, Beth created the first iteration of Wanderful as a travel blog aimed to explore the diverse and shared experiences of women traveling the world. Today, Wanderful has exploded to an international community and social network with the active participation of over 40,000 women and gender-diverse people of all ages and backgrounds. This is manifested through an active membership community, chapter events in over 50 global cities worldwide, and annual community events and trips.
     
    In 2014, Beth created the WITS Travel Creator + Brand Summit, the leading event for women and gender diverse travel creators, entrepreneurs, and industry to use their voices to champion change in the travel industry, now hosted annually on two continents This event has earned international acclaim and attracted top talent in the travel industry and beyond, leading to the 2019 creation of the Bessie Awards — an award ceremony to honor women of impact in the travel space. In combatting social inequity and encouraging people to travel thoughtfully, Wanderful is the creator of the Moving Forward Anti-Racism Town Hall for the Travel Industry, recognized in Business Insider and Phocuswire, as well as the first Anti-Oppression Toolkit for Travel + Culture Creators.
     
    In 2022, Wanderful launched Wanderfest, the first major outdoor travel festival by and for women, hailed by Fodor’s Travel as the new festival to add to your radar.
    Wanderful has been recognized in top publications such as Skift, Lonely Planet, the Boston Globe, the South China Morning Post, Forbes, Business Insider and the Chicago Tribune.
     
    Beth has been recognized in Business Insider as one of 17 changemakers transforming the hospitality industry, in Conde Nast Traveller as one of 12 inspiring people to follow for International Women’s Day,  in TimeOut as one of 10 people shaping the future of Boston, as well as a BostInno 50 on Fire, a Chicago Scholars 35 Under 35 Young Leader Making an Impact, a Zell Fellow (a prestigious fellowship for entrepreneurs pursuing their MBA), and an alumna of the Babson WIN Lab. She was recognized by the Obama Administration as one of the top 100 travel bloggers in the US. In 2022, she was named Godmother of the Azamara Onward.
     
    She is a dynamic keynote speaker, an entrepreneurship and marketing consultant for the travel + tourism industry, and a supportive coach who thrives on helping people build lasting, impactful communities.
    50 min
  • Movement Building, Indigenous Rights, and Healing with President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe Kevin Killer
     
    For today's episode, I’m honored to speak with long time trailblazer President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe - Kevin Killer. I met Kevin in 2006 when we were both Young People For fellows, a project of People for the American Way. Since then I’ve watched his world expand and his commitment deepen as he works to bolster the gifts of his tribe while advocating for access in the halls of power of the American government. 
     
    As we spend time with President Kevin Killer, we will explore topics of leadership, democracy, and hope. Kevin Killer, an enrolled member and President of the Oglala Sioux tribe, served 10 years in the South Dakota legislature, representing a district that includes the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He is a co-founder of Advance Native Political Leadership, which seeks to train the next generation of Native leaders to run, manage, and lead successful campaigns at all levels of government. He recently completed his fellowship with the Open Society Foundation Leadership in Government program working on Truth and Healing in Native communities in the United States. 
     
    He attended Lakota College and was the first Tribal College Fellow of a progressive youth leadership development organization, Young People For (YP4). Killer expanded Young People For's tribal college network into an independent, Native-led organization called the Native Youth Leadership Alliance (NYLA) in 2009. Killer serves on the board of the People for the American Way Foundation, and past service includes, the National Indian Education Association, the Lakota College Board of Trustees, the Young Elected Officials Network, the Quad Caucus, and the National Caucus Native American State Legislators. He was a 2015 Bush Fellow.
     
    Department of Interior Renaming
    Department of Interior Indian Burial Sites
     
    37 min
  • The Philippines, the U.S. and International Solidarity with Dr Crystallee Crain
    International solidarity is not a new notion for me as an activist and as a person who identifies as a global citizen. I’ve had a long interest in how we identify what self determination and governance means to us. I’m curious about how people use or misuse power in the name of a government or in the name of “the people”. I want to see a world where people have the right to choose how they are governed and how they are able to
     
    Because of this, I traveled to the Philippines and spent time in Manila (the capitol) and Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanoa to get a historical perspective on the importance of this years (2022) presidential election and beyond.
     
    During this episode you will hear from education leaders, government leaders, and others who have witnessed the changes and often tumultuous social and political changes. These brave leaders will discuss their country and how the U.S. imperial relationship impacts the livelihood of people in the Philippines.
     
    Stay with us for the next hour and learn about the relationship between the U.S. and the Philippines, tap into the importance of the May 9th election, and what the results may mean for the people of the Philippines.
     
    I’m your host, Dr Crystallee Crain and this is US on Transformation Talk Radio.
    53 min
  • Facing Facts - Climate Action Now with Kari Fulton
    Kari Fulton is an award-winning Environmental and Climate Justice, organizer, writer, and historian. She has worked with various domestic and global coalitions to coordinate campaigns and national conferences including Power Shift, the largest youth climate summits in the United States and the People’s Climate March. 
     
    Fulton has trained and engaged students and communities on Climate and Environmental Justice across the United States and the world. Her work has been featured in various media outlets including Black Entertainment Television (BET), Teen Vogue, Essence Magazine, and Chinese Cable Television America (CCTV). Fulton is a mother, a bike enthusiast, and a graduate of Howard University and Georgetown University.
     
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    45 min
  • Unpacking Stress, Trauma, and Systems of Oppression
    Dr Darlene Hall is a black lesbian psychologist with strong social justice. Born on the same day as the legendary bell hooks, Dr Hall is unwavering in her commitment to mental and physical health, eliminating oppression and improving life chances. Dr Hall has 25 years experience in the mental health field as a direct service provider in community mental health, nonprofit, and private practice settings working with communities that are diverse, underserved, and disenfranchised, including low income, people of color, women, the LGBTQIA community, children and youth. Dr Hall has a thriving psychotherapy practice and a consultancy - called Intersections consulting where she provides training, coaching, facilitation, technical assistance and much more.
    I have brought Darlene on the show to share with us her analysis and perspectives on the impacts of oppression on our mental health and to discuss potential strategies to heal ourselves.
    I, like many others, understand how we can be directly and indirectly impacted by the “isms” of the world. Over a decade ago I ran a violence prevention certificate program for practitioners in Oakland, and I used to tell my students that the things that happen to us don’t define us. I remind myself about our internal strength and ancestral knowledge of what we know and how we got that knowledge.
    In this episode Dr Hall and I discuss the connections between stress, trauma, and systems of oppression.
    56 min
  • Closing the Racial Wealth Gap and Leveraging Resources for Social Justice Movements
    I have never been a fan of the old saying - money makes the world go round. There's a reason for that. Money has been developed as a tool to barter and name a value for items and services. The tool is used by people, but rarely does it benefit everyone. 
    As we know, we live in a capitalist society where profit over people generally rules the day. One of the things I love about doing this show is bringing people to my listeners that believe in a different world. 
    Se-ah-dom Edmo - the Executive Director of Seeding Justice Foundation believes that everyone plays a role in creating and sustaining this world. By building community, living our values, and working together towards this vision, they participate in the creation of justice and inspire hope for the future.
    With the racial wealth gap growing, and the rights of our communities and our environment under constant attack – we need a better solutions. At Seeding Justice, they’ve reimagined Donor-Advised Funds with a new program where donors and community benefit and they are spear-heading charitable reform efforts to increase community engagement.
     
    Learn more at https://www.seedingjustice.org/donor-in-movement-funds/.
    55 min
  • Addressing the Impact of the Insurrection - A Panel of Truth Seekers and Front Line Change Makers
    We are all sitting with the reality that a year ago there was a violent insurrection at the U.S. capitol where white supremacists and supporters of the 45th president tried to overturn the 2020 election. While this was not the first or last time there has been a harsh reckoning for the racialized violence that is happening in this country, it was the first time we saw a massive scale action against the capitol and democracy in the 21st century. To make some sense of it all I’m bringing two guests to talk about the intersections of these issues. The impact it’s having on our lives and our experience of democracy.
    56 min

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Changing from the inside out is the ultimate way for us to become true stewards of the justice that is needed in our world. Stand with your host, Dr. Crystallee Crain, and unite together so that we…