What We Need Now

Ish and Avery interview the first Black Woman Co-Executive director of a national legacy environmental organization, Greenpeace USA's very own Ebony Martin. Ebony shares the struggles and triumphs of her journey and her vision for what the future looks like.

As we celebrate Black History Month and kick off our 3rd season, hosts Rico Sisney and Shanta Farrington are joined by Greenpeace USA's Democracy Campaign Director, Folabi Olagbaju to discuss the barriers to a healthy, people-powered democracy and What we Need Now to achieve that reality

For our season finale, we have all of the What We Need Now Season 2 co-producer's and co-hosts (including alumni Jonathan Butler and Lauren Wiggins) interviewing each other in the form of a conversational mixtape.

Track 1 - White Supremacy Culture Still Ain't cool

Interlude

Track 2 - What brings you to THEE Work?

Interlude - Mic Check

Track 3 - Behind the Scenes

Interlude - In the Wild

Track 4 - If We Could Say this Without Losing our Jobs..

Track 5 - The Afterparty

Though we hear a great deal about the impacts of Climate Change and Covid, we dont hear enough about the amazing work that Black, Indigenous and other communities of color are doing to not just navigate these crises, but to build long-term solutions rooted in their own needs and traditions.

On this episode we interview Kern Collymore of Sixth World Solutions and hear about their work with building sustainable housing and solar water filtration in their community in the Navajo Nation.

On this episode of What We Need Now, Writer and Producer Jasmine Conwell (she/her) from the Greenpeace Data Team steps out from behind the scenes to explore a topic close to her heart: Data Justice.

In the interview with Robb King and Hamilton Martin from Data 4 Black Lives (@data4blacklives) explore how Data Activism can empower communities to reclaim their data and tell their own stories.

This episode includes additional music by Devin C. Reilly

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Instead of a full episode this month, we're taking you all on a journey through all of the parody ads from Seasons 1 and 2. The playlist is exclusively available on Soundcloud.

Next month, we'll be back with another full length episode.

This month we are taking a closer look at both the history and contemporary implications of the Juneteenth holiday and exploring what liberation looks, feels, and sounds like through the music of Angele Anise, poetry of M’reld Green and in conversation with Sophia Benrud, environmental justice organizer and co-founder of Black Visions Collective.

Far too often marginalized communities face marginalized options when it comes to the diversity of food options, ability to afford healthy foods, and their access to food on-the-whole. On this minisode(mini-episode of course), host Ish Herod interviews Katy Turner(@_thefakevegan) about food accessibility and food apartheid.

Lauren and Rico interrogate the positive impact, inaccessibility and white supremacy culture in mainstream veganism and interview Vegan Chef Jenna Chanel (a.k.a The Teasin' Vegan) and life coach Sie Savage Chambers from (Hyer Wellness, Create the Space)about how they make this lifestyle more accessible.

On this What We Need Now minisode, artist, organizer motivational speaker and mentor K Love shares some of her spoken word poetry and how she trains herself to find the good in tragic situations or as she puts it, "the sugar in the salt."