Yell Fire!

Episode #10 of Yell Fire! features Dr. Tracey A. Benson discussing his background, work, and insights related to anti-racism leadership in education. Dr. Benson shares his journey from being a classroom teacher to founding the Anti-Racism Leadership Institute, emphasizing the importance of data-driven strategies and courageous leadership to close achievement gaps for students of color.Learn more about Dr. Benson's work:https://www.antiracisminstitute.com/about

My guest today is Nicole D Vick, who has spent her career as an advocate and educator in the field of public health.

Specifically, we’re going to talk about race and public health. The American Public Health Association began tracking declarations of racism as a public health crisis in the summer of 2020. Since then, over 260 cities, counties, public health agencies and academic institutions have declared racism a public health crisis and have committed resources to dismantling the systems that have reinforced health inequity. The goal is more equitable policies, practices and allocation of resources.

And of course, the current administration in Washington DC is doing everything in its power to roll back those initiatives and allocations.

Here are just a few public health data points from some 2024 Kaiser Family Foundation research:

• Life expectancy: native americans (at 67.9 years) and Black Americans (at 72.8 years) have a shorter life expectancy compared with White people (at 77.5 years).

• Childbirth mortality - Black and native infants were at least two times as likely to die as White infants as of 2022. Black and Indigenous women also had the highest rates of pregnancy-related mortality.

Living and working in South Central Los Angeles, Nicole D Vick brings a wealth of lived experience along with her research and decades of work in public health. 

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My guest today understands better than most how individual freedom and collective liberation are intertwined.

Erin Corine, Founder and CEO of Hola Magnolia is an educator, certified coach, consultant, and thought leader based in Barcelona, Spain. Through Hola Magnolia, Erin is building a community of practitioners and change makers in areas of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Identity and Belonging, Decolonization, and Community Health to name just a few.

She is passionate about helping change makers earn a solid living, not just scrape by.

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When my guest, Christian Ortiz, had the opportunity to beta test Chat GPT a few years ago, they saw the potential, but also saw some deep limitations. Was a decolonized AI possible? That is how Justice AI GPT was born.

Christian Ortiz is a visionary entrepreneur, filmmaker, and technologist operating at the intersection of technology, media, and social justice. As the founder of MOD ATLAS MEDIA and developer of Justice AI, Ortiz has leveraged diverse talents to champion the causes of equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

In today’s episode of Yell Fire, I talk to Ortiz about the intersections between tech, media, and social justice, and what it means to decenter whiteness in those spaces.

Today’s show is a deep dive into one group’s work of decolonization. Today I speak with two leaders of the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery.

First, what is the doctrine of discovery? Briefly, it is the religious and legal justification for settler colonization beginning in the late 1400s. The legal framework of this historic land grab exists today in the United States and continues to impact indigenous people as they simply seek to exist on their own lands and on their own sovereign terms. Hence the need to dismantle the doctrine of discovery. 

Sheri Hostetler is co-founder of the Coalition and is currently the Administrative Leadership and Advancement Director. With Coalition Executive Director Sarah Augustine, she co-authored the book So We and Our Children May Live: Following Jesus in Confronting the Climate Crisis  She and Sara co-host the Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Podcast. 

Doe Hoyer is an organizer and songleader with the Coalition and coordinates the Repair Network. They have lived on Dakota homelands for most of their life, and are involved locally with the Twin Cities Repair Community. 

As you will hear, the work of the Coalition is wide-ranging. For details on the indigenous Repair Partners, books Sherri and Sara have written, the Land Justice Fund, the work of Rematriation, and other resources, check out the show notes in the Yell Fire! Substack at Yellfire DOT Substack DOT com .

Welcome to another episode of YELL Fire! Conversations about the lie of white supremacy and how to fight it. I’m your host, Craig Pelkey-Landes – just a random white dude doing what I can to join the fight.

On May 14, 2022, a domestic terrorist with white supremacist views came into a Tops grocery store in Buffalo, New York. He took the lives of ten people, including Geraldine Talley, the mother of my guest, Mark Talley. 

Since that horrible day, Mark has been advocating and speaking out, calling out the systemic racism at the root of hate crimes like the Buffalo shooting that are all too common.

My guest today is CJ Nord, who has been an expert in logistics and supply chain for decades. CJ also runs an organization called Supply Chains for Good, which we will get into in our conversation. 

CJ lives and works in southern California, but her heritage is Lakota, and she is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux. 

As if her day job and non-profit work were not enough, CJ has also been working to end the use – in training law enforcement – of a lifesize shooting target that resembles a Black man. 

After learning about this horror from Oakland artist and activist Tracy Brown, CJ could not sit idly by, so get ready for a fascinating conversation about race, law enforcement, and training in the use of lethal force.

Welcome to Episode Three of YELL Fire! Conversations about the lie of white supremacy and how to fight it. My guest today is speaker, author, and coach Alex Dumas. 

“I’m not here” was the lingering belief Alex carried from youth into early adulthood.

Where was Alex supposed to fit in? Find out how a Black man in Felon47s America has found ways to thrive and share his knowledge, expertise, and drive through keynote speeches and as vice president of BIPOC Coach Collective.

We are living in chaotic times, as a leader in the US seeks and too often outright uses dictatorial powers in the name of white supremacy. This guy is not big on subtlety. He is big on sowing chaos. 

How do you show up in the chaos?

In chaotic times, it helps to find voices not just of reason, but of clarity and calm.

Future Cain is such a voice. Here is something she said early in our conversation…

“How we choose to show up in the chaos matters, which is why I always ask, ‘How are we staying calm in the chaos? How are we centering community? How are we being courageous?’”

Future Cain is the Founder and CEO of Future of SEL and recently served as the Statewide Project Coordinator for Social and Emotional Learning and Mental Health in Wisconsin. She helps individuals see how they can positively impact the world by starting with their own self-awareness.

This episode Features Paul Ladipo, CEO and Founder of Critical Conversations Consulting where he:

• Provides remote and in-person training to address and eliminate barriers in the workplace, faith communities, and schools.
• Develops curriculum and facilitates conversations about systemic racism, 
• Promotes diverse, equitable, and inclusive environments