The Connected Community

This podcast seeks to highlight people across the world in various fields who are working, discovering, and thriving in community spaces. Through this celebration and coming together we hope that people reimagine community as the driver of the Good Life.

CREDITS
Hosted by Cormac Russell and Dr. Sacha DeWolfe
Podcast theme created by Isaac Russell.
Edited by Isaac Russell

Contributors

Co-host

Cormac Russell

Cormac Russell believes that the traditional top-down customer segmentation and needs analysis approaches to helping people are the way of the past and that assets-based community development and strengths and capabilities are the future.

Cormac is the author of several books on the subject and has led many high-profile initiatives worldwide, including country-wide community social work initiatives in The Netherlands and Singapore.

Co-host

Sacha DeWolfe

Sacha DeWolfe is a member of Natoaganeg First Nation and an assistant professor at Mount Allison University, working with the Canadian Studies/Community Engaged Learning Department. She teaches mainly within Indigenous Education and Community Engaged Learning. Her Ph.D. research focused on investigating the social, political and historical factors impacting Wabanaki's identity and how her life stories work to expand these understandings. Her dissertation included a documentary film that brought the audience on a journey from damage to desire. Through researching desire and how it was missing from narratives of Wabanaki identity, Sacha stumbled upon Cormac Russell’s work in Asset Based Community Development.