Cultural Dialogues: Countering Racial Trauma One Conversation at a Time
This podcast is a safe and transformative space dedicated to decolonizing our thinking, addressing racial trauma, fostering healing, and promoting cross-cultural understanding. Through candid, solution-focused conversations, each episode explores how individuals and communities navigate the emotional, psychological, and systemic impacts of racism.
Cultural Dialogues: Countering Racial Trauma One Conversation at a Time
Latest Episodes
Black Youth Having a Sense of Agency
Dr. Melissa Speight Vaughn joins the CEO of CRESTSprogram, Dr. Cirecie West-Olatunji, for a lively discussion about how Black youth can have agency to investigate and transform their lives.Dr. Melissa Speight Vaughn is a visionary educat...
Literacy Leads to Liberation
The CEO of CRESTSprogram, LLC, Dr. Cirecie West-Olatunji, engages in a conversation with Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings about Black children's educational concerns.Gloria Ladson-Billings is Professor Emerita and former Kellner Family Disting...
Research as Transformation
In this episode, the CRESTSprogram Co-Founders, Dr. Cirecie West-Olatunji and Dr. Constance West, discuss emancipatory research as a transformative approach to conducting inquiry about marginalized communities. For more information about their ...
Biology & Black Children’s Achievement
In this episode, Dr. Samuel Burbanks, IV engages in a conversation with CRESTSprogram CEO, Dr. Cirecie West-Olatunji, about biology and Black children's achievement.Dr. Samuel Burbanks is a part-time assistant professor at the University...
Africentric Social Work
In this episode, Dr. Cirecie West-Olatunji (CEO of CRESTSprogram) has a conversation with Mr. Larry Hayes, a mental health practitioner in the New Orleans (LA) area who practices Africentric Social Work. Mr. Hayes has been in private practice f...