Everyday Equity: Everyday Ways to Make a Change
Everyday Equity: Everyday Ways to Make a Change is a conversational, action-focused podcast series that explores simple, concrete practices anyone can use to advance equity and inclusion in daily life at work, at home, and in community spaces. It centers real stories and lived experiences to show how small shifts in awareness, communication, and decision-making can collectively drive meaningful social change.
The series is hosted by Pooja Kothari Esq. featuring equity educators, authors, and justice-focused professionals in dialogue about their work and journeys. Guests share specific tools they use to navigate inequity in organizations and communities, modeling how to blend professional roles, advocacy, and creativity in pursuit of systemic change.
The podcast highlights how everyday choices in language, leadership, and relationships can challenge bias, support marginalized communities, and create more just environments without requiring formal titles or large platforms.Episodes often connect personal narratives with practical strategies, emphasizing self-education, listening, and accountability as core parts of anti-oppression work.
Recurring themes include racial and gender equity, workplace inclusion, psychological safety, allyship, and the importance of believing and respecting others’ experiences.The podcast also addresses how to sustain this work over time, touching on boundaries, burnout, and the role of reflection and community care in long-term social justice efforts.
Each conversation is designed to leave listeners with a handful of clear, doable actions they can implement immediately—such as changing how meetings are run, interrupting microaggressions, or rethinking policies and norms in their own spheres of influence. By framing equity as a daily practice rather than a one-time initiative, the show invites listeners to see themselves as active participants in building fairer, more humane systems wherever they are.
Everyday Equity: Everyday Ways to Make a Change
Season 3 of Everyday Equity kicks off with Brianne Brinker
In Season 3, Episode 1 of Everyday Equity: Everyday ways to Make a Change, Pooja Kothari sits down with Brianne Brinker, a Kent State Hall of Fame hockey player, longtime assistant athletic director at Union College, and author of "Skating Out of the Vault":A Trans Woman's Escape from the Game of Masculinity." Brianne shares her journey of coming out, being true to herself and to the sport she loves. We discuss her motivation to write her memoir and how visibility, belonging and compassion can change lives, especially for young people who feel isolated.