Collective Power Podcast
Welcome to Collective Power: we are out to transform trauma system-wide by presenting a mirror of the system to itself. Each week, we focus on one system. Each show, we hear from a person who has an experience of one aspect of that system. On the last show each month, we bring folks back together to look at the big picture and what is possible for our city, our country and our world. From these conversations, repeated patterns at different levels across society: the key to societal transformation.
Episodes
71 episodes
The Harriette Effect: Every Kid is My Kid with Anita Galiano
In this episode, my host Diane Little and I, have a discussion about running for school board as service to every single child, with Anita Galiano. Anita shares with her how her parents' unique sense of family and community--three generations o...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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51:38
Service above self: Surluta Anthony on Being the First Black Woman on Monroe City Council in NC
In this episode, Diane Little and Dr. Rita interview a pioneer of public service in North Carolina Surluta Anthony was the first Black woman elected to Monroe City Council—despite Monroe has a majority Black population. Now elected for the thir...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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36:11
One person can make a difference with Attorney Jason Groenewold
My co-host Diane Little and I interview our guest who speaks about how his large-scale activism started from small acts of kindness: first as a seed investor for a expungement firm and then as a resident of a changing neighborhood in North Caro...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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58:42
Connecting the separate worlds of activists, academics, donors, and legislators with organizer Robert Dawkins
In this episode, Co-host Diane Little and Dr. Rita interview Robert Dawkins political director and organizer and Robert Dawkins of Action NC. Robert sheds tremendous insight on why the solutions we find to social issues seem to always miss the ...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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1:06:50
In public service draw strength from the ancestors and tend to the land. A conversation with PA House Rep. Chris Rabb
In this episode, my co-Host Diane Little and I interview PA State House Representative Chris Rabb (called Rep Rabb). This episode is a provides profound insight into the ethic of public service--for Rep Rabb insists on not being called a politi...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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1:00:02
Caucus Crises: A Break in Reciprocity and Trust with Michael Lawson
In this episode our Hosts Dr. Rita and Diane Little welcome our guest, Michael posits that the Democratic Party is always in crises, by its inclusive nature, because it tends to fold within it, the crises of the communities it attempts to repre...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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1:01:47
The heart to serve: with Marshville, NC Town Manager, Franklin Deese
In this episode, current town manager and former Mayor of Marshville, NC of 14 years Franklin Deese discusses with our co-hosts Dr. Rita and Diane Little tells the riveting experience from incarceration to become his town's mayor. He talks pass...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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51:27
Seeing the System doesn't mean giving up, with Joel Ford
In this episode, Hosts Dr. Rita and Diane Little interview interview Joel Ford, former North Carolina State Senator. We talk about his disappointment with the Democrat party and his concerns with progressive approaches to change. W...
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56:31
What's the difference between governing and ruling? with NC House Rep John Autry
In this episode, Dr. Rita and Diane Little we talk with NC House Rep. John Autry. We talk about the difference between governing and ruling and share examples of how polarization in government and opposition towards anything the other par...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:00:24
Skin in the game: why should white people want racial justice? With Jill Nagle
In this episode, consultant and author Jill Nagle join us for a discussion on the book she’s writing —Skin in the game: how white people benefit from dismantling white supremacy. We face the question: Why should white peopl...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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57:49
Trailblazer Series: Making your truth your life with Sharon Hurley Hall
In this episode, we zoom in on the journey of a trailblazing leader and her passage from being a corporate writer to full-time antiracism professional. We explore how a personal calling can shift from side-kick to a way of being tha...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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48:01
Love and Fear Series: Power is Neutral with Organizer Pastor Daniel Hughes
In this episode, we look at the Church's participation in white supremacy as the complete opposite of Jesus' tradition as a community organizer, himself. We look into religious concepts such as mercy and grace as they inform our personal,...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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41:56
Love and Fear Series: Racial Justice Organizing beyond Fear with Robin Wright-Pierce
In this episode, we talk about our bodies play a crucial role in requiring us to shift from unsustainable social justice organizing from fear, anxiety, hyper-vigilance, and chaos to organizing from the more sustainable care, trust, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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45:02
Educational Excellence despite the system with Dr. Ishmail Conway and Dr. Rodney Hopson
In this episode, we look at examples of educational excellence throughout African American history in the face of tremendous challenges. Two deeply committed educators challenge us to think about the educational system more broadly given ...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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1:00:39
Love and fear series: What we fear most is ourselves with amy j howton, Ph.D.
In this episode, we review ways in which fear can be not a stop sign, but an invitation into deeper practice. We need others to be the mirror with us, and liberation is in community and in relationship , so as we build a deeper relationsh...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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48:25
The Power of Intention with Yvonne DeVastey
In this episode, we navigate the importance of intention as the fuel that mobilizes life. We look into how intention helps direct the flow of life and face the unknown, but also how we must release control for it to show its full power. We also...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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56:44
Data Geek Series: Family Preservation Works! the Child Welfare System with Richard Wexler
In this episode, we look at data on racial bias in the child welfare system, and on the case for family preservation against the current family policing system and its biases, since COVID-19. We also talk about data collected in NYC, on how COV...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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53:48
Data Geek Series: Legal (Criminal InJustice) Systems with Attorney Karla Cruel
In this episode, Attorney Karla Cruel walks us through the components of the legal system for criminal law and the ways in which these different processes are flawed. "The very fact that we know there are frequent innocent convictions, in...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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56:14
DataGeek Series: The Music Business System is Designed to Keep Artists in Debt with Andrae Alexander
In this episode, we take a systems look at the music industry and how it sets up artists and composers to be in constant debt through the lack of fair and transparent contracts and the restrictions in regulations and contract terms. We envision...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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46:53
DataGeek Series: Technology-Innovation Pipeline System with Anne Heberger Marino
In this episode, we look at how the technology innovation happens pipeline happens from research, to industry, to community. We look at how these relationships are typically extractive and how they can become more sustainable. How high levels o...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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56:53
DataGeek Series: The Philanthropy-Evaluation system with Audrey Jordan
This episode looks at the relationship between Program Evaluation and philanthropy as a system, one that allocates small monies to communities in need while controlling the definitions and management of standards of success. We propose engaging...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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48:28
Data Geek Series: Data Are Never Gospel Disrupting whiteness in Health Systems with Dr. Sharon Attipoe, Rachel Dungan, and Janice Tufte
In this show, three experts of health systems data bring us insights into how racism and bias contribute to all points of health data collection, from uncovering old assumptions--like assuming lower thresholds of pain for African Americans, com...
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56:35
Relationships Series: How Do We Build Authentic Partnership Across Race Lines? with Dr. Audrey Jordan
This episode is an exploration of what gets in the way of partnerships between Black women and white women: control, superiority, power struggles, and plantation narrative. We also talk about the white wounds that we unwillingly bring into the ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:02:23
DataGeek Series: The Juvenile (In)justice system: Are we punishing youth who are grieving? with Deven Wisner
In this episode, we look at some data as relates the the juvenile (In)justice system and ways in which our systems perpetuate disproportional representation of youth of color and don't support what we know works. Our guest invites us to look at...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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50:08
Data Series: How does the use of data in Higher Education reinforce white supremacy? with Libby Smith
In this episode, we discuss how higher education reinforces white supremacy by design. We highlight the data that exposes these contradictions. In particular, we talk about three ways higher education enforces white supremacy: 1) Quality of lif...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:03:19