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Social Justice & Activism - The Creative Process - Activists, Environmental, Indigenous Groups, Artists and Writers Talk Diversity, Equity and inclusion

Social Justice & Activism episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. We speak to activists, environmental organizations, indigenous groups, artists, writers & others who have devoted their life to making a difference. Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conversations with writers, artists & creative thinkers across the Arts & STEM. We discuss their life, work & artistic practice. Winners of Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Pulitzer, leaders & public figures share real experiences & offer valuable insights. Notable guests and participating museums and organizations include: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Neil Patrick Harris, Smithsonian, Roxane Gay, Musée Picasso, EARTHDAY.ORG, Neil Gaiman, UNESCO, Joyce Carol O...

Palestine & Generational Trauma: CHERIEN DABIS on Directing All That's Left of You - Highlights

14 mins; March 19, 2026

The Psychological & Emotional Impact of Occupation w/ Actress, Director CHERIEN DABIS

54 mins; March 19, 2026

Trust, Education & Writing as Resistance w/ AL KENNEDY - Highlights

34 mins; March 03, 2026

The Art of Fiction, Democracy & Truth with AL KENNEDY

96 hours 4 mins; March 03, 2026

SIRI HUSTVEDT on Love, Grief & the Future of Democracy

97 hours 49 mins; February 23, 2026

Who Are We? What Makes Us Care? Jim Shepard, Neil Patrick Harris, John Patrick Shanley & Artists Share Their Stories

13 mins; February 11, 2026

The Wisdom of Nature: Artists & Scientists on The Beauty & Fragility of Our Planet

17 mins; January 09, 2026

The Musician Who Sings to Animals - PLUMES on Trust & Cross-Species Communication - Highlights

0 secs; December 31, 2025

Animals & The Healing Power of Music with Musician PLUMES

40 mins; December 31, 2025

Speaking Out of Place - DAVID PALUMBO-LIU on Reclaiming Our Political Voices - Highlights

11 mins; December 27, 2025

Reclaiming the American Dream with DAVID PALUMBO-LIU – Stanford Professor, Author & Host, Speaking Out of Place

66 hours 42 mins; December 27, 2025

The Writer's Voice: Novelists, Poets, Memoirists & Editors Share Their Stories

14 mins; December 13, 2025

BASQUIAT: The Price of Fame w/ Author DOUG WOODHAM - Highlights

12 mins; November 27, 2025

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: The Making of an Icon with DOUG WOODHAM, Fmr. President of Christie's Americas

94 hours 30 mins; November 27, 2025

In the Presence of the DALAI LAMA - Doc. Director of WISDOM OF HAPPINESS Discusses her Path to Joy - Highlights

14 mins; November 06, 2025

WISDOM OF HAPPINESS - Heart-to-Heart w/ DALAI LAMA - Conversation w/ Director Barbara Miller

43 mins; November 06, 2025

"Everything is Art. Everything is Politics." AI WEIWEI'S TURANDOT Director MAXIM DEREVIANKO - Highlights

30 mins; October 22, 2025

AI WEIWEI'S TURANDOT

59 mins; October 22, 2025

Listening to the Planet - Writers' Perspectives on Nature, Place & Interconnectedness

12 mins; October 18, 2025

The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism & Why it Matters with CHRISTINE WEBB

0 secs; October 17, 2025

Will AI Lead to a More Fair Society, Or Just Widen Inequities? - RISTO UUK Head of EU Policy & Research, FUTURE OF LIFE INSTITUTE

62 hours 34 mins; October 14, 2025

Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ & the Capitalism of the Far Right with QUINN SLOBODIAN

0 secs; October 04, 2025

How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave with Poet MAYA SALAMEH

38 mins; September 21, 2025

What International Law Demands of Israel & Third States with ARDI IMSEIS & CHRIS GUNNESS

0 secs; September 18, 2025

Empire of AI: Dreams & Nightmares in Sam Altman's Open AI with KAREN HAO

43 mins; September 16, 2025

Why We Need Stories in Times of Crisis: ETGAR KERET on Healing, Connection & Creativity in the Age of AI - Highlights

19 mins; September 10, 2025

Finding Humanity Through Storytelling with Author & Filmmaker ETGAR KERET

68 hours 23 mins; September 10, 2025

Arabic Literature, Palestine & The Art of Translation with HUDA FAKHREDDINE

0 secs; September 01, 2025

What's Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis with MALCOLM HARRIS

0 secs; August 27, 2025

Building a Vital Earth for Everyone with President of Environmental Defense Fund’s EDF Action DAVID KIEVE

46 mins; August 26, 2025

The Poetics & Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde &Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College w/ DANICA SAVONICK

42 mins; August 26, 2025

Art Without Borders - RAJIV MENON'S Vision for South Asian Art

46 mins; August 20, 2025

What Do We Do with the One Life We’re Given? - Scientists, Writers, Philosophers & Changemakers Share their Stories

16 mins; August 13, 2025

Every Monument Will Fall - DAN HICKS Explores Remembering & Forgetting

55 mins; August 10, 2025

From 'Bee: Wild' to the 'Kiss the Ground' Regenerative Agriculture Documentary Trilogy w/ REBECCA TICKELL - Highlights

15 mins; August 10, 2025

Fighting Back Against ICE: Grupo Auto Defensa’s Courage & Love

0 secs; August 07, 2025

All About Bees, Soil & Regeneration with Documentary Filmmaker REBECCA TICKELL

60 hours 46 mins; August 05, 2025

Revolutionizing Investment Strategies with Carbon Tracker - MARK CAMPANALE - Highlights

11 mins; July 29, 2025

Can Finance Revolutionize Climate Action? with MARK CAMPANALE, Founder of Carbon Tracker

45 mins; July 29, 2025

Exploring Organic, Biodynamic & Regenerative Agriculture with LOUIS DE JAEGER - Highlights

11 mins; July 26, 2025

SOS: Save Our Soils: How regenerative food & farming will save your health & the planet w/ LOUIS DE JAEGER

62 hours 35 mins; July 26, 2025

Abolish Silicon Valley—How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism with WENDY LIU

48 mins; July 25, 2025

To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other with Author VIET THANH NGUYEN - Highlights

15 mins; July 23, 2025

Ten Cases of Hope for Our Future w/ MONICA FERIA-TINTA - Highlights

15 mins; July 16, 2025

ICE’s “Photo-Op” Military Attack on MacArthur Park & Community Pushback: Conversation w/ Journalist MEL BUER

0 secs; July 14, 2025

Disspelling the Myths & Correcting the Record About Haitian Migrants w/ GABRIELLE APOLLON & POOJA BHATIA

0 secs; July 11, 2025

The Theory of Water with LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON

43 mins; July 11, 2025

Bombs Will Never Liberate Iran: PERSIS KARIM & MANIJEH MORADIAN in Conversation

0 secs; July 11, 2025

On Writing, America's Forever Wars & Challenging Power with Author VIET THANH NGUYEN

62 hours 34 mins; July 09, 2025

Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 w/ M. E. O’BRIEN & EMAN

44 mins; July 04, 2025

A Barrister for the Earth: Ten Cases of Hope for Our Future w/ MONICA FERIA-TINTA

58 mins; June 29, 2025

Constitutional Collapse & the Possibilities of a New Democracy w/ AZIZ RANA

42 mins; June 27, 2025

Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America From Around the Globe w/ NATASHA HAKIMI ZAPATA

54 mins; June 26, 2025

THE DREAM HOTEL with LAILA LALAMI

41 mins; June 22, 2025

Examining Monuments, Memory & The History of White Supremacy IRVIN WEATHERSBY JR. - Highlights

12 mins; June 19, 2025

In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art & Public Space with IRVIN WEATHERSBY JR.

49 mins; June 10, 2025

"We're connected to the lives of every creature on the planet" EIREN CAFFALL - Highlights

15 mins; May 29, 2025

All the Water in the World with Writer & Musician EIREN CAFFALL

60 hours 18 mins; May 28, 2025

On Motherhood & Memory, Trauma & Survival with Author HALA ALYAN - Highlights

13 mins; May 25, 2025

I’ll Tell You When I’m Home - Author HALA ALYAN on Motherhood & Memory, Trauma & Survival

44 mins; May 23, 2025

Building Bridges, Breaking Cycles: Personal Stories of Healing, Social Justice & Activism

12 mins; May 16, 2025

Exploring Trauma, Healing & the Creative Process with Author LIZ MOORE - Highlights

12 mins; May 01, 2025

Family, Addiction & Overcoming Trauma - LIZ MOORE on Long Bright River starring AMANDA SEYFRIED

49 mins; April 30, 2025

PAUL LYNCH discusses Prophet Song, Beyond the Sea & his Creative Process - Highlights

18 mins; April 24, 2025

On Storytelling & The Human Condition with Booker Prize Winner PAUL LYNCH

48 mins; April 23, 2025

OUR PLANET, OUR FUTURE - Environmentalists, Artists, Scientists & Earth Defenders Share their Stories

18 mins; April 22, 2025

On Postactivism, Justice & Decolonization with BAYO AKOMOLAFE - Highlights

10 mins; April 11, 2025

The Future of Activism: When Solutions Become Problems w/ BAYO AKOMOLAFE

41 mins; April 11, 2025

Why is there so much conflict over people, land and resources? AUDREA LIM - Highlights

11 mins; March 29, 2025

Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy? JAMES FISHKIN - Highlights

14 mins; March 29, 2025

Free the Land: How We Can Fight Poverty & Climate Chaos with AUDREA LIM

50 mins; March 28, 2025

Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy? JAMES FISHKIN - Highlights

0 secs; March 21, 2025

What is Deliberative Democracy & How Can it Serve Society? w/ JAMES S. FISHKIN

49 mins; March 20, 2025

Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education with JESSE HAGOPIAN

53 mins; March 17, 2025

Feminism in the 21st Century - Artists, Writers, Filmmakers Share their Stories

17 mins; March 13, 2025

The Hidden Humans Behind Artificial Intelligence & the Sociopathology of Elon Musk

59 mins; March 12, 2025

"Carbon is really a flow that animates everything we love, everything that's alive on this planet." - PAUL HAWKEN - Highlights

14 mins; March 05, 2025

CARBON: The Book of Life with PAUL HAWKEN

57 mins; March 05, 2025

On the Significance of the Recent Elections in Germany: ADRIAN DAUB on Rushing to the Right

0 secs; March 02, 2025

Archipelago of Resettlement & the New Southern Question with EVYN LE ESPIRITU GANDHI

42 mins; February 28, 2025

“One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” OMAR EL AKKAD on The Deadly Consequences of the Liberal Conscience

35 mins; February 28, 2025

TAO LEIGH GOFFE on Poetics, Poesis & Un-making the Climate Crisis

37 mins; February 17, 2025

The Enduring Power of Palestinian Transnational Identity & Activism w/ MAHA NASSER & KARAM DANA

65 hours 36 mins; February 17, 2025

The Art of Fiction with Author, Musician, Satirist T.C. BOYLE - Highlights

11 mins; February 13, 2025

A Life in Writing with T.C. BOYLE

53 mins; February 13, 2025

We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition with MAYA SCHENWAR & KIM WILSON

63 hours 41 mins; February 03, 2025

Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Conversation with PETER BEINART

40 mins; January 28, 2025

From Spy Thrillers to Police Dramas w/ Writer, Creator, Showrunner ALEXI HAWLEY

13 mins; January 28, 2025

Behind the Scenes of The Rookie & The Recruit w/ Showrunner ALEXI HAWLEY

40 mins; January 28, 2025

Are We Witnessing the Decline of the American Empire? RICHARD D. WOLFF - Highlights

11 mins; January 27, 2025

Understanding Capitalism with RICHARD D. WOLFF - Co-founder of Democracy at Work

47 mins; January 27, 2025

Who Defends the Defenders? UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders MICHEL FORST

12 mins; January 19, 2025

Why is it a Crime to Protest the Destruction of Our Planet? with MICHEL FORST

39 mins; January 19, 2025

How to change our extractive mindset to a regenerative mindset? PAUL SHRIVASTAVA - Highlights

15 mins; January 14, 2025

The Club of Rome & The Limits to Growth w/ Co-President PAUL SHRIVASTAVA

44 mins; January 11, 2025

How to Build Relationships, Hook Up & Raise Hell Together: Conversation w/ DEAN SPADE - Highlights

16 mins; January 10, 2025

LOVE in a F*cked-Up World: DEAN SPADE on How to Build Relationships, Hook Up & Raise Hell Together

57 mins; January 08, 2025

Building Worlds Beyond Modernity’s Double Fracture: A Discussion with Azucena Castro & Malcom Ferdinand

57 mins; January 06, 2025

Shaping Iranian Diasporic Identities in Times of Crisis & Change: A Conversation with Persis Karim & Roya Ahmadi

37 mins; January 06, 2025

The Dialectic is in the Sea: A Conversation with Christen A. Smith on the Work of Black Feminist Beatrix Nascimento

65 hours 38 mins; January 06, 2025

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