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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...

How can we improve animal-human relationships? - Highlights - POORVA JOSHIPURA

10 mins; February 07, 2024

POORVA JOSHIPURA - Senior VP, PETA UK - Author of Survival at Stake: How Our Treatment of Animals is Key to Human Existence

36 mins; February 07, 2024

What Does the Recent ICJ Finding with Regard to Israel’s War in Gaza Mean?

70 hours 32 mins; January 31, 2024

How can we develop AI systems that are more respectful, ethical, and sustainable? - Highlights - DR. SASHA LUCCIONI

12 mins; January 31, 2024

DR. SASHA LUCCIONI - Founding Member Climate Change AI - Climate Lead & AI Researcher - Hugging Face

31 mins; January 31, 2024

How can enlightened self-interest advance social equity & climate action? - Highlights - DR. SHIV SOMESHWAR

13 mins; January 30, 2024

DR. SHIV SOMESHWAR - Fmr. European Chair for Sustainable Development & Climate Transition - Sciences Po

41 mins; January 30, 2024

Artists, Activists & Anarchists Seize Wetlands from the French Republic: We Learn How

82 hours 1 min; January 23, 2024

How can we reverse biodiversity loss and restore our ecosystems? - Highlights - THOMAS  CROWTHER

13 mins; January 17, 2024

THOMAS CROWTHER - Ecologist - Co-chair of the board for UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration - Founder of Restor

43 mins; January 17, 2024

PETER DITLEVSEN - Professor of Physics, Ice, Climate & Earth at the Niels Bohr Institute

37 mins; January 16, 2024

Does having too many choices make us unhappy? - Highlights - DR. BARRY SCHWARTZ

12 mins; January 12, 2024

DR. BARRY SCHWARTZ - Author of The Paradox of Choice & Why We Work

45 mins; January 12, 2024

KOHEI SAITO on Degrowth Communism & the Need for Radical Democracy

43 mins; January 11, 2024

SPEAKING OUT OF PLACE: BEN FRANTA on Weaponizing Economics - Big Oil, Economic Consultants & Climate Policy Delay

32 mins; January 09, 2024

Genocide and Beyond: A Conversation with Omer Bartov & Penny Green

89 hours 19 mins; January 06, 2024

What’s it like to film a supernatural thriller in darkness at minus 17 degrees? - Highlights - FLORIAN HOFFMEISTER

15 mins; January 04, 2024

FLORIAN HOFFMEISTER - Cinematographer - True Detective: Night Country starring Jodie Foster & Kali Reis

43 mins; January 04, 2024

International Law & Mass Violence: Colonial Roots & Practices

65 hours 51 mins; January 03, 2024

How can we learn to speak the language of the Earth? - Highlights - TIOKASIN GHOSTHORSE

13 mins; December 29, 2023

TIOKASIN GHOSTHORSE - Founder/Host of First Voices Radio - Founder of Akantu Intelligence

51 mins; December 29, 2023

Guernica & Gaza: Linking Antifascist Solidarity & Solidarity with Palestine

32 mins; December 29, 2023

21 Voices from Israel & South Africa: Why the Palestinian Struggle Matters

30 mins; December 25, 2023

What makes a good life? - Highlights - ROBERT WALDINGER, Psychiatrist, Author, Zen Priest

10 mins; December 22, 2023

ROBERT WALDINGER - Co-Author of The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

38 mins; December 22, 2023

Does privacy exist anymore? Or are humans just sets of data to be traded and sold? - Highlights - WENDY WONG

11 mins; December 15, 2023

WENDY WONG - Author of We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age

53 mins; December 15, 2023

Highlights - JULIAN LENNON - Singer-songwriter, Photographer, Doc Filmmaker, Exec. Producer of Common Ground

17 mins; December 08, 2023

JULIAN LENNON - Singer-songwriter, Photographer, Doc Filmmaker, Exec. Producer of Common Ground

41 mins; December 08, 2023

DUANE L. CADY - Philosopher, Author of Moral Vision: How Everyday Life Shapes Ethical Thinking & From Warism to Pacifism

47 mins; December 05, 2023

HOWARD GARDNER - Author of A Synthesizing Mind & Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences - Co-director of The Good Project

50 mins; November 29, 2023

Speaking Out of Place: BILL McKIBBEN, Co-Founder of 350.org, Founder Third Act & CAROLINE LEVINE, Author of The Activist Humanist

36 mins; November 27, 2023

GLADYS KALEMA-ZIKUSOKA - Founder/CEO, Conservation Through Public Health - UN Champion of the Earth for Science & Innovation

51 mins; November 24, 2023

MARY HAYASHI - Healthcare Advocate, Former Assemblymember - Author of Women in Politics

49 mins; November 20, 2023

WORLD CHILDREN’S DAY - What is it like to be a Palestinian child in Gaza today?

57 mins; November 20, 2023

Highlights - UN Young Champion of the Earth GATOR HALPERN - Co-Founder & President of Coral Vita - Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur

12 mins; November 16, 2023

GATOR HALPERN - Co-Founder & President of Coral Vita - UN Young Champion of the Earth - Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur

46 mins; November 15, 2023

Highlights - LEAH THOMAS - Author of The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet

10 mins; November 13, 2023

LEAH THOMAS - Author of The Intersectional Environmentalist - Founder of IE Platform & @GreenGirlLeah

36 mins; November 13, 2023

Highlights - MICHAEL S. ROTH - President of Wesleyan University - Author of The Student: A Short History

12 mins; November 10, 2023

MICHAEL S. ROTH - President of Wesleyan University - Author of The Student: A Short History

48 mins; November 08, 2023

Highlights - SUSAN SCHNEIDER - Author of Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind, Fmr. Distinguished Scholar, US Library of Congress

13 mins; October 31, 2023

SUSAN SCHNEIDER - Director, Center for the Future Mind, FAU, Fmr. NASA Chair at NASA

34 mins; October 30, 2023

Speaking Out of Place: LIZA BLACK & JOSEPH PIERCE discuss When “Natives” Aren’t: The Epistemic & Communal Violence & Re-storying

42 mins; October 23, 2023

Highlights - APRIL GORNIK - Artist, Environmentalist, Co-founder of The Church: Arts & Creativity Center

14 mins; October 20, 2023

APRIL GORNIK - Artist, Environmentalist, Co-founder of The Church: Arts & Creativity Center

52 mins; October 20, 2023

Highlights - DEAN SPADE - Professor at SeattleU’s School of Law - Author of Mutual Aid, Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

18 mins; October 19, 2023

DEAN SPADE - Author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law

48 mins; October 13, 2023

Highlights - ANTHONY LEISEROWITZ - Host of Climate Connections - Senior Research Scientist, Yale School of the Environment

15 mins; October 11, 2023

ANTHONY LEISEROWITZ - Founding Director of Yale Program on Climate Change Communication - Host of Climate Connections

43 mins; October 10, 2023

Speaking Out of Place: VEENA DUBAL discusses how Uber, Lyft, Instacart, DoorDash…use algorithmic wage discrimination against their workers

33 mins; October 10, 2023

Speaking Out of Place: Voices of Resistance Emerge from Behind the Walls of India’s Security State

52 mins; October 06, 2023

Speaking Out of Place: JUNE CHOI, YANNAI KASHTAN & BELINDA RAMIREZ on the Coalition for a True School of Sustainability

33 mins; September 29, 2023

Highlights - RICK BASS - Author & Environmentalist - “Why I Came West”, “For a Little While”

11 mins; September 28, 2023

RICK BASS - Environmentalist & Story Prize Award-winning Author of “Why I Came West”, “For a Little While”

42 mins; September 27, 2023

Speaking Out of Place: LIZA FEATHERSTONE on Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA)

31 mins; September 25, 2023

Highlights - NAN HAUSER - Whale Researcher - Director, Cook Islands Whale Research - President, Center for Cetacean Research & Conservation

22 mins; September 22, 2023

Highlights - JIM SHEPARD - Award-winning Author of The Book of Aron, Project X, The World to Come, Like You’d Understand, Anyway

11 mins; September 20, 2023

JIM SHEPARD - Author of The Book of Aron, Project X, The World to Come starring Casey Affleck, Vanessa Kirby, Katherine Waterston

48 mins; September 20, 2023

Speaking Out of Place: SARA AHMED discusses The Feminist Killjoy Handbook

46 mins; September 19, 2023

The Subversive Seventies: A Conversation with Political Theorist MICHAEL HARDT

0 secs; September 13, 2023

ROB VERCHICK - Leading Climate Change Scholar - Author of The Octopus in the Parking Garage

51 mins; September 11, 2023

Highlights - LESLEY HUGHES - Lead Author, IPCC 4th, 5th Assessment Reports - Biology Professor, Macquarie University

10 mins; September 08, 2023

LESLEY HUGHES - Lead Author of IPCC 4th & 5th Assessment Reports - Director of Climate Council of Australia

37 mins; September 08, 2023

Highlights - JAMES BROWNING - Founder & Exec. Director, F Minus Research & Advocacy Group

10 mins; September 06, 2023

JAMES BROWNING - Founder of F Minus: Calling for Divestment from Fossil Fuel Lobbyists

44 mins; September 06, 2023

Speaking Out of Place: MANIJEH MORADIAN discusses This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States

54 mins; September 05, 2023

Speaking Out of Place: TIM HEWLETT - Co-founder of Scientist Rebellion, Activist, Astrophysicist

22 mins; August 30, 2023

Speaking Out of Place: ANTHONY ARNOVE & HALEY PESSIN discuss Voices of a People’s History of the United States in the 21st Century

52 mins; August 28, 2023

Highlights - Actress CATHERINE CURTIN (Orange is the New Black) & Artistic Director KATE MUETH (Director, Educator, Choreographer)

18 mins; August 25, 2023

Actress CATHERINE CURTIN (Stranger Things) & Artistic Director KATE MUETH (Neo-Political Cowgirls)

57 mins; August 25, 2023

Highlights - STEPHANIE FELDSTEIN - Population & Sustainability Director, Center for Biological Diversity

12 mins; August 22, 2023

STEPHANIE FELDSTEIN - Author of The Animal Lover’s Guide to Changing the World & Take Action: Save Life on Earth

40 mins; August 22, 2023

Speaking Out of Place: SILVIA FEDERICI discusses Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons

37 mins; August 22, 2023

Highlights - Nobel Peace Prize-winning Climate Scientist MARK HOWDEN - Director, Climate Change Institute at ANU - Vice Chair of IPCC

10 mins; August 18, 2023

MARK HOWDEN - Vice Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Director, Climate Change Institute at The Australian National University

29 mins; August 18, 2023

Highlights - ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: Athlete, Actor, American, Activist - Conversation with Editor DIAN HANSON

10 mins; August 11, 2023

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: Athlete, Actor, American, Activist - Conversation with Editor DIAN HANSON

58 mins; August 11, 2023

Highlights - SUE INCHES - Fmr. Director, Maine Department of Marine Resources - Fmr. Deputy Director, State Planning Office

11 mins; August 08, 2023

SUE INCHES - Author of Advocating for the Environment: How to Gather Your Power and Take Action

41 mins; August 08, 2023

Highlights - DAVID FENTON - Author of The Activist’s Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator

10 mins; August 03, 2023

DAVID FENTON - Founder of Fenton Communications, Author of The Activist’s Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator

49 mins; August 03, 2023

SIMON DALBY - Author of Pyromania: Fire and Geopolitics in a Climate-Disrupted World

39 mins; August 02, 2023

Speaking Out of Place: SUSAN ALBUHAWA discusses “Palestine Writes”

26 mins; August 01, 2023

Speaking Out of Place: JEFF CHANG discusses the Supreme Court’s Recent Decision on Affirmative Action

32 mins; July 28, 2023

“Beyond Kafkaesque”: Will Hassan Diab Receive Justice?

40 mins; July 27, 2023

Speaking Out of Place: CHING-IN CHEN & KATE HAO discuss the cancellation of the Asian American Literary Festival 2023

24 mins; July 27, 2023

Speaking Out of Place: JENNIFER JACQUET discusses The Playbook: How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World

32 mins; July 24, 2023

Highlights - JERICHO BROWN - Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet - Editor of How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill

15 mins; July 21, 2023

JERICHO BROWN - Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet - Editor of “How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill”

49 mins; July 21, 2023

ELLIOT LEE - Alt Pop Singer/Songwriter, LGBTQIA+ Openly Non-binary - Autism Awareness Advocate

29 mins; July 18, 2023

Highlights - TOM LIN - Author of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu - Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2022

11 mins; July 14, 2023

TOM LIN - Author of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu - Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2022

41 mins; July 14, 2023

Highlights - MARK MASLIN - Author of How To Save Our Planet: The Facts - Professor, Earth System Science, UCLondon

21 mins; July 13, 2023

MARK MASLIN - Author of How To Save Our Planet: The Facts - Professor, Earth System Science, University College London

45 mins; July 13, 2023

Speaking Out of Place: CYNTHIA G. FRANKLIN discusses “Narrating Humanity: Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea”

30 mins; July 10, 2023

Highlights - SERGEI GURIEV - Political Economist - Provost of SciencesPo - Co-author of Spin Dictators

11 mins; July 05, 2023

SERGEI GURIEV - Economist - Provost of SciencesPo - Co-author of Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century

37 mins; July 04, 2023

Highlights - JASON deCAIRES TAYLOR - Sculptor, Environmentalist, Creator of Underwater Museums

10 mins; July 04, 2023

JASON deCAIRES TAYLOR - Sculptor, Environmentalist, Creator of Underwater Museums

28 mins; July 04, 2023

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