Hear from women leaders, advocates, organizers, academics, and writers who are advancing democracy. The Democracy Works podcast is created by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State. It’s about people coming together to build things that are greater than the sum of their parts. Jenna Spinelle is a writer, journalism instructor, and producer and host of the Democracy Works podcast.
Joyce Ladner was at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1950s and 60s as a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She was mentored by Medgar Evers...Show More
One of the biggest headlines to emerge heading into the 2018 midterms is the record number of female candidates in local, state, and national races. While it’s easy to point to this a post-Trump react...Show More
Our summer break continues this week with an episode of The Pledge, a podcast about people who are taking an active role in improving democracy in the U.S. The show’s first season features a group of ...Show More
Since we started this show, we’ve had the opportunity to speak with several organizers, from Joyce Ladner in the Civil Rights movement to Srdja Popovic in Serbia to the students involved with the Marc...Show More
Much like our conversation with Patricia Roberts-Miller on demagoguery last week, neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something different to everyone. Wendy Brown is one of the wor...Show More
Sarah Koenig spent a year inside Cleveland’s criminal justice system for season three of the Serial podcast. Along the way, she met some interesting people and had a birds-eye view of what justice (an...Show More
We begin our third season with a fundamental question: What is democracy? Astra Taylor grapples with this question in a documentary of the same name and a forthcoming book. We talk with her this week ...Show More
Jenna talks about how they are using a podcast format to teach listeners how to have a healthy democracy.
jspinelle recommended:
@mm @acserrano -I think you’ll like this one 😀 I highly recommend L.A.’s book How to Read a Protest.