Third Space with Jen Cort Podcast
1) Identity, Joy & Justice in a Shifting Landscape with Kwame Sarfo-Mensah – A Cross-Publication with Identity Talk for Educators LIVE
n this powerful crossover episode, Jen Cort welcomes back Kwame Sarfo-Mensah—educator, consultant, and author of Learning to Relearn—for a deeply resonant conversation on justice-centered education an...Show More
2) Student Advocacy for DC Statehood with Juelz Caleb
Juelz is a Towson University freshman majoring in Sports Management and minoring in Business Administration. He prides himself on demonstrating a strong work ethic and learning mindset in everything h...Show More
3) Making mistakes with students is an opportunity to apologize
Jim Malone, a Math and Physics teacher at Mercersburg Academy since 1979, shares his unique relationship with mistake-making and connects it to his role as an aspiring ally.Jim graduated from Swarthmo...Show More
4) Insiders' View of Affinity Groups
With practical advice and thoughtful insights, a student, faculty advisor, and diversity director discuss the beauty and challenges of their affinity group program. Ved Rawat is a rising senior at Fr...Show More
5) Developing Diversity Programs in International Schools
Kristen Pollard is an American living and working overseas in the international education system for over ten years, teaching English language and literature in schools in the US, Germany, and the Net...Show More
6) LGTBQ+ allyship skill building with Jeannie Gainsburg, author and advocate
Jeannie Gainsburg is an award-winning educational trainer and consultant in the field of LGBTQ+ inclusion and effective allyship. Formerly the Education Director at the Out Alliance of Rochester, N.Y....Show More
7) Peace only happens by hearing each other's story and through love
Leo S. Ullman was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in July 1939. After surviving WWIIas a “hidden child,” as chronicled in his book, “796 Days”, and in a documentary film, "ThereWere Good People......Show More
8) “School is not serving us at the moment,” with LGBTQ+ student activist L. J. Valenzuela.
L.J. challenges listeners: ‘within each of our roles in society, we have the power and opportunity to take risks’ and to ‘look at yourself, determine your privileges, and go do something different.’ A...Show More
9) Natalie Gillard shares the journey of meeting the need for experiential DEI work. And are snow days equitable?
About Natalie GillardNatalie Gillard is a DEI strategist and the creator of FACTUALITY, a facilitated dialogue, crash course, and interactive experience that simulates structural inequality.Over the l...Show More
10) Create Sticky Change through institutional priorities and traditions
Quentin McDowell, head of Mercersburg Academy. After arriving at Mercersburg in 2007, Quentin has served as history faculty, director of summer and extended programs, Admission, senior associate direc...Show More