How To Citizen with Baratunde Podcast
1) Prelude: Revolutionary Love is How to Citizen (with Valarie Kaur)
Baratunde lays the spiritual foundation for the show. His first guest, Valarie Kaur, activist and author of See no Stranger, helps us go inward to ready our hearts and minds for How To Citizen. Welcom...Show More
2) When the Military Is in the Streets w Gen. Stan McChrystal
Baratunde returns to the How To Citizen feed with a conversation that sits right at the intersection of character, democracy, and what it means to citizen in this moment. This episode features Baratun...Show More
3) The true story of who we really are
This is our wrap of our Week of Citizening that I've been doing with Jon Alexander. We found 8 stories from across the U.S. — across sectors, communities, and divides — where people are co...Show More
4) We Know how to Rebuild Our Democracy - final story
There is a model for how we rebuild and heal after the human-made disaster being inflicted on the USA right now. Welcome to Dena Heals—a mutual aid marketplace and wellness center born in the af...Show More
5) How we gather is how we citizen
We head to Eliot, Maine, where a multiracial, multidisciplinary group of artists have reimagined what a conference can be. At SeaCHANGE, creativity isn’t an afterthought—it’s the sta...Show More
6) Don't Wait for New Leaders. BECOME Them
Today we bring you Story #6 in our Week of Citizening. We’ve already shown you how people are rethinking democracy through libraries, labor, and school boards. Now we’r...Show More
7) Tech Can Serve the People but Only with the People
Today, we head to Chicago, where a civic gathering called Chi Hack Night is bringing technologists, designers, policy nerds, and everyday residents together to build a better city. Access to visuals f...Show More
8) People Know What They Need - Move at the Speed of Trust
We’re told some people just need to be saved. But what people really need is to be needed. This community of young single mothers in Lexington, Kentucky reveals a version of this story. Full vid...Show More
9) Can a School Board Teach Us to Overcome Division?
We’re told America is hopelessly divided. But zoom in—like, say, to a school board in South Central Pennsylvania—and a different story emerges. Full video viewing options for th...Show More
10) A Tax Day Message about Layoffs With Consent
It’s Tax Day in the U.S., a moment when many of us think about how we fund collective life. So today’s story? It’s about layoffs — but not the kind we’ve come to expect. ...Show More