Sidebar Podcast
1) Exploring Voting Behavior and Civic Engagement with Mindy Romero
Mindy Romero is the founder and director of the Center for Inclusive Democracy that is part of the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy based in Sacramento, California. Romero is a political sociolog...Show More
2) Protecting Whistleblowers with Louis Clark
For over 40 years, Louis Clark has led the Government Accountability Project (GAP), an organization dedicated to protecting whistleblowers and ensuring government accountability. During the Trump admi...Show More
3) Women of Color: The MVPs of the Social Justice Movement with Vanessa Daniel
Vanessa Daniel’s first book, Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone about Winning, centers the work of women of color in social justice movements. Daniels discusses her personal journe...Show More
4) Making It Easy to Give Back with Anna Chu
We The Action has a simple premise – lawyers have the power to do good. The organization started in 2017 to help connect lawyer with pro bono causes, from immigration and domestic violence representat...Show More
5) Protecting and Providing Due Process with Erica Pinheiro
Erica Pinheiro serves as the Executive Director of Al Otro Lado providing holistic legal and humanitarian support to refugees, deportees, and other migrants in the US and Tijuana through a multidiscip...Show More
6) Reclaiming Civility with Cassandra Dahnke and Tomas Spath
Thirty years ago, Cassandra Dahnke and Tomas Spath founded the Institute for Civility with the goal to promote civility—in government, workplaces, schools—and to catalyze change. They describe their j...Show More
7) Respecting and Protecting our Seniors with Christine Winge
Meals on Wheels does more than just provide home delivery of healthy food for Seniors. President Christine Winge reminds us that maintaining human connection is a critical and essential part of physic...Show More
8) The Moral Call to Protect Children with Beth Wilbur
After a long career in the corporate world, Beth Wilbur decided she would serve children as the Executive Director of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Monterey County. She discusses the in...Show More
9) Where do You Go When the Taxman Calls? with Lisa Sperow
Lisa Sperow is the Executive Director of the Cal Poly Low Income Taxpayer Clinic. The clinic provides free representation to low-income taxpayers in disputes with the IRS. Many of the clinic’s clients...Show More
10) Empowering Young People to Reach Their Potential with Cathy Sakimura
Cathy Sakimura has spent her entire professional life empowering young people, first as a youth organizer, then as the Deputy Director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and now as Executive D...Show More