Tiny Spark Podcast
1) In Climate Crisis, We Need Love and Science
Pastor and activist, Rev. Mariama White-Hammond describes how her experience of racial and economic injustice led her to fight for the planet as a whole and explains why it is time to “live differentl...Show More
2) ‘Dirty Work’ Raises Moral Questions
Journalist and author Eyal Press’ book Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America examines the morally troubling jobs that are done in our name, and shines a light on the ...Show More
3) How the Prison-Industrial Complex Undermines Immigrant Rights
As the federal government pours billions of dollars into private detention facilities, new research shows political donations from these for-profit companies are influencing policymakers to support le...Show More
4) For This Art Curator, the Aesthetic is Political
‘There have been so many important critiques of the nude in art history,’ writer and art curator Macushla Robinson tells us, and she’s added her own critique in the form of an upcoming book project. E...Show More
5) Community First! Tiny Homes, Big Intentions
As the U.S. deals with a severe crisis with up to 600,000 people experiencing homelessness each night, we tour the Community First! village in Austin. This unique community was established to provide ...Show More
6) Stanford Professors Take On Silicon Valley
We speak to the authors of System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong, and How We Can Reboot. The trio of Stanford professors use a cross-disciplinary approach to critique technologists and the outsized ...Show More
7) Broadway’s Break: A Deep Breath For The Industry?
Broadway has returned after closing eighteen months ago. We speak to actors, writers and directors about what the break meant for their lives and work. One prepares to make his Broadway debut, another...Show More
8) Tackling Erasures with a 'Radical Archive'
In light of troubling events in Afghanistan, we speak to collaborating artists Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani on threats to the country's archives, the ‘radical archivists’ who have preserved them to ...Show More
9) Invisible by Default: What You Won't See on GoFundMe
For Nora Kenworthy, GoFundMe is “the research topic that I can't escape.” She recently studied 175,000 GoFundMe campaigns from the COVID era and discovered nearly half didn’t receive a single donation...Show More
10) The Women Forgotten in the Wars We Started
Are women and girls forgotten in crises and conflicts in Myanmar, Ethiopia and Afghanistan? We speak to women's rights activists about what drives them, and ask whether they feel women & girls are sid...Show More