Tanisha is the Allegheny County Community Organizer for the Abolitionist Law Center (ALC). She holds a B.A. in English writing and a minor in legal studies from the University of Pittsburgh. In 2022, Tanisha was named one of the Pittsburgh Magazine's 40 Under 40, and in 2023, she was the City Paper's Person of the Year for Activism. She was also the organizer for Pittsburgh's Black Lives Matter Organization. Give it Up Podcast host, Margo Hinton, sits down with Tanisha to discuss her role models, activism around incarceration, and the ALC's huge win in Harrisburg for those facing prison without parole. Be prepared to listen, learn, and then move toward your own activism.

1:15: Grandmothers

3:00: Cultural Inheritance

5:00: Give It Up Spotlight

8:00: Criminal Injustice Poem

12:00: Fighting for her Mom

16:00: A good lawyer

18:00: Fixing Cars

21:00: Miseducation/Bright Spot Educators

25:00: Writing as Therapy

28:00: Doing the Work/This is who I am

32:00: Same Crime/Different Time

36:15: Standing up to Power

40:00: Shout out to Dr. Q

43:00: A Judge with a Heart

46:00: PA Supreme Court Justice

52:00: New Warden Positive Change

55:00: We need more!

56:00: Hope: Organizing and Building Community

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Pennsylvania State House Representative Lindsay Powell joins Margo Hinton on the Give It Up Podcast for a conversation about service, education, and political will. Her story is one of thriving academically and using her brilliance to impact people as a public servant. Please listen with the entire family!

3:45. Give It Up Spotling: Lindsay Powell

7:15. How they crossed paths

8:40. Brooklyn in the House

9:19. Role Models: Shirley Chisolm and Grandmother Susan

13:30. The Posse Program (Scholars)

18:00. Coming to Pittsburgh through CMU

21:20. Meeting President and First Lady Obama

23:00. Innovate PGH

28:55. Fulbright Scholarship Recipient (Malaysia)

33:11. Pittsburgh's Problems (Unhoused)

40:15. Creative way to grow the economy

44:00. The Life of a State Representative

49:15. Taking Care of Myself

52:23. News on Pause

54:07. Election Season Vote Lindsay Powell

56:10. Engage at your tolerance level

58:12. Black Girl Magic

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Margo Hinton host of the Give It Up Podcast leads a live recording at Title 9. Title 9 is the new ALL women's sport's bar and restaurant in Pittsburgh, PA. Sherree Goldstein the owner and founder of Title 9 talks about opening the business and what it's meant to her and the community. Margo also interviews Kai Lotz a bartender at Title 9 and Chatham University Basketball Player. Dr. Emily Zink, a resident doctor and a Title 9 patron also joins this episode to talk about hoops in Indiana and Iowa. Jen Bruce and Dr. Karen Hall discuss Nepheesa Collier's press conference that put the WNBA Commissioner and Leadership on blast! Listen and enjoy this thoughtful, and entertaining episode of the Give It Up Podcast with Margo Hinton.

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2:05 - Best Thing I Heard Today with Sherree Goldstein

4:25 - How Title 9 Came to be

6:30 - Chorus or Basketball

9:30 - The Hurdles of Opening a Business

12:00 - Community Event Space

14:00 - Celebrating Women's Sports

14:30 - VOTE VOTE VOTE

16:00 - Dr. Emily and Kai (IOWA VS. INDIANA)

18:30 - Indiana Fever What had happened was...

22:00 - The Caitlin Clark Effect

25:00 - Candace Parker Shout Out

27:00 - Las Vegas Aces Leadership

29:00 - Constructive Criticism

30:30 - Dr. Karen Hall and Jennifer Bruce in the BUILDING

33:00 - WNBA "The REFS Suck" (NOT)

35:00 - A'JA Dominance

37:00 - PWBA FLASHBACK

39:00 - Pre-WNBA Basketball Stories

42:00 - A'Ja (work on your right)

45:00 - How does Caitlin fit back in with her team?

49:00 - Nephessa Collier BLOW UP THE LEAGUE

51:00 - Karen "Can't trust her"

55:00 - Lisa Leslie or Candace Parker (This or That)

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