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Roots, Routes & Voices That Shape America

Roots, Routes & Voices That Shape America

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Born from lived experience and deep curiosity, Roots, Routes & Voices explores what it means to leave, to arrive, to adapt, and to thrive. From boardrooms to grocery store aisles, from mother tongues to second homes, the podcast delves into the layers of identity, integration, and belonging. It’s about the beauty and bravery of becoming, the messiness of culture, and the stories of people not just surviving immigration — but reshaping America through it.Copyright Heartcast Media 社会科学
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  • Immigrant Identity and Belonging with Henry Hane

    Immigrant Identity and Belonging with Henry Hane
    2026/08/09
    He was told college was a waste of time. He answered in six languages.

    Some immigration stories start with a plane ticket. Henry Hane's starts in a Senegalese town built by strangers from everywhere, a rice growing project where his family's household doubled as the school of faith for the whole community, and where a boy learned early that knowledge opens doors that money and connections keep shut.

    Immigration stories in America often get flattened into a single arrival scene. This conversation restores the whole route: the colonial classroom where speaking your own language earned a sign of shame, the university that left a top student off the admissions list, the contest where he outcompeted 500 candidates for a spot nobody could take away, and the immigrant identity and belonging he built in Cincinnati without abandoning any part of himself.

    Henry Hane is the Executive Director of the Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati, one of the region's most established and visible Muslim institutions, and a leading voice in Cincinnati's African diaspora community. He speaks Fula, French, Wolof, and English, reads Arabic and Spanish, and has moved through corporate work, Islamic school leadership, and graduate research at IUPUI. He also serves the Fulbe community internationally through Tabitha Pulaku Americas and as Secretary General of the Nanka movement's United States chapter.

    Key Takeaways
    • Mastery comes before advancement: in Henry's childhood education, students mastered the full text of the Quran before any other subject was opened to them.
    • Colonial schooling punished children for speaking their own languages, and reclaiming those languages became a lifelong act of identity.
    • Merit alone was not enough at home, so Henry made his path to America undeniable by taking first place against 500 competitors.
    • Faith without action is incomplete, which is why the Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati pairs worship with social services designed to move people toward independence, not dependence.
    • Young immigrants do not have to choose between identities, they can mix them into one they can live by.
    • Henry said, "Because if you don't know who you are, you cannot really achieve anything until you know who you are."
    • Henry said, "But faith without action is not complete."


    Timestamps

    0:00 Welcome and series intro
    1:43 Living more than one identity at the same time
    4:17 Growing up in a town built by many cultures
    9:10 Inside the madrasa, mastery before advancement
    13:16 Six languages and the colonial classroom
    18:20 Choosing English literature and a professor's challenge
    24:56 How America got on the radar
    30:04 Milwaukee to Indianapolis
    36:14 Two full time roles and STEM outreach
    39:16 Leading the Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati
    49:28 Reclaiming the name Fulbe
    56:42 Advice for young immigrants navigating identity
    1:04:40 Closing gratitude

    Connect with Henry Hane

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/henryamehane/
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/henry.pullo
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    1 時間 7 分
  • From Cape Town to Cincinnati with Janice Liebenberg

    From Cape Town to Cincinnati with Janice Liebenberg
    2026/08/09
    A one-way ticket, a scholarship, and a life built around moving resources toward people who need them most.

    What does it mean to leave behind everything familiar and build something entirely new, not just for yourself, but for a whole community? That is the question at the heart of this episode of Roots, Routes and Voices That Shape America, and Janice Liebenberg answers it with a story that is equal parts grit, grace, and purpose.

    For anyone who has ever wondered how immigration stories America tells itself stack up against the ones lived quietly in our own neighborhoods, this conversation is essential listening. Janice is one of Cincinnati's most consequential voices in the world of equity and community development, and her journey from apartheid-era Cape Town to Over-the-Rhine is a reminder that the African diaspora podcast conversation is never just about where someone comes from. It is about what they choose to build when they arrive.Janice Liebenberg is Senior Vice President of Development at the Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio. Before that, she spent a decade as Vice President of Equitable Arts Advancement at ArtsWave, stewarding more than twelve million dollars annually and building the region's most significant grants program for Black and Brown arts organizations. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Northern Kentucky University and lives in Over-the-Rhine with her husband Andy Holzhauser and their three children.

    Key Takeaways
    • Growing up multiracial during apartheid in Cape Town, Janice moved through childhood feeling mostly normal until a family camping trip ended with her entire family being asked to leave a beach marked for whites only, a moment that cracked something open in her and never fully closed.
    • She saved her own money and bought a one-way ticket to the United States as an au pair, drawn not by a dream of America but by the practical hope of earning enough to eventually pay for college back home.
    • A scholarship from Northern Kentucky University changed the trajectory entirely, and Janice earned her degree in psychology, a discipline she says she has used every single day of her fundraising career.
    • At ArtsWave for ten years, she helped channel more than twelve million dollars a year toward the arts community and championed the region's first grants for independent artists.
    • She now serves as SVP of Development at the Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio, an organization on a mission to end generational poverty through workforce development, credit building, financial education, and economic empowerment.
    • Janice said, "I'm a risk taker and I love change."
    • Janice said, "To tie it all together, I feel like my growing up in South Africa destined me in a way to do this work, and I'm exactly where I need to be at this very moment in time."

    Timestamps

    0:12 Welcome and introduction from Clara and Bryan
    5:10 Growing up multiracial under apartheid in Cape Town
    7:33 The beach that changed everything, asked to leave for whites only
    8:45 Khoisan, Dutch, and Malaysian heritage and the Cape Colored identity
    20:46 Deciding to leave South Africa and come to America as an au pair
    22:53 First call from Cincinnati, WKRP, and landing in the Queen City
    30:21 UC Blue Ash, the NKU scholarship, and a psychology degree that became a fundraising superpower
    34:34 First corporate job at E.W. Scripps and the National Spelling Bee
    45:09 A decade building equity and arts funding at ArtsWave
    52:43 Launching the first ever grants for independent artists in the region
    58:27 Joining the Urban League in 2024 and the mission to end generational poverty
    1:09:18 Choosing to live in Over-the-Rhine deliberately and raising three kids there
    1:11:49 Closing reflections on purpose, legacy, and being exactly where she needs to be

    Connect with Janice Liebenberg

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janice-liebenberg/
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/janice.liebenberg
    Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio: https://ulgso.org
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    1 時間 16 分
  • From Refugee Camp to Hamilton County Honor with Mamta Bajgain

    From Refugee Camp to Hamilton County Honor with Mamta Bajgain
    2026/08/09
    What does it cost a family to arrive, and what does it take to stay and give back?

    There are stories that stop you mid-sentence, stories where you realize you have been holding your breath without knowing it. Mamta Bajgain's story is one of those. She was born in a refugee camp in Nepal and arrived in Cincinnati at age nine, placed in a quiet neighborhood in Colerain Township.

    This episode of Roots, Routes and Voices That Shape America sits at the heart of what immigration stories America gets wrong most often, the idea that arrival is the ending. For Mamta, and for so many Bhutanese Nepali refugee Cincinnati families, arrival was just the beginning of a much longer, much harder, and ultimately much more extraordinary chapter.

    Mamta Bajgain is a Program Coordinator with the Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation, leading outreach specifically within Bhutanese Nepali communities across Ohio. She chairs the Cincinnati Nepali Language and Arts Center, sits on the board of the Asian Community Alliance, and was named a 2025 Ellis Island Honors Society Beacon Award honoree.

    Key Takeaways
    • Mamta was born in a refugee camp in Nepal after her Bhutanese Nepali family was displaced from Bhutan, and she resettled in Cincinnati at age nine.
    • Through her school years she hid her refugee story out of shame, until a college event featuring an author's book about refugee students helped her see her own journey as a source of strength rather than something to conceal.
    • After noticing rising suicide rates among older men in the Bhutanese Nepali community, Mamta built listening sessions that brought community members together to name the problem directly.
    • She helped grow the Cincinnati Nepali Language and Arts Center into a wraparound support hub that now assists families with green card applications, citizenship paperwork, and public benefits navigation.
    • Hamilton County proclaimed a Mamta Bajgain Day in recognition of her sustained community leadership.
    • Mamta said, "I was born in a refugee camp. I was a refugee, but that does not define me. I am so much more than that."
    • Mamta said, "We come from a lot of hardships. We come from nothing. But that doesn't define us. We're here to work hard and give back in the best way we can."

    Timestamps

    0:00 Introduction and welcome from Clara and Bryan
    3:51 Born in a refugee camp in Nepal
    13:53 The history of Bhutanese Nepali displacement
    17:28 Learning the family would resettle
    20:05 Arriving in Cincinnati and the quiet of Colerain Township
    22:04 The corn dog mix up on the first day of school
    26:13 The book event that gave her permission to claim her story as strength
    33:15 Noticing rising suicide rates among older Bhutanese Nepali men
    40:10 Building listening sessions and asking the uncomfortable questions
    46:37 Growing the Cincinnati Nepali Language and Arts Center
    59:12 What she wants young people to understand about mental health
    1:07:06 What Cincinnati should know about the cost of arriving and the work of staying

    Connect with Mamta Bajgain

    LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mamta-bajgain
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    1 時間 13 分
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