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  • Women of Color: The MVPs of the Social Justice Movement with Vanessa Daniel

    Women of Color: The MVPs of the Social Justice Movement with Vanessa Daniel
    2025/06/17
    Vanessa Priya 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. Daniel discusses her personal journey from community organizer to the founder and Executive Director of Groundswell, a philanthropy organization committed to intersectional organizing. She shares the three superpowers of successful WOC leaders that we can all adopt: a 360 vision, boldness, and generosity.
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    36 分
  • Making It Easy to Give Back with Anna Chu

    Making It Easy to Give Back with Anna Chu
    2025/06/03
    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 representation to non-profit governance and tax issues, from voting rights to copyright. Anna Chu, the Executive Director, describes how nimble organization started the Federal Workers Defense Network to provide pro bono support for the thousands of federal workers who were fired from their positions in violation of law and without legal process. You can find pro bono opportunities at https://wetheaction.org/lawyers
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    32 分
  • Protecting and Providing Due Process with Erica Pinheiro

    Protecting and Providing Due Process with Erica Pinheiro
    2025/05/20
    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 multidisciplinary, client-centered, harm reduction-based practice. The organization provides direct, free, legal services on both sides of the US-Mexico border and beyond through zealous individual representation, medical-legal partnerships, and impact litigation to protect the rights of immigrants and asylum-seekers.
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    33 分
  • Reclaiming Civility with Cassandra Dahnke and Tomas Spath

    Reclaiming Civility with Cassandra Dahnke and Tomas Spath
    2025/05/06
    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 journey, how they define civility, what they have learned about reducing polarization, and why they have hope for the future. https://www.instituteforcivility.org/.
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    33 分
  • Respecting and Protecting our Seniors with Christine Winge

    Respecting and Protecting our Seniors with Christine Winge
    2025/04/15
    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 physical and mental health as we grow older and risk becoming more isolated.
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    24 分
  • The Moral Call to Protect Children with Beth Wilbur

    The Moral Call to Protect Children with Beth Wilbur
    2025/04/01
    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 incredible work that CASA volunteers do to support children in the foster care system and how they change lives through their efforts. She describes her motivation as a moral call to protect children.
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    30 分
  • Where do You Go When the Taxman Calls? with Lisa Sperow

    Where do You Go When the Taxman Calls? with Lisa Sperow
    2025/03/18
    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 have nowhere else to seek help when they receive frightening notices from the IRS. It is even more alarming for taxpayers who do not speak English and who are completely unfamiliar with the process and documents necessary to respond to government claims, even if the claims are in error. As Lisa says, “this program helps ensure the fairness and integrity of the tax system by educating low-income taxpayers about their rights and responsibilities and by ensuring that their individual rights are protected.”
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    35 分
  • Empowering Young People to Reach Their Potential with Cathy Sakimura

    Empowering Young People to Reach Their Potential with Cathy Sakimura
    2025/03/04
    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 Director of Legal Services for Children (LSC) in San Francisco. In this episode, Cathy describes why she has dedicated her life to serving children and families, how she manages the challenges, and what each of us can make a difference in a child’s life, including donating money to LSC because it lost its federal funding that allowed it to serve immigrant children in detention. https://secure.everyaction.com/cVYzZjzhqkC12TIE2v3q7A2
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    32 分