Promising Practices for Health Equity Podcast

In this episode, you will meet Andriana Abariotes, who was an IRL partner (2016-2018) while at Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Twin Cities, then as IRL Co-Director through the end of 2020, and Bonnie Cluxton, who represented Academy Health also as IRL’s partner from the beginning until she retired in 2022. Both come from non-academic settings - Andriana is a practitioner with a deep connection and experience in communi...

Hosts: Cody Cotton, J. Robin Moon

Episode Description: Continuing on our reflection, we feature in this episode Kathleen Call, the former, now-retired, associate director of community engagement of IRL until the fall of 2024, and Ms. Bob-e Simpson Epps, a senior advisor of IRL. They have both been with the program from the beginning. In this very open and frank conversation, they discuss with us how they saw the program and the huma...

Hosts: Krystal Lee, Mandy LaBreche

In this episode, we had a deep conversation with Zinzi Bailey and Cody Cotton, the current Co-Directors of IRL, and Toben Nelson, Senior Advisor and one of the last Co-Directors of IRL. Some of the most critical reflections in the past years that set the program on continuous pivots include intentionality around what “community” means, how to truly engage with the community, what authentic leadersh...

Hosts: Krystal Lee, Mandy LaBreche

Episode Description: In this episode, we had a conversation with Nancy Fishman, former Senior Program Officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, who shepherded IRL from the very beginning through 2020 until she retired. You will hear Nancy’s deep reflection with us on the original inspiration, aspiration, and intention of IRL by the Foundation, how she saw the program evolve, and ways she had t...

Hosts: Krystal Lee

Episode Description: In this episode, we share a podcast recording from 2020, the first episode of our original podcast effort, which was thwarted by the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a conversation between the two original co-directors of the IRL program, Dr. J. Michael Oakes, Senior Vice President for Research, Office of Research and Technology Management at the Case Western Reserve University, and Jan Malcolm, forme...

Hosts: Krystal Lee, J. Robin Moon

Episode Description: To engage in the true transformation of our society, it is not enough to look at the external structural causes and conditions of our world. We must look even further and deeper into the mental landscape and models of the reality that are within us. To transform the world, we must transform ourselves (Grace Lee Boggs quoted by adrienne maree brown), and we start the journey with...

Hosts: Cody Cotton, Mandy LaBreche, Krystal Lee, J. Robin Moon

Episode Description: In part one of the prologue, we introduce our new, time-limited podcast series, why we are creating it, who this is for, and what the three seasons are about. We also define some terms that we use and lay out what assumptions we make in framing our dialogues. Give it a listen to this short episode to learn what it’s all about!

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