Tell Me What Happened

Gaby is a born and bred North Carolinian currently living in Baltimore with her partner and two cats. She is a publicist at Quirk Books and the digital projects coordinator for Witch Please Productions, where she is the video editor and associate producer for Making Worlds. She is a writer, home cook, and storyteller, and she wants to make you laugh.

Tell Me What Happened features the music of Susan Salidor.

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Music is the medium, and helping students feel seen and valued is the goal. This is the fuel behind Maize Elementary School teacher Katie Todd’s music instruction to kindergarten through fourth grade students.

Katie earned her Bachelors of Music Education in 2012 from Kansas State University. She continued her education by pursuing a Masters of Music Education degree at her alma mater, graduating in 2017. Todd is in her twelfth year...

Martin Ross a nonprofiit leader who specializes in forming Trifectas for community transformation and continues to add to his “10,000” hours in areas of workforce development, partnerships, external affairs and community engagement. In Spanish, he likes to call himself a “puente” or bridge/bridge builder. As an appointed person in Sacramento County, he serves as a chairman, commissioner, or committee member, and is a candidate for ...

Alex Kingsley (they/them) is a writer, comedian, game designer, and playwright. They are a co-founder of the new media company Strong Branch Productions, where they write and direct sci-fi comedy podcast The Stench of Adventure and other shows. Their debut novel Empress of Dust will be published by Space Wizard Science Fantasy in Fall 2024. Their short fiction has appeared in Translunar Travelers Lounge, Radon Journal, The Storage ...

Ken Trung Tang, the first Vietnamese refugee elected to the Alhambra Unified School District Board of Education in California uses his 27 years teaching experience to guide his new roles as a public servant.

Ken Tang has devoted his life to public education and social justice, advocating for students, families, and teachers as a public school teacher, community volunteer, and labor leader. His special areas of focus are building ed...

Victoria Oltarsh is a native New Yorker who grew up playing in Central Park while visiting her grandparents living across the street. Now a mother and grandmother herself, she feels most comfortable in the delightful company of children. Victoria has spent her thirty-five-year career directing original and classical plays, teaching rapid-fire-Improv, and story theater, She is a published lyricist on the song, “Lucky Charm,” produc...

Lisa’s 38-year career in finance has gone from investment banking to microfinance to shareholder activism and corporate accountability. Most recently Lisa was the Director of Investor Engagement at Majority Action, where she led a team supporting institutional investors in addressing racial inequity and climate change in their portfolio companies and service providers. She has lived in Brazil, Argentina and Mexico and holds an MBA ...

Jill Hopkins is the Director of Civic Events and New Media for Metro Chicago and Gman Tavern in Chicago. She's served as the host of several podcasts, including Making Beyonce for WBEZ and The Opus for the Consequence Podcast Network, and was a radio personality for CHIRP and Vocalo Radio for over ten years.

`Tell Me What Happened features the music of Susan Salidor.

More information about Susan Salidor can be found at her website

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Eric is driven by a single, fundamental question: how do we transform how power and resources are shared in our economy, while centering those who have been systematically excluded?

Eric mobilizes resources for underserved communities as both an investor and an educator. He is Vice President for Community-engaged Investing at Earlystone Management, a family office. He also leads an initiative at Harvard Law School focused on support...

Robert (Bob) Bossie, SCJ is a 56 year member of the Priests of the Sacred Heart, a religious congregation located in over 40 countries. He worked at Chicago's 8th Day Center for Justice for over 32 years. The Center (which closed in 2018) was a faith-based collective of 30+ religious congregations committed to created a world of justice, peace and integrity of creation.

Bob focused his efforts on nonviolent resistance to nuclear wea...

Mullissa Willette is serving her first term on the CalPERS Board of Administration.

She’s an estate administrator with the County of Santa Clara, president of Service Employees International Union 521, and has served on multiple committees and commissions.

Mullissa has a Bachelor of Management, Public Administration from Southern New Hampshire University. She also holds certifications in public pension investment management from UC B...

As a 6th grader, Tammy Fisher was bussed across town in Austin, Texas, to help desegregate the school system. On the first day of class, she is encircled by children who claim to have heard that she was racist. Young Tammy holds her ground, but spends the year in self-reflection.

Years later, Tammy connects that primary school experience to her interest in psychology and becoming a therapist.

Tammy is a Masters Level Licensed Profess...

John Chisum is a veteran songwriter, recording artist, and coach, as well as founder and President of Nashville Christian Songwriters. He's also host of the popular podcast "Song Revolution with John Chisum."

John recalls dating an African-American classmate while they were both in grade school and the racism they both encountered.

Tell Me What Happened features the music of Susan Salidor.

More information about Susan Salidor can be f...

At the age of 6, Jay is sitting alone watching a horror movie that frightens him. When he runs to his father and tells him why he is scared, his father tells Jay, "Son, just change the channel." Jay does this and is immediately relieved. Now, as an adult, when his mind races to all of the potential horrors that might happen in real life, he calls to mind his father's sage advice

Tell Me What Happened features the music of Susan Sali...

Allie currently works in Democratic politics but has had a string of odd jobs along the way including camp counselor, olive picker, ice cream scooper, tour guide, and editor. She enjoys drinking coffee (always iced) and baking, playing and watching tennis, and spending all her nomadic time near the beach. One day she will get around to writing all the stories about her mom she wants to remember here: https://griefbabe.substack.com/...

Woody Rini (they/them) is a nonbinary author and speaker who teaches "anti-self-help" methods. After a decade of failed "self help" attempts, Woody hit bottom and turned to support communities and therapists to heal. What started as a must for survival in mid-2021 has turned into multiple years of thriving growth, all as a result of asking for help instead of doing it alone. Woody now runs their own social support community, The He...

Vonda leads the Global Capital Strategies initiative, at the Center for Labor & a Just Economy at Harvard Law School, focusing on financial strategies in service of labor and human rights, and a just transition to a low carbon economy. She also supports the Capital Strategies for a Common Good initiative, researching ties between movements for workers’ rights, environmental justice, and racial justice. Prior to joining CLJE, sh...

Hannah Rehak is a comedian, essayist, podcaster and filmmaker. She is the Communications Manager at Not Sorry Productions, an understudy at The Second City, the producer of Material Girls and Gender Playground, and the co-host of Nina, Hannah, and Emily in Paris. Hannah is a proud Chicago Public Schools and Macalester College alum with a background in critical race theory and media and cultural studies. She has spent time in Minnea...

Ben Joravsky Staff Writer, Chicago Reader Investigative Reporter, Author and Host of the Ben Joravsky Show Podcast. Ben Joravsky is a prize winning journalist whose piece about Chicago’s Roosevelt High School was chosen as one of 1992’s outstanding sports articles.

Reader senior writer Ben Joravsky riffs on the day's stories with his celebrated humor, insight, and honesty, and interviews politicians, activists, journalists and other...