Podcasting An Institute
Podcasting An Institute is a real-time experiment in building power through voice. Hosted by Hendel Leiva, the show follows an unfolding process: using a podcast to imagine, test, and potentially bring to life an Audio × Democracy Institute in public. Each episode follows the conversations and breakthroughs that surface in trying to build civic media infrastructure from the ground up without a finished blueprint. From late-night realizations to industry reckoning, to funding questions, Podcasting An Institute documents what becomes possible when audio isn’t just a medium but a starting point.
Episodes
On this episode, I sit down with movement builder and social entrepreneur David Lubell to unpack the origins of Welcoming America, the national initiative that helped bring the idea of “welcoming communities” into the mainstream. What began as a local project in Nashville eventually spread across the United States and inspired a global network through Welcoming International. David reflects on how the early movement took shape, why...
At Podfest Multimedia Expo in Orlando, a screening of the documentary Age of Audio stirred a set of questions I couldn’t shake about where podcasting actually is today. Watching the film as someone who has spent years building audio inside nonprofits and movement spaces, I found myself both focused on podcasting’s origin story as well as its current phase. During the Q&A, I asked whether the film’s ending was pointing toward an...
On this first guest-featured episode of Podcasting An Institute, I welcome Maria Javier—a longtime friend and builder whose career spans city government, immigration advocacy, national campaigns, and democracy institutions—for a conversation that does something very specific: it publicly declares an institute before it exists. We say the words Audio × Democracy Institute out loud—awkwardly, imperfectly, without a grant, a funder, o...
In this episode, I reflect on how Podcasting An Institute came into being—and why now is the moment to build it. After fourteen years working across nonprofit and social justice spaces, I trace the threads that led me here: a three-month sabbatical, time spent in Portugal opening up my thinking, receiving the Frank Karel Scholarship at ComNet, and realizing—again and again—that audio does something democracy work desperately needs....
Let’s go far together by showing how podcasting functions as civic infrastructure.
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