Finding Commonality Despite the Current Political Environment with Listening 4 Justice

How can curiosity help us to come together across lines of difference?
How can we insist on finding commonality despite the current political environment?

In this series on healthcare and social disparities, Dr. Jill Wener, a board-certified Internal Medicine specialist, anti-racism educator, meditation expert, and tapping practitioner, interviews experts and gives her own insights into multiple fields relating to social justice and anti-racism.

In this episode, Jill provides a platform for Amara Lynch to interview her colleagues from Listening 4 Justice. They talk about the implications of a news story about a teacher in Idaho who had a sign on in her classroom that said, “Everyone is Welcome Here”, which led to significant controversy and protests in that community.

Addie Lentzner is a youth activist, organizer, and student. In 10th grade, she led a campaign to keep people experiencing homelessness sheltered during COVID-19. In 11th grade, she founded a nonprofit run by students called the Vermont Student Anti-Racism Network. Now, as a sophomore at Middlebury College, she is a Sociology and Black Studies joint major with a focus on the study of social movements. In addition to continuing work with VSARN, Addie works as a Research Assistant in the Sociology Department at Middlebury and as staff at the Governor’s Institute of Vermont. Addie is also a drummer and has played in various rock bands. She is so excited to work with Leading 4 Justice this summer as a Community Engagement Associate!

Pat Prescott is a radio veteran who has hosted programs in New York and Los Angeles, America's top 2 radio markets. She started her career in New Orleans, Louisiana and then spent 23 years in New York at WBLS and CD101.9 and then 22 years in LA at 94.7 The Wave. Currently, she is the host of the NPR jazz program Favorite Things which can be heard weekdays from 12 noon to 4pm eastern on WBGO in Newark, New Jersey and on WCLK in Atlanta on Sundays from 4-7 pm eastern.

Folami Prescott-Adams, Ph.D. is the CEO of HTI Catalysts, a collaborative network of consultants whose mission is to create and hold spaces that build community, evoke organizational shifts, and promote cultural justice. Folami has made significant contributions to education transformation and youth development initiatives working with the Georgia Statewide Afterschool Network, KIPP Metro Atlanta Schools, The Wallace Foundation, CREATE Teacher Residency and Boys and Girls Clubs of America.

She is the author of SETCLAE, a self-esteem through culture curriculum and singer and songwriter on Come Be With Me, her latest CD compilation of her unique brand of Family Music. In 2020, she created Listening 4 Justice,a storytelling experience grounded in personal and collective history to help us face the world. She has degrees from Brown University, Temple University & a Ph.D. in Community Psychology from Georgia State University. She has four adult children who constantly remind her that all education begins at home.

Amara Lynch aspires to build her career on a foundation of justice and love. From teaching in a bilingual classroom on the Texas/Mexico border to facilitating racial dialogues wherever people are willing to gather—schools, dining room tables, and Zoom rooms—Amara supports formal and informal leaders with her gifts for helping people get unstuck and see things in new ways. A natural bridge-builder, Amara weaves together her expertise in education, diversity coaching, and organizational development to create catalytic experiences for herself and others. Amara has degrees from Tufts and Bethel Universities and an ICF-accredited diversity coaching certification. She is currently a doctoral candidate in UGA’s Adult Learning and Leadership program. Though she's called many places home, this "Mainer at heart" currently lives in Atlanta with her husband Mike, their two sons, her mother-in-law, grandmother-in-law, a cat, and a dog.

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