Podcasts
Podcasts
Saturday, November 23, 202411/23/2024
Western Mass Business Show on 11.23.24 — Mara Levi & Nova Wehman-Brown of the Queer Joy Collaborative
In The Western Mass. Business Show
Mara Levi, Executive Director, and Nova Wehman-Brown, BOD Chair of the Queer Joy Collaborative
Friday, November 22, 202411/22/2024
The Hustler Files Ep 87
EARN & LEARN APPRENTICESHIP AT CATALYST
Over the last couple of decades, tech companies and tech-minded entrepreneurs have been developing various ways to assist incarcerated and justice-involved individuals with job training both behind the wall and upon returning to the community. Checkr, a California-based background tech company, has been leading the charge for more employers, like those they work with, to become more socially responsible in the fair chance hiring movement by bridging the gap between employers, needing employees, and justice-involved individuals learning a trade and earning a living wage. To that means, Checkr has launched CATALYST, a 12-month, 2,000 hours, apprenticeship program to offer justice-involved individuals with real-life learning, in a variety of career pathways, and that includes a formal credential from the US Department of Labor, upon completion of their apprenticeship. CATALYST was piloted, in-house, at Checkr for a full year, before launching the roll-out with a handful of employers who believe in this valuable, often-overlooked talent pool. Checkr has committed o$1M over the next two years to expand CATALYST, and Christina Louie Dyer, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility has been tapped to oversee this life-changing initiative.
Friday, November 22, 202411/22/2024
Power
11/22/24: Dangerous recess appts. MTA Pres Max Page: strikes, no family medical leave & subminimum wage. Donnabelle Casis w/ Jason Montgomery, 50 Arrow Gallery: “Words” & art. Jillian Morgan: March for the Food Bank. Local human rts atty Laura Pitter: coming assault on rts.
Thursday, November 21, 202411/21/2024
Politics & All That Jazz
11/21/24: Dan Crowley, Ex Ed, Daily Hampshire Gazette & Gfld Recorder. Michael McSherry, Sr. Pastor, Edwards Church; Ex Dir ACLU of Mass: fighting back; “All that Jazz” with Jon Anz & saxophonist Kris Allen.
Wednesday, November 20, 202411/20/2024
Live from Northampton, It’s Young @ Heart
11/20/24: Young@Heart: Maine Media; Yellowstone adventures; VFR. Pollution.
Tuesday, November 19, 202411/19/2024
Madam President? Madam President.
11/19/24 Smith College President Sarah Willie-LeBreton with Professor Carrie Baker: Feminist Futures. Political consultant Josh Silver: Harris’ campaign – lessons & what now? Gfld Recorder reporter Anthony Cammalleri: help and hurt for Haitian immigrants at the Days Inn in Gfld. The Comedy Quiz, on rom-coms, w/ Maddy Benjamin, Scott Braidman, Lynn Curry & Jess Tyler.
Tuesday, November 19, 202411/19/2024
Western Mass Business Show on 11.16.24 — Safe Passage
In The Western Mass. Business Show
Join us as we hear from Safe Passage Team Members:
Marianne Winters
Natalie Ulrich
Samili Suarez
Karla T
Alec Rietz
Mark your calendars for 12/8. The Hot Chocolate Run is coming up. Greenfield Savings Bank is doing a donation match on 11/20 up to 15,000. A good reason to make those asks. Listen in as we hear about the many programs that SP has and how they are helping those affected by domestic violence. How you can get involved and why you should support their work. Thanks for listening.
Monday, November 18, 202411/18/2024
What Happened? What’s Happening?
11/18/24: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle: the unhoused in her city & today’s acute fire danger. Atty Jon Bonifaz, Pres, Free Speech for People: Trump’s election & his AG, Defense, & HHS (recess?) appointments. Smith Prof of Govt & election expert Marc Lendler: What Just Happened & Why? Megan Zinn w/ Lynda Cohen Loigman on “The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern.”
Friday, November 15, 202411/15/2024
The Hustler Files Ep 86
LOVE IN A BACKPACK IS LIKE A WARM HUG
When you leave jail, there isn’t much you take with you, so to receive a backpack filled with shampoo, conditioner, socks, female hygiene items, snacks, water, and other items can feel, as one formerly incarcerated individual, like Christmas. Most ideas to help less fortunate, others, have the commonality of being hatched at a kitchen table, and LOVE In A Backpack is no different. When St. John’s Episcopal Church member, Susan Todd’s daughter, Nell, was assessing the needs of those leaving incarceration, a backpack filled with necessary items and a personalized letter of encouragement, seemed to fill the bill. Since its inception, LOVE In A Backpack has supplied over 600 backpacks to incarcerated women, leaving jail, in Western Massachusetts. According to Jenny Wildermuth, Outreach Coordinator at St. John’s, there is ALWAYS a need for more backpacks and backpack-filling events. They also encourage other churches and congregations across the US to replicate their mission of LOVE and HOPE.
