This episode is a brief introduction to the podcast facilitator and a glimpse into the gestation of the project itself. It features Rev. Donna Vanhook, MDiv, MA.NPM, Womanist Community Organizer and Jenn Grimmett, Podcast Host & Social Justice Educator.

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Introduction

This episode challenges the idea that intergenerational and historical traumas are separate experiences for Black and Brown Girls & Women, within the context of education, health, and psychology. It features Buffie Longmire-Avital, Associate Professor of Psychology and Coordinator of African and African American Studies at Elon University.

Episode 1: Historical Trauma: Defining and Understanding the Intergenerational Impacts

This episode highlights gendered and racial disparities as it relates to women and girls of color, within the context of law enforcement and the Black church. It features Dr. Sharon Ellis Davis, a Pastor of the United Church of Christ and a Retired Police Officer of the City of Chicago.

Episode 2: (Pt. 1) Violence Against Women & Girls: Interpersonal Violence and Community Structures

This episode takes a closer look at how systems of oppression have a direct impact on not only incarcerated people, but also families and communities. It features Dr. Leigh-Anne Royster, the Director of Inclusive Community Development at Elon University in NC.

Episode 3: (Pt. 2) Violence Against Women & Girls: The Prison Industrial Complex

This episode offers information about services being offered in Alamance County, NC to educate school administrators, teachers, and local law enforcement on effective and trauma-informed strategies for suicide prevention. It features Meredith Peffley, Community Relations Specialist at Cardinal Innovations Healthcare and past Director of Development and Community Relations for Women’s Resource Center in Alamance County.

Episode 4: (Pt. 1) Suicide Prevention: Organizational Strategies at the Local Level

This episode covers two-generational strategies for improving child wellbeing and addresses the relationship between discrimination and the risk for attempted or completed suicide. It features Whitney Tucker, Research Director at NC Child, where she leads the organization’s data and research initiatives and provides actionable analysis of public policies impacting North Carolina’s children and families.

Episode 5: (Pt. 2) Suicide Prevention: Informed Care for Women and Girls of Color

This episode looks at the social, educational, and economic effects of early teen pregnancy on girls of color. It features Lisa R. McBroom, MBA, a Program Manager and Lead IFPS specialist at the Exchange Club’s Family Center in Alamance.

Episode 6: Early Teen Pregnancy: Prevention and Support

This episode examines the interplay between the Child Welfare System, public policies, and the racial and gendered stereotyping of women and girls of color. It features Dr. Vanessa Drew-Branch, an Assistant Professor at Elon University and the Owner of VLDrew Consulting Inc.

Episode 7: Child Welfare: The Impact of Biased Social and Public Health Policies

This episode offers clarification on how the identities of migrant, immigrant, and refugee hold specific experiences and agency within our national and local landscapes. It features Dr. Sharon D. Morrison, an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health Education at University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG). She is also a Research Fellow with the Center for New North Carolinians at UNCG.

Episode 8: Immigrant & Refugee Experiences: National & Local Impacts

This episode brings the Womanist identity and movement to the forefront to highlight some of the benefits that embracing womanist philosophies can have for girls and women of color. It features Rev. Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Ph.D., Professor of Religion at Shaw University Divinity School [SUDS], Raleigh, NC, and an Ordained Elder in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.

Episode 9: Womanism and Feminism: Historical and Current Manifestations on Health and Wellbeing

This episode examines the ways in which identities such as race, gender, and faith tradition intersect in multiple ways to produce individualized experiences for women and girls of color. It features Rabbi Sandra Lawson who received ordination from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in June 2018.

Episode 10:(Pt. 1) Queerness & Social Equity: Intersectional Identities

This episode looks at queerness and social equity through the lens of living at the margins within church and social communities. It features Minister Nicole Williams, a rising third-year Master of Divinity student at Duke Divinity School.

Episode 11:(Pt. 2) Queerness & Social Equity: Living at the Margins

This episode offers a personal point of view about the challenges and successes of raising Black and Brown daughters while navigating educational and social systems, as well as media platforms. It features Phyllis Portie-Ascott, a wife, mother of two children—one in Middle School and one in High School-- in public schools in a rural county of North Carolina, a Residential Property Manager serving the Triangle and Triad areas, and a community advocate.

Episode 12: A Mother’s Perspective: Raising Black and Brown Girls

This episode covers the impact that early contact with justice systems can have on women and girls of color as they move through educational pathways. It features P. Angelicia Simmons, the Founder and Executive Director of The Fannie Lou Hamer Institute of Advocacy & Social Action.

Episode 13: School to Prison Pipeline: First Touch with Justice Systems

This episode offers juxtaposed perspectives on how systems perpetuate negative experiences for Black and Brown communities, as well as individualized strategies for changing the narrative. It features Prudence Layne, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English at Elon University and Shante Harris-Stewart, Burlington Police Officer.

Episode 14: Police Brutality: Engaging Black and Brown Women & Girls

Social Equity for and by Black and Brown Girls, and Women

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