Women Making Moves
Sounds Like Impact: A newsletter for audio and action
Welcome to Sounds Like Impact!
This edition we have a guest curation from Sabrina Merage Naim, host of A Fine Mess and an interview with Emily Reeves, creator of the podcast Violence Week.
Content warning: The subject of Violence Week is school violence, and includes conversations about school shootings. While the interview does not talk specifically about school shootings, please take care if choosing to engage with this content.
Update 9/9/24 - The initial publication of this newsletter included the wrong podcast cover for Breaking Glass. That has now been corrected.
ICYMI: Last edition we had a guest curation by LAZOU from Nuances: Our Asian Stories and an interview with Melissa Giraud & Andrew Grant-Thomas, the creators of EmbraceRace.
SLI Community
The Catch Season 4 is out now! Show creator and host Ruxandra Guidi was the first interviewee we had on Sounds Like Impact. Be sure to read more about her career and show, and don’t forget to give The Catch a listen!
Musings About the News
Ear Hustle podcast is creating an audio space for incarcerated women. Also, because we just celebrated Labor Day in the U.S., I would like you to take a minute to learn about the #EndTheException campaign, which is about ending the exploitation inherent in prison labor programs.
Minnesota passed a new school meals law and Valerie Castile—the mother of Philando Castile, who was unjustly killed by a police officer—has been instrumental in advocating for school lunch relief programs. Her son was a school cafeteria worker and she set up a foundation in his name that helps wipe out school lunch debt. Reading this reminded me of the interview I did with Jessica Terrell about U.S. school lunch programs, which she explored in depth in Left Over: How Corporations and Politicians Are Milking the American School Lunch.
I was recently pitched Empire City, a new investigative podcast about the NYPD. We’ll have more on that show in a future edition, but I did read this recent article about the NYPD leaking sealed juvenile records. It made me think about the podcast The Kids of Rutherford County, which I named to the Best of Impactful Podcasts list last year. From all the news notices I just shared, it should be clear if it hasn’t been already, that there is so much to be done with reforming the criminal legal system.
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🎧 #AudioForAction Guest Curation: Sabrina Merage Naim
The Women Who Changed the Game
There are influencers, and then there are the real change-makers. These are the stories of women who caught our eyes, attention, hearts, and minds to go against the grain, against what was expected or perhaps comfortable, then really changed the game. We almost don’t remember what life was like before them. But it’s definitely better with them.
-Sabrina Merage Naim, Host of A Fine Mess
Breaking Glass, Media, Equity, and Influence with Pat Mitchell
Pat Mitchell paved the way for many firsts for women in media, and she did it with grace and a smile. It took grit, perseverance, and no small amount of charm but we are all benefiting from the glass ceilings she shattered along the way.
A Fine Mess, The Rise of Satire with Samantha Bee
Samantha Bee is the godmother of political satire and brought much-needed comedy (and an edge) to the mess of the political world. So why wouldn’t her show survive today?
Wiser than Me, Julia Gets Wise with Julie Andrews
We know her and love her from Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and so much more. Julie Andrews is a balm for the soul and this conversation between her and Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just pure joy.
A Slight Change of Plans, Brené Brown on Our Flawed, Imperfect Selves
The amazing Brené Brown drops by cognitive scientist Dr. Maya Shankar’s podcast for an insightful conversation on the changing nature of relationships, and how we can recover from perfectionism. You’ll come out of this conversation with a brand new perspective on what it means to be “likable.”
📣 Spotlight
Emily Reeves (she/her) is an award-winning audio producer, podcaster, and storyteller based in Brooklyn, NY. Emily brings her experiences as a former performer and theater artist to craft sound-rich and engaging audio pieces about big ideas. Her work can be heard on the LinkedIn News’ Podcasts, Queens Memory Project, The Vital Voices Podcast, and Aisha, the Tribeca Festival’s 2023 Independent Audio Fiction Award Winner.
Emily is a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, where she produced a documentary about a Moby Dick-inspired blues opera about heroin addiction. The piece won a Silver Award, the highest for the category, for Best Student Documentary at the 2023 New York Festivals Radio Awards.
Follow Emily on LinkedIn and Instagram. You can also keep up with her work through her website.
When you hear the history of policing in schools, it’s so unsurprising that it’s depressing: police were first put into schools to oversee desegregation and their presence was justified throughout the decades since with moral panics over youth drug use and ‘superpredators.’ Then, of course, there was a huge boom in SROs after Columbine as people wanted to prevent school shootings. But policing in schools also connects to how we fundamentally think about discipline and No Child Left Behind was a big part of this.
To learn more about the impact of No Child Left Behind, the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Black Lives Matter / George Floyd Protests of 2020 on school violence policies, read our interview and listen to Violence Week.
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