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The Get InPowered Podcast: Fostering Community through Shared Stories

The Get InPowered Podcast by Inclusivus is about individuals, innovators, advocates, activists, and agents of social change across sectors and industries who are working to transform their communities and the world at large. In each episode, we travel with host Judithe Registre to a different location and talk with InPowered women and men whose stories and work are inspiring change and action and making a transformative impact in their communities. These are people who, through their own personal experiences and a gender equity lens, are working to create more inclusive and progressive communities.
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Sep 28, 2017

“Consent is a mutual, amazing experience.” - Mike Domitrz

Mike Domitrz is a man on a mission to dramatically improve society’s approach to healthy dating and relationships by creating a better understanding of how “consent” is obtained in intimacy to prevent sexual assaults and rape.

“Are you asking the question in the first place that allows them to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ before it happens?” - Mike Domitrz

When his own family was impacted by sexual assault, Mike decided to make a difference, creating an engaging and entertaining program for schools called “Can I Kiss You?” which eventually evolved into The Date Safe Project at http://datesafeproject.com/

“When a partner tries to stop you, a lot of times the reaction is ‘why? Why don’t you wanna keep going?’” - Mike Domitrz

In this episode, Mike shares his story and the mission of his organization, as well as the advantages and pitfalls of being a man working to find solutions to the problem of sexual assaults, rape. Gender and cultural norms are not inherently negative, they are tools that can be leveraged to transform intimacy and create healthy relationships.

Sep 20, 2017

New York City is one of the most diverse cities in the world, yet generations after Brown vs. Board of Education, many of the Big Apple’s schools remain hopelessly segregated by both race and class.

“Students should be the center, because they’re the ones going through it. The DOE does not go through what students go through.” –Matthew Diaz

Matthew Diaz, Youth Director of National Outreach for the Committee on Resource Allocation for IntegrateNYC4Me, and his Executive Director, Sarah Camiscoli, are on the frontlines of the issue of school equity, with Matthew currently a junior at The Bronx Academy of Letters. For the last two years, they’ve been working to have the needs of current and future students in New York and across the country heard and addressed to ensure an equitable education.

By listening to this episode, you will learn how Sarah, Matthew, and the network of people with whom they are working are employing new strategies to find solutions to an old problem.

To learn more and contribute to the efforts of education equity, check out the work of the organizations featured in this episode:

Integrate NYC4Me
http://www.integratenyc4me.com/

Poverty and Race Action Research Council
http://www.prrac.org/

The National Coalition on School Diversity
http://school-diversity.org/

Sep 12, 2017

"They call me the African Pink Warrior. Fearless, unstoppable, resilient. That’s me.”

In this final half of our conversation with Priscilla, she shares her own story with breast cancer and why she feels uncomfortable with the label “survivor.”

“When [the doctor] called me, I thought, ‘Please, no, put your receptionist on the phone, I don’t want to talk to you!’ But of course, it was too late.”

For the past decade, with the exception of the year she was diagnosed with thyroid, Priscilla has walked every year in the Avon 39 Walk to End Breast Cancer. She is looking forward to the day when she doesn’t need to fundraise anymore. She calls it her “retirement day,” when a cure has finally been found. As we continue our conversation, Priscilla discusses how she found strength and confidence, even during her diagnosis, through kickboxing, and how she’s continued to manage her generosity, personal responsibilities, family and self-care while continuing to work for a cure to breast cancer while living her life with grace and gratitude.

If Priscilla’s story has moved you, please join her team in fundraising and supporting others who’ve “gone through it” by visitinghttp://www.avon39.org/washington-dc/

Sep 4, 2017

"You're still gonna have those challenges, you're still gonna have to face them. So don't try to hide yourself in your friends' influence and all of that stuff. You still have that and that's great, but you have to know who you are."

In this first half of our conversation with Priscilla, she introduces us to her family and life as a woman, daughter, sister, friend, wife and mother. But it's her identity as an activist that brings her to our show.

“We want to believe that maybe she is better off, and sometimes for our selfish reasons, we wanted her here. Because she was our friend.”

For the past decade, Priscilla has walked almost every year in the Avon 39 Walk to End Breast Cancer. She is looking forward to a day when she doesn’t need to fundraise anymore, her “retirement day,” when a cure is finally found. In this episode, hear how Priscilla’s fight turned from personal to “intimate," and why she still continues to walk year after year.

Tune in next week for the conclusion of this conversation, when we hear how Priscilla's efforts are continuing and how you can join her team to fundraise and support survivors.

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