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Welcome to the Visceral Change Podcast, home of the Chopping BLOCK! A place where the world's premier diversity, inclusion, and equity practitioners share captivating insights and critical accounts of the(ir) work. Changing hearts and minds one hour at a time. Updating every three weeks. Be sure to check back to see who's next to enter the Chopping BLOCK!
Episodes

Monday Dec 05, 2022
Monday Dec 05, 2022
Brittany Harlow is the founder, director, and lead journalist for Verified News Network. On Episode three of this season's chopping Block, Brittany talks about her journey into adulthood as a youth whose desire for change and truth propelled her to start one of the leading independent news networks in all of Oklahoma. Join us as we talk representation, Indigeneity, and the importance of honest reporting.

Monday Nov 07, 2022
Monday Nov 07, 2022
Mental Health Clinician and Licensed Social Worker, Jay Carey, enters the Chopping Block to talk about therapy, psychoanalysis, and the importance of mental health within the Black community. Jay shares with us his journey from masculinity to manhood as a youth growing up in Albany, New York with an uncertain future to becoming the staple of Fatherhood and Black masculinity that inspired many boys and young men, alike. You won't want to miss this one!

Sunday Oct 16, 2022
Sunday Oct 16, 2022
Rebecca Ballenger is the Associate Director of Worlds of Words at the University of Arizona. In this episode, Rebecca takes us on a journey through her life en route to tackling the presence of DEI and justice in the world of literature. Engaging the discussion from the perspective of all literary audience, Rebecca helps us challenge the ways we think about diversity, equity, & inclusion in books, stories, and other narrative driven works.

Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Seasn 3, Episode 6: Jamal Givens - President of LPKNC
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Thursday Oct 13, 2022

Thursday May 05, 2022
Thursday May 05, 2022

Monday Mar 14, 2022
Monday Mar 14, 2022
Kristen Garcia-Hernandez is the CEO of Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona. On this episode of the Chopping Block, Kristen talks about life growing up in Tucson, AZ, and explores the ways in which the city has changed during her lifetime. She also tackles the roles and responsibilities of gender-based organizations, like Girl Scouts, in issues of race, gender, and class.

Friday Feb 18, 2022
Season 3, Episode 3: Dr. Eric House - Assistant Professor
Friday Feb 18, 2022
Friday Feb 18, 2022
Dr. Eric House is an Assistant Professor of Critical Composition and Writing Studies at New Mexico State University. In this episode, Dr. House talks about the state of Hip Hop in America and the role it plays in Black culture today. Dr. House examines feminism through the responsibility of straight Black men and provides some much-needed insight on Critical Race Theory.

Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Season 3, Episode 2: Mukala Kabongo - News Director
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Mukala Kabongo serves as the News Director for Lynn Community Television in Lynn, Massachusetts. Entering the Chopping BLOCK, Mukala talks about his move to the United States from the Congo as a young boy and the challenges he faced as an international student assimilating to life in the United States. Mukala also talks about the roles race, class, and gender play in media advocacy and social justice.

Monday Nov 15, 2021
Season 3, Episode 1: Lexy Reyelts Salas - Labor Organizer
Monday Nov 15, 2021
Monday Nov 15, 2021
Lexy Reyelts Salas is a labor organizer who was born and raised in Yuma, Arizona. As a student and student worker at the University of Arizona, Lexy took part in many endeavors that started her on her path to organizing and to becoming the woman she is today. In this episode of the Chopping BLOCK, Lexy talks about the roles race, class, gender, and sexuality have played not only in her life, but I'm society, alone. She also talks about her perspective on colleges & universities as businesses-minded entities, her advocacy for socialist ideologies and the troubles with a capitalistic society.

Thursday Nov 04, 2021
Season 2, Episode 10: Prof. Smadar Naoz - Associate Professor of Astronomy, UCLA
Thursday Nov 04, 2021
Thursday Nov 04, 2021
Prof. Smadar Naoz is an Associate Professor of Astronomy at UCLA. On this podcast, Prf. Naoz talks about her life as a young girl in Israel, her first introduction to space science and her journey to tenure in the United States.