October 2020 - Mission Partners

Episode 7 Mission Forward Podcast: close up of woman's face with text reading Modeling the Future of News with The Markup's Nabiha Syed

Episode 5: Modeling the Future of News with The Markup’s Nabiha Syed

Nabiha Syed is the President of The Markup. Just what is The Markup, you ask? If this is your introduction to The Markup, we stand as both disheartened that you’re not already a regular reader, yet delighted that we may serve as your guide by way of this week’s show. We talk about what it means to exist in the journalism space, and about building a news organization bespoke for us, our modern age, and dedicated to the modern information perils that stand before us.

Episode 4 Mission Forward Podcast: close up of man's face with text reading Narrative Change with Anand Giridharadas

Podcast Episodes

Episode 4: Narrative Change with Anand Giridharadas

Anand Giridharadas is a writer who walks headlong into the storm of corporate institutional power. His latest book, “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World,” is a rebuke of the “unelected upper crust” and their efforts to lobby and influence in the face of our public institutions. He joins Carrie Fox on the Mission Forward stage this week.

Episode 3 Mission Forward Podcast: close up of woman's face with text reading How Racism Harms All of Us with Natalie Burke

Podcast Episodes

Episode 3: How Racism Harms All of Us with Natalie Burke

Natalie Burke is back with us today for a conversation that addresses one central question: how does racism harm us all? It’s a deceivingly simple question that is achingly difficult to answer. Natalie’s efforts to create what she calls “constructive discomfort” goes a long way toward helping us all adapt to the pain that can come through learning and change. When we can face our discomfort in trust we all win through transformation.

Podcast Episodes

Episode 2: The Language of Equity with Mauricio Miller & Natalie Burke

This week on Mission Forward, we bring you a conversation from 2017 with two guests who boldly challenge assumptions we hold in our everyday lives. They stand unafraid to say the things many of us think, using their words and ideas as waves cresting in and over us, then receding, laying bare our understanding of ourselves and how we relate to the world around us a little more clearly.

Archive for month: October, 2020