I am pleased to announce The Race to Social Justice Podcast series produced with my colleague, Keva White.
Our podcasts, each about an hour long, are “courageous conversations” about race and social justice. Our interviews with each other and our guests are personal, honest, authentic and, we believe, compelling.
You can listen to all the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Soundcloud or watch AND listen on YouTube.
A description of them follows:
Episode One: Keva White, “The Black Guy”
In the kick-off podcast, Keva White, “The Black Guy” (interviewed by John Kepner, “The White Guy”) explores his early years in a tough Brooklyn neighborhood, the challenges of an all-white high school and college and other critical underpinnings of his calling to promote racial justice knowledge through education.
Episode Two: John Kepner
Mr. White digs into the race-related personal and career experiences of John Kepner, a 75-year-old retired health care executive/consultant/lawyer who, though a progressive “child of the ’60’s”, only recently has come to grips with the benefits of white privilege.
Episode Three: Tim Massaquoi
Tim Massaquoi, a retired NFL player and founding social worker at KIPP High School in Camden, NJ, shares his race experiences growing in a Black environment in Newark, NJ and a White environment in Allentown, PA and as an elite athlete and professional counselor to traumatized youth.
Episode Four: Marion Biglan
Marion Biglan, an executive coach, talks about growing up white in the south, her work as founding executive director of Teach for America in Chicago and her current transformative work teaching white people about racism and diversity, equity and inclusion.
Keva and I believe in what Keva calls “The K Factor”, with “K” standing for “knowledge”. Imparting knowledge through honest discussion of race has been transformative in helping each of us and our guests in our personal journeys in addressing racism. We hope these podcasts will help you in the same way.