In-Between Places

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These are the stories of visionaries at the Center for Transformative Action who believe the world is abundant with solutions to the world’s most difficult issues.

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Learning from our forebears to protect human rights

The legacy of civil rights activist, Dorothy Cotton and the Citizen Education Project. We’ll hear from Laura Braca who helped start the Dorothy Cotton Institute to take Cotton’s method for fostering civil rights to inspire and support people who want to protect global human rights.

Jun 06, 2022•21 min•Ep. 9

Letters, Poetry and a Jail Cell

How a sort of pen pal program connects thousands of people who are incarcerated through books, poetry, art, and journaling, and transforms the people who receive the letters as well as those who write them.

Jun 02, 2022•20 min•Ep. 8

Bringing city folks to their fresh water source

The crew at Discover Cayuga Lake in Ithaca, NY is bringing as many people as possible onto the water to become invested in it to make knowledgeable decisions about this resource we’re all dependent on. Discover Cayuga Lake successfully graduated from CTA's fiscal sponsorship and became it's own 501(c)3!

May 25, 2022•9 min•Ep. 7

How this political cartoonist found asylum from an authoritarian regime

One small non-profit in rural upstate New York is pursuing justice on a global scale by providing sanctuary to persecuted writers and artists. Meet a political cartoonist from Nicaragua who, with the support of Ithaca City of Asylum, could continue to report on the atrocities of the authoritarian regime of his home country even while he’s exiled in the US.

May 19, 2022•15 min•Ep. 6

Providing psychological, legal support to queer detainees

Much of the social justice work around immigrants detained at the border focuses on reunifying families. On this episode, check out one organization trying to protect and empower one group they say gets lost in the immigration debate: detainees who are LGBTQ and HIV positive. Meet the Queer Detainees Empowerment Project.

May 11, 2022•18 min•Ep. 5

Growing justice from the ground up

Meet a group that successfully graduated from the support of CTA's fiscal sponsorship and became it's own 501(c)3! We're heading to the Youth Farm! The folks here empower teens from different social and economic backgrounds to see how they're essential to building equitable food systems. "They're the most important voices we have," says Katie Church, director. "We provide guidance, but we want to give them a space to critically think and explore things. We set the table."

May 04, 2022•12 min•Ep. 4

Building community and the arts with adults with memory loss

Dealing with memory loss can be difficult for people experiencing it and their caregivers. Old memories, activities, and communication styles don't make sense in the same way. The arts act as a gateway into accessing those old memories and creating new ones. So, Memory Maker Project facilitates those cultural opportunities and helps families find the language to have conversations with their loved ones dealing with memory loss.

Apr 27, 2022•21 min•Ep. 3

Ending gender-based violence, uniting women, confronting leaders

Domestic violence is devastatingly pervasive. In Indo-Caribbean communities, the cause of it has direct ties to a history of colonization. So, the women of Jahajee Sisters are changing a culture of domestic violence by empowering themselves to become leaders in their temples and communities.

Apr 20, 2022•26 min•Ep. 2

We Can Believe in Transformed Communities and Relationships

How do we shift our paradigm from one of cynicism and lack to one of imagination and possibilities? Before we get to the stories of the visionaries doing the hard work of transformation, we'll explore this question with Anke Wessels, the director of the Center for Transformative Action, who lays the groundwork for what transformative action is and how we can start practicing it in our own lives.

Jan 28, 2022•57 min•Ep. 1

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