IRISE RAGE

S6E11 - The R.A.G.E. Podcast Rewind: The IRISE 10th Anniversary Episode

On this episode of the R.A.G.E. Podcast, Host Micaela Parker takes listeners back in time to revisit past seasons' themes, past hosts, and highlight connections.

Race scholars have been doing important and insightful scholarship, research, and creative work for decades, the work has rarely led to any revolutionary change on our campuses or the communities that we serve. Instead, the work of race scholars has often been marginalized and silenced while policies, practices, and discourses of “color-blindness” and “post-racialism” have reigned supreme on our campuses and in our local politics. The result has often left race scholars silently raging at the intractability and inability of higher education to take racial privilege and anti-racist discourse seriously.

On The R.A.G.E. Podcast, we interview race scholars around the country about the personal and professional challenges of academics committed to critical race methodologies in one’s scholarship, teaching, and community engagement.

Resources

The RAGE Website: theragepodcast.com

DU Health & Counseling Center: studentaffairs.du.edu/health-counseling-center

Crimson Connect: crimsonconnect.du.edu/home_login

 

S6E10 - Learning to be Human: Centering Spiritual Healing, Humanizing Practices, & the Dignity of Student within Education

On this episode of The R.A.G.E. Podcast, host Micaela Parker sits down with Gerardo Muñoz, PhD student at the University of Denver, current Manager of Learning and Development in Denver Public Schools, the 2021 Colorado Teacher of the Year, and educator of twenty-five years. Gerardo Muñoz chronicles his journey as an educator and what teaching has taught him. In this dialogue, the two discuss humanizing practices within education, learning as a form of community healing, and the importance of ethnic studies as a vessel for student empowerment. Our host and guest connect these themes throughout the conversation to contemporary events, such as the recent pandemic and how we truly begin to heal the wounds still visible in our communities and schools.

Resources:

The RAGE Website: theragepodcast.com

DU Health & Counseling Center: studentaffairs.du.edu/health-counseling-center

Crimson Connect: crimsonconnect.du.edu/home_login

S6E9 - Healing is Inevitable: The Power of Community, Creating our own Planets, and Radical Resistance in Academia

On today's episode, host Micaela Parker talks to the team that makes up Our Stories Archive; Dr. Ramona Beltrán, Kristina “Tina” Leilani Hulama, Olivia Hunte, My Ngoc To, and Blanca-Azucena Pacheco. Our Stories, Our Medicine Archive (OSOMA) is a community-based, community-owned archive that foregrounds traditional Indigenous health knowledge and their implications for improving chronic diseases funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Libraries of Medicine. At its core, OSOMA is designed to create an archive that centers traditional Indigenous knowledge in preservation and management of oral histories, cultural artifacts, genealogy and health information. Through this dialogue they talk about the importance of storytelling, community healing, and reclaiming identify. 

 

Resources:

The RAGE Website: theragepodcast.com

DU Health & Counseling Center: studentaffairs.du.edu/health-counseling-center

Crimson Connect: crimsonconnect.du.edu/home_login

S6E8 - Humanizing Education: A Dialogue about Decolonizing Knowledge, Storytelling, and Centering our Treasures in School

In this episode, host Micaela Parker talks to Dr. María del Carmen Salazar, Associate Dean and Professor of Curriculum & Instruction and Teacher Education in the Morgridge College of Education at the University of Denver. She was one of three Chairs leading this work in partnership with DPS leaders, teachers, educators, parents, and community members. This work led to the development of strategic priorities for the DPS. She has partnered with the Denver Public School and Jefferson County Public Schools in Colorado to develop district-based culturally responsive evaluation tools. She served on the Colorado Quality Teachers Commission, and she contributed to the development of the Colorado Teacher Quality Standards. She is affiliated and founding faculty of the University of Denver Interdisciplinary Research Institute for the Study of (in)Equality (IRISE). Micaela Parker and Dr. María del Carmen Salazar discuss decolonizing knowledge, the importance of our treasures in classrooms, and centering humanizing pedagogy to empower students.

Resources:

The RAGE Website: theragepodcast.com

DU Health & Counseling Center: studentaffairs.du.edu/health-counseling-center

Crimson Connect: crimsonconnect.du.edu/home_login

S6E7 - Coping Collectively: A Conversation about Grief, Racial Trauma, and the Death of Worldviews

On this episode of The R.A.G.E. Podcast, host Micaela Parker talks to IRISE Post-Doctoral Fellow Allison Bair, a social psychologist who received her PhD from York University in Toronto. She studies the social etiology of physical and mental health outcomes among stigmatized group members. As a Black Canadian with Jamaican roots, Allison Bair is conscious of how racial identity is influenced by racial and cultural context. In this dialogue, they discuss Allison's work regarding collective grief, racial trauma, racial socialization themes, the presence of barriers to social justice, racial myths, and how these all tie into our American identity. Through this dialogue, we can bridge the COVID-19 pandemic, the death of George Floyd, and how these contemporary events connect to the death of worldviews.

Resources:

The RAGE Website: theragepodcast.com

DU Health & Counseling Center: studentaffairs.du.edu/health-counseling-center

Crimson Connect: crimsonconnect.du.edu/home_login

 

S6E6 - Research Practicum: Learning while Unlearning in Africa

Host of The R.A.G.E. Podcast, Micaela Parker, discusses her practicum experience in Nairobi, Kenya. In this episode, Micaela chronologically recalls her life while living in Kenya over the winter break. Micaela was honored with the opportunity to conduct incredible research, learn about the history of Kenya, and unlearn the colonial perceptions of the African context.

Resources

The RAGE Website: theragepodcast.com

The African Center DU: korbel.du.edu/regional-studies/content/icrs-africa-program

Students for Africa: korbel.du.edu/regional-studies/content/icrs-africa-student-resources

DU Health & Counseling Center: studentaffairs.du.edu/health-counseling-center

Crimson Connect: crimsonconnect.du.edu/home_login

S6E5 - ”They tried to bury us; They didn’t know we were seeds.”: The Revolution in Iran, Storytelling, and the Importance of International Solidarity

In today’s episode, we will be talking to Poupeh Missaghi and Berfîn Marx. Poupeh Missaghi is an assistant professor in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Denver and the author of Trans(re)lating House One. Berfîn Marx is a freelance journalist who is currently a student at the University of Denver. The ongoing revolution happening in Iran has been noticeably absent within western media. On September 13th, 2022, Mahsa Amini or Jina Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, was arrested by morality police in Tehran for allegedly violating Iran's strict rules requiring women to cover their hair with a hijab or headscarf. There were reports that officers beat her head with a baton. The police said she suffered a heart attack. The first protests took place after Amini's funeral in the western city of Saqqez, when women ripped off their headscarves in solidarity. Since then, the protests have swelled, with demands for more freedoms and the end to the dictatorship. In this dialogue, we will discuss the ongoing revolution in Iran, storytelling, and international solidarity.

Resources

The RAGE Website: theragepodcast.com

DU Health & Counseling Center: studentaffairs.du.edu/health-counseling-center

Crimson Connect: crimsonconnect.du.edu/home_login

S6E4 - Demons of Denver: Books, Public Education, & Haunted Local History

The interest in this episode spawned from a tweet host, Micaela Parker, found regarding the removal of headstones at Riverside Cemetery in Commerce City, CO. This stuck with Micaela and was something she began to research more about. This is when she found the work of our guest.

In today’s episode, we will talk to author and DU alum Phil Goodstein. His approach to his work emphasizes history from the bottom up. He has written over 20 volumes of books that explore the controversies like the Civic Center, public education, and more. 

Resources:

The RAGE Website: theragepodcast.com

DU Health & Counseling Center: studentaffairs.du.edu/health-counseling-center

Crimson Connect: crimsonconnect.du.edu/home_login

S6E3 - Water is Life: The Fight to Provide Clean Water Access to All

On this episode of The RAGE Podcast, we talk to Dr. Linda Estelí Méndez-Barrientos. Born and raised in Nicaragua, her research prioritizes water governance, power asymmetries, and inequalities within policy. Earlier this year, Dr. Méndez-Barrientos spoke at the Climate Justice Roundtable dialogue, put together by IRISE, to advance conversations about climate justice in academia. In our conversation, we discuss the challenges facing her work, the paradoxes around clean water access, and the importance of inclusionary policy that helps center climate justice issues impacting historically excluded communities.

 

Resources:

The RAGE Website: theragepodcast.com

DU Health & Counseling Center: studentaffairs.du.edu/health-counseling-center

Crimson Connect: crimsonconnect.du.edu/home_login

S6E2 - Linguistics, Belonging, and Advocacy: A Dialogue with Dr. Marinka Swift

On this episode of The R.A.G.E Podcast, host Micaela Parker and guest Dr. Marinka Swift, the Associate Director of IRISE, talk about her work, background, and her research around linguistics and belonging. Through dialogue, they discuss the historic exclusionary practices used within higher education and the importance of cultivating scholars dedicated to resistance in academia. By connecting through lived experiences, Micaela and Dr. Swift dive deeper into who Dr. Swift is and the importance of protecting and advocating for BIPOC, underserved, and other marginalized students on campuses like DU.

 

Resources:

The RAGE Website: theragepodcast.com

DU Health & Counseling Center: studentaffairs.du.edu/health-counseling-center

Crimson Connect: crimsonconnect.du.edu/home_login