Season 4 Episode 9: Nacala Ayele
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Nacala Ayele is a joy coach for Black, Indigenous and People of Color. You can find out more at: . She is also a massage therapist and has served as a teaching artist for Young Women Empowered sharing her talents as a culinary historian and a joy pracititioner. She has traveled to Ghana, Kenya, Guatemala, Jamaica, Trinidad, and The Bahamas to gather recipes, meet culinary historians, and gather stories of Black people of the African diaspora through food.
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Season 4 Episode 8: Jackie Amatucci
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Jackie Amatucci is a retired high-school teacher, artist, who has worked as a Creative Consultant for over twenty-five years. She began working as an “art-barn facilitator” the year after Charlie Murphy and Peggy Taylor started the Power of Hope. She has facilitated and mentored other adults to hold space, create and imagine in setting up Art Space for youth in Young Women Empowered, and Partners for Youth Empowerment. Her artistic passions are ceramics, mixed media, artist-trading cards, watercolor, embroidery, basket-making, jewelry-making and sewing. Jackie sews and...
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Season 4 Episode 7: Davia Antonia
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This episode was recorded in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica with relocation specialist Davia Antonia. You can find her at .
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Season 4 Episode 6: Leilani Mañulu
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Leilani is a shaman and leadership visionary, interpreting messages from the unseen to bring more joy, balance, and hope to our world. She is the author of “Paradox of the Water Bearer” and the host of The Intuitive Catalyst podcast. Leilani is a leadership expert and executive coach, supporting and guiding intuitive leaders in reconnecting with their spiritual truth in service of guiding their organizations to be more intuitive, imaginative, and heart-centered.
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Season 4 Episode 5: Sonora Jha
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Sonora Jha is the author of the memoir How to Raise a Feminist Son (2021) and the novel Foreign (2013). After a career as a journalist covering crime, politics, and culture in India and Singapore, she moved to the United States to earn a Ph.D. in media and public affairs. Sonora’s OpEds, essays, and public appearances have featured in the New York Times, on BBC, and elsewhere. She is a professor of journalism and lives in Seattle. Her new novel, The Laughter, is forthcoming from Harper Via in early 2023.
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Season 4 Episode 4: Howie Echo-Hawk
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Howie Echo-Hawk has a lot of names and does a lot of things. They are one of the human beings, as (hopefully) are you. Music, words, jokes, laughter, joy, dancing, being hot are among her many activities. Howie produces events and art with Indigenize Productions, makes music and art under the name “there’s more,” and has so many instagrams that at this point it’s become a little unwieldy. After years and years of being a cynic, they now believe firmly that there’s more to life, there’s more to us, there’s just more. But mostly, they want to go be trans and native...
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Season 4 Episode 3: Mari Shibuya
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Mari Shibuya (they/she) (Duwamish / Coast Salish territory) is a Visual and Social Artist specializing in murals, community visioning through the arts, and scribing. Their work focuses on the intersection of public art activation, visual thinking and creative empowerment while inviting in the spirit of collaboration and connection.
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Season 4 Episode 2: Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs
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Shake a tambourine for Black Feminism! Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings. Her work in this lifetime is to facilitate infinite, unstoppable ancestral love in practice. She leads retreats and has published several books. Find out more here: https://www.alexispauline.com/about
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Season 4 Episode 1: We're Back! Now what? What now?
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After a two year gap we are back. We've missed you. Check in on what Anastacia and Reagan have been up to during the pandemic and how we're framing our 4th and final season.
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Episode 19: Black Healing live from Town Hall PT2- Rocky Lester and TAQUEET$
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On Sept 6, 2020 The Deep End hosted it's Season 3 Finale livestreaming through Seattle Town Hall. The theme was Black healing and we interviewed Mary Williams, Victoria Santos, Rocky Lester, and Taqueet$.
info_outlineCarl Livingston is the lead professor in the Political Science Department at Seattle Central College (SCC). A graduate of Notre Dame Law School, he has been an adjunct Business Law professor at Seattle Pacific University’s School of Business and at South Seattle College. He was chair of the panel appointed by the Seattle City Council that reported on the inadequate preparations of the 1999 WTO Ministerial Conference in Seattle. Carl is the author of a scholarly article entitled “Affirmative Action on Trial: The Retraction of Affirmative Action and the Case for its Retention” published by the Howard Law Journal published, and spoke against the passage of I-200 throughout western Washington. He wrote Shoestrings & Bootstraps: A Development Plan for Black America and held development conferences even at SCC. He is working on the manuscript, Outing the Southern Strategy. He pastors Kingdom Christian Center. Carl has delivered the Martin Luther King keynote speeches for the cities of Moses Lake, Federal Way, and for the Seattle Colleges.