Walk Talk Listen Podcast

Virtual Walk Talk Listen with David Vásquez-Levy (episode 119)

Rev. Dr. David Vásquez-Levy serves as President of Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California –a progressive, multi-denominational seminary and center for social justice that prepares theologically and spiritually rooted leaders to work for the well-being of all. A committed pastor, a nationally recognized higher education and immigration leader, and a sought after speaker, Vásquez-Levy leads at the intersection of faith, higher education, and social change.
 
David is committed to innovation and access in theological education and leadership formation. He serves on the GTU Consortial Council, is co-founder and convener for the Latinx Presidents and Deans of ATS schools, and is a member of the executive leaders group of AshokaU campus network and the Asociación para La Educación Teológica Hispana (AETH). He also serves as Vice-Chair on the board of Church World Service, one of the largest ecumenical development agencies in the world, and the Advisory Council for Encore.org.
 
He regularly contributes a faith perspective to the national conversation on immigration, including speaking at a congressional briefing, immigration consultations with the both the Obama and the Biden White House, engaging in a series of public conversation with various State Attorneys across the country in an effort to reframe our national conversation about immigration. He has worked on consulted on a number of documentaries on immigration, labor, and human rights and is the author of various publications that explore migration stories in sacred texts and in peoples lives.
 
David has lived in four countries, including working on refugee resettlement in Canada, and taught courses and led international study and service trips across the globe. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from Texas Lutheran University and a Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, including studies at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany.
 
 
Social media handles of the University: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter and Linkedin.
 
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via  our playlist #walktalklisten here. 
 
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you.
 
Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow mauricebloem on twitter and instagram.  Or check us out on our website 100mile.org.  We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS.  The 11th 100 mile walk campaign will continue until the summer, find more info via de 100mile.org website. Or go straight to our fundraising page.

Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Nicole Civita (episode 118)

Nicole Civita is a food systems thinker, experiential educator, applied ethicist, integrative lawyer, and responsive consultant who grounds in ecological knowledge, attends to relationships of care and reciprocity, and pursues collective liberation. Nicole’s efforts propelled multi-year projects to drastically reduce food waste, revitalize regional food systems, seek justice for agricultural and food workers, explore ethical dilemmas across the food chain, and develop systems-aware, equity- enhancing laws and policies.
After a decade of teaching, she is particularly gratified to have mentored a rising generation of eco-social change-shapers. The juiciest lessons that shared with her students are woven throughout her co-authored book with Michelle Auerbach, Feeding Each Other: Shaping Change in Food Systems Through Relationship. More info on the book via this: flyer. For more information on Nicole, go to her website.
 
Nicole is on Instagram and you can email her via: nicole@plenty-enough.com
 
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via  our playlist #walktalklisten here. 
 
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you.
 
Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow mauricebloem on twitter and instagram.  Or check us out on our website 100mile.org.  We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS.  The 11th 100 mile walk campaign will continue until the summer, find more info via de 100mile.org website. Or go straight to our fundraising page.

Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Nadira Hira (episode 117)

Nadira Hira is a writer. But as media’s blossomed, so has she—from an award-winning journalist into a sought-after host, recognized Millennial expert, and ever-evolving storyteller who’s graced pages and stages from Fortune to VICE to the United Nations. But she’s most grateful to be a Caribbean-American kid and proud Stanford grad who gets to call Brooklyn, New York, home. For more from Nadira, visit http://www.nadirahira.com. She is also on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
 
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via  our playlist #walktalklisten here. 
 
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you.
 
Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow mauricebloem on twitter and instagram.  Or check us out on our website 100mile.org.  We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS.  The 11th 100 mile walk campaign will continue until the summer, find more info via de 100mile.org website. Or go straight to our fundraising page.
 

Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Andrea Kaufmann (episode 116)

Andrea Kaufmann is World Vision’s Director of Faith and External Engagement. She has worked in international development, humanitarian and advocacy work for two decades—serving in programme management, technical leadership, communications and relationship building roles. She convenes and supports a number of groups promoting the rights and flourishing of children—including the Faith Action for Children on the Move network as well as the Weekend of Prayer and Against Hunger group. She serves on the World Bank’s Moral Imperative, the Board of Joint Learning Initiative for Faith and local communities and Arigatou International Advisory Group. She is passionate about the evidence-based role of faith and faith actors in development and humanitarian work and works to build cross-sector relationships to drive positive impact for children.
 
The social media handles of World Vision International are: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
 
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via  our playlist #walktalklisten here. 
 
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you.
 
Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow mauricebloem on twitter and instagram.  Or check us out on our website 100mile.org.  We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS.  The 11th 100 mile walk campaign will continue until the summer, find more info via de 100mile.org website. Or go straight to our fundraising page.

Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Mariam Torosyan (episode 115)

Mariam Torosyan is the designer & architect of Safe YOU, an innovative technological solution in the form of an application and AI based platform created to fight Gender-Based Violence with over 28,000 users. As a social entrepreneur with a versatile background in Human Rights Law, Anthropology & Public Health, She is a recognized activist in the fight for women’s rights and gender equality. She founded Safe YOU and Impact Innovations Institute in 2020 as she saw the potential to create innovative technology which could solve some of the world’s most pressing social problems. Through this journey she has participated in a range of programs such as Cartier Women's Initiative, Google for Startups, UNDP Boost for Women Innovators, the UNFPA Innovation Challenge and the Young Transatlantic Leaders Initiative. Mariam is a Cartier Women's Initiative fellow, European Young Innovator, Equality Now Activist to Know and Young Transatlantic Innovation Leader (YTILI).
 
The Safe YOU social media handles: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram and Mariam's personal social media handles: Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
 
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via  our playlist #walktalklisten here. 
 
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you.
 
Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow mauricebloem on twitter and instagram.  Or check us out on our website 100mile.org.  We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS.  The 11th 100 mile walk campaign will continue until the summer, find more info via de 100mile.org website. Or go straight to our fundraising page.

Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Kim Tan (episode 114)

Kim Tan is a successful biotech entrepreneur, global social impact pioneer, and an advocate of changing how Christian entrepreneurs can make a difference around the globe. Kim is the co-founder of Transformational Business Network (TBN), a network of over 2,000 business people who bring about community transformation through sustainable business solutions to poverty.  TBN projects include the Kuzuko Game Reserve (South Africa) and the Hagar Social Enterprise Group (Cambodia). Kim co-authored the book Fighting Poverty through Enterprise:  The Case for Social Venture Capital with Lord Brian Griffiths, the Vice-Chairman of Goldman Sachs, and wrote Jubilee Gospel which starts with the Old Testament institution Jubilee and traces related themes through the rest of the Bible. Source: Wow Factor Podcast.
 
You can find Kim Tan's TBN find on social media via: LinkedIn and Facebook
 
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via  our playlist #walktalklisten here. 
 
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you.
 
Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow mauricebloem on twitter and instagram.  Or check us out on our website 100mile.org.  We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS.  The 11th 100 mile walk campaign will continue until the summer, find more info via de 100mile.org website. Or go straight to our fundraising page.

Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Jeanné Lewis (episode 113)

Jeanné Lewis serves as CEO at Faith in Public Life. She is a nonprofit executive, faith-based organizer, and authority on creating empowered communities. She has dedicated her career to building bridges, closing equity gaps and creating policies that lead to strong, thriving and self-determined cities.
 
As the vice president and chief engagement officer at the National Center for Responsive Philanthropy, Jeanné connected social justice organizations to the funding networks they’ve traditionally lacked access to so that they can increase their impact and persuade funders to improve their practice. Prior to that, she was the director of US Programs at Search for Common Ground, responsible for advancing bipartisan conversations and policies to address racial injustice. She’s further built support networks for military families and worked as a faith-based community organizer in Ohio and Florida.
 
Her consulting company, I to I Consulting, specializes in conflict resolution, strategic coalition-building and developing and implementing community-led solutions.  
 
Jeanné resides in Washington, DC. She is a member of the DC Working Families Party, St. Augustine Catholic Parish and SongRise, a women’s social justice acapella group. In addition, Jeanné served on the Board of Directors of Faith in Public Life from 2016 to 2022 and currently sits on the National Advisory Council of the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, the Board of Directors of Generations for Peace, USA, the president’s council of Search for Common Ground, is a member of the Faith and Giving Task Force of the Generosity Commission, and is a former candidate for DC Council At-Large.
 
Jeanné received her undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis and holds a M.A. in Conflict Resolution from Antioch University Midwest.
 
 
Jeanné's her personal Twitter and her organization's social media handles: LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
 
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via  our playlist #walktalklisten here. 
 
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you.
 
Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow mauricebloem on twitter and instagram.  Or check us out on our website 100mile.org.  We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS.  The 11th 100 mile walk campaign will continue until the summer, find more info via de 100mile.org website. Or go straight to our fundraising page.

Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Ellie Price (episode 112)

Ellie Price is a corporate credit analyst at S&P Global Ratings, and prior was an Associate Director in public finance at Fitch Ratings. Previously, she was the Chief Operating Officer at Iris Light Technologies, a silicon photonics startup company spun out of Argonne National Lab.
 
While at University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy, Price worked as an investment banking summer associate at Credit Suisse, and apprenticed as a venture capital associate. 
 
Prior to grad school, Price directed The Locus Coalition of 14 NGOs, convening international development funders, policymakers, and practitioners to promote the design and evaluation of evidence-based, locally owned, and integrated global development programs. Price represented Locus members’ best practices as a speaker and moderator on pals at the UN, think tanks and other forums, and she oversaw all operations and activities of the Coalition and its Research and Learning Working Groups. Price also served as co-chair of the Society for International Development Young Professionals Network Washington DC Chapter. Prior to Locus, Price was a Crisis Response Program Officer at FHI 360, where she supported the launch of a humanitarian response unit and rapid response capabilities with the US Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance in Borno State, Nigeria. She also served as an Urban Leaders Fellow in Denver, Colorado.
 
Price holds a Master's in Public Policy from the University of Chicago, a bachelor’s degree in international development studies from Calvin College and studied East African politics and religion at Uganda Christian University. During her undergraduate studies, Price performed research, fundraising strategy, and project design for nonprofits working with immigrant populations in Michigan. As a consultant for a healthcare management firm, she designed an impact evaluation for its international nonprofit arm, adapting training materials for healthcare managers in Dubai and sub-Saharan Africa. 
 
Ellie  is on on twitter.
 
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via  our playlist #walktalklisten here. 
 
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you.
 
Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow mauricebloem on twitter and instagram.  Or check us out on our website 100mile.org.  We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS.  The 11th 100 mile walk campaign will continue until the summer, find more info via de 100mile.org website. Or go straight to our fundraising page.