Episodes
Aug. 12, 2021
T'erra Estes and Teaching Not Punish
Chris and Jesse are joined by T'erra Estes, the executive director and founder of Teach Not Punish. She tells us about her journey to starting this fantastic organization, why our education system sometimes fails to educate …
July 15, 2021
Toby Jenkins, Doing Whatever It Takes, and 918-The-Gays
Chris and Jesse are joined by Toby Jenkins, CEO of Oklahomans For Equality and the executive director of the Dennis R .Neil Equality Center. Toby tells us the story of his journey from a conservative Republican, who was prom…
July 1, 2021
Dr. Jabraan Pasha, Implicit Bias, and the Doctor's Internet
Chris and Jesse are joined by Dr. Jabraan Pasha. Jabraan is a professor at the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine, a lecturer on implicit bias, having led over 100 workshops over the topic across the world; …
June 17, 2021
Anneliese Bruner, White Primacy, and Telling the Whole Story
Chris and Jesse are joined by Anneliese Bruner. Anneliese is the great granddaughter of Mary E. Jones Parrish, a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. Bruner’s great grandmother wrote an account of what she and other…
June 3, 2021
Mike Creef, the Tulsa Race Massacre, and Aliens
Chris and Jesse are joined by Mike Creef, the Senior Writer at The Black Wall Street Times. Our city and country have just exited a week of remembrance and commemoration, as it was the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre o…
May 20, 2021
Carlos Moreno, the Victory of Greenwood, and down with the IDL
Chris and Jesse are joined by Carlos Moreno, Co-Captain of Code for Tulsa and author of The Victory of Greenwood. Moreno recently finished writing The Victory of Greenwood and it is now available for pre-order. Moreno discus…
May 6, 2021
Tulsa Changemakers and the Importance of Youth Voices
Chris and Jesse are joined by three special guests. Andrew Spector, co-director and founder of Tulsa Changemakers, and two Tulsa Changemaker alums, Mariana Aguirre and Emily Lara. Mariana and Emily talk about what they learn…
April 22, 2021
Marcela Swenson, Tulsa Responds, and Building an Airplane while Flying It
Chris and Jesse are joined by Marcela Swenson, the Executive Director at Tulsa Responds. Swenson defines Tulsa Responds as mercenaries 4 good. In our discussion, Swenson goes in depth on how Tulsa Responds began, and how it …
April 8, 2021
Amy Curran and Generation Citizen
Chris and Jesse are joined by Amy Curren, the Executive Director of the Oklahoma chapter of Generation Citizen, which is a program center around action civics and civics education. In this episode, we discuss the importance …
March 25, 2021
Andreya Williams and Tulsa Service Year
Chris and Jesse are joined by Andreya Williams, the Program Director for Tulsa Service Year. Tulsa Service Year is a program created for recently graduated students looking towards a career; graduate students looking to inno…
March 11, 2021
Where Estate Planning and Social Inequality Meet
Chris and Jesse are joined by Laurel and Riley Carbone Kern, founders of Tallgrass Estate Planning LLP. Laurel and Riley are adamant about people in the minority demographics getting the appropriate estate plans in place for…
Feb. 25, 2021
Food For The Screwed and Keeping It Simple
Chris and Jesse are joined by Marco Herrera and Colin Sato, chefs at the Vintage Wine Bar in downtown Tulsa. Marco and Colin talk with us about their recent project called “Food For The Screwed”, a program designed to help f…
Feb. 11, 2021
Gary Peluso-Verdend and the Stain of White Christian Supremacy
Chris and Jesse are joined again by the Rev. Dr. Gary Peluso-Verdend, executive director of the Center for Religion in Public Life at the Phillips Theological Seminary. They discuss the capital insurrection, the role that wh…
Jan. 28, 2021
Dr. View and Fire In Little Africa
Chris and Jesse are joined by Dr. View (Dr. Stevie Johnson), the creative director for the Fire in Little Africa project, a multimedia project geared towards healing social injustices and exposing local talents. Dr. View tal…
Jan. 14, 2021
Lindsey Jordan and Write on Fundraising
Chris and Jesse are joined by Lindsay Jordan, who is the Founder & CEO of Write On Fundraising . Her company helps nonprofit organizations meet their fundraising goals by providing expert-level grant writing, policy design, …
Dec. 31, 2020
Ken Levit, GKFF, and 2021
Chris and Jesse are joined by Ken Levit, Executive Director of the George Kaiser Family Foundation to talk about what the Foundation did to pivot during the pandemic, what their plans are for 2021, and most importantly, what…
Dec. 17, 2020
Andrea Pemberton, TYPROS, and binging Local Government
Jesse and Chris are joined by Executive Director of TYPROS (Tulsa Young Professionals) Andrea Pemberton. Andrea talks about her journey to Tulsa, how TYPROS got her where she is today, and what they are building towards in 2…
Dec. 3, 2020
Kuma Roberts, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion...and Charcuterie
Chris and Jesse are joined by Kuma Roberts, Vice-President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for the Tulsa Regional Chamber of Commerce. She tells us about how she became a DEI expert, what she has learned in that time, wh…
Nov. 19, 2020
Obum Ukabam and Doing It For The Kids
Chris and Jesse are joined by Obum Ukabam, who by day is the Head of Admissions & Marketing Manager at Holberton Tulsa, but by night is a leader and volunteer for so many organizations that Jesse actually had to increase his…
Nov. 19, 2020
Obum Ukabam and Doing It For The Kids
Chris and Jesse are joined by Obum Ukabam, who by day is the Head of Admissions & Marketing Manager at Holberton Tulsa, but by night is a leader and volunteer for so many organizations that Jesse actually had to increase his…
Nov. 5, 2020
Carlos Moreno, The Victory of Greenwood, and Telling the Full Story
Carlos Moreno joins Jesse and Chris to discuss the Victory of Greenwood , a project that endeavors to tell the story of Greenwood from the perspective of the heroes and entrepreneurs who built Greenwood and then rebuilt it a…
Oct. 8, 2020
Tyrance Billingsley II, Black Tech Street, and the idea of Ubuntu
Tyrance Billingsley II joins Jesse and Chris to talk about Black Tech Street. Black Tech Street looks to build a thriving capitol of Black tech in Tulsa, starting on the grounds of Black Wall Street. Tyrance talks about his …
Sept. 24, 2020
Tommy Yap and the Tulsa Voter Van
Chris and Jesse are joined by Tommy Yap, co-founder of the Tulsa Voter Van, who discusses with us the history of this idea, voter suppression in general, and more importantly how you all can help! The Tulsa Voter Van is rais…