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Ep.68 Leading From Behind: Rethinking Leadership Through Facilitation
Andres Marquez-Lara is the Founder and CEO of UFacilitate, a global facilitation company that works with foundations, NGOs, and multilateral (inter-governmental) organizations to help their leaders…
Ep.67 “We Can Heal Only in Community...” featuring Hector Aristizabal
Hector Aristizabal—one of the pioneers of performance activism—was born and raised in Medellín, Colombia, when it was the most dangerous city in the world, and his country was suffering through a…
EP.66 No Guacamole for Immigrant Haters
Performer, Playwright, Poet, Painter, and Photographer Jose Tama Torres began his passionate work as a political artist on the stage he built onto the back of his taco truck. Born in Ecuador, raised…
EP. 65 Do Identities Limit Us? Gender, Labels, and Freedom
In this conversation, Aurelie Harp talks with Lois Holtzman, co-founder of the Eastside Institute, about how gender, race, and other identities can both liberate and constrain us. They examine…
Ep.64 Sustainability: Building With the Community Not For It
Wycliffe Barsa is the co-founder and CEO of Kosi Africa, an ambassador for the Global Play Brigade, and a graduate of the East Side Institute’s flagship program, the International Class. Here he…
Ep.63 “Co-Dreaming Theatre: Anthony Moseley and Collaboraction”
“Live theatre is a way to co-dream,” says Anthony Moseley, Chief Programming Officer and Artistic Director of Chicago’s Collaboraction theatre. “It can connect us at a really deep level that allows…
Ep.62 Turning Spaces of Trauma into Spaces of Power
Kathleen J. Guillaume-Delemar, President and CEO of the Center for Community Progress shares the work of the Center in helping communities across the country transform vacant lots and abandoned…
Ep. 61 Myth Breaking, Bridge Building: The Art of Akim Funk Buddha
In this episode of All Power to the Developing, host Desire Wandan sits down with genre-defying performance artist Akim Funk Buddha for an exploration of creativity, culture, and transformation. From…
Ep.60 Bringing Magic to the Forgotten Places of the World
Magicians Without Borders has brought free magic shows to 40 countries and approximately a million people, and it provides free three-to-four-year education programs in magic to thousands of young…
Ep.59 What Are We Making Together?
Host Desire Wandan talks with Abbie VanMeter, Executive Director of Collaborative Innovation for the Coordinated Management of Meaning Institute, and Don Waisanen, Professor at Baruch College, CUNY…
Ep.58 Let’s Learn: A Free International Learning-Teaching Community
Dr. Omar H. Ali, the Dean of Lloyd International Honors College, Professor of Comparative African Diaspora History and a Research Associate in the Medicinal Chemistry Collaborative at The University…
Ep.57 Holistic Homes, Empowering Women
For over 25 years, Angela Coleman, the author, most recently, of The Art of Chilling Out for Women and the founder of the Sisterhood Agenda, an international network active in 36 countries, has been…
Ep.56 Amplifying Voices: Fighting State Violence with Jazz
Albert Marqués is a skilled jazz musician from Barcelona, Spain, a public-school music teacher in Brooklyn, New York, and a creative social justice activist. In this episode, he and host Desire…
Ep.55 Imagine Brave Spaces
The San Diego, California-based Imagine Brave Spaces does just that—imagine brave spaces. This performance activist organization, founded in 2021, uses play, performance, theatre, and other arts to…
Ep.54 “First You Say Yes, Then Your Figure It Out”
Katie BEE (aka Kate McGlynn) is a remarkable human being who has lived her life saying “yes” and then figuring it out. She has been a teen peer counselor, taught improv, laughter yoga and…
Ep.53 Black 47, Paradise Square, and Green Suede Shoes: A Conversation with Larry Kirwan
Larry Kirwan, the creative force behind Black 47, the Irish American political rock band, which for 25 years brought its energetic, joyous hybrid of rock and roll and Irish traditional music to the…
Ep.52 Capoeira— A Way of Connecting to History and Building Community
In this episode of All Power To The Developing, host Desire Wandan sits down with Silvio Dos Reis, a maestro of capoeira and a dedicated teaching artist at the Union Cultural Center in Seattle.…
Ep.51 Giving Youth the Courage to Speak their Hearts
Toiya Taylor, the Executive Director and Founder of Speak With Purpose (SWP), tells her story and the story of SWP, which is bringing the power of public speaking to students in Seattle and beyond to…
Ep.50 America Makes It Very Hard To Be Well
Malia Gilbert-Neal, the executive director of ArtWell, grew up in Philadelphia and has been creating community empowerment organizations her entire adult life. In conversation with host Desire…
Ep.49 Through Play You Find the Kid in You
La Transplanisphère, based in Paris, France, has been doing cutting-edge political theatre for two decades bringing artists, students, and “ordinary people” together to explore the political and…
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All Power To The Developing! has published 69 episodes since January 2021, covering topics in Education, Philosophy.
All Power To The Developing! is currently highly active with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 48m.