Untying Knots

Untying Knots

Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project

Episodes 19
Avg. Duration 41m
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Since Oct 2019
Latest Episode Jul 2025

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Untying Knots, co-hosted by Nikhil Raghuveera and Erica Licht, explores how people and organizations are untying knots of systemic oppression and working towards a more equitable future. Each episode features special guests and a focus on thematic areas across society. This podcast is published by the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center.

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Frontline Defenders: The ACLU and the Fight for Civil Rights in 2025

Jul 01, 2025 26m

It’s 2025, and the fight to protect civil rights in the United States is as urgent as ever. In this final episode, Untying Knots speaks with Deborah Archer, President of the ACLU and Associate Dean…

Sugarcane: Indigenous Truth-Telling Through the Directors’ Lens

Apr 08, 2025 30m

Academy-award nominated Sugarcane is a moving and personal documentary about the investigation into the 150 years-long Canadian Indian Residential School system. The film, directed by Julian Brave…

Climate and Economic Justice: Learning from Asian Pacific Islander Community Organizers on the Frontlines

Oct 15, 2024 16m

Since 1973, Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) has brought together Asian immigrants and refugees in Oakland and Richmond, California to advance solutions on the issues that matter most to…

A Conversation with Ava DuVernay: Resistance, Storytelling, and Film

Jun 18, 2024 12m

In advance of her JFK Jr. Forum talk, Untying Knots sat down with Ava DuVernay, Academy Award nominee and Emmy award winner, to talk about her pioneering work as a filmmaker and cultural arts leader.…

Building an Accountable and Effective Base of White Communities Working for Racial Justice

Jan 09, 2024 31m

White Americans are directly implicated in the perpetuation of structural racism, and also have much to gain in actively working to dismantle it. Untying Knots sat down with Erin Heaney, Executive…

Pulse Check on Antiracist Institutional Change in Healthcare

Jul 19, 2023 39m

COVID-19 and the 2020 wave of racial justice demonstrations moved many healthcare organizations to enact antiracist change programs. Many of these commitments, however, lacked effective strategy and…

Cultivating racially-just, data-driven organizations

May 23, 2023 43m

“Antiracism tells us relationship is always going to come before the methodology. In fact, it's required for it.” On this episode of Untying Knots Theo Miller and Erika Bernabi share the foundations…

Untying Knots: Crime and Justice - Charting a More Equitable Path

Mar 27, 2023 31m

Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Dr. Bruce Western sat down with Untying Knots to discuss the pioneering new report “Reducing Racial Inequality in Crime and Justice.” The report, co-chaired by Muhammad…

Untying Knots: Beyond Land Acknowledgment - Accountable Action in Partnership with Native Nations

Jan 10, 2023 38m

Land Acknowledgements have become increasingly popular in many organizations and non-Indigenous communities over the last few years, but what is their actual impact? We sat down with Michaela Madrid…

Untying Knots: Building Electoral Justice in the Pacific Northwest and Across the US

May 05, 2022 45m

On this episode of Untying Knots, we explore the relationship between communities of color and political power by turning to a case study of electoral organizing in the US Pacific Northwest. George…

Truth and Transformation Spotlight - Preserving Seats at the Table: White-Dominated Boards

Mar 18, 2022 1h 2m

Preserving Seats at the Table: White-Dominated BoardsIn this special episode of Untying Knots, hosts Erica Licht and Nikhil Raghuveera share a discussion from the 2021 Truth and Transformation…

Truth and Transformation Spotlight - Equity Takes Time, Commitment, and Disruption

Mar 18, 2022 1h 5m

Equity Takes Time, Commitment, & DisruptionIn this special episode of Untying Knots, hosts Erica Licht and Nikhil Raghuveera share a discussion from the 2021 Truth and Transformation Conference,…

Truth and Transformation Spotlight - Money Left on the Table: Unpacking the Economic Argument for Diversity

Feb 02, 2022 1h 7m

Money Left on the Table: Unpacking The Economic Argument for DiversityIn this special episode of Untying Knots, hosts Erica Licht and Nikhil Raghuveera share a discussion from the 2021 Truth and…

Truth and Transformation Spotlight: Reckoning with the Past, Rebuilding the Future

Dec 16, 2021 59m

In this special episode of Untying Knots, hosts Erica Licht and Nikhil Raghuveera share a discussion from the 2021 Truth and Transformation Conference, hosted by the Institutional Antiracism and…

Untying Knots: Uprooting Digital Oppression

Nov 16, 2021 27m

Technology companies today serve as gatekeepers to everyday life, overseeing and influencing everything from communication to payments, in addition to access to information. This outsized role among…

Untying Knots: Native Land Rights and the Ongoing Fight for Justice

Feb 18, 2021 56m

In 2020, during the height of COVID-19, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe was at the US Supreme Court fighting not just to survive a pandemic, but to hold onto their tribal land rights. This case, in…

Untying Knots: Voter Oppression and Suppression: A Living Case Study in Georgia

Sep 25, 2020 47m

Following the end of the Civil War, Southern states immediately sought to limit the freedoms of Black Americans through laws known as black codes, and to prevent exercise of their right to vote…

Untying Knots: Transforming Wealth Inequity through Anti-Racist Funding

Jul 10, 2020 40m

Hundreds of years of racist institutional policies have denied wealth to Black, Indigenous, and communities of color. In this current period of uprising, resistance, and crisis on racial injustice,…

Truth and Transformation Spotlight: Justin Freitas and Addys Castillo from the People’s Institute

Oct 21, 2019 45m

Following the 2019 Truth and Transformation conference, the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability (IARA) Project's Erica Licht sat down with core trainers Addys Castillo and Justin Freitas from…

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Untying Knots has published 19 episodes since October 2019, covering topics in Education, Government.

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