Ogden City Council candidate Priscilla Martinez on the pod to talk to us about her unique life experience and what it's been like to run for City Council in Ogden. Her background in social services, education, and health makes her a uniquely qualified candidate to represent District 3 in Ogden.

Amanda King is a West Point graduate who served three tours in Afghanistan. She shares what it was like working with the people of Afghanistan during her time there.

Jaynee Nadolski is the Senior Associate Commissioner for Compliance & Governance of the Big Sky Conference. She also serves as the Senior Woman Administrator for the conference office and is the league's liaison between the NCAA and conference institutions for all compliance, academic and governance issues. Jaynee is also an accomplished two sport high school and collegiate athlete. She came on the podcast today to talk about the progress that has been made, and still needs to be made, both nationally and locally in women's sports.

Ogden City Councilmen Luis Lopez is back on the pod completing his immigration story. He shares with us how his experience with asylum has shaped his politics, his passions, and his character. Go check out Luis' nonprofit organization https://www.facebook.com/lupec.us

On the pod today we have Ogden City Councilmen Luis Lopez. Luis was born and reared in Guadalajara, Jalisco – Mexico. Under intense pressure from the Mexican government he and his family immigrated to the United States at the age of 19 under the protection of the DEA. In this episode we explore his experiences during an extremely difficult time in his life as he and his family were seeking political asylum here in the United States. His story was detailed in the NY Times back in 2013. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/29/us/us-mexico-dea-informant.html

Awegust The Great, the creator of our theme music, stopped by the pod to talk about how he creates justice through his music. We played "ok stop" with the theme music "Amerikkka's Heaven's Gotta Ghetto" and he was able to tell us where the inspiration came for the lyrics and what they mean to him. Awegust's passion is to bring peace and justice via wisdom, knowledge, and understanding through his music and lyrics. https://www.facebook.com/awegustthegreathttps://soundcloud.com/awegust-thegreat-musichttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc6jmmuI27V95k8kqFsIThA

Adrienne Gillespie Andrews is the Assistant Vice President for Diversity and Chief Diversity Officer at Weber State University where she has worked for almost 16 years. She holds bachelor of arts degrees in Political Science and Women's Studies from the University of Utah; a MS degree in Women’s Studies from Minnesota State University, Mankato; an MA in Political Science from Rutger's the State University of New Jersey and graduate certificate in Conflict Resolution & Mediation from the University of Utah where she is completing a Ph.D. in Education, Culture and Society. Andrews has worked in a variety of government capacities including as the Director of the Center for Youth Policy and Programs for the State of New Jersey.Adrienne stopped by to share with us her passion for social justice and to explain how we can do better as a community. In the intro I talk about the diversity commission's response to Fort Bingham Road citizen petition, that Adrienne is involved in. Page 31 is the letter from James Singer

On the pod today we have Amir Jackson. Amir constant force for good in the community of Ogden, UT. He is the founder of a nonprofit called, "Nurture The Creative Mind." https://nurturethecreativemind.org/ The mission of his organization is that it "empowers and establishes self value in youth through creativity, while developing marketable skills." You'll get to hear all about this organization and how it can be a transformative power for individuals and community. Amir explores his personal experiences in life that led him to want to do this work and his experiences this summer being a prominent member of the black community during social unrest at the intersection of police violence and race.

Today on the pod we are continuing our celebration of Black History Month by having important members of our local black community share their experiences. Returning guest Miss Betty Sawyer, president of the Ogden NAACP, is here to share with us some important black history starting with the Emancipation Proclamation, through the restoration era amendments, into the civil rights era, and today. Miss Betty shared her experience with being one of 12 black students to integrate her high school. Tune in through the whole thing you won’t want to miss it!

Bonus Pod! With the recent targeting of transgender women in our current political culture wars I knew we needed to have a transgender women athlete on the podcast so we could get to know her experience and I found the perfect guest in Chloie Jonsson. She came on the pod to share her experiences as a transgender women. We talked about her experiences getting bullied as a child in school, her transition, her struggles with addiction, and finally her lawsuit she filed against CrossFit for not allowing her to compete in the CrossFit Games. Chloie is smart, generous, and funny I hope you learn as much from this conversation as I did.  Find her on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/chlojonsson/?igshid=l8jl70jc128q. She is also doing incredible work as the President of the Board of "The Out Foundation." Check it out - https://theoutfoundation.org/