In Episode 1, <a href="https://groundedfutures.com/shows/mentorship-in-motion/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mentorship in Motion</a> show creators, and two of the Grounded Futures co-founders, Jamie-Leigh Gonzales and Melissa Sharp invite their own technical mentors — Ki Wight and Helena Krobath — into a conversation about how they have been transforming the media arts industry. Together, they all trace their own roots in the industry, and bring together dreams of what the future of a more accessible media arts industry could look like. Each episode of Season 1 will include an introduction with the Mentorship in Motion production team to allow a little insight to the mentorship relationships happening behind the scenes on the production of this show.<a href="https://groundedfutures.com/shows/mentorship-in-motion/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Show Website</a> | <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vT9p34Fzem-gU5_CkEtn6cDR-yy-CmNPrdH2gCGUZQtlbEvsDi3yYpnljq67B5X1-JTWF8ZWTtpSLeb/pub" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Full Transcript</a>

Mentorship in Motion is a Grounded Futures audio series that delves into the relationships between mentors and mentees. Through storytelling and conversation, co-hosts Melissa Sharp and Jamie-Leigh Gonzales, peer mentees Rebecca Peng and Nadya Geta, and their guests will explore the dynamics of Mentorship — in particular how women, gender non-conforming folks, and folks of colour use mentorship relationships to break into their fields. 

As an alternative to traditional training, Mentorship has the potential to break open fields that have historically been dominated by white cis-men. In industries that demand the voices from below carve out their own spaces in order to create, compete, or be heard; we are looking at how relationships, friendtorships or mentorships dismantle barriers to these industries.