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That’s great news for outdoor educators, except for one question: Who gets to go? Listen to the story below, or check it out at NPR’s All Things Considered. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9150b8f7939249850da150/1536493907710-AX2TF2ADFH2E3PSSFOFM/DSC_0096.jpg Radio - For One Springfield Woman, a Complicated Desire to Preserve Racist Images Not all acts of confrontation and reconciliation occur in public. listen to the story below, or check it out at WBUR, or listen to a shorter version on NPR's Here and Now https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9150b8f7939249850da150/1618592101559-4CBKUF34Q6L5UJM9SECO/DESNOYERS%2B1.jpg Radio - We are parents with lived experience raising a child with a mental health challenge In this 3-part series for New England Public Media, I speak with 3 extraordinary mothers, plus doctors, therapists, hospital CEOs, social workers and one cool kid about the escalating crisis in youth mental health. Part 1 is about the Pile-Up in Emergency Rooms. Part 2 is about the Limits of Acute Inpatient Care. Part 3 is about the Shortage of Child Therapists. 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9150b8f7939249850da150/1629816322264-76ZY700CANHDOKLBF666/KIM%2BGAFFETT.jpg PODS - BLOCK ISLAND, BIRD CENTRAL Threatened, season 2 episode 7 A portrait of an island where the people are as weird and as lovely as the birds passing through. Listen on Spotify or any other podcast app, or find it at Threatened. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9150b8f7939249850da150/52890850-58b6-43b4-8569-711bcd88eb82/MILO.jpg PODS - So Good So Milo Mac and Claudia lived with their parrot Milo for 25 years. Milo was very possessive of Claudia, which means he would lunge at Mac’s face whenever Mac showed his wife any affection. Then, one day last spring, a hawk came down and took Milo away. Original music composed and performed by Evan Arntzen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9150b8f7939249850da150/1629817421731-L7Y56K2NBVYL68KBTAZQ/IMG_4056.jpg PODS - RUMBILA’S STORY “Where are the mothers when we need them? We’re just amateurs.” Rumbila Abdullahi is an aspiring doctor, a graduate of Smith College, a refugee, a daughter, a wife and — now — a mother. In this half-hour, radio-diary-style documentary, she takes on several of life’s major transitions, all at the same time. listen to Rumbila’s Story below, or find it at New England Public Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9150b8f7939249850da150/1613604078660-B577X2QOT2WIVB3F5WUZ/Jelicity%252C%2BAngelica.jpg PODS - SCHOOLED FOR DEMOCRACY— Scene on Radio, season 4 episode 10 I wanted to find a classroom where democracy was being made. Where the word ‘public’ was less noun and more verb. That’s how I ended up in Lowell. I’d heard about this thing called Action Civics… Listen to the full episode on Spotify or on any other podcast app, or find it at Scene on Radio. Or, listen to the story below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b9150b8f7939249850da150/8190f768-6efe-4838-9a5f-870ac045a04e/Ellen+carraige.jpg PODS - Miss Stork and the Latkes This is a documentary in honor of my mother’s 80th birthday. Now what kind of present is that? 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