Jane Q. Public

S3E1: Omar Gallaga

Season 3 of the Jane Q. Public podcast kicks off with a new format! In this episode, Q welcomes journalist and longtime friend Omar Gallaga to the show to discuss his experience in media before, during and after the digital revolution. Gallaga is a veteran journalist with more than two decades at The Austin-American Statesman. Today, he is a freelancer with bylines at Texas Standard; Texas Monthly; and The Washington Post.  Find Omar Gallaga online at: Terribly-Happy.com Twitter (@omargee) Instagram (@omargee)  

Episode 36: Fernanda “Nani” Meier

In this episode, Q talks with Fernanda “Nani” Meier - a catalyst, changemaker and community connector - about her art, the environment and what it's like to lead a truly fabulous life. Follow Fernanda online: Website: FernandaMeier.com Twitter: @lenubienne Instagram: @lenubienne

Episode 35: Shana V. White

In this episode Q talks to Shana V. White, and educator and activist, about her love of RomComs, her passion for equitable education, and how she copes with the extraordinary challenges she sees in the world around us.---------- Shana V. White is currently the Senior Associate, CS Equity and Justice Initiatives at the Kapor Center. Shana is a passionate educator who works as an advocate for marginalized groups in education and has an unwavering commitment to providing opportunities for all students to engage in unique and relevant learning experiences. She believes in purposeful disruption of the status quo and encourages teachers to exercise autonomy and humanize schools for students. Find Shana online at: Website Twitter

The Airing of the Festivus Grievances - 2021

The second annual Festivus Airing of the Grievances episode of The PodQast is here! Joined again by her BBF (Best Bitching Friend), Hansel, The Q unleashes her pent up frustrations about Instagram Propaganda, Influencer Culture, Bureaucracies - and much more! As always, please subscribe to the podQast and share your favorite episode. If you'd like to support the podQast, you can do so via Patreon or Paypal.

Episode 34: Maharat Rori Picker Neiss

In this episode of the podQast, Q talks to her longtime friend Maharat Rori Picker Neiss about what exactly a Maharat is; the challenges in leading community during such politically divisive times; and her public support of transgender rights.Find Maharat Rori Picker Neiss online: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/roripickerneiss Twitter: https://twitter.com/roripn --------------- Maharat Rori Picker Neiss serves as the Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of St Louis. She is one of the first graduates of Yeshivat Maharat, a pioneering institution training Orthodox Jewish women to be spiritual leaders and halakhic (Jewish legal) authorities. Rori is the Chair of the Interfaith Partnership of Greater St. Louis, a David Hartman Center fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute, and co-editor of "InterActive Faith: The Essential Interreligious Community-Building Handbook." Her passions center on Judaism, feminism, interfaith dialogue, social justice, and her three children.

Episode 33: Cornell Woolridge

In this episode, Q chats with her friend Cornell Woolridge about civics, the impact of digital media on our engagement with the political process, and the need to unplug once in a while.Cornell Woolridge, is Founder/President of CivicSolve LLC, a Civic Empowerment Consultant Firm founded in Building Better Communities Through Civic Empowerment. Raised in the South and educated in the North, Cornell often walks the line between Southern Hospitality and Brutal Honesty. When he's not working with various communities to build community and civic capacity, Cornell is known to write creatively, inhale non-fiction podcasts and documentaries, cook, sing and generally enjoy people. Cornell has run political campaigns in Texas and Massachusetts, coordinated issue campaigns in New Hampshire, Pennsylvania as well as national grassroots advocacy for the Epilepsy Foundation of America and served as a civic engagement consultant for the National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities. He holds a B.A. in English (Creative Writing) from Skidmore College, M.S. in Ethics & Public Policy from Suffolk University and Graduate Certification in Transformative Leadership from Maryland University of Integrative Health. Find Cornell online: CivicSolve.com Twitter: @CivicSolve Facebook: facebook.com/CivSolve/ Twitter: @RenaissanceXM (Personal)  

Episode 32: Paul-Gabriel Wiener

In this episode of the podQast, Q talks to her friend and touchstone, Paul-Gabriel Wiener about MST3K, internet culture, coping with disability, and finding community online. Paul is a general purpose nerd with an overactive immune system just trying to make the world an incrementally better, happier, fairer place. Forecast calls for fog in the morning giving way to clouds and pun with a 40% chance of brain. Find him on: Twitter: @hataroni Twitch: @wearshats    

Episode 31: Erin Walter

In this episode Q talks with Erin Walter, the front woman for indie rock band Parker Woodland, whose new EP and music video trilogy The World's On Fire (and We Still Fall in Love) came out in 2021, and bassist for queer rock band Butch County. Erin is also a Unitarian Universalist minister based in Austin, TX, a former YMCA director, Zumba teacher, activist, and mom of two.   Erin Walter - personal website Parker Woodland - band website   Parker Woodland social media: Instagram Twitter Youtube          

Episode 30: Yehuda Kurtzer

In this episode of the podQast, Q talks with her friend Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer about identity, belonging, social transformation... and food. Shalom Hartman Institute website Shalom Hartman on Facebook Identity Crisis Podcast ----------------------- Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer is the President of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. Yehuda is a leading thinker and author on the meaning of Israel to American Jews, on Jewish history and Jewish memory, and on questions of leadership and change in American Jewish life. He is the author of Shuva: The Future of the Jewish Past, which offers new thinking to contemporary Jews on navigating the tensions between history and memory; and the co-editor of The New Jewish Canon, a collection of the most significant Jewish ideas and debates of the past two generations. He is also the host of Hartman’s Identity/Crisis podcast which can be found at identitycrisispod.com.

Episode 29: Brie Loskota

In this episode Q talks to her friend, teacher and mentor, Brie Loskota about how to (realistically!) make a positive impact. Find Brie online at: BrieLoskota.com Twitter: @brieloskota ------------- Brie Loskota is the executive director of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California. Her research explores how religions change and make change in the world. She is a leading voice working to enhance religious pluralism and community resilience in the US and around the globe. She is co-founder and senior advisor to the American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute and implementing partner for the United State Institute of Peace’s Generation Change program where she trains emerging leaders committed to peace-building from the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Colombia.