Jane Q. Public

Episode 24: Liz Scherer

In this episode of the podQast, Q talks with her friend Liz Scherer, a health journalist/reporter, content creator, strategist, and women's health advocate. Liz is a rebel from NYC who now resides outside Washington DC. She loves cats, bourbon, and art.Liz Scherer's website
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Episode 23: Reverend Jim Keat

In this episode of the podQast, Q talks to her friend, Reverend Jim Keat about his work as a digital minister at the Riverside Church in New York, his decision to buy an Airstream and travel the country with is wife Chelsea, and what it was like for them to have a baby during a global pandemic.
Find Reverend Keat on social media at:
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Rev. Jim Keat is the Digital Minister at The Riverside Church in New York City and the Director of Online Innovation for Convergence, a diverse collective of faith-based leaders, learners, artists, activists, learners, communities, and congregations. He is also a Digital Consultant to various progressive faith agencies and organizations. He is the producer of original media projects from The Riverside Church like Be Still and Go, The Word Made Fresh, and Church Talk as well as the creator of the Thirty Second Bible project and Thirty Seconds or Less. But more important than any online church projects, Jim enjoys spending time with his wife, Chelsea, their son, Loren, and their two cats, Whitman and Wendell. When the weather is warm they enjoy visiting a new state park in their sixteen foot Airstream and creating videos for their Free and Simple channel on YouTube.

Episode 22: Naama Haviv

In this episode of the podQast, Q talks to her friend Naama Haviv about the impacts of the pandemic on family life; the state of hunger in America; her work at MAZON as a Jewish anti-hunger activist; and the Tiny Museum she started up in the heart of Los Angeles.
Learn more:
The Tiny Museum on Instagram
MAZON - A Jewish Response to Hunger
About Naama:
Naama Haviv is MAZON's Director of Community Engagement and brings more than a decade of experience in social justice advocacy, coalition-building, and international development. Prior to joining MAZON, she served as Executive Director of Panzi Foundation USA, supporting its mission to end sexual violence against women in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and provide holistic healing services to its survivors. Naama also served as Assistant Director at Jewish World Watch, where she directed policy, programming, and partnerships both in the US and with organizations in Chad and Eastern Congo in its work to address genocide and mass atrocities worldwide. She has created and managed educational programs for Relief International, connecting students from the US to students in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Tajikistan, and the West Bank, and she held research positions with the Institute for the Study of Genocide, the Middle East Media Research Institute, and the American Anti-Slavery Group. She earned her M.A. from Clark University’s Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and graduated summa cum laude from Clark University with a B.A. in History.

Episode 21: Peter Marmorek

In this conversation, Q talks with her internet friend Peter Marmorek, a Canadian. Peter taught high school for 32 years (10 in Alternative Schools) and his favorite subject is World Religions. Since “retiring”, Peter has taught creative writing and works with Unitarian congregation to heal the world.In this conversation we discuss photography; his mom surviving COVID and turning 100; religion and its value in modern life; and his family history as Holocaust survivors.
 
Read Peter Marmourek's blog.
 

Episode 20: Karen Strong

In this episode, Q visits with Karen Strong, her friend and former boss! Karen is a native Texan and a proud product of Texas public schools. She loves learning things and sharing what she learns with others. Karen's career has been in various aspects of communications for non-profits, local governments, and consulting for small businesses.

Episode 19: Lil Milagro Henriquez

In this episode, Q talks with Lil Milagro Henriquez about nerd culture, finding one's identity, cultural appropriation and her passion for educating and supporting youth in environmental activism.
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Lil Milagro Henriquez is the founder and Executive Director of Mycelium Youth Network, an organization dedicated to preparing and empowering young people of color for climate change. Lil Milagro is a veteran of social justice organizing with over 18+ years of experience working on a myriad of issues, including access to higher education for low-income people and communities of color, food sovereignty, environmental racism, union democracy and labor organizing, among others. In 2017, she founded Mycelium Youth Network. She is the 2020 recipient of the Women’s Earth Alliance fellowship.
 
Find Mycelium Youth Network on social media:
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Episode 18: Anslee Connell

In this episode, Q talks to her longtime friend Anslee Connell, a vocalist, songwriter, and multi-faceted artist currently living in Austin, Texas.
Learn more about Savannah Red's music here.
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Episode 17: Bob LeDrew

In this episode, Q chats up her Canadian friend, Bob LeDrew - a recovering communicator who now spends most of his working time libraries and dabbling in musical things.

Episode 16: Mother of Q

In this episode, Q talks to her mama, a progressive environmentalist and high energy motivator. Q's mom loves working and/or getting to know people from all walks of life and all age groups. In her retirement she stays involved with the climate change issues and spoils her grandchildren.

Episode 15: Anwar Pandit

In this episode of the podQast, Q talks to her friend Anwear Pandit, a father of two giant teens - Zeyd and Amani. Residing in Cypress, TX just outside Houston Anwar has lived in (Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, and Murree) Pakistan, (Bangkok) Thailand, (Dayton) Ohio, (Falls Church) Virginia, (Clinton) Maryland, (Chicago) Illinois, (Howell, and Perth Amboy)New Jersey, and (Dallas, Carrollton, and Cypress) Texas.
 
Cooking, community service, and travel are Anwar's favorite activities other than work and raising kids. He's a self-proclaimed proud basic dude, feminist, LGBTQI ally, and costcoholic.
 
Anwar's favorite quote is "Every Saint Has a Past and Every Sinner A Future" by Oscar Wilde.