IRISE RAGE irisedu

On this episode of the R.A.G.E. Podcast, Host Micaela Parker takes listeners back in time to revisit past seasons' themes, past hosts, and highlight connections.
Race scholars have been doing important and insightful scholarship, research, and creative work for decades, the work has rarely led to any revolutionary change on our campuses or the communities that we serve. Instead, the work of race scholars has often been marginalized and silenced while policies, practices, and discourses of “color-blindness” and “post-racialism” have reigned supreme on our campuses and in our local politics. The result has often left race scholars silently raging at the intractability and inability of higher education to take racial privilege and anti-racist discourse seriously.
On The R.A.G.E. Podcast, we interview race scholars around the country about the personal and professional challenges of academics committed to critical race methodologies in one’s scholarship, teaching, and community engagement.
Resources
The RAGE Website: theragepodcast.com
DU Health & Counseling Center: studentaffairs.du.edu/health-counseling-center
Crimson Connect: crimsonconnect.du.edu/home_login
 

On this episode of The R.A.G.E. Podcast, host Micaela Parker sits down with Gerardo Muñoz, PhD student at the University of Denver, current Manager of Learning and Development in Denver Public Schools, the 2021 Colorado Teacher of the Year, and educator of twenty-five years. Gerardo Muñoz chronicles his journey as an educator and what teaching has taught him. In this dialogue, the two discuss humanizing practices within education, learning as a form of community healing, and the importance of ethnic studies as a vessel for student empowerment. Our host and guest connect these themes throughout the conversation to contemporary events, such as the recent pandemic and how we truly begin to heal the wounds still visible in our communities and schools.
Resources:
The RAGE Website: theragepodcast.com
DU Health & Counseling Center: studentaffairs.du.edu/health-counseling-center
Crimson Connect: crimsonconnect.du.edu/home_login

On today's episode, host Micaela Parker talks to the team that makes up Our Stories Archive; Dr. Ramona Beltrán, Kristina “Tina” Leilani Hulama, Olivia Hunte, My Ngoc To, and Blanca-Azucena Pacheco. Our Stories, Our Medicine Archive (OSOMA) is a community-based, community-owned archive that foregrounds traditional Indigenous health knowledge and their implications for improving chronic diseases funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Libraries of Medicine. At its core, OSOMA is designed to create an archive that centers traditional Indigenous knowledge in preservation and management of oral histories, cultural artifacts, genealogy and health information. Through this dialogue they talk about the importance of storytelling, community healing, and reclaiming identify. 
 
Resources:
The RAGE Website: theragepodcast.com
DU Health & Counseling Center: studentaffairs.du.edu/health-counseling-center
Crimson Connect: crimsonconnect.du.edu/home_login

In this episode, host Micaela Parker talks to Dr. María del Carmen Salazar, Associate Dean and Professor of Curriculum & Instruction and Teacher Education in the Morgridge College of Education at the University of Denver. She was one of three Chairs leading this work in partnership with DPS leaders, teachers, educators, parents, and community members. This work led to the development of strategic priorities for the DPS. She has partnered with the Denver Public School and Jefferson County Public Schools in Colorado to develop district-based culturally responsive evaluation tools. She served on the Colorado Quality Teachers Commission, and she contributed to the development of the Colorado Teacher Quality Standards. She is affiliated and founding faculty of the University of Denver Interdisciplinary Research Institute for the Study of (in)Equality (IRISE). Micaela Parker and Dr. María del Carmen Salazar discuss decolonizing knowledge, the importance of our treasures in classrooms, and centering humanizing pedagogy to empower students.
Resources:
The RAGE Website: theragepodcast.com
DU Health & Counseling Center: studentaffairs.du.edu/health-counseling-center
Crimson Connect: crimsonconnect.du.edu/home_login

On this episode of The R.A.G.E. Podcast, host Micaela Parker talks to IRISE Post-Doctoral Fellow Allison Bair, a social psychologist who received her PhD from York University in Toronto. She studies the social etiology of physical and mental health outcomes among stigmatized group members. As a Black Canadian with Jamaican roots, Allison Bair is conscious of how racial identity is influenced by racial and cultural context. In this dialogue, they discuss Allison's work regarding collective grief, racial trauma, racial socialization themes, the presence of barriers to social justice, racial myths, and how these all tie into our American identity. Through this dialogue, we can bridge the COVID-19 pandemic, the death of George Floyd, and how these contemporary events connect to the death of worldviews.
Resources:
The RAGE Website: theragepodcast.com
DU Health & Counseling Center: studentaffairs.du.edu/health-counseling-center
Crimson Connect: crimsonconnect.du.edu/home_login
 

Host of The R.A.G.E. Podcast, Micaela Parker, discusses her practicum experience in Nairobi, Kenya. In this episode, Micaela chronologically recalls her life while living in Kenya over the winter break. Micaela was honored with the opportunity to conduct incredible research, learn about the history of Kenya, and unlearn the colonial perceptions of the African context.
Resources
The RAGE Website: theragepodcast.com
The African Center DU: korbel.du.edu/regional-studies/content/icrs-africa-program
Students for Africa: korbel.du.edu/regional-studies/content/icrs-africa-student-resources
DU Health & Counseling Center: studentaffairs.du.edu/health-counseling-center
Crimson Connect: crimsonconnect.du.edu/home_login