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In this episode of Design for Disruption, the Hairpin team talks to Hilken Mancini. She’s a veteran of the Boston music scene, nonprofit founder, local business owner, and punk rock aerobics instructor.

From playing in six different bands to founding Girls Rock Campaign Boston, Hilken has spent decades creating DIY-style — making something new from scratch that you want to exist in the world but doesn’t yet. (Disruption in action!)

We talk to Hilken about the DIY ethos of punk rock, as well as making a living while making art, youth empowerment, and when it’s time to pass the nonprofit leadership torch to make space for different perspectives.

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Executive Producer: Kristen Hughes

Editor: Susie Blair

Narrator: Nick Tetrault

You can learn more about Hairpin's work by visiting www.hairpin.org.

The public health sector has faced unprecedented challenges (and dare we say it, disruption!) since the beginning of the pandemic, and has been at the forefront of public discourse. When it comes to communicating about health, what challenges are public health professionals facing—both related to COVID-19 and more broadly? What lessons can other sectors learn about developing messages that break through the clutter, inspire trust, and promote behavior change? 

In this episode, the Hairpin team talks to Stacey King. She’s the Director of Field Practice at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and co-leads their Academic Public Health Volunteer Corps. The program was started last March in response to COVID, and mobilizes students and alumni to support local public health departments in Massachusetts with data collection, contact tracing, and health communication. Prior to that, she worked for the Cambridge Public Health Department, where she led health promotion and marketing efforts and later served as Director of the Community Health & Wellness Division.

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Executive Producer: Kristen Hughes

Editor: Susie Blair

Narrator: Nick Tetrault

You can learn more about Hairpin's work by visiting www.hairpin.org.

Philanthropy—like all parts of the social sector—is experiencing the impacts of the multiple, overlapping crises of our current moment. How has fundraising changed in response to these crises, and what are the approaches that organizations should be utilizing today? To get some insight, in this episode the Hairpin team speaks with Ellie Starr, a development executive with over 25 years of experience at leading nonprofit organizations. She’s also the CEO of her own consulting company, Starrs Aligned (www.starrsaligned.com), which she started at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this episode, the Hairpin team speaks with Nat Kendall-Taylor, CEO of the FrameWorks Institute—a think tank that helps organizations more effectively communicate about a wide variety of social issues. While many of us in the social sector work to advance aspirational solutions to systemic problems, there are deep and durable myths that run under all of our work and challenge our efforts to build support and make change. We hear from Nat about these myths—individualism, fatalism, tribalism—and how they characterize the cultural divide that the recent U.S. election exposed. In a sector whose success depends on stakeholders coming together, how do social advocates navigate this fragmented moment? And is our national polarization as deep and intractable as we are led to believe?

Learn more about FrameWorks: www.frameworksinstitute.org

In this episode we talk with Gibrán Rivera about radical responsibility. Gibrán is a master facilitator and an extraordinary thinker. He helps guide the transformation of leaders, networks and organizations. He pays particular attention to the dynamics of power, equity and inclusion. His work focuses on getting people and organizations in touch with themselves, their passions and their purpose so they can develop the capacity needed to navigate complexity.


Learn more about Gibrán and his work here:
gibranrivera.com

In this episode of Design for Disruption, we talk to Kim Szeto, the Program Director for Public Art at the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA). We learn how the pandemic and nationwide reckoning about racial justice inspired a rethinking of NEFA's programs. This lead to the launch of Public Art for Spatial Justice and Collective Imagination for Spatial Justice, programs that fund projects that aim to build a future where everyone has the right to be, thrive, express, and connect in and across public space."