The Iris

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Welcome to The Iris, where we shed light on the changemaker community! Just like the iris controls the size of your pupil and defines your eye color, our podcast is here to illuminate the remarkable stories of diverse individuals reshaping their communities through actions big and small. Through engaging interviews and thought-provoking discussions, we'll inspire and challenge you to become a “little eye" for change broadening your perspective on the world, one episode at a time.

  1. 02/05/2024

    EP 16 - Meet Nelson Tavarez

    Nelson is a Providence based writer, originally from the Bronx, NY. He is a spoken word artist and a storyteller. Nelson uses humor and honesty to explore topics such as mental health, addiction and self love. He believes that through ART we can heal and become the best versions of ourselves. Also known as Nellenel, Nelson enjoys yelling at slow drivers in the left lane. He loves lasagna and hates Connecticut.

    23 min

  2. 01/22/2024

    EP 15 - Meet Spencer Davis

    As a recent college graduate in the field of software engineering, Spencer is eager to help build technology that meets the huge challenges our species faces today. He has made a few attempts at starting decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) to address these challenges. Though they haven’t been successful, they have put him into contact with some interesting people with similar drive and goals. Website: citizensunited.global IG: instagram.com/spennyd123

    28 min

  3. 01/08/2024

    EP 14 - Meet Joanna Smith

    Joanna Smith is an award winning Geotechnical Engineer and the founder of Daley Smith STEM, an organization on a mission to expose 500,000 K-12 students to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics through music, robotics and coding, and rollerskating. Daley Smith STEM offers a range of STEM courses that sets it apart as a trailblazer in STEM through it's unique hands on application of STEM in the world around us. Daley Smith STEM has impacted the lives of over 2000 students globally and their reach has spanned, The Bronx, Brooklyn, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Trinidad and Tobago. When asked what students want to be when they grow up, even 4 year olds want to be engineers upon completion of their first STEM workshop. By increasing diversity in STEM at a young age, we can change the statistics to launch let students into lucrative careers where they see themselves as the next Doctor, Surgeon, Engineer, and so much more. Stay tuned for the First ever Hands on STeM Museum Conference, coming soon on January 15, 2024, in Yonkers, NY. For more information to know how you can get started you can find us at Daleysmithinc.com

    28 min

  4. 10/02/2023

    EP 13 - Meet Jill Sternberg

    Jill Sternberg is a Restorative Justice Resource and Support Person for Creative Response to Conflict, working in New York City High Schools. She also works as a Restorative Justice Advocate for Cluster. During the first years of the COVID19 Pandemic, her focus was organizing locally. With a group of Restorative Justice (RJ) practitioners and advocates, she started Restorative Justice Westchester. The network is advancing RJ in Westchester County. She is on the Board of Directors, and treasurer of the Restorative Justice Initiative in New York City.Jill comes to restorative justice with a deep commitment to ending racism, a major cause of the violence permeating US society and culture. Before focusing on justice in education, Jill spent more than ten years living in and working in solidarity with the people of Timor-Leste in their struggle for justice and accountability for Gross Violations of Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity that Indonesia committed during their 24-year occupation of the country.Jill has been working on peace and justice issues for more 40 years, focused on nonviolent organizing. She has supported nonviolent movements in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and Latin America, with an emphasis on nonviolent intervention in conflict situations, from a power analysis perspective and with a focus on women’s rights. She supports peoples’ empowerment to develop concrete positive ways to address the causes of violence and war, emphasizing support for and leadership of local actors working for peace and justice.Jill finds working through conflict and confronting oppression with restorative justice tools moves peace work into a healing framework for both survivors and perpetrators of injustice and gives deeper insights into liberation. https://www.mlkwestchester.org/what-we-do-1

    37 min

  5. 09/18/2023

    EP 12 - Meet Marina Martinez-Bateman

    Marina Martinez-Bateman is serial entrepreneur and a grassroots communicator with more than 20 years’ experience motivating people to take action on behalf of political, cultural, and commercial interests. They are currently the CEO of New Coyote Consulting, a people-first equity and communications consulting firm serving BIPOC-led organizations and marginalized leaders coming into their power. More From Marina: Company Website: https://newcoyote.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marinaisgo/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@marinar0se LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marina-martinez-bateman/

    37 min

  6. 09/04/2023

    EP 11 - Meet Dr. Naketa Ren Thigpen

    About Naketa Naketa Ren Thigpen is on a mission to build stronger families that L.E.A.V.E new multi-generational imprints, witnessed from the ripples of love, empathy, adventure, victory, and edification they create from their self-actualized wholeness. Naketa is the #1 Balance (and) Relationship Advisor in the World, activating power couples and potent humans who privately identify with witty tongue-in-cheek humor as lazy overachievers. Although most of her clients are founders, entrepreneurs, or entrepreneurial centered organizations, the commonality is that they all honor the need to rest and recharge with room for relationship bliss just as much as the desire to dominate audacious milestones. The intersection of work life balance, sustainable business, mental health, and fulfilling relationships is where Naketa thrives at work and in real life. She’s marking her legacy of unbound brilliance, beauty, and balance with unapologetic insights on owning the right to be intentionally selfish by leveraging micro sabbaticals that empower you to work less and trust more. After a successful career helping families push through trials caused by trauma, lost confidence, and communication challenges impacting intimacy within their relationships, Naketa broke barriers and glass ceilings when she decided to break-free from outdated expectations and binding patriarchal definitions that limit expansive growth. Double Board Certified & formerly trained as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Naketa architected her core professional skill set as a Psychotherapist, Trauma Specialist, Sexology and Relationship expert with strategically infused tenets of metaphysics, consulting, and coaching to set a new bar, creating ripples inside the personal development industry. Utilizing her distinct experiential, intuitive and highly energetic style, Naketa is the host of the Balance Boldly Podcast, The Lazy Overachiever Show, & International Best Selling Author of the book Selfish: Permission to Pause, Live, Love, and Laugh Your Way to Joy. A highly sought after Transformative Empowerment Speaker and CEO of ThigPro Balance (and) Relationship Management Institute, this brilliant beauty has revolutionized how to create a thriving sustainable business while balancing work/life (and LOVE). To connect with Naketa visit: www.thigpro.com www.linkedin.com/in/naketathigpen www.youtube.com/@asknaketa www.instagram.com/asknaketa www.twitter.com/asknaketa

    36 min

  7. 08/07/2023

    EP 10 - Matthew Kaufman

    Matthew is a somewhat self-aware white boy who finds the world he lives in to be generally unbearable. In a desperate attempt to do anything to change it, Matthew gave up any hope of living the American Dream by getting his Masters in Social Work so that he might discover a way to shift the trajectory of the systems and consumptionist culture that shepherds humanity to its inherent doom. Matthew’s current struggle for change focuses on juvenile justice reform in Westchester with a dream of ending the incarceration of young people. He is employed at CLUSTER Mediation working to develop and implement a restorative, youth centered intervention with Yonkers Family Court to support court involved young people when they walk through the door. During his spare time, when Matthew is able to shift his focus from the enflamed world, he likes to spend time with his partner and friends, and use his hands to create things that come to mind.

    33 min

  8. 07/24/2023

    EP 09 - Meet Roberto Fernandez III

    Roberto Fernandez III, is an award winning social studies teacher from Broward County Public Schools where he has worked for the past 18 years. He is also Historian in Residence at History Fort Lauderdale and an adjunct Lecturer of History at Florida International University. He earned his Master’s degree in African Diaspora Studies from Florida International University.

    39 min
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About

Welcome to The Iris, where we shed light on the changemaker community! Just like the iris controls the size of your pupil and defines your eye color, our podcast is here to illuminate the remarkable stories of diverse individuals reshaping their communities through actions big and small. Through engaging interviews and thought-provoking discussions, we'll inspire and challenge you to become a “little eye" for change broadening your perspective on the world, one episode at a time.

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  • Creator
    Danni Pose Studios
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    17
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Danni Pose Studios
  • Show Website
    The Iris