From Chains to Change

In this Interview, Voters Organized to Educate sat down with Kelsey Foster, candidate for New Orleans City Council District C in the 2025 election. Filmed/recorded at our main office in New Orleans, LA on August 21, 2025, for a conversation with our community to discuss her candidacy and her priorities if elected. Learn more and stay up to date! Website: www. VotersOrganized.org Facebook: @VotersO...

In this Interview, Voters Organized to Educate sat down with Gregory Manning, candidate for New Orleans City Council At-Large in the 2025 election. Filmed/recorded at our main office in New Orleans, LA on August 21, 2025, for a conversation with our community to discuss his candidacy and his priorities if elected. Learn more and stay up to date! Website: www. VotersOrganized.org Facebook: @VotersO...

In this Interview, Voters Organized to Educate sat down with Delisha Boyd, candidate for New Orleans City Council At-Large in the 2025 election. Filmed/recorded at our main office in New Orleans, LA on August 19, 2025, for a conversation with our community to discuss her candidacy and her priorities if elected. Learn more and stay up to date! Website: www. VotersOrganized.org Facebook: @VotersOrga...

In this Interview, Voters Organized to Educate sat down with Matthew Willard, candidate for New Orleans City Council At-Large in the 2025 election. Filmed/recorded at our main office in New Orleans, LA on August 22, 2025, for a conversation with our community to discuss his candidacy and his priorities if elected. Learn more and stay up to date! Website: www. VotersOrganized.org Facebook: @VotersO...

In this Interview, Voters Organized to Educate sat down with JP Morrell, candidate for New Orleans City Council At-Large in the 2025 election. Filmed/recorded at our main office in New Orleans, LA on August 25, 2025, for a conversation with our community to discuss his candidacy and his priorities if elected. Learn more and stay up to date! Website: www. VotersOrganized.org Facebook: @VotersOrgani...

In this Interview, Voters Organized to Educate sat down with Eileen Carter, candidate for Mayor of New Orleans in the 2025 election. Filmed/recorded at our main office in New Orleans, LA on August 15, 2025, for a conversation with our community to discuss her candidacy and her priorities if elected. Learn more and stay up to date! Website: www. VotersOrganized.org Facebook: @VotersOrganized X: @ju...

In this Interview, Voters Organized to Educate sat down with Royce Duplessis, candidate for Mayor of New Orleans in the 2025 election. Filmed/recorded at our main office in New Orleans, LA on August 14, 2025, for a conversation with our community to discuss his candidacy and his priorities if elected. Learn more and stay up to date! Website: www. VotersOrganized.org Facebook: @VotersOrganized X: @...

In this Interview, Voters Organized to Educate sat down with Oliver Thomas, candidate for Mayor of New Orleans in the 2025 election. Filmed/recorded at our main office in New Orleans, LA on August 11, 2025, for a conversation with our community to discuss his candidacy and his priorities if elected. Learn more and stay up to date! Website: www. VotersOrganized.org Facebook: @VotersOrganized X: @ju...

In this Interview, Voters Organized to Educate sat down with Helena Moreno, candidate for Mayor of New Orleans in the 2025 election. Filmed/recorded at our main office in New Orleans, LA on August 12, 2025, for a conversation with our community to discuss her candidacy and her priorities if elected. Learn more and stay up to date! Website: www. VotersOrganized.org Facebook: @VotersOrganized X: @ju...

  In this special podcast, our deputy director and host Bruce Reilly, sits down with community leaders (Norris Henderson, Ronald Marshall, Emily Ratner, Rubia Garcia & Rev. Willie Calhoun) to discuss the attack on our children and the potentially disastrous ramifications our communities could face if the 4 amendments on the ballot for the March 29th election, get passed. Recorded at our headquarte...

 In this Interview, Voters Organized to Educate sat down with candidate for State Senate District 14, Quentin Anderson, along with our very own Policy Director Checo Yancy and Director of Political Operations Devin Davis  at our Baton Rouge office on February  4, 2025, for a conversation with our deputy director Bruce Reilly to discuss his race for state senate, to replace Cleo Fields and what pri...

 In this special episode of From Chains to Change, our very own Nziki Wiltz sits down with our deputy director Bruce Reilly to discuss the upcoming March election and the potential impacts the passage of the constitutional amendments on the ballot could mean for the future of criminal justice reform in the state of Louisiana.  

Leading up to the Dec. 7 run-off election (Early Voting has begun), our hosts speak with Baton Rouge's incumbent Mayor-President Sharon Weston-Broome, who seeks reelection against Sid Edwards, a Republican who has never held political office. Baton Rouge is Louisiana's capital city navigating issues of public safety, jail construction, rising cost of living, and shrinking number of jobs.

Nziki and Bruce talk with Nick Laborde, candidate for Public Service Commission District 2, which stretches from Baton Rouge to Lafayette. They jump in about phone rates in prisons and jails, then talk about Louisiana's sustainable energy needs where climate change and hurricanes make it the soft underbelly of America. In a world where political parties are building walls between them, the electri...

Nziki Wiltz and Bruce Reilly interview Dr. Donaldo Batiste, a former New Orleans school principal and superintendent, who is running for reelection to his Orleans Parish School Board seat in District 4. Dr. Batiste names the problems with charter school companies that have tied the hands of local control over our children's education. [Note: From Chains to Change reached out to his opponent, who h...

Here we geaux! Voters Organized interviewed congressional candidate Devin Davis about his race against incumbent Rep. Troy Carter. Join Bruce Reilly and Devin for a lively discussion on abortion rights, home insurance in the time of climate disaster, Cancer Alley, Palestine, and much more.   Recorded at Voters Organized HQ in New Orleans on October 18, 2024. 

In this interview, Bruce Reilly and Nziki Wiltz of Voters Organized meet up with Ted James, the former Louisiana legislator who is challenging incumbent Sharon Weston Broome in the Baton Rouge Mayor-President race. They talk about crime, housing, and economic development, giving listeners a chance to really see where Ted James is coming from. Recorded live at our Baton Rouge office on Tuesday Oct....

Catch the full VOTE 20 Dance Groove here on Spotify . For the 166 tracks DJ Bruha pondered before selecting the final 20, check out DJ Bruha 04-24:The Bangers . 

In this interview, Voters Organized's Bruce Reilly and Nziki Wiltz meet up with Mel Manuel, Democratic challenger to Representative Steve Scalise in Louisiana Congressional District 1. A North Shore native, Mel shares their values on equality, civil rights, immigration, and foreign policy. Mel is openly trans and nonbinary, and well-versed in the current climate of attacking LGBTQ people for polit...

In this interview, Voters Organized to Educate sat down with Jasmine Davis Spencer,  candidate for Baton Rouge Metro Council District 10. Recorded at our Baton Rouge office on October 7, 2024, Bruce Reilly and Checo Yancy talked with Ms. Spencer about her roots in the city, the Baton Rouge jail construction, her own family's experience with incarceration, and the blessing/curse of having LSU in Di...

In this special episode of From Chains to Change, our deputy director and host Bruce Reilly is joined by Dr Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, currently serving as the professor of Geography and African American & Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky to discuss her book ‘Prison Capital:   Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana’ The book explores Louisiana's rise to having...

In this special episode of From Chains to Change, our host and deputy director Bruce Reilly is  joined alongside the staff of Voice of the Experienced along with concerned members of our community to discuss the ongoing attempts by the Landry administration and the GOP in the Louisiana legislature in their ‘Special Crime Session’ to roll back critical justice reforms and progress we’ve achieved ov...

In this episode, our host sits down with two old friends to discuss their unlikely journeys. Rep. Cruz first met Bruce during a successful 2006 voting rights campaign in Rhode Island, when neither of them could exercise the fundamental right of citizenship. Today, she serves as a valued legislator on the Criminal Justice Committee after having earned two degrees from Brown University. Steve first...

In this special episode of From Chains to Change, filmed from the banks of the Mississippi River in Norco, Louisiana, our host Bruce Reilly sat down with a panel of guest including, Anne Rolfes, the Director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade and our Director of Political Operations Devin Davis to speak with Lindsey Cheek candidate for Louisiana Attorney General. We discussed her candidacy and her pr...

In this Interview, Voters Organized to Educate sat down with Tammy Savoie, candidate for Louisiana House District 23 in the 2023 election. Filmed at our main office  in New Orleans, LA on October 23, 2023, for a conversation with our deputy director Bruce Reilly to discuss her candidacy and her priorities if elected.