Building Justice

The three professional theatre companies in Sacramento work hard to provide diversity in their programming but fall short from time to time. Theatres of Color, Sacramento, fills the gaps offering opportunity for performing artists to thrive artistically in our region while presenting stories not often presented to audiences of color.

Listen in as Sac State alumni Ryan McMurray, M.A., and Dr. Tonmar Johnson talk with San Francisco-based artist Christopher Burch about the need for more equitable representation in children’s literature. The three speakers are publishing an upcoming book series featuring African American protagonists through their media company, 7th Gap Media. They will further explore their journey in writing suc...

Listen in as Sac State sociology alumna Maria-Elena Pulido-Sepulveda discusses the family as an agent of political socialization and civic engagement in the context of parenthood with three recent graduates of the Sacramento Parent Leadership Institute: Crystal Harding, Fienishia Wash and Zainab During 

Creating and supporting working and learning conditions that are equitable and just are the core of social justice union organizing. Listen in as Sac State Social Sciences Librarian Melissa Cardenas-Dow discusses social justice union organizing with key members of the Sacramento chapter of CFA: Anne Luna, CFA Sacramento chapter President, Margarita Berta-Avila, Immediate Past President of CFA Sacr...

Listen in as Sac State political science professor Anna Daily talks with Sac State history professor Rebekkah Mulholland about the lives and experiences of Black trans* women, language choice, story-telling and key figures in history.

Listen in as Sacramento State sociology major Tejhasvi Jaikumar interviews political science major Michael Lee-Chang, a student intern with Students for Quality Education (SQE) at Sac State. Michael discusses his experiences with campus organizing for affordable, accessible and quality education. 

Listen in as Sacramento State sociology student Moon Martinez talks with three guests about gender disparities in incarceration, rehabilitation and re-entry services in the California state prison system.

Listen as Amreet Sandhu, a librarian and candidate for Sacramento City Council who would be representing the Sac State Campus, talks with Sac State Professor Monicka Tutschka about human rights and her work to make Sacramento a more livable city through a focus on affordable housing, investments in social infrastructure, access to information and justice, and becoming a climate resilient community...

Within the field of mathematics, there is a broad under-representation of many groups of people, especially LGBT+, people of color, undocumented people, people with disabilities, and other marginalized groups. Listen in as Sac State mathematics alumna Brianna Davis leads a group of math undergraduates through a discussion of how current students perceive this issue. The episode highlights some of...

Listen in as Sac State alumna and licensed psychologist Dr. Corrine McIntosh Sako talks with filmmaker Matthew Solomon about his documentary “Reimagining Safety.” The film features ten experts discussing how policing and incarceration create more harm than good, why the system persists, and what changes can be made to make everyone safe. A free community event on Friday, September 22 at 4pm at the...

Listen in as Sac State alumni Víctor R. Rodríguez Tafoya talks with Sac State Professor Heidy Sarabia about  gender roles, power dynamics, education, and the importance of building social and political participation  Spanish edition .

Listen in as epidemiologist, local community advocate, and mayoral candidate Dr. Flojaune Cofer (Dr. Flo) talks with Sac State Professor Monicka Tutschka about how progressive policies, when created by political elites and policy experts in collaboration with the public, are more likely to have lasting positive effects, as they work to preserve, protect, nourish and empower diverse communities acr...

Listen in as Monicka Tutschka, Building Justice Podcast Committee Chair and Professor of Political Science at Sacramento State, invites listeners and episode creators to complete a podcast feedback form. Find the form here: https://forms.office.com/r/Ta1H6wZjR6.    You are also invited to reach out to Monicka if you would like to create a podcast for Season 3 (tutschka@csus.edu).   Building Justic...

As incidents of violent police encounters in communities and on campuses have increased, so have demands for alternatives to campus policing. Reimagining campus safety is one step towards that change. Listen in as Alexa Sardina, a Sac State Professor in the Division of Criminal Justice and faculty rights co-chair of CFA’s Sacramento Chapter, speaks with Dr. Eddie Cole, a professor of Higher Educat...

Listen in as Sacramento's Democratic Socialist of America co-chair and Sac State alumna Margot Rinaldo talks with community organizer Paul Andrews about the role of mutual aid in meeting community needs when systems of governance fail to effectively serve our most vulnerable neighbors. Transcript S2e30 #mutualaid, #sacramentostate,#csus, #crisjsacstate,#stingersup, #ssis, #sacramentocounty, #point...

Listen in as Sacramento State Professors Wendi Yamashita and Tristan Josephson discuss Tristan's recently published book on trans migrants and U.S. immigration law and policy as a jumping off point into a larger conversation about doing academic research on immigration detention in the United States. How should academics be accountable to immigrant justice grassroots activists? What can academic r...

Listen in as Professors Arturo Baiocchi and Susanna Curry talk with the Executive Director of Wellspring Women's Center , Genelle Smith, to discuss how she deploys an explicit social justice perspective when working with unhoused women sleeping on the streets of Sacramento. Learn how social workers can, and should, pursue advocacy, resiliency, and human dignity in their daily practice with individ...

Listen in as 'Building Justice' podcast committee members tell you a little something about the 'Pitch your Podcast' competition.  Full details here: www.csus.edu/crisj/buildingjustice  .  We want you to participate! 

Listen in as Political Science Professor Kristina Victor talks with Political Science Graduate Student George Harris about the impact of restrictive voter ID laws, focusing on photo ID, in the past two presidential elections in the United States.

Listen in as political science major, Mai Lam, discusses with ASI Executive Vice President, Laura De la Garza Garcia, and ASI Graduate Director, Justin Hurst the need to have the diversity of faculty be reflective of the student body, and how the lack of it affects the education process for many students. They discuss their own experiences and how it is most damaging for students who come from mar...

Farmworkers are perhaps the most essential workers, responsible for providing the nation’s food supply. Yet their experience of poverty, hunger, pesticide exposure, sexual assault, and illness describes an exploited population of discardable human beings. Listen in as Dr. Ann Lopez, Executive Director of Center for Farmworker Families talks with Sac State Sociology Professor Manuel Barajas about w...

Listen in as Sac State Photography & Social Practice Professor Eliza Gregory leads Sac State students through a process of examining, critiquing, and building new antiracist narratives around photographs. What is an antiracist photo history? How can we locate or write one? How might reshaping our collective photographic histories help us reshape our society? #photography #design #photos #photo...

Listen in as three Sac State undergraduates---Zoya Altabaa, Amar F., and Vasiliy Derebenskiy---discuss the devastating earthquakes in Syria and Turkey. The earthquakes killed over 50,000 people, destroyed over 84,000 buildings, received scant Western media attention, and garnered minimal financial support from powerful states. Students also describe what we can do to support Syrian and Turkish peo...

Listen in as Sac State Sociology Professor Heidy Sarabia talks with sociology major Maria Elena Pulido-Sepulveda about Heidy's multiple research projects with transnational activists, deportees living at the U.S.-Mexico border, and undocumented and DACAmented students-- highlighting how people find and create different ways of belonging in the context of exclusion. #sacstate #stingersup  #csus #cr...

How does education transform when we center culture and other ways of knowing? Listen in as Sac State Anthropology Professor Megan Raschig talks with Desiree Rosas and Juan Gomez from the MILPA Collective about Telpochcalli, their grassroots community education program, and how it builds racial equity in this Chicanx-Indigenous context.  #MILPACollective #MILPACollective #CommunityBasedResearch #R...