Collective Power Podcast

In this episode we hear from a birth parent who lost one of her children to foster care how daunting the experience with DHS was an how, the more she advocated for her child's needs, the worse the experience became. Our guest, Lawanda, is a single mother of three. "I'm college educated and hard working. I'm a survivor of DHS. My story is a little different, you see DHS wasn&apo...

In this episode Our guest, Damon K. Jones, a corrections officer,  and leader in Blacks in Law Enforcement organization offers insights on how racism plays our inside and outside law enforcement. He also highlights how extended community policing from the 70s was co-opted and maps a way to create systems of accountability at different systemic levels by promoting legislation at the local, state, a...

In this episode, we look at how local and state political systems have been contributing to perpetuating colonialism for centuries. Our guest, Alicia Dorsey is a family community advocate. She aims to empower voters by ending various forms of voter manipulation. She also educates the disenfranchised so they can register as independent and not be tied to any political party. With the PA coalition,...

Our guests come back to discuss the political system. Our guests Alicia Dorsey, activist, and Raphael Freeman, political scientist, come back and discuss how enslavement shaped our political systems, how capitalism shapes our individualism, and how COVID-19 is exposing the limits of all of it. They also chart a way for us to leverage our Collective Power to shift our political systems. Community i...

In this episode, we explore with an expert of violence intervention and police-community relationships how our law enforcement systems need to name they were founded in enslavement and historical trauma, and we need to install sensors that help us identify systemic racism and injustice, so we can transform our systems towards peace.  Our guest, Fatimah Loren Muhammad is the Executive Director of t...

On this show, we have the chance to follow the personal journey of a person from homelessness to activist against homelessness. Our guest, Ms. Ericka L Stewart is a native Philadelphian and currently is a resident of Mt. Airy. She is employed by the Philadelphia City Council – Office of Councilmember Kendra Brooks.   With her 15+ years of experience in the Human Services field, she has devoted and...

In this episode, we explore the connections between art, education, and housing systems. Our guest is Supreme Dow calls for a cultural revolution. Supreme Divine-Dow is the founder, curator and executive director of the Black Writers Museum, and has served in this capacity as a full time volunteer for over a decade. Supreme Dow is running for PA State Representative for the 198th district in our u...

In this episode our guests engage on the events of policy brutality in Minneapolis, MN with the killing of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in Louisville. Our guests are Supreme Divine Dow--founder of the Black Writer's Museum who is running for State representative, Ericka Stewart--Housing Activist, Iqbal Khaiy--city planner, Dr. Sam Tsemberis--psychiatrist and founder of Housing First. We al...

This week a a city planner helps us navigate the local systems behind housing and how neighborhoods are planned and how they shift. Iqbal Khaiy, a consultant and author in urban planning and wellness, she helps us navigate the difference between affordable housing and public housing and what communities can do to have a say in how their communities shift next. As a native of Youssoufia, Morocco Iq...

In this episode, we learn about the Housing First program, one that houses people in recovery from addiction and mental health first, then supports them, instead of using housing as a reward for them to achieve. We learn how most programs just "cream" participants, meaning they choose the easiest to provide help to. Housing First, instead, as a program has an 80-90% success rate across t...

In this episode, we walk about personal life experiences and how our health systems shapes those experiences. Our guest, Dr. Sonia Rosen, recently had a foot injury. She’ll speak to us about her experience and how it connects to her prior understanding of health systems and inequality. Dr. Sonia M. Rosen is the Director of Inquiry and Reflective Practice as Upenn since 2019. Dr. Rosen draws from e...

In this episode, we walk explore the interactions of political and historical systems in shaping our health systems. Our guest, Dr. Jill Humphries is a public health expert and scholar activist who is committed to the principles of democratic education with over 30-plus years of engagement in educational & social justice work pertaining to Africa and the Black Diaspora. She is also a multi-dis...

In this episode, we bring back this month's guests, and weave together the about the medical field, our politics, and our health systems. Our guests Dr. Sonia Rosen (Doctor in Education), Dr. Jill Humphries (Dr. in Public Health), Dr. Nancy Oriol (Doctor of medicine) share their personal experiences and help us navigate the protest landscape of COVID-19. The three Drs also make recommendation...

In this episode from Cuba to the USA, we look at the values that underlie all our political systems. Our guest, Raphael Freeman, is a political scientist. "Everything I do revolves around a core belief: that everyone has something to offer; everyone has a unique gift to offer the world that no one else can. My mission is to help remove the barriers to human thriving and human connection and e...

In this episode, we look at Health Systems through the lens of a physician and innovative ways doctors have approached health inequity. We also learn about how to start mobile clinics in specific places. Our guest, Nancy E. Oriol, M.D. is Faculty Associate Dean for Community Engagement in Medical Education at Harvard Medical School (HMS). For 19 years, she was Dean for Students at HMS and prior to...

Systems healing can help bring forth the world we’re out to create. Our guest Katie Boone, is a consultant and strategist, with a wealth of experience in the non-profit world as a cross-sector experts, who was also a teenage mom served by systems-herself. She is also the co-founders of Home for Good Coalition, a translocal, national coalition meant to transform trauma System-wide. We explore defin...

Our guests explore barriers to healing and the ways in which the healing steps of courage, trust, and asking for what we need impact personal, familial, organizational, community, and systems healing. What’s possible now? Three of this month's guests: Quanita Roberson, Fatima Hafiz, and Katie Boone, come back and share their ideas about levels of healing.   Support the show To recomend a gues...

In this episode we connect journeys of personal, family, and racial healing, with systems or oppression that constrain us, and the world that is yearning to be born. Our guest, Quanita Roberson, is an organizational development professional, a shaman, and a force for racial reconciliation. With a wealth of experience with the non-profit work and community grief-work she shares her experiences. We...

Dr. Fierro the systems approach as a tool for understanding  the collective power we have to transform racism and systemic oppression.  Support the show To recomend a guest contact us at: media@FierroConsultingllc.com To support Collective Power join our Patreon

In this episode we connect journeys of personal, family, racial, and community healing, with systems or oppression that constrain us and our communities, and what we can do next. Our guest, Dr. Fatama Hafiz, is an consultant, an educator, master facilitator, and community activist, with a wealth of experience in community healing and anti-violence work. We navigate the differences between conversa...

In this episode, the first in our healing fractals series, Yvonne DeVastey is our guest: a Reiki Master teacher with a wealth of experience in the mental health field as a family therapist and administrator. We explore definitions of health and healing, misconceptions of healing, and how healing journeys impact changes of direction in our personal lives. We connect journeys of personal healing, wi...