Social Changemakers

In this episode RISER Josh Lloyd interviews Erin Knight from open media. Erin is a Digital Rights Campaigner at OpenMedia. Josh chats with Erin about the "Right to Repair" movement. The Right to Repair movement fights for a guarantee of the right of users to maintain and repair the electronic equipment we buy.

In this episode, a group of semester 1 RISERS discuss their current projects and give us some updates. Join Ella, Francesco, Reynah, Jenna and Kirsten as they give us some insight to their awesome projects. Rebecca sits down and asks them some questions to further dive into their passion projects.

Starting a new passion project in Civics and Careers, Zenya is learning about the importance of combining science and art to make scientific art. In this episode, Zenya interviews Elizabeth Mills, a marine biologist in Scotland and Youtuber under the name MarineMumbles. Discussions are about her PhD work that combines marine biology and engineering, what scientific art is and how she uses it in wi...

In this episode Beatrix interview Emily Sinkinson, author of the book Not Too Long Ago. The girls and Rebecca talk about the book, why Emily decided to write it and the importance of listening to Indigenous voices.

In this first episode of the 10-1 podcast Leila and Callie get to interview a mentor of theirs. They both met Rebecca Leslie last hockey season when she came out to help with their hockey team. Rebecca is a fantastic hockey player who has played for the Lady Sens, Boston University and who currently plays for Montreal in the Professional Women's Hockey Player Association. Hear what she has to say...

Meet Leila and Callie, two RISERS who want to know why, as hockey players, they will never have the opportunity to make millions. Join their journey on their 10-1 podcast where they interview amazing women to talk about this issue.

In this episode Michelle interviews Cheryl Randall to learn more about Ecology Ottawa, what they do and how she and others can help.

In this episode Rebecca interviews Haneen. Haneen is currently taking the Social Enterprise course and has decided she would like to create a podcast where she can share her stories as a newcomer to Canada. She hopes to share her successes and failures so that others can learn from her experiences. In this first episode she talks about her first couple of weeks in school and how she experienced cu...

In this episode Tristan interviews Hannah Belton who is a teen advocate for DIFD. Hannah shares her experience by being on a panel with DIFD this past spring.

In this episode Tristan interviews former social change maker Madison Hawken. Maddie shares her view on mental health and what her and her friends did to support DIFD when she was in high school.

In this episode we interview Nicole, Executive Director of Safe Dinking Water Foundation. We learn a ton about drinking water sources, treatment and why Canada's First Nations people do not have clean and safe drinking water.

In this episode Abbey and Fatuma have a conversation about Fatuma's home country Eritrea. Fatuma is passionate about making people aware of what is happening in her home country as she believes that there is not a whole lot of coverage on the situation here in Canada. She is very brave and shares her story about coming to Canada.

In this final episode for the quadmester Aurora dives deeper into her passion project about social media as she interviews Dr. Jennifer Mariasine, Psychoeducational consultant who works for the Learning Support Services Team at the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board. Her role encompasses both the assessment and counselor role at the school level. Aurora and Jennifer discuss social media and its...

In this episode we hear Mohammad's and Kyla's thoughts on their projects, the school system and how important it is to dismantle hierarchy between adults and youth.

In this episode Gracie interviews Mary Johnston the co-director of the Nepean Days for Girls chapter. We learn about period poverty and how days for girls helps those in need of menstruation kits and education around the world.

In this episode, Rebecca interviews Mohammad, Gracie, Jack and Adam to hear about their experience in the Open Passion Project model of learning. In it we learn about their projects and how in this model the student really gets to take the lead. If you have ever wondered what it would be like to try giving your students more ownership over their learning, then give this a listen and hear first han...

It is quadmester 4 and time to reflect. Listen to what Mohammad, Colter and Kyla have been up to for the last 5 weeks.

In this episode Jack, who is taking grade 11 English hosts his first book club. This quad Jack chose to read Willie, an autobiography of Willie O'Ree, the first black hockey player in the NHL. In this book club is Bob Dawson, the first black hockey player at St. Mary's University in 1967, Kate Treacy, teacher, hockey coach and granddaughter of Red Sullivan and Jack's aunt and Rebecca. If you are i...

In this first episode on season 5 Aurora is back for another quadmester. This quad she is taking the Intro to Anthro, Psych and Soc course. Her passion project is to learn as much as possible about what Social Media and the internet is doing to human behaviour. In this interview she chats with Byron Holland, President and CEO of CIRA, Canadian Internet Registration Authority. If you would like to...

In this episode of the Slacktivism podcast Gracie and Owen's substitute Sadie interview Troy and Jonny from The Hockey Guys. The Hockey Guys are a group of young men that play hockey at the University Of Wisconsin - Superior. The Hockey Guys Tik Tok was started as just something fun to do with a bunch of buddies - give it a follow, it is entertaining, cute and very PG. What this group of 10 guys d...

In this episode Gracie and Owen interview Colum and Jack from Modern Action. Modern Action was founded in Pittsburgh, by Colum and Jack who were looking to make online activism more effective. They work with not for profit organizations to create email campaigns and send them messages about the issues that they care about to their own elective officials. Learn more about them here https://about.mo...

In their third episode of the Slacktivism Podcast Gracie and Owen interview Padme, Amina and Anja and learn about the amazing work that they are doing at Glebe Collegiate Institute. We learn about how this organization got started and how youth are creating local driven projects to fundraise and support their school community. So button up and listen in.

In their second episode of the Slacktivism podcast, Gracie and Owen interview Fiona Milligan. Fiona is no stranger to being called lazy, she was born with dyslexia and has been very misunderstood throughout her whole life. However, she did not let that get her down, instead of seeing the negatives Fiona has learned to celebrate her differences and has started a business called Downright Dyslexic....

In this first episode hosts Owen and Gracie interview one of Owen's long time friends Gabe Ferron-Bouis. As a baby, Gabe was diagnosed with fibular hemimelia, the shortening or absence of a fibula at birth. It is a rare condition that didn’t allow his foot and ankle to form properly. At nine months old, Gabe had his foot removed, his heel pad attached to his tibia and was fitted for a prosthetic l...

In this final episode for season 4 Rebecca chats with Owen and Gracie to discuss their thoughts on the last 7 months. We learn about how they have both grown, as well as some of their challenges. Congratulations Owen on being the "Ultimate RISER".