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Activist Leah Thomas created a platform to address the ways environmentalism impacts not only the planet, but the people on it, too. She calls the platform Intersectional Environmentalism. In this episode, Leah lays out how environmental issues affect different communities uniquely and how intersectional environmentalism addresses these differences

Danielle Coke uses art to educate and inspire her Instagram followers about anti-racism and allyship. In the first half of this episode, Dani guides us through five steps to allyship during a crisis, and in the second half Dani shares how we can maintain hope, despite how “bad” the year has been.

Katherine Gehl says reforming our voting system is the solution to political division and gridlock. Our current political system makes polarization and incivility commonplace and compromise nearly impossible, but ranked choice voting promises to make efficient cooperation possible.

Laura Wittig co-founded Brightly — an online community and content platform that puts the environment first — to help consumers shop well for themselves and the earth. In this episode, Laura talks about how anyone can make gradual steps towards becoming more sustainable in a way that works for them.

After getting out of prison, Jason Wang committed to helping ex-felons get jobs, end generational poverty, and re-enter society. FreeWorld is an organization working to end generational poverty and the chance of offenders reoffending.