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On this episode Max Gomez talks with all the newly elected 2021-2022 Student Council members about their goals and vision for their roles. Featured on this episode are (in order of appearance): Morgan Moore and Chris Baca - President and Vice President Nico Garbacz - Logistics and Operations Coordinator Dani Ohemeng - Community Engagement Officer Noemi Agagianian - Health and Wellness Director Song - Disarm (fg. VI) Artist - AllttA, Mr. J. Mederios ©℗ 2017 On And On Records

The 33rd annual International Bazaar is right around the corner! Student Council IEM Representative Yolanda Cobblah and Associate Dean of Student Services Ashley Arrocha join Max this week to talk all about why that event has become so near and dear to MIIS, and how its spirit is being carried on in a virtual environment. To submit a photo for the photo contest, sign up to teach a dish, or perform at the open mic, check the link below for the most up-to-date info! MIIS International Bazaar Song - Disarm (fg. VI) Artist - AllttA, Mr. J. Mederios ©℗ 2017 On And On Records

This episode is all about Peace and Security... Peace Corps Club and Cyber Security that is! First, Dillon Green and Dani Ohemeng stop for a chat about their Peace Corps services, and after that Elle Zesky drops in to talk with me about her work at The Cyber Collaborative at MIIS. Song - Disarm (fg. VI) Artist - AllttA, Mr. J. Mederios ©℗ 2017 On And On Records

It's the end of the *second week of National Women's History Month, a happy belated International Women's Day from everyone here at MIIS Radio!  To commemorate the occasion we spoke with two feminist leaders whose work represent two different intersectional approaches to the advancement of gender equality. First, 2021 Visiting Tyler Fellow in Residence at MIIS Dr. Christina Kwauk took some time to talk with me about her work leveraging girls' education for a greener future in A new green learning agenda. After that, MIIS Immigrant Rights Alliance (MIRA) club leader Lameese Madi stopped by to share her personal immigration story and impress the value of cooking, storytelling, and the community they create as captured in MIRA's new event series Mira Who's Cooking. Song - Disarm (fg. VI) Artist - AllttA, Mr. J. Mederios ©℗ 2017 On And On Records

This episode of MIIS-informed is all about the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives happening on our campus. MIIS Interim Chief Diversity Officer Miguel Fernández and Student Council Vice President Lincoln Ngaboyisonga join to talk about the teams they're leading, and where their attention is focused when working to make our school an anti-racist institution. Make sure to follow MIIS Radio on Instagram @miisradio and on our MIcommunity page for updates on new episodes. For leads on any stories  to feature on MIIS-informed email Max Gomez at max@middlebury.edu. Song - Disarm (fg. VI) Artist - AllttA, Mr. J. Mederios ©℗ 2017 On And On Records

On this release of MIIS-informed we celebrate Black History Month through a discussion of black music with femi (Shades @ MIIS organizer) and Jasmine Sturdifen (WCAPS West Coast founding member) and updates about institutional advances toward diversity of the MIIS student body from Enrollment Office GA Morgan Moore. Make sure to follow MIIS Radio on Instagram @miisradio and on our MIcommunity page for updates on new episodes. For leads on any stories to feature on MIIS-informed email Max Gomez at max@middlebury.edu. Song - Disarm (fg. VI) Artist - AllttA, Mr. J. Mederios ©℗ 2017 On And On Records

Welcome to the first ever episode of MIIS-informed! A new MIIS Radio Podcast show where host Max Gomez is welcoming anyone on campus to come share their news, promote upcoming programs and events, and any other celebrations of life on campus (even when we're not actually on campus). On this first episode you'll hear from: Aiko Gonzalez (Director of Communications for Student Council), Lawrence Garber (President of the Queers and Allies at MIIS club), and Jeff Dayton-Johnson (Dean of the Institute). Song - Disarm (fg. VI) Artist - AllttA, Mr. J. Mederios ©℗ 2017 On And On Records

On today's episode, we'll be discussing when three crises walk in a bar, what happens next? You'll have to listen to the podcast to find out!  My guest, Pam Marino, staff writer at the Monterey County Weekly and I break down four articles (written by Ms. Marino) revolving the latest in affordable housing development in the city and county of Monterey, temporary housing during COVID for farmworkers and homeless populations, water availability for housing, and surprisingly strong housing market for residential real estate. The amalgamations of these housing issues fall under the umbrella of three crises: public health (COVID-19), environmental (water), and economic (also due to COVID-19).  Resources: 1. Increased Home sales during the time of Corona: https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/local_news/home-sales-are-strong-with-buyers-from-urban-areas-commercial-real-estate-is-a-mixed/article_cc7bfbe2-d1f7-11ea-902b-83f38353b375.html 2. California State plans to increase temporary housing for farmworkers & homeless:  https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/blogs/news_blog/gov-newsom-plans-increased-temporary-ag-worker-covid-19-housing-based-on-monterey-county-model/article_73771758-cdf0-11ea-bff9-37ea065e0b03.html 3. Building Affordable Housing amidst the Pandemic: https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/local_news/the-resolve-to-build-affordable-housing-redoubles-after-the-pandemic-lays-bare-the-crisis/article_fb2806ec-cc58-11ea-b866-3bd1e4b3522c.html 4. Request for Proposals from City of Monterey for Affordable Housing Development in Downtown: https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/blogs/news_blog/monterey-seeking-affordable-housing-builders-for-city-owned-properties/article_55ab7a4c-cc6b-11ea-8b52-4b3dc9c89633.html

What does it mean to be healthy in this day and age? Rafael Hernandez (MBEP Housing Associate) and I discussed this question and simply caught up on life, health, and the pursuit of more housing for our fellow farmworkers and families living in the Pajaro & Salinas Valley. From discussions on healthy relationships, finding gratitude, and discovering how the naked truth about the overcrowded housing situation for most farmworkers has led to 972 COVID-19 patients in the agriculture sector (the most represented occupation in the recently published Monterey County Health Department study).  Resources: 1. Farmworker Housing Study & Action Plan - https://www.co.monterey.ca.us/home/showdocument?id=63729&mc_cid=099efd8342&mc_eid=[UNIQID] 2. MBEP's "Addressing Farmworker Housing" - https://mbep.biz/news/adressing-farmworker-housing/?mc_cid=099efd8342&mc_eid=e081fb07a5 3. Monterey County Weekly's "Increased Temporary Ag Worker COVID-19 Housing" - https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/blogs/news_blog/gov-newsom-plans-increased-temporary-ag-worker-covid-19-housing-based-on-monterey-county-model/article_73771758-cdf0-11ea-bff9-37ea065e0b03.html

There are only so many hours in a work day. There are only so many breaks you can take before going back to the grind. For Charles Montesa, however, there are no breaks to help serve the three non-profit organizations he is working with this eventful summer 2020. Today we discussed those ventures and how Charles' vision for creating community is worth the listen.  Charles Montesa, a graduate student under the Master of Public Administration program at Middlebury Institute of International Studies and Student Housing Coalition member, discusses his learning experiences from three local non-profit organizations in California and how each organization is improving NGO coordination, increasing volunteers, and providing innovative research to the ending of global homelessness. Mr. Montesa is part of the second cohort of Housing + Innovation Research Fellowship program with New Story, a longtime contributor to Community Builders for Monterey County, and assisting Inkheart (a local Santa Cruz + Monterey County new NGO start-up) launch their start-up by the start of the new year, 2021.  Resources: 1. Community Builders for Monterey County - https://cbmc.galaxydigital.com/need/index?s=1&need_init_id=3040 2. New Story, Innovative 3D Housing Solutions - https://newstorycharity.org/innovation/ 3. New Story Applications for 3rd Cohort of Research Fellowship - https://newstorycharity.org/careers/housingresearchfellow 4. Inkheart, Services offered in Santa Cruz + Monterey Counties - https://www.inkheart.org/services.html

Today's episode is a unique opportunity at examining what it means to create social change. Starting at an individual level, Ms. Lauren Diane Howerton, a MIIS International Environmental Policy graduate, discusses the difficulty of coming out of our socio-economic comfort zones and developing pathways for compassion.  This episode is dedicated to Representative John Lewis, a true American hero and activist who did so much to create progress for so many Americans in this country. Deemed "the conscience of Congress", the brutal beating of Representative Lewis (at the time an activist for the Civil Rights Movement) in Selma, Alabama led to to swift passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Representative Lewis was one of the original freedom riders, founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and represented Georgia's 5th Congressional District since 1987.  Resources For Listeners:  1. https://www.vox.com/2020/6/17/21292046/black-people-abolish-defund-dismantle-police-george-floyd-breonna-taylor-black-lives-matter-protest - How Black People Really Feel About The Police, Explained (Systemic Overhaul on Crime Reduction & Equality) 2. https://www.amazon.com/How-Can-Help-Stories-Reflections/dp/0394729471 - How Can I Help? Book (Quote from beginning of podcast comes from here) 3. https://www.vox.com/2020/6/17/21279950/nonviolence-king-gandhi-protesters-rioters-george-floyd - Imagining the Non-Violent State, Ezra Klein 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFeoS41xe7w - James Baldwin v. William Buckley Debate (1965, Cambridge University), on "Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?" 5. https://thekingcenter.org/king-philosophy/ - Dr. King's Philosophy of Nonviolence 

"Developing Affordable Multifamily Housing in Monterey, California: An Economic Case for Building Electrification and Water Reclamation" is a recently released study produced by three International Environmental Policy graduate students at Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California and is supported by the Monterey Student Housing Coalition.  Lawrence Garber, Corbin Panturad, and Trang Trinh set out to analyze the financial feasibility and outcomes of a proposed net-zero, 100% affordable apartment complex in Monterey, California that uses a highly efficient reclaimed water system. Our podcast today discusses the multiple scenarios their study plays out... And it turns out that the high water efficiency, all-electric case makes the most financial sense with a NPV of $10, 106, 470  and IRR 15.97%. And if you don't know what that means, you should probably listen to this podcast - as we explain the gritty details and definitions as our environmental policy experts make the financial case for clean, renewable, and affordable housing solutions for Monterey and set the new standard for California's green economy.  For more information on the study, please contact one of our guest speakers @  Lawrence Garber / lgarber@middlebury.edu Corbin Panturad / cpanturad@middlebury.edu Trang Trinh / ttrinh@middlebury.edu

Understanding This Moment, is a podcast series dedicated to understanding what is happening in the U.S. and what kind of impact can we have in an individual and collective space. Thankful and big shout out to Jonathan Hill, aka Julius King, a brother and my best friend for many years, graduate from ASU, community activist, and one of Arizona's top hip hop artists.  Art Cover: Downtown Rise of The Phoenix by Jon Hill, 2020, photo-op. This podcast summer series will be documenting imperative issues happening today across the United States. The podcast series will also include articles & resources here: Julius King - Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/artist/4uOTPlCPTMeJh1nyiroO0X? H.R. 7120, The Justice in Policing Act of 2020 Bill : https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/7120  This bill is Supported by 166 Representatives & 35 Senators

Understanding This Moment, is a podcast series dedicated to understanding what is happening in the U.S. and what kind of impact can we have in an individual and collective space. Thankful and big shout out to Gabriel Bronson Sanders, a brother and close friend, graduate from MIIS and public policy analyst.  Art Cover: Midnight Golfer by E.J. Martin, 1990, mixed media collage on rag paper.  Eugene James Martin ~ An individualist artist whose art defied categorization.  This podcast summer series will be documenting imperative issues happening today across the United States. The podcast series will also include articles & resources here: 8 Can't Wait Policies Explained: https://www.vox.com/2020/6/5/21280402/8-cant-wait-explained-policing-reforms Introductory Remarks from House Judiciary Committee on The Justice in Policing Act of 2020: https://judiciary.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3005# - Supported by 166 Representatives & 35 Senators 

Understanding This Moment, is a podcast series dedicated to understanding what is happening in the U.S. and what kind of impact can we have in an individual and collective space. Thankful and big shout out to Emmy Ham for her encouraging words, as always. Art Cover: Light Blue Nursery by Alma Thomas, 1968, acrylic on canvas ". . . through my impressions of nature . . . I hoped to impart beauty, joy, love, and peace." ~ Alma Thomas  This podcast summer series will be documenting imperative issues happening today across the United States. The podcast series will also include articles & resources here: Dr. King's philosophy of Nonviolent Social Change: https://thekingcenter.org/king-philosophy/ Differences in Activists Reforms Stance: https://time.com/5848318/black-lives-matter-activists-tactics/ 8 Can't Wait Policies for City-level Police Department Reform: https://8cantwait.org/ What does "Defund the Police" really mean, according to BLM co-founder: https://www.axios.com/defund-police-black-lives-matter-7007efac-0b24-44e2-a45c-c7f180c17b2e.html Eliminating the Qualified Immunity Doctrine: https://www.wspa.com/news/washington-dc/democrats-want-to-eliminate-qualified-immunity-doctrine/

Something that you should know up front ~ This episode was recorded in late February, right before everything in the U.S. and rest of the world had blown up and changed forever our individual course in life.  Without further ado, I'm happy to announce the release of our latest podcast in the works with the tale of Madeleine Smith's life and how she came to be a MIIS graduate student as well as the ambitious wonderful woman leading MIIS Radio on the Monterey Bay Peninsula.  Maddie's new podcast Insta @madcuriouspodcast  Anchor.fm/madeleine-smith7

Hello everyone. This is Gabe Sanders, and old habits die hard. I’m podcasting again, building off what I started at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies with MIIS Radio. Welcome to my newest project, which I’m calling: The Implications. This is a podcast about public policy as well, but with this work I’m going to go bigger. I’m looking to the frontier of policy for adapting to climate change, to a growing human population, to greater awareness of the need for balancing human life with the ecosystem that sustains us. The plan is to interview professionals, academics, activists about the work they’re doing to improve the relationship among humans, the natural world, and the strange miasma we call “an economy." Whether it's renewable energy or decarbonization, creating market incentives for green technology, creating affordable housing, increasing equity of socioeconomic opportunity, or revolutionizing the food system sustaining our species I’ll be asking these people about their research, their findings, their observations and policy recommendations – and then discussing implications their work has on the future of human adaptation for survival. This new series begins with Dr. Catherine Brinkley. Dr. Brinkley is an assistant professor of Community and Regional Development at my undergraduate alma mater, the University of California at Davis. Her work centers around a concept called One Health, which considers health shared by humans, animals, and their environment. Her latest research focuses on food systems and municipal general plans and the broad question: “how do food systems reorient diets and land use?” What are the implications of Dr. Brinkley’s work? You’ll have to listen to the interview to find out, but I will say this: land use plans and food system regulation affect the placement and affordability of housing, public and environmental health, and even the distribution of economic power in society, from the smallest town to the global economy. One very salient example: the Corona Virus thought to have emerged from an illegal meat market in Wuhan, China may not have spread beyond the infected animals with better localized control of the food system. Now that I’ve whet your appetite: thank you for tuning in to this inaugural episode of the Implications. Here is my interview with Dr. Catherine Brinkley. (You can check out Dr. Brinkley's work here: https://humanecology.ucdavis.edu/catherine-brinkley)

This is the final episode of MIIS Radio. After careful consideration, this medium has served no further fruit from its considerable labor and I believe that a community’s care for each other only happens with action not merely producing podcasts that contain words.  This final episode will hold Dr. Jason Scorse as our final guest. I believe is approach to sustainability is a proactive path worth pursuing. It is this kind of rhetoric that might bolster credible, long lasting paradigm shifts of thinking that is desperately needed in Congress just as it is needed in our local communities. I hope this episode finds you well and if you know anyone who wishes to carry on this podcast group. Feel free to email me directly: angelog@miis.edu Otherwise - keep learning, growing and never stop your curiosity for trying to uplift yourself and the people around you. Thank you.  Jason's personal Apple Podcast "Dispatch from the Zombie Apocalypse": https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dispatch-from-the-zombie-apocalypse/id1196963219

In Today's episode, we will be talking with Rachel Saunders, a marvelous person and brilliant mind behind Big Sur Land Trust here in Monterey, CA. Ms. Saunders has helped spearhead the movement for the Carmel River FREE Project and knows all about the land's rich history from artichoke fields to the ownership and transference of land from the Eastwoods and now a project that seeks to restore the land to its beautiful natural habitat. If you wish to learn more about this project - feel free to visit their website at: https://bigsurlandtrust.org/carmel-river-free/

In Today's episode, we will be talking with Paul Kephart, the creative mind behind Rana Creek - The Cohabitat Co. in Carmel Valley, CA. He also happens to be my girlfriend's boss, so without further addressing any conflicts of interests... Just kidding! I'm sure they both will love this episode and the confidence it brings to each individual listener that they can work with nature and discover new ways to make Our Home a better place each day. I hope this finds you well and you'd like to learn more about how to get involved with companies like Paul's ~ Feel free to click on this link below on there new website! https://www.ranacohabitat.com/