This episode features Dr. Banafsheh Madaninejad. Dr. Madaninejad is an anti-racism and gender educator and equity strategist. She has founded Sisters in Leadership Training (https://www.sistersinleadershiptraining.com) and I-AMM (https://i-amm.org/) an anti-racist organization dedicated to Interconnecting Arabs, Muslims and Middle Easterners. Here, she talks about her experience of coming to the US for college, coding for NASA, switching fields from STEM to humanities, leaving academia, and of course about her podcasts The Defining Moment & Red Peace Machine (https://i-amm.org/tdm-podcast). Last but not least, we turn to her organization I-AMM and the work it does.