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Ep 17: Valuing Indigenous Voices and Stories with Wapikoni’s Odile Joannette

Odile was the Executive Director of Wapikoni, an organization that teaches filmmaking to Indigenous Youth across Canada and around the world, for three years. Wapikoni travels to Indigenous communities with fully equipped mobile studios to empower Indigenous Youth and encourage them to find their voices…

Ep 16: Creating Inclusive Storybooks for Children with Author SJ Childs

Sara Bradford is a children’s book author, known by her pen name SJ Childs. Her storybooks help children learn about and understand the experiences of individuals with dyslexia, down syndrome, autism spectrum disorder, anxiety, physical differences, and more…

Ep 15: Listening and Learning from Latinx Stories with Joe Arredondo

Joe is a 30 something gay Latinx man in the United States on a journey exploring, educating, and highlighting Latinx, BIPOC, and marginalized leaders. He hosts a podcast called My Latinx Life, where he chats with…

Ep 14: Empowering Indigenous Youth with We Matter’s Modeste McKenzie

Modeste is a youth support worker, a proud father, and the National Policy & Grant Coordinator of We Matter. We Matter is an Indigenous youth-led organization dedicated to Indigenous youth support, hope and life promotion. Overwhelmed by the number of suicides and other issues Indigenous youth face, they wanted to create…

Ep 13: Embracing the Fullness of Asian American Identities with Dr. Ken Fong

Dr. Ken Fong started a podcast in 2015 at the suggestion of a colleague because Asian American voices were missing from the conversation. Since 2015, Ken’s weekly podcast explores the cultural, artistic, historical and spiritual aspects of Asian American Communities. In this episode, we ask Ken…

Ep 12: Championing Women in STEM with STEMAZING’s Alex Knight

Alex is the Founder of STEMAZINGltd. STEMAZING’s mission is to ignite inspiration and amplify inclusion in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths). As a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with over 15 years’ Industry experience, she has experienced the benefits of more diverse teams but also the barriers to diversity and inclusion. In this episode, we talk about…

Ep 11: Exploring Gender Equality with Equalista’s Theo Kauffeld

Theresa Kauffeld, known by her childhood nickname Theo, is the Co-founder of Equalista, the world’s first mobile learning app helping users to understand and act on gender equality. In this episode of The Xenolearn Podcast, Theo explains what gender equality is and why there is still a lot of work to do towards gender equality. Learn tips to…

Ep 10: Appreciating Afro-Canadian Communities with Ama Ouattara

Ama is a passionate photo-journalist based in Ottawa, Canada. In this episode, she comes onto the podcast to share her literary debut, “Djribo: The Little Story to Galvanize the Troops”. Djribo is a snapshot of Afro-Canadian experiences, cultures and communities, and especially, Black excellence and celebration. You’ll hear Ama entice us with…

Ep 9: Confronting Colonialism and its Consequences with We Slaves of Suriname

Rudy, Arantxa, Gilberto and Minke all participated in the Xenolearn Book Club Fundraiser for Nederland Wordt Beter. Together, we read “We Slaven van Suriname” (We Slaves of Suriname) by Anton de Kom. De Kom’s book is an account of decolonial history, and reveals the experience of the oppressed across the Caribbean and adds to our understanding of struggles against slavery, imperialism and racism…

Ep 8: Learning Antiracism and Cultural Literacy with Leroy Hibbert

Leroy is an antiracism and cultural literacy educator based in London, Ontario, Canada. He joins us on this episode of The Xenolearn Podcast to discuss his work addressing racial inequalities, challenging stereotypes, and teaching cross-cultural understanding. With compassion and kindness, Leroy explains that it is ok to recognize physical differences, including skin colour…

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