Homegrown Solutions: Sustainability in Crisis is a deep dive into highlighting community members and initiatives as they adapt to a global pandemic. This podcast is a Kheprw storytelling initiative led by youth leaders from our community. These interviews took place between April and July, amidst a viral pandemic and unyielding civil unrest.
Alkhemy: Financing Community Wealth (Pt. 2)
Welcome to Homegrown Solutions: Building Community Wealth, a Kheprw podcast about how local agents of change are creating community wealth and building the new in their own neighborhoods. In this dual episode, Asli Mwaafrika, Youth Storyteller and Community Activist, spoke with Pambana Uishi, one of Kheprw's co-founders, and Nicholas Johnson, a veteran economic advisor, about Kheprw's adventure into the financial sector to provide financial capital to community wealth builders: the Kheprw Impact Fund. Tune in. Take a listen.
guests
Asli mwaafrika (host)
Pambana Uishi
Nicholas Johnson
Alkhemy: Transforming Community Wealth
guests
Asli Mwaafrika (host)
mariah ivey
Growing Community Wealth
Welcome to Homegrown Solutions: Building Community Wealth, a Kheprw podcast about how local agents of change are creating community wealth and building the new in their own neighborhoods. This episode's host Asli Mwaafrika, Youth Storyteller and Community Activist, spoke with La'Kiyah Muhammad, the coordinator of Growing Good in the Hood, A Kheprw initiative to provide learning opportunities for community to grow food in their own neighborhoods. Tune in. Take a listen.
guests
Asli Mwaafrika (host)
La'Kiyah Muhammad
Democratizing Our Data
guests
Chioh Mwaafrika (host)
Rasul Palmer
Homegrown Solutions: community controlled food
This episode, Youth Leader Keenan Rhodes spoke with Growing Good in the Hood Coordinator La’Kiyah Muhammad on the importance of community resiliency and communities controlling their own food systems. Take a listen.
guests
La'Kiyah Muhammad
Keenan Rhodes (Host)
Homegrown Solutions: covid-19 and A CONSCIOUS COMMUNITY
This episode, Kheprw Youth Leader and Climate Activist Asli Mwaafrika interviewed her father, Community Educator Kahlil Mwaafrika on the impacts of the COVID pandemic on education and the power of community reliance and sustainability.
guests
khalil Mwaafrika
Asli mwaafrika (host)
Homegrown Solutions: covid-19 and the adapting artist
This episode, Kheprw Youth Leader and Data Team Member Chioh Mwaafrika interviewed his brother, artist and actor Chinyelu Mwaafrika about how artists are adapting to the challenges of the pandemic.
guests
chiNYELU Mwaafrika
chioh mwaafrika (host)
Homegrown Solutions: State violence: a historic precedent
This episode, Youth Leader Keenan Rhodes spoke with Kheprw co-founders Imhotep Adisa and Paulette Fair on the local and national history of white supremacy an police brutality tied to this summer’s heightened moment of civil unrest. Take a listen.
guests
imhotep adisa
paulette fair
keenan rhodes (host)
Homegrown Solutions: youth activism in 2020
This episode, Kheprw Youth Leader and Climate Activist Asli Mwaafrika interviewed Climate Justice Alliance Digital Organizing Fellow Kristen Jere from LVEJO about youth activism in Chicago in the midst of a pandemic. Take a listen.
guests
kristen jere
asli mwaafrika (host)
Homegrown Solutions: building for liberation
This episode, Kheprw Youth Leader and Climate Activist Asli Mwaafrika interviewed Black Lives Matter career activist Leah Humphrey on organizing for liberation from white supremacy and police brutality.
guests
leah humphrey
asli mwaafrika (host)
Homegrown Solutions: harnessing creative energy
This episode, Kheprw Youth Leader and Data Team Member Chioh Mwaafrika interviewed renowned author and storyteller Maurice Broaddus about harnessing creative energy in times of unrest and the power of storytelling to have impact.
guests
maurice broaddus
chioh mwaafrika (host)
Homegrown Solutions: transformative art
This episode, This episode, Kheprw Youth Leader and Climate Activist Asli Mwaafrika interviewed poet Manon Voice on the power of using art to transform community. Take a listen.
guests
manon voice