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When the System Offered No Answers, Ashley Showalter Drew Her Own
How an Oklahoma-based artist uses drawing as a recovery tool.
Dating With Intention: Seeking Love and Giving it Back to the Community
The assumption that “fun” requires alcohol still runs deep. The Sober Singles Social is a quiet pushback against that idea.
Working Models: Mutual Rise
Meet Mutual Rise, the grassroots network feeding California’s unreachable hungry.
Honoring the Work that Moves Us: Inside Aimee Stevland’s Portraits of Excellence
Artist Aimee Stevland discusses her Portraits of Excellence series, honoring Black cultural icons through art, reflection and allyship—and how disability reshaped her creative process.
Working Models: Tristesse Grief Center
How the Tristesse Grief Center in Tulsa builds community through healing.
Rootwork: A Conversation with Nathalie Standingcloud
Through her practice of cultural revival tattooing, Nathalie Standingcloud helps clients reconnect to their heritage, honoring lineages interrupted by assimilation and silence.
Civic Discourse with Citizen Tripp | Episode 2: Education for All
Civic Discourse Host Tripp Gomez is joined by a group of panelists to discuss education.
The Unreachable Hungry: Mapping the Distance Between Hunger and Help
America’s hunger crisis has a transportation issue.
Faith in the Machine: On Techno-utopianism, Mortality and the Religion of Innovation
Technology, transcendence and the fear of death.
What Is a Municipal Government? (And Why It Matters Where You Live)
Understanding the power and purpose of local government.
Working Models: Thistle Farms
How a Nashville-based justice enterprise is changing how we see and support women survivors.
Civic Discourse with Citizen Tripp | Episode 1: Ethical Consumption
Civil Discourse Host Tripp Gomez is joined by a group of panelists to discuss if its possible to consume ethically in a system built on exploitation, and if so, how.
From Representation to Ownership: A Call for Courage in Media Leadership
Equity, ownership and media power.
In Her Paintings, Grief and Grace Share the Same Breath: The Artwork of Sueey Gutierrez
Healing and heritage in Sueey Gutierrez’s work.
Parenting Through Collective Trauma: How Do We Raise Hopeful Kids in a Broken World?
How to nurture hope through chaos.
Mental Health and Company Culture: Why Support Matters at Work
Workplaces that don’t burn out people.
“How Is Anyone Doing It?”: The New Reality of Financial Anxiety in America
Money, survival and managing modern stress.
Why Can't We Talk About the Past: A Brief Essay on Cultural Amnesia and Karmic Cycles
Healing collective memory through truth.