No One is Coming to Save Us

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No One Is Coming To Save Us Season 3 (Official Trailer) Jun 08, 2023

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America’s child care system is broken and still, more than three years after the pandemic began, No One Is Coming To Save Us. That’s why Gloria Riviera is setting out this season to tour the country and meet the people who are doing the work to fix things themselves. With live and virtual events recorded in cities across America, find out how we’re going to come together and make things better. Season 3 of No One Is Coming To Save Us: coming June 22 wherever you get your podcasts.

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No One is Coming To... A City Near You Apr 25, 2023

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Join veteran reporter Gloria Riviera as she sets out across America to find out who’s working on fixing the country’s broken child care system. See the show live in Detroit, Washington, D.C., Tulsa, and more. Find all the details and learn how to get free tickets HERE. And if you can’t make it, No One Is Coming to Save Us returns with new episodes in June.

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What Will the Fight for Child Care Look Like in 2023? (with Lauren Kennedy & Sarah Muncey) Dec 29, 2022

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“The state of child care in America right now is hopeful.” While affordable, accessible, high-quality child care remains out of reach for millions of families across the country, Lauren Kennedy and Sarah Muncey, founders and co-presidents of Neighborhood Villages, see sparks of positive change in the year ahead. They talk Gloria through some of the big child care wins from the past year, explain why the Child Tax Credit was a total game-changer, and lay out why the next phase of this movement will focus on local action. Plus, Gloria shares some exciting news about No One Is Coming to Save Us Season 3!

This podcast is presented by Neighborhood Villages, and is brought to you with generous support from Imaginable Futures, Care For All Children by the David and Laura Merage Foundation, and Spring Point Partners.

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Creating Community Through Child Care (with Jamal Berry) Dec 22, 2022

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What happens when a child care center supports not only its children, but its staff, its families, and its community, too? Gloria finds out from Jamal Berry, the newly-appointed President and CEO of Educare DC, an early learning program that provides free, high-quality child care to low-income families. Jamal tells Gloria how they’re closing the achievement gap using a holistic, two-generation approach, and what is possible with good funding, passionate people at the helm, and devoted folks at all levels. Plus, Jamal gets emotional talking about the person who inspired him to pursue a career in education.

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What You Can Do to Help End Child Poverty (with David Ambroz) Dec 15, 2022

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Hundreds of thousands of young people in this country live in poverty or are homeless. Many thousands more face uncertain futures, and even abuse, while navigating (or languishing in) the foster care system. In A Place Called Home, author and child welfare advocate David Ambroz chronicles his life growing up homeless in New York City. He tells Gloria about his experience in foster care, the work he’s done to make the system safer for LGBTQ+ youth, and what action is still needed to begin solving the intersecting mental health, homelessness, and child poverty crises.

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What It Really Means to Not Have Child Care (with Sa’iyda Shabazz) Dec 08, 2022

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How do you find a job when you have no child care? How do you find an apartment with no job? How do you pull off Christmas when you’re stressed about making next month’s rent? Sa’iyda Shabazz has done it all. The writer and mother joins Gloria to tell her about how she made it all work – balancing single motherhood, unemployment, housing insecurity, and a lack of child care – in a new city far away from her support system. Plus, Sa’iyda talks about why she’s pushing back against the narrative of the so-called “Quarantine Queen,” and why we should all be focused on fighting for the much-needed social safety nets all parents deserve instead.

This episode is sponsored by Flourish Ventures. Flourish is an early-stage global venture capital firm backing mission-driven entrepreneurs and industry influencers intent on advancing financial health and prosperity for individuals and small businesses. With more than 70 global investments in leading fintech startups and ecosystem partner organizations, Flourish also works alongside industry thought leaders in content creation, research, policy and regulation to better understand the needs of the underserved and help foster a fair, more inclusive economy. For more information, visit: www.flourishventures.com.

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One Single Mom’s Child Care Journey (with Waukecha Wilkerson) Dec 01, 2022

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Gloria has a heart-to-heart conversation with Waukecha Wilkerson, a student parent advocate and single mom of three, about how her years-long struggle with child care ultimately put her on the path to earning her college degree. Waukecha talks about growing up as a gifted child in Compton, falling in with the wrong crowd, and getting pregnant in her early 20s. Her journey takes her through toxic relationships, job losses, battles with depression, and desperate searches for child care. She tells Gloria how she made it through, and how her family’s doing now. Plus, Waukecha shares the emotional story of a 20-mile walk that changed her life forever.

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The Surprising Intersection of Faith and Abortion (with Jamie Manson and Jeanné Lewis) Nov 17, 2022

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One in four people who’ve had an abortion identify as Catholic. That surprised Gloria, as most Catholic leaders are ardently against the procedure. In this episode, Gloria talks with Jamie Manson, the president of Catholics for Choice, and Jeanné Lewis, interim CEO at Faith in Public Life Action, about how abortion rights are viewed across different faiths. They also talk about what the recent midterm election revealed about abortion access, and how, with the right kind of conversation, you might be able to change someone’s mind. Even if they’re a nun.

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Do Early Educators Need College Degrees? (with Stephanie Curenton) Nov 10, 2022

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Gloria kicks off the show by unpacking the numerous abortion rights and child care wins coming out of the midterm elections. Then, she chats with Stephanie Curenton, associate professor at Boston University and the director of their Center for the Ecology of Early Childhood Development. Stephanie talks about her research on the social, cognitive, and language development of low-income and minority children and the work she’s doing to create an anti-bias, anti-racist curriculum rubric for early education centers. Plus, Gloria and Stephanie get into whether or not they think early childhood educators should be required to get an advanced degree.

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Fighting Back Against Classroom Censorship Nov 03, 2022

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Gloria gets a lesson on the nationwide effort to censor classroom discussions on racism and inequality from Morgan Craven and Ben Hodge. First, Morgan, the director of Policy, Advocacy, and Community Engagement with the Intercultural Development Research Association, debunks some of the misinformation about what is being taught in our public schools. Then, Ben, a teacher at Central York High School in Pennsylvania, tells the story of what happened at his school when an all-white school board tried to ban over 300 books written by and about people of color. Plus, Morgan shares a shocking statistic on corporal punishment in schools.

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Follow Ben on Twitter @benhodgestudios and on Instagram @bhstudios. You can follow Morgan on Twitter @MorganICraven.
Learn more about Ben’s work with the Panther Anti-Racist Union: https://pantherantiracistunion.com.
Check out this resource hub from the Intercultural Development Research Association with tools for teaching in a climate of classroom censorship: https://idraseen.org/hub/.

And don’t miss IDRA’s Knowledge is Power, a national resource for educators and advocates working towards equity and excellence in the classroom: https://www.idra.org/services/knowledge-is-power/.

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