Suzanne LaGrande

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Between The Covers, Writers on Craft, The Digital Divide

Host, Writer, Producer of The Imaginary Possible

Suzanne LaGrande is a writer, storyteller and artist. Other shows she's produced for Kboo include Radiozine, Between the Covers. We're All in This Together, But We're Not in the Same Boat,( Perspectives on the pandemic) Start Up City ( How the tech boom changed Portland) and Writers on Craft ( Explorations about the creative process)
Her podcasts include Disobedient Femmes, and the Shaman's Notebook. Visit her www.suzannelagrande.com or www.theimaginariuamai.com

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Suzanne LaGrande

Up and Over + StreetBooks: grassroots groups helping vulnerable people today

Airs at: Wed, 12/12/2018 at 9:30am - 10:00am

Produced for: The RadioActivist

Today on The Radio Activist, at 9am hosts Suzanne LaGrande and Lisa Loving interview youth educator and mental health advocate Javonnie Shearn about her current winter coat drive for teenagers, her work on the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and as vice chair of t... Read more

Nasty Women Get Shit Done

Airs at: Wed, 11/28/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: The RadioActivist

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Nasty Women Get Shit Done PDX (NWGSD) emerged in Portland, Oregon in response to the 2016 presidential election results when friends gathered together to brainstorm ways to help their community and to actively resist the xenophobia, racism, misogyny, ableism, anti-LGBTQ,... Read more

Laurel Airica, Word Magic

Airs at: Wed, 11/21/2018 at 9:30am - 10:00am

Produced for: The RadioActivist

Do the words we use shape how we think? Can changing our words change our way of perceiving and creating the world. Today on The Radio Activist, Suzanne LaGrande interviews Laurel Airica. She is creator of WordMagicGlobal, a mind-bending, paradigm-shifting re-introductio... Read more

Poet, Organizer & Publisher Christopher Luna

Airs at: Wed, 11/21/2018 at 9:00am - 9:30am

Produced for: The RadioActivist

Today on the Radio Activist, Christopher Luna speaks with Suzanne LaGrande about poetry and building communities through art-making. Christopher Luna is a poet, publisher, visual artist, writing coach, teacher, and editor, and the first Poet Laureate of Clark County fro... Read more

Homeowners against the SW Capital Highway Expansion Project

Airs at: Wed, 11/14/2018 at 9:30am - 10:00am

Produced for: The RadioActivist

Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) is planning to create sidewalks and bike lanes along both sides of SW Capitol Highway, with construction slated to start in spring of 2019. This would mean eliminating 306 trees and creating 12 foot retaining walls. Andrea Firpo, ... Read more

WomenFirst Transition & Referral Center

Airs at: Wed, 10/31/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: The RadioActivist

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Founder and president Shannon Olive chats with host Lisa Loving about why women who are exiting the prison system and coming home to their families and communities are at the heart of this new program. Click here to find out more about their work. Photo: WomenFirst Tr... Read more

Writing for Animals

Airs at: Thu, 10/04/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

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Essays to inspire animal-themed creative writing... Despite all we know about the sentience of animals, society tends to view and treat nonhuman animals as lesser creatures. And for society to change its views, writers must change their views. We must look closely at h... Read more