Episodes

  • Kelvin Garvanne

    Kelvin Garvanne
    Jan 13 2022
    Kelvin Garvanne is an Emmy award-winning TV host and screenwriter. He is committed to solving food insecurity and lack of access to healthy, farm-fresh in socioeconomically challenged communities. Kelvin has experience working with the military, the government, and the community.
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Crypto, Blockchain & The Future of Campaigning

    Crypto, Blockchain & The Future of Campaigning
    Dec 31 2021
    Radical Common Sense episode #4 features a conversation about Blockchain and the Future of Campaigning. The guest, Joel Dietz, is a software genius and a scholar on the subject of “cryptoeconomics.” He is a founding member of Ethereum and a Connection Science Fellow at MIT researching decentralized networks, swarm intelligence, and smart city data architecture.
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Decriminalizing Psychedelics for Mental Health with Dr. Maysa Alavi & Diana Cantu-Reyna RN

    Decriminalizing Psychedelics for Mental Health with Dr. Maysa Alavi & Diana Cantu-Reyna RN
    Dec 22 2021
    This Radical Common Sense episode discusses Decriminalizing Mental Health: addressing the proper use of psychedelics and their potential benefits for traumatized communities and individuals. We invite two healthcare professionals that exemplify leadership during a mental health crisis.

    Dr. Maysa Alavi is a Board Certified Physician and also a researcher for MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. She received much of her training in Los Angeles between UCLA and USC and currently runs an integrative and collaborative mental health clinic in New Orleans. Diana Cantu-Reyna did her training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and has been a pediatric intensive care unit RN for over 7 years. She is the co-founder of a nonprofit, Cultivating Self, that is proactively addressing burnout with nurses and introducing them to healing methods and technologies from around the world.

    https://www.drmaysa.com/
    https://www.cultivatingself.org/
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Cryptocurrency for Civic Engagement with Andrew Berkowitz

    Cryptocurrency for Civic Engagement with Andrew Berkowitz
    Dec 18 2021
    In this episode, Asher Luzzatto sits down with Andrew Berkowitz. Andrew is the CEO at Socialstack. The two discuss Andrew's history with the Crypto space, his work with Socialstack, the campaign, and ideas about Crypto in government and civil action.

    https://www.socialstack.co/
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Affordable Housing Policy with Shane Phillips

    Affordable Housing Policy with Shane Phillips
    Dec 10 2021
    Welcome back to another Radical Common Sense conversation. Shane is a policy wizard - currently serving as the Housing Initiative Manager at UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, having taught Public Policy at USC, & Directing Public Policy with the Central City Association of LA. Shane has a terrific book called The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping it There)” that is published by Island Press. I recommend it if you care about homelessness or know someone or an organization that does.

    Enjoy the constructive conversation between Shane and Asher as we explore building common ground around housing for everyone.

    https://islandpress.org/books/affordable-city
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    1 hr and 28 mins