Austin Channing Brown | I'm Still Here
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Austin Channing Brown is a writer, speaker and media producer providing inspired leadership on racial justice. She is the author of I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (https://amzn.to/2X8qyEc) and the Executive Producer of The Next Question: A Web Series Imagining How Expansive Racial Justice Can Be (https://www.tnqshow.com/). Austin started her career in the nonprofit world, focusing on homelessness and housing, youth engagement, and church operations before blazing her own path in speaking, consulting, media and writing. As a leader, educator, and producer, Channing Brown creates programming that centers the experiences of Black women, dismantling the foundations of white supremacy, while interweaving a way forward for all who will listen. Her nationally-celebrated first season of The Next Question included a slate of incredible contributors. Alongside her co- creators, Chi Chi Okwu and Jenny Booth Potter, the hosts examine complex topics affecting social justice while simultaneously celebrating the stories, personalities, and humanity of their guests.
An added note before we dive into this powerful conversation. Our podcast episodes are often recorded weeks or months in advance, as was the case with this conversation. In the intervening time, we’ve all been horrified and devastated by the deaths of Ahmuad Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. Because of the gap between recording and air-dates, they are conspicuously absent from our conversation in a way that, I’m sure, would have different and been a part of the discourse had this conversation occurred at a later date. As I’ve shared elsewhere, silence and complacency are not options. Everything we explore in this conversation is as important and relevant as it’s ever been. We're excited to share it with you.
You can find Austin Channing Brown at:
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/austinchanning/
Website : http://austinchanning.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, my guest today, Austin Channing Brown, is a writer, speaker, producer, providing |
| 0:11.1 | inspired leadership on racial justice. |
| 0:13.9 | She's the author of, I'm still here, Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, and |
| 0:19.5 | also the executive producer of the next question, a web series imagining how expansive racial |
| 0:25.1 | justice can be. |
| 0:26.6 | And Ashley started her career in the nonprofit world, focusing on homelessness and housing, |
| 0:31.8 | youth engagement, church operations, before really blazing her own path in speaking, consulting, |
| 0:37.4 | media, and writing. |
| 0:39.4 | And as a leader, educator, producer, Austin, she really creates programming that centers |
| 0:44.4 | the experiences of Black women, dismantling the foundations of white supremacy while interweaving |
| 0:50.2 | a way forward for all who will listen. |
| 0:52.9 | Her nationally celebrated first season of the next question included this slate of incredible |
| 0:58.8 | contributors, including MacArthur Genius, Nicole Hannah Jones, New York Times bestselling |
| 1:03.7 | authors, Brené Brown and Jasmine Gildrey, social justice leaders, Rachel Cargill, Andre |
| 1:09.4 | Henry, and more. |
| 1:11.5 | And alongside with her co-creators, Chichi Oku and Jenny Potter Booth, they really examine |
| 1:16.5 | complex topics affecting social justice while also celebrating the stories, personalities, |
| 1:22.4 | and humanity of their guests. |
| 1:24.2 | As an added note before we dive into this powerful conversation, our podcast episodes are often |
| 1:30.0 | recorded weeks or even months in advance as was the case with my conversation with Austin. |
| 1:37.0 | In the intervening time, we have all been horrified and devastated by the death of Amad |
| 1:43.3 | Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd. |
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