Episode 100: Black Girl in Maine: Shay Stewart-Bouley on Racism, Organization, Island Life, and More

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Kate Northrup

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4.8 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest is Shay Stewart-Bouley, who was Chicago-born and raised but is now living close to us here in Maine. Shay is the Executive Director of Community Change, Inc., a civil rights organization in Boston that’s been educating and organizing for racial equality since 1968. Shay writes at Black Girl in Maine and is a TEDx speaker and writer, among so many other things. In this episode Shay shares all about what it’s like living on a small Island off the coast of Portland, how we can be active locally in fighting racial inequality, what she’s been learned on her recent sabbatical from work and she also reveals her organization and calendar systems that keep her life on track. Would you, or a company you know, be a good fit to sponsor The Kate & Mike Show? If so, let’s talk! You can email [email protected] regarding current sponsorship opportunities. Show notes and links for this episode can be found at http://www.katenorthrup.com/podcast.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Kate Northrop.
0:03.3	And I'm Mike Watts.
0:04.8	And we're partners in life, love, and business.
0:07.8	Welcome to the Kate and Mike Show, where we share insights and interviews on entrepreneurship,
0:12.3	relationships, parenting, self-actualization, and making a life not just a living.
0:21.7	Hello and welcome to the Kate and Mike show.
0:24.0	This is Kate.
0:25.0	This is Mike.
0:26.0	And today we have Shea Stewart Boulay, who is a local woman.
0:32.0	She writes at black girl in Maine.com.
0:36.0	And she also goes as BGIM for those who want to keep their typing related fingers
0:42.2	stress down, as she says.
0:44.2	She's Chicago born, Chicago raised, and she says she was forcibly relocated to Maine in 2002.
0:51.1	And as a parenthetical, she says, how else does a black woman from Chicago end up in Maine?
0:56.6	She's a graduate of both DePaul University and Antioch University in New England. And she is the
1:02.1	executive director of Community Change Inc., which is a 49-year-old civil rights organization in
1:08.3	Boston that's been educating and organizing for racial equality
1:11.5	since 1968 with a specific focus on the white problem. In 2003, she started writing for the Portland
1:20.1	Press Herald and the Journal Tribune and has her own column with the Portland Phoenix called
1:25.5	Diverse City, which for over a decade, she,
1:29.6	and actually, well, then she stopped and then started writing for them again. But anyway,
1:33.0	she uses it to share insight and commentary monthly on a variety of diversity issues ranging
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