Hey, here's a little something different that we normally don't do. We want to share an

episode of a podcast called Real Good. It's a show that started last year at the beginning of

COVID to highlight nonprofits during work on the ground to help with the pandemic. But the big

message of that season was that most of the problems people are facing in COVID weren't new when

it hit. Their intersectional problems concerning race, class, gender, and a lot more. So COVID

just exposed what was already there. The second season is out now and it's broadening out to focus

on the people fighting the systemic issues COVID highlighted. You're about to hear an episode of

the podcast about housing inequality with the first ever global diversity and inclusion officer

at Habitat for Humanity. If you like what you hear, you can listen and subscribe to Real Good wherever

you get your podcast. This is Real Good by US Bank, a podcast about helpers.

Housing is a vaccine. Housing has one of the greatest impacts on health outcomes than any other

intersection because we have a safe place where sheltered from the storm, right? So in the midst of

COVID, the work that we're doing and the need for the work that we're doing has become even more

amplified. I'm Faith Staley. This show was born out of the coronavirus crisis. In our efforts to

understand where work needed to be done to help communities in need during the pandemic, we learned

that the issues they were struggling with didn't crop up during COVID. They're long standing

concerns with roots in racial disparity, socioeconomic opportunity gaps and so much more.

We're here to give you a chance to meet those who are fighting against inequality. They're people

who span a wide range of fields and enact very different missions, but one thing remains the same

for everyone you're going to meet. They're helpers. They're doing Real Good.

This week, our guest is Natasha Reed Rice, the first ever global diversity equity and inclusion

officer at Habitat for Humanity. It almost goes without saying, but housing plays an incredibly

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