Race, Power and Equity with Ian Solomon

Sex, Body, and Soul

Kate Roberts

Education, Relationships, Sexuality, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This show is about systemic racism in America, addressing personal biases, current affairs and some of the potential solutions for racial equity. We are joined by Ian Solomon, dean of the University of Virginia's Frank Batten School of Leadership where he leads a team dedicated to creating new knowledge, ethical and effective leaders, working on solutions for humanities greatest policy challenges. Trained as a lawyer, he went on to serve under President Obama and was the US Director of The World Bank Group.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sex, Body and Soul. I'm Kate Roberts, founder of the Body Agency, and on this show, we talk about the marvel that is our bodies, what they can do and what they need to thrive.
0:13.0	Ladies out there, our time is now. Let's get to it.
0:17.7	My next guest is the very brilliant Ian Solomon, Dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership
0:23.8	and Public Policy, the University of Virginia, where he leads a multidisciplinary faculty
0:30.3	of scholars and practitioners who are committed to creating new knowledge, developing ethical
0:35.8	and effective leaders, and advancing solutions to
0:39.1	humanity's greatest policy challenges. And there really is nobody better that I would trust
0:45.8	with this very sensitive subject, race, power, and equity. So thrilled to have him on the show.
0:56.8	Ian Solomon, welcome to the show.
1:02.6	Thank you, Kate. Wonderful to be here. It is so good to see you again. I had the pleasure of being with you recently at the university where you hosted us YGLs for a course, and we're going to get into that.
1:11.8	But before I go there, I wanted to offer my condolences at the University of Virginia, where you are the dean.
1:21.7	There was a shooting recently.
1:23.6	It's just absolutely tragic, and I feel for you and the families and everyone down there that went through that. I'm so sorry.
1:34.4	Thank you, Kate. We appreciate that support. It certainly was a tragic event down here, and for the three individuals who've lost their lives and their families, I continue to feel enormous
1:44.5	grief and sympathy.
1:46.6	What I will say is that the community is pulled together in a profound way, and one of the
1:51.3	things about moments of extreme loss is they can sometimes show you how much love there is.
1:56.5	And I think we've seen a lot of love expressed here and you know including a very special lighting of
2:01.8	the lawn ceremony last night a big tradition for virginia that was repurposed really to honor these
2:06.7	very special lives that we've lost well again i am constantly horrified and appalled by gun violence
2:16.6	and how it still is possible to even happen. So that is a whole
2:22.9	different podcast. We are here to talk about systemic racism and power. And I mentioned those two
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