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Tranquility du Jour

Tranquility du Jour #451: Racial Justice, Diversity + Inclusion

Tranquility du Jour

Kimberly Wilson

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.6 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this week's edition of Tranquility du Jour, I chat with Latoya Peterson about racial justice, diversity, and inclusion.

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Guest

A certified media junkie, Latoya Peterson provides a hip-hop feminist and anti-racist view on pop culture with a special focus on video games, film, television, and music.
 
One of Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30 rising stars in media for 2013, she is best known for the award winning blog Racialicious.com- the intersection of race and pop culture. She is currently the Deputy Editor, Digital Innovation for ESPN's The Undefeated. Previously, she was an Editor-at-Large at Fusion, the Senior Digital Producer for The Stream, a social media driven news show on Al Jazeera America and a John S. Knight Journalism 2012-2013 Fellow at Stanford University focusing on mobile technology and digital access. She produced a YouTube series on Girl Gamers and is currently working on virtual and augmented reality projects.
 
Her work has been published in ESPN Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Essence, Spin, Vibe, Marie Claire, The American Prospect, the Guardian and many other outlets. She was a contributor to Jezebel.com. Her essay, "The Not Rape Epidemic" was published in the anthology Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape (Seal Press, 2008). She also contributed "The Feminist Existential Crisis (Dark Children Remix)" to the anthology Feminism for Real: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism (CCPA, 2011).
 
As a digital media consultant, Latoya Peterson has worked with brands like NPR, Wikipedia, and Weber-Shandwick to provide demographic analysis, ideas on improving user experience, and specialized outreach. She was also a guest host for WEAA's Michael Eric Dyson Show and a contributor/substitute digital producer for Al-Jazeera International's version of The Stream.
 
She was also a Harvard Berkman Center Affiliate, a Poynter Institute Sensemaking Fellow, and one of the inaugural Public Media Corps fellows.

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0:00.0

Tranquility, Dejure. April 15, 2019. Bask in a day-long masterclass for living life with more

0:07.7

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0:14.2

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0:26.0

Learn more at Kimberlywilson.com slash Shwarray.

0:36.9

Hello there. This is Kimberly Wilson and welcome to the 451st edition of Tranquility

0:43.6

DeJure. Today, I'm chatting with Latoya Peterson about racial justice, diversity, inclusion,

0:51.9

and so much more. I think you're going to love this. At one point during or at the end of

0:58.4

the interview, I was like, oh, Latoya, we have to end because both of us had to get to like, I think

1:02.7

I had a client and she had a yoga class. But I was like, I could have gone on for hours. So I'm sure

1:08.3

we'll have Latoya back on the show, but I think you're going to love this

1:11.3

podcast. Now, new listeners, a big welcome, and there is a link in the show notes that tells

1:18.2

you a bit more about Tranquility Jeure. You can find that at Kimberlywilson.com slash 451. And then also

1:26.0

sign up for my ongoing newsletter, which is Love Notes, and you'll get

1:30.7

access to a treasure trove of all sorts of ways to find more tranquility in the everyday, from

1:37.0

MP3s, PDFs, videos, etc. Also, a big thank you to those of you who tuned in and gave

1:43.6

feedback on last week's episode

1:46.1

450th edition of Tranquility DeJure.

1:52.0

And in that episode, as many of you know, I tried to do a little recap on what has transpired

1:57.1

since the 400th episode, which is kind of like the last big milestone one that we did,

2:02.8

and answered some of your questions and kind of let you know what was going on project-wise for me.

2:09.1

So if you have a moment to drop a note and let me know what you've thought of the podcast,

2:13.7

I would so appreciate it. I love hearing from you. And it's also nice to know how things land and what questions you have or suggestions, etc. So please don't hesitate to reach out. Hello at Kimberlywilson.com. Also, if you have a moment to pin a review of this podcast on iTunes, my hope is that it helps other people find more tranquility in there

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