Women of Color Leading Progressive Organizations
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics
Acast Creative Studios
3.3 • 845 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
To learn more about Rahna's, Karundi's & Yvette's progressive organizations, visit their websites:
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics Podcast is all about amplifying the voices of women who are too often forgotten in media coverage. Host A’shanti Gholar leads conversations with women changing the face of politics. In the BGG to Politics blog, A’shanti created a space for Women of Color to learn about the current state of women in politics, to support others breaking into the political sphere, and to celebrate incredible people changing the course of the country. A’shanti founded the blog and Wonder Media Network is thrilled to extend her platform to audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all. I'm Ashanti Golar, host of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics. |
| 0:05.1 | The BGG is the one-stop shop for women of color who want to talk and shape the world of politics. |
| 0:12.9 | This season, we're getting deep into the details of Project 2025. |
| 0:18.7 | In 900-plus pages, it's proposing dramatic conservative changes to education, |
| 0:24.3 | health care, and foreign affairs. But underpinning it all is an entirely new vision for how |
| 0:31.1 | the government operates, and that could change everything. Thank you so much to our friends |
| 0:37.2 | at Way to Win for supporting us |
| 0:39.0 | and making this season possible. Listen to the Brown Girls Guide to Politics wherever you get |
| 0:44.8 | your podcast. Welcome back, Brown Girls. Ashanti here, the founder of the Brown Girls' Guide to Politics. |
| 0:57.4 | When we talk about women of color breaking barriers in politics, oftentimes this means referring |
| 1:02.7 | to the fact that they are the first to do something. On this episode, we talked to three women |
| 1:08.6 | who are the first women of color to lead their national progressive |
| 1:11.6 | organizations. Stay tuned to get to know, Rana Epstein, the executive director of Move On, |
| 1:18.5 | Karandi Williams, the executive director of repower, and Yvette Simpson, the CEO of Democracy |
| 1:24.6 | for America, to hear how they are shaping the future of the democratic and progressive movements. |
| 1:32.3 | Very, very excited about this conversation and to be able to bring you three badass women together here in D.C. |
| 1:41.3 | Thank you for applying to my email and wanting to be on the podcast. So we will get |
| 1:46.4 | started first with your name, your organization, and you're all relatively new in your roles. |
| 1:54.4 | So what is the favorite part of your new job? So my name is Yvette Simpson. I'm the CEO of Democracy for America. I love the fact |
| 2:04.2 | that there is a network of amazing black women who are doing this work that I get to be sisters |
| 2:09.9 | with and collaborate with and commiserate with. I was pleasantly surprised at the number of black and brown |
| 2:16.8 | women who are in the movement space, |
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