It's been a couple years since the last episode of this podcast. The Covid-19 pandemic shut down everything in a haste and the studio where I recorded, Canal Street Radio, was closed for an indefinite amount of time. Thus, the podcast went on hiatus. I decided to bring back the podcast, now that life has opened up post-pandemic. Canal Street Radio re-opened their doors and have graciously allowed me to come back to record this podcast. Stay tuned for new episodes coming soon!

Welcome back to Activist NYC: The Podcast!

Rohan Zhou-Lee is a queer, non-binary, Black Asian activist, community organizer, public speaker, writer, dancer, and musician. They are the founder of Blasian March, a Black Asian solidarity initiative through education and celebration.

Episode 12: Rohan Zhou-Lee

Interview with Sarina Srisakul, the first Asian American woman firefighter in the FDNY. She is the founder of Angry Asian Womxn, providing free self defense kits to AAPI women, femmes, and gender expansive people. She organizes around safety justice, healing, and feminism within the AAPI community.

Episode 13: Sarinya Srisakul

Interview with Kalaya'an Mendoza and Adam Cross from Across Frontlines, an organization dedicated to working alongside communities to build a safer, more equitable world.

Episode 1: Across Frontlines

Interview with Rafael Shimunov, a Queens activist and organizer who serves as a board member of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and former Creative Director for the Working Families Party.

Episode 2: Rafael Shimunov

Interview with Adele Free Pham, a mixed race Vietnamese American documentary filmmaker on her latest film "Nailed It" about the history of the Vietnamese American nail salon industry. "Nailed It" will premiere May 7, 2019 on America Reframed on PBS.

Episode 3: Adele Free Pham

Interview with June from NYC Shut It Down, a police and prison abolitionist group that for four years has held weekly demonstrations, each one highlighting a different victim of state violence.

Episode 4: NYC Shut It Down

Interview with Amanda Frankel, a Democrat running for Congress in the district of New York–10. Her platform aims to advance progressive legislation supported by the majority of the people, not corporations, and to put an end to government corruption.

Episode 5: Amanda Frankel

On this special double episode in celebration of Pride month, I'm joined by two guests: Jamey Jesperson, a queer non-binary trans femme educator and activist, and Trevon Mayers, the Director of Policy & Community Outreach at The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center.

Episode 6: Jamey Jesperson and LGBT Center (Pride Special)

Interview with Tom Corcoran, a community activist and digital organizer at Bend the Arc, mobilizing the American Jewish community to fight white nationalism and act in solidarity with other marginalized communities.

Episode 7: Tom Corcoran

Interview with Lilly Walsingham, a 21-year-old environmental studies major at NYU who organizes with Sunrise Movement, a youth-led movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. Their goal is to make climate change an urgent priority across America, end the corrupting influence of fossil fuel executives on our politics, and elect leaders who stand up for the health and wellbeing of all people.

Episode 8: Sunrise Movement

Interview with Abdullah Younus, Director of Political Engagement at the New York Immigration Coaltion (NYIC), where he leads the organization's Federal, State, and Local legislative and policy campaigns to push for a more inclusive New York. Abdullah is also a part of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the largest socialist organization in the United States.

Episode 9: Abdullah Younus

Interview with Kim Ortiz from Copwatch Patrol Unit, a community organization that seeks to end police repression through directly monitoring police while they are engaging the public through questioning, detainment, or arrest. Kim is featured in the new television show "Copwatch America" airing on the BET network, Wednesday nights at 11:00pm EST.

Episode 10: Kim Ortiz

Interview with Annie Tan, a special education teacher, activist, writer and storyteller. Born and raised in Chinatown, she teaches Latinx and Asian American students in Sunset Park, Brooklyn and has fought for public education, teacher unions, Chinatown tenants and Asian American rights.

Episode 11: Annie Tan

Interviews and conversations with activists, organizers, and social justice leaders in New York City.

Activist NYC: The Podcast is presented by Canal Street Radio and recorded inside Canal Street Market in Chinatown, New York.

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