In the "Body(.com) and Soul" edition of PDIS: People Doing Interesting Stuff, Samuel Kelton Roberts sits down and talks with Kenyon Farrow, the senior editor at TheBody.com and TheBodyPro.com. A writer, editor, and strategist, Farrow has worked

Episode 09: The "Whole Neighborhood Stopped in its Tracks" edition, with Tracie Gardner of the Legal Action Center

Nov 12th, 2018 1h 28m

In the superheroes' pantheon of African-American HIV and harm reduction activists and workers, you can think of Tracie Gardner was one of the Golden Age figures. In this episode of PDIS, we learn about Tracie's origin story, what it was like to

Episode 08: The Women With a Vision edition (with Deon Haywood)

Jan 30th, 2018 1h 6m

In this episode of PDIS: People Doing Interesting Stuff, I talk to Deon Haywood, the Executive Director of Women With A Vision, Inc. (WWAV). Founded in 1989 by a grassroots collective of Black women in response to the spread of HIV/AIDS in New

Episode 07: The "We have ARRIVEd" edition (with Howard Josepher and Joe Turner, of Exponents, Inc.)

Dec 21st, 2017 1h 16m

In the late 1980s, Howard Josepher and Joe Turner met in New York City and began the program now known as Exponents. Their goal was deceptively simple, to establish an outreach and recovery program for people returning home from prison with a s

Episode 06: The "harm reduction as resistance" edition (with Joyce A. Rivera)

Dec 13th, 2017 1h 20m

The "harm reduction as resistance" edition (with Joyce A. Rivera). Welcome to PDIS. A week after the Trump election of November 2016, Joyce Rivera, the founder and Executive Director of the St. Ann's Corner of Harm Reduction, joined me and my s

Episode 05: The "culturally competent harm reduction" edition (live from #reform17)

Nov 19th, 2017 1h 22m

The "culturally competent harm reduction" edition. At the Drug Policy Alliance's October 2017 conference in Atlanta, I got the chance to speak with four harm reduction and public health activists and researchers, including Lyn Ayala (Condom Pro

Episode 04: The HRC North Star edition (with Monique Tula)

Oct 7th, 2017 1h 22m

Formerly the Vice President of Programs at AIDS United in Washington DC, and a twenty-plus-year veteran of the AIDS and harm reduction movements, Monique Tula in the summer of 2016 became the Executive Director of the Harm Reduction Coalition,

Episode 03: The Invisible Men edition (with Flores Forbes)

Sep 13th, 2017 1h 7m

Happy Fall, everyone! My guest in this episode of PDIS is Flores Forbes. Born and raised in San Diego, California, at age sixteen Forbes joined the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. The Panthers had been formed in 1966, and Flores rose thro

Episode 02: New York Harm Reduction Educators (with Terrell Jones)

Jul 5th, 2017 47m 39s

In late October, 2016, we sat down at the PDIS studios with Terrell Jones of the New York Harm Reduction Educators (NYHRE). Terrell is NYHRE's Outreach and Advocacy Manager. The organization now known as the New York Harm Reduction Educators (

Episode 01: The "collateral damages" edition (with Dinah Ortiz-Adames)

Apr 21st, 2017 1h

A week after being honored by Citizens Against Recidivism, Parent Advocate and harm reduction practitioner Dinah Ortiz-Adames stopped by to give me a hard time about the state of my office and my lack of technical expertise with the recording e

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