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How a Doctor in India Came to See Stories as Protest – Episode 3 of What Takes Root

What Takes Root: Stories of Resistance and Reclamation is a new first-person podcast from ORA featuring changemakers from India, Africa, and Latin America. Over nine episodes, members of the ORA community share intimate stories of reclaiming voice, power, and possibility, and in their own words. Episode 3 How a Doctor in India Came to See […]

The Soundtrack of Kenyan Resistance – Episode 2 of What Takes Root

What Takes Root: Stories of Resistance and Reclamation is a new first-person podcast from ORA featuring changemakers from India, Africa, and Latin America. Over nine episodes, members of the ORA community share intimate stories of reclaiming voice, power, and possibility, and in their own words. Episode 2 The Soundtrack of Kenyan Resistance Featuring Mwongela Kamencu […]

What Takes Root: A New Podcast from ORA

Across the Global South, resistance doesn’t always look like protest. Sometimes it looks like a soccer ball. A song. A radio signal carried across mountains. What Takes Root: Stories of Resistance and Reclamation is a new first-person podcast from ORA featuring changemakers from India, Africa, and Latin America. Over nine episodes, members of the ORA […]

Could Rest Re-Shape How We Meet the Climate Crisis?

When Jennifer Uchendu first began climate organizing in Lagos more than a decade ago, her energy was directed outward on action. She founded SustyVibes, a youth-led nonprofit that has since trained and mobilized many young people across Africa to take measures toward a more sustainable future. But in recent years, her attention has turned to […]

The Canopy Collective: Weaving Science, Art, and Indigenous Knowledge For Conservation

What is the language of love that mahouts use to communicate with their elephants? How deep is the ecological wisdom of forest women, preserved through oral traditions and folklore? These questions drive the work of ORA India Fellow Dr. Nandini Velho—a scientist, field biologist, and conservationist whose research lives at the intersection of the biophysical, […]

The Weal Podcast

The Weal Podcast is a limited podcast series on rest in the polycrisis produced by ORA Africa 2023 Fellow, Jennifer Uchendu. Her work focuses on the connections between Eco-Anxiety, Climate Change, and Mental Health. The Weal Podcast features a series of conversations with African change makers on rest in the polycrisis and how to reclaim […]

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