Today is the Day Changemakers

'Becoming the Great Ancestor Our Future Needs' with Dr. Christine Thorpe

June 08, 2022 Jodi Season 2 Episode 25
Today is the Day Changemakers
'Becoming the Great Ancestor Our Future Needs' with Dr. Christine Thorpe
Show Notes

Welcome to season 2, episode 25.

This week my guest is Dr. Christine Thorpe, Dean of the Nathan Weiss Graduate College at Kean University. She is also the managing partner of Stronger Tomorrow LLC, a workplace wellness company that serves to influence and reshape wellness in organizations through the lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion.  Follow on Instagram @strongertomorrowwellness.

Christine is also the Co-Director of Navigating Health Services (NHS) an organization that represents a movement to transform the health sector and to positively impact the lives of the medically underserved in Jamaica and across the Caribbean region through education, advocacy and support. 

Christine is the author of Living Beyond the Façade: Inside the Health and Wealth Practices of Americans of African Descent.  Follow on Instagram @livingbeyondthefacade.

Christine wears so many hats yet balances them in such an incredible way. We talk about so many important and extremely relevant topics during this episode like as long as we have breath and strength in our body, we have so much to offer others. The trauma we have experienced over the last few years and the burn out being oh so real. We also discuss that although companies have committed to EDI work – as they are talking more about the work and have put money behind it, many may not necessarily know how to create actual cultural shift. With the help and support of her organization Stronger Tomorrow LLC she is helping organizations understand the steps needed to create that shift.

Listen in to the end of the podcast as Christine shares about the footprint that she is creating now that she wants to leave behind.

Next week my guest is Hugo Balta an entrepreneurial journalist. He is the owner/publisher of the Latino News Network (LNN) – the only English language news and information outlet focused on serving Hispanics-Latinos in New England. LNN also amplifies the work of others in elevating the visibility and voices of a community often absent in newsrooms and news coverage.  We talk about many topics including what it is like to navigate between two worlds. Hugo's parents immigrated from Peru and Hugo was born in Paterson, NJ.  Hugo talks about not always making what would be the popular choice. He believes in the importance of defining your own success. 

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