Underfutures is a podcast from Changeist created to dive into trends, dynamics and emerging scenarios that we think are interesting, underplayed, and under-examined in contemporary discussions about futures. We’ll call them underfutures because we like new words. Talk back to us here, or @underfutures on Twitter.
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The challenges public schools and students are facing are real – chronic absenteeism, declining academic performance, increasing emotional and mental health concerns. At the same time, we know our youth have limitless talent and potential and they've shown resilience and creativity during and after the pandemic. In this new podcast series from City Year, education, policy experts, and thought leaders, will come together to share insights, and offer solutions for helping our youth learn, grow ...
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A podcast by the Toronto-based foresight studio, From Later — this is our experiment in recording the earliest phases of foresight and speculation. Futures thinking begins with identifying and unpacking Weak Signals of Change — things we notice that we don’t quite understand but we suspect may influence futures in significant ways. On Broadcast From Later, we share our “Weakest Signals,” novel and weird events that appear faintly at the edges of our research radars. None of us know each othe ...
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Ep. 20 - Servant Hearts and Learning Minds, a conversation with Dr. Tarra Mitchell, Executive Director of City Year Seattle/King County
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Join us in welcoming Dr. Tarra Mitchell, Senior Vice President and Executive Director of City Year Seattle/King County for a conversation on the tremendous impact of both military and service on her own life and the value national service has on our young people and students.
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Ep. 19 - Trusting the Process: Impact & Mentorship with Shavon Marion, City Year Memphis
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Today we are joined by Shavon Marion, Managing Director of Impact at City Year Memphis for a conversation about her journey to City Year and her experience working with students and student success coaches to cultivate positive learning communities.
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Ep. 18 - Mentorship, Prevention, Intervention, with Gustavo Ortiz, Principal of Ascot Elementary, Los Angeles, CA
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Join us for a conversation with Gustavo Ortiz, Principal at Ascot Elementary in South Los Angeles. Gustavo speaks to the impact City Year student success coaches have had on his students and school.
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Ep. 17 - Following our Hearts with Sam Rodriguez, Walls for Justice
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Today we welcome Sam Rodriguez, City Year alum and founder and executive director of Walls for Justice, a Philadelphia based nonprofit that strives to create positive change through art, for a conversation focused on the importance of following your heart.
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Ep. 16 - Community as a Path Forward with Charlie Rose, City Year
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Join us for a moving episode with Charlie Rose, Dean of City Year. Charlie touches on the impact of community on his own life and on the lives of our corps members across the country.
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SPOTLIGHT: Annie Qin, City Year Boston alum
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Today we meet Annie Qin, a City Year Boston alum and current Chief of Staff of Boston Centers for Youth and Families who discusses her time serving with City Year and the impact her service has had on her life and career.
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Ep. 15 - A Conversation with Paul Samuel Dolman
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Today we meet with internationally acclaimed author and podcaster, Paul Samuel Dolman, where we touch on the topics of public education, mentorship, purpose, and bringing love into all areas of life.
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SPOTLIGHT: James Burton, City Year Boston
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Join us for another SPOTLIGHT episode featuring James Burton, a recent City Year Boston alum who served at Mather Elementary School in Dorchester, MA.
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Ep. 14 - The Policy Perspective with Bethany Little, Education Counsel
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Today on Why We Matter we are joined by Bethany Little of Education Policy for a conversation on the role of policy in education and national service.
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Ep. 13 - A Conversation on Civic Leadership with Mario Fedelin, Changeist
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Today we meet with Mario Fedelin, a City Year alum who is now the founder and CEO of Changeist, an organization that brings together 11-26 year olds on Saturdays to build community and create a dialogue focused on civic duty and addressing local and national challenges.
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SPOTLIGHT: Rayna Hayward, Healthy Choices Americorps
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Join us for another SPOTLIGHT episode featuring Rayna Hayward, a student success coach serving with Healthy Choices AmeriCorps in San Francisco.
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Ep. 12 - The Power of Community with Dr. Sandra Cano, City Year Los Angeles
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On today's episode of Why We Matter, we welcome Dr. Sandra Cano, Senior Vice President and Executive Director of City Year Los Angeles. Dr. Cano shares with us her powerful story and sheds some light on the impact of City Year LA on Los Angeles.
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SPOTLIGHT: Dallas Hill, Team Leader with City Year New York
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Today we excited to share with you another spotlight episode of Why We Matter featuring Dallas Hill, a Team leader serving with City Year New York.
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Ep. 11 - The Power of Partnerships with Ericka Dawson, Peer Health Exchange
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We are thrilled to welcome Ericka Dawson from Peer Health Exchange to our show today. In this episode, Ericka touches on her expertise and lessons learned in her partnerships with young people, school districts, communities, and beyond.
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SPOTLIGHT: Bianca Acuna, Service Member Mentor with PASS AmeriCorps
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Please join us for a special spotlight episode featuring a current student success coach: Bianca Acuna serving with PASS AmeriCorps in San Diego, CA.
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Ep. 10 - Evaluating Impact and Stories of Service with Dr. Carlos Galan, City Year
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This week we are joined by Dr. Carlos Galan, Sr. Director of TTA Research, Outcomes, and Evaluation at City Year to discuss the quantitative and qualitative data of the Student Success Coach Learning Network.
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Ep. 9 - Diving into the Research with Dr. Kris De Pedro, City Year
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We're thrilled to welcome Dr. Kris De Pedro to our show today to dive into the importance of research and evalution in this work. Together, we explore the value that critical research adds to the work we do at City Year and beyond.
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Ep. 8 - Learning & Leading with Symia Stigler, City Year
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Today we welcome Symia Stigler, Vice President of Learner & Leader Program Design at City Year Headquarters to the podcast. Together, we continue the dive into the importance of strong relationships with our Student Success Coaches and students.
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Ep. 7 - Exploring the Importance of Relationships with Chris Tuck, New Rochelle City School District
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Join us as we speak with Chris Tuck of New Rochelle City School District to explore the power of relationships in schools and communities.
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Ep. 6 - The Impact of Student Success Coaches on Schools and Classrooms with Dr. Pedro Noguera
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Dr. Pedro Noguera, Dean of the USC Rossier School of Pedro Noguera joins us to discuss the critical need of SSCs in schools. Through his extensive experience in schools across the country, Dr. Noguera lends his thoughts on the impact of programs like City Year on students, teachers, schools, and communities.…
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Ep. 5 - The Impact of Mentorship on Young People with Michael Lynch, Improve Your Tomorrow
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Today we are joined by Michael Lynch, CEO and co-founder of Improve Your Tomorrow, to discuss the impact mentors and Student Success Coaches have on young people, particularly young men of color.
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Ep. 4 - National Service in California with Josh Fryday, California Volunteers
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We're honored to welcome Josh Fryday, Chief Service Officer of California Volunteers to today's edition of "Why We Matter." Listen to learn more about national service in California.
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Ep. 3 - Who Are We? Part II: California Student Success Coach Learning Network
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Today we met with Maggie Franco, Vice President of Education Ecosystem and Systems Change at City Year. Together, we dive into the pilot California Student Success Coach Learning Network.
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Ep. 2 - Who Are We? Student Success Coaches
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In this episode, we hear from Jennifer Boyce, Vice President of SSC Technical Assistance, Technical Assistance Director, NPSS Support Hub at City Year to learn more about the student success coach model.
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In our first episode from "Why We Matter," we hear from Voices for National Service President and City Year Chief External Engagement, Policy, and International Officer, AnnMaura Connolly as she discusses the power of national service.
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The challenges public schools and students are facing are real – chronic absenteeism, declining academic performance, increasing emotional and mental health concerns. At the same time, we know our youth have limitless talent and potential and they've shown resilience and creativity during and after the pandemic. In this new podcast series from Cit…
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We’re talking about new institutions, retro materials, and the same old lego bricks — on Broadcast From Later w/ Gem Barton, Tobias Revell, and Trevor Haldenby. Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn TikTok Interested in our sources? Check out From Later's Are.na page to explore the weak …
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Youth v. Gov w/ John Nichols, Radha Mistry, & Sydney Allen-Ash
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John Nichols, whose handle is @lajethrojenkins on X, Radha Mistry, Sydney Allen-Ash, and Robert Bolton exchange signals of change. The conversation covers: The law firm for children exercising their legal rights to a safe climate; How Chinese consumers are bypassing retail markups by making group purchases directly from the factories; And: Will the…
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Scott Smith, Susan Cox-Smith, and Madeline Ashby join Robert Bolton to talk about futures practices and exchange weak signals of change. This conversation covers: niche climate transition issues wedging political division; the arms race between impulse consumer confections and appetite suppressants; and the return of sneakernets. Learn more about F…
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The Society for Suspending Judgment w/ Mimi Zeiger
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Critic and editor Mimi Zeiger joins broadcast. We chat: LA architecture, aqueduct acupuncture, planetary menopause, ascribing personhood to ceiling fans, and “a wet lab for noospheric emergence.” Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn TikTok Interested in our sources? Check out From Later…
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Food, Death, and Haircuts w/ Julienne DeVita & Daniel Anthony Daam-Rossi
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It’s a new Broadcast From Later with Robert Bolton, Sydney Allen-Ash, Julienne DeVita, and Daniel Anthony Daam-Rossi (of Radical Norms). In this conversation, Daniel tells us about a brain implant that restored a paralyzed woman’s ability to communicate. Julienne shares food futures signals surfaced while researching for the new podcast, Eating Tom…
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Dad Band Futures Fest w/ Julian Bleecker
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Julian Bleecker of the Near Future Lab joins Valdis Silins, Jayar LaFontaine and Robert Bolton for an exchange of weak signals of change. The conversation covers: / North Korea’s new cyberwarfare proficiencies: their hacker army stole $3 billion in crypto / Creative work is not living up to its promise: Time to imagine harder / GPT hyperproductivit…
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Overproduced Meetings w/ Richard Thomas
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We discuss: pets as economic indicators; the growing prevalence of digital therapeutics; and what the adult webcam industry’s BTS production advisors mean for the future of work — with Richard Thomas, Irwin Adam, Radha Mistry, and Robert Bolton. Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn TikT…
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Cheap Shibboleth w/ Bianca Weeko Martin
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Bianca Weeko Martin — artist, architect, curator, writer — joins Asia Clarke, Robert Bolton, and Sydney Allen-Ash for a conversation covering the resource dynamics of African coups; uncomfortable offshore e-greetings; and the manipulative misuse of kink speak. Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram YouTube Twitte…
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Designer, futurist, and cartoon artist, Viraj Joshi joins Tobias Revell, Sydney Allen-Ash and Robert Bolton to talk drop-shipped, crowd-funded cloud-seeding; the uncanny bigotry of AI generated fashion models; and how we ended up in the era of “quantitative aesthetics” — on Broadcast From Later. Signals: Particle Washing: What could possibly go wro…
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Weird Sensing w/ Kofi Gyekye & Clinton Robinson
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Kofi Gyekye and Clinton Robinson join Rob and Valdis to talk about new flight paths, Ossington strip origin stories, nomad values, weird sensing, Telfar’s America, and the whatsapp groups of Brooklyn blocks. Weak Signals: / For the first time ever, there will be commercial flight routes between the African continent and the Eastern Caribbean. / A n…
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VibesGPT w/ Jerrold McGrath & Luisa Ji
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Jerrold McGrath and Luisa Ji (UKAI Projects) join From Later strategists Robert Bolton and Udit Vira to go over the fine print of Jackson Fall’s HustleGPT, dream up a new mythos for the church of satellite worship, and ponder why unsettling stories make for better TV. Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram YouTub…
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Ambient Celebrity w/ LaJethro Jenkins
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A wholesome hang with John Nichols aka LaJethro Jenkins, Radha Mistry, Sydney Allen-Ash, and Robert Bolton, the conversation meanders questions like: Is Kai Cenat the poster child for a new era of ambient celebrity? Could the health analytics captured by Emm, a digitally-enabled menstrual cup, be worth the encroachment over body-device boundaries? …
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Spacesuits for Social Survival w/ Hima Batavia
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FL strategists are broadcasting with artist Hima Batavia to explore wearable gut biomes, mundane how-to videos, and lab formulated breast milk. File under nomadic biomimicry/nutritional hyperplasia/embodied environments/prepper city-guides/civility practice/designer milk. Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram Yo…
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Dance like an NPC w/ Radha Mistry & Tobias Revell
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Arup foresight folks and FL family, Radha and Tobias join From Later strategists Rob and Valdis to chat auditory deep fakes, distributed power generation, and NPC mimicry. / Project Shasta Adobe’s Project Shasta can isolate and extract elements from an audio recording— most notably, the human voice. Shasta then synthesizes its best version of that …
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Sam Venis, Sydney Allen-Ash, and Miranda Shou join Robert Bolton to explore animal noise analysis, accreditation on the blockchain, and emerging sports marketing strategies. / DeepSqueak Can we communicate with animals? DeepSqueak is a machine learning tool built to analyze rodent noises for indications of stress, but it’s also being used to identi…
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Scott Smith and Madeline Ashby recap the missing months since the last episode of Underfutures, discuss two live shows at me Convention; Scott interviews urbanist Anthony Townsend, author of the upcoming GHOST ROAD on the future of mobility. Links and notes: https://www.underfutures.com/home/episode-6-interdimensional-cat…
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For Episode 5 we went to AI for Good in Geneva (Madeline) and CogX in London (Scott) to get a sense of what’s happening in the AI landscape from a critical point of view. Liner notes: https://www.underfutures.com/home/episode-5-unfashioned-creatures
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Episode 4 is a special collaboration with the @comotion podcast from LA Comotion. In this episode, Scott Smith talks with Comotion host, futurist and urbanist Greg Lindsay about smart cities, technology, mobility and energy transition, live from Masdar City in the UAE. Liner notes: https://medium.com/@changeist/underfutures-episode-4-ghost-smart-ci…
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We’re back with Episode 3 of Underfutures, this time talking about the changing nature of working, time, place and how people fit into these. Fresh off a multicountry collaboration. Madeline and I are joined by John Willshire of Smithery and Artefact Cards to talk about these themes, and pay homage to the patron saint of nomadic co-workers, Jason B…
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In time for awards season, the Changeist team is joined by writer Joanne McNeil to talk about the future now in films and tv. Liner notes: https://link.medium.com/zFup4eyqXT
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Our pilot episode, where we discuss the future of nationalism-as-meme, platform citizenship, cross-border algorithm-drain, and more. Notes: https://link.medium.com/ledXSA7FbT
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A preview of things to come, from the Changeist team.
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