Against Addiction Inc is a nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization dedicated to education and awareness of the damages of addiction to families and individuals. This podcast tells stories of hope and courage while providing options for healing and restoration.
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Inclusion Interchange: News from Pitt’s Office for Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion
Pitt Office for Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion
A series of conversations between University of Pittsburgh students, faculty, and staff and Clyde Wilson Pickett, chief diversity officer and vice chancellor for equity, diversity, and inclusion at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Yvette Moore is director of the EXCEL program in Pitt’s Swanson School of Engineering, where she works to recruit and retain undergraduate scholars in engineering disciplines. Through her career, Yvette has held several roles in higher education at various universities and has worked with diversity, equity, and inclusion based programs in the Pitts…
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Ron Idoko (A&S ’05, GSPIA ’07) serves as director of the office of social innovation in honors education in the Frederick Honors College, associate director of the Center on Race & Social Problems, and founding director of the Racial Equity Consciousness Institute. He recently was presented with the University’s 2024 Martin Luther King Jr. Creating…
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Feminista Jones is a feminist writer, public speaker, community activist and retired social worker. She is an award-winning writer and the author of the critically acclaimed "Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World From the Tweets to the Streets" (Beacon). Her work centers around diversity, equity and inclusion, critical ra…
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Episode 3 - Bee Schindler and Lisa Upsher
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Lisa Strother Upsher is director of health sciences diversity, equity, and inclusion. She came to the University of Pittsburgh after leading DEI efforts at the Center for Organ Recovery and Education, where she was instrumental in having CORE declared a site of the Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program, promoting positive health behavi…
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Episode 2: The Inclusion Interchange: Tessa Provins, political science researcher and advocate for Indigenous peoples
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Tessa Provins is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Provins is also one of the organizers of the 2023 Indigenous Cultural Festival at the University of Pittsburgh. Her primary research examines the impact of legislative institutional design on the behavior and outcomes for groups divided by party status, ge…
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The Inclusion Interchange: Rory Cooper, bioengineer and advocate for people with disabilities
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Rory A. Cooper is the founding director and VA senior research career scientist of the Human Engineering Research Laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh. He has been a member of the Pitt faculty since 1994 and chaired the Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology from 1997 to 2018. A bioengineer, Dr. Cooper was inducted into the Nat…
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Mike Roberts, lifetime musician, talks about his struggles, his success, and the role of the arts in addiction.By Ron Clyde
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Nick Pendleton, successful business person and artist, teaches us about the art form and the parable of Kintsugi.By Ron Clyde
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Ron and the Chief Strategy Officer of Against Addiction talk about the pre-formation ideas that laid the foundation for Against Addiction.By Ron Clyde
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