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The Skid Road podcast amplifies a diversity of voices about homelessness in the Seattle area.The podcast series challenges us to learn from the past, from people with the lived experience of homelessness, and from people tasked with addressing homelessness in order to make…
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A Conversation with Sharon Lee (opens the original)
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Sharon Lee is the founding executive director of Seattle-based Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI). Celebrating its 35th year of operation, LIHI has established 4,500 affordable housing units in Washington State. These units include transitional housing, Housing First, and Tiny House villages. In addition, they run the essential Urban Rest Stops in Seattle to provide the too scarce hygiene resources needed by people experiencing homelessness. Here's my conversation with her about her work and wh
A Conversation with Congressman Jim McDermott (opens the original)
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A few months before his retirement, I sat down with Congressman Jim McDermott to talk about his work, both as a child psychiatrist volunteer in the late 1960s at Seattle's Open Door Clinic (our first free clinic) and as a US Congressman for Washington's 7th District from 1989-2017. In this interview, he talks about his direct healthcare experience working with teens with behavioral health issues, and his work in Congress to expand services for foster youth until age 21, his work on the AIDS epid
A Conversation with Ken Kraybill, MSW (opens the original)
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I watched Ken Kraybill in action using de-escalation techniques — unscripted — in a public park in New Orleans during a National Health Care for the Homeless Annual Conference and Policy Symposium, less than a month before Hurricane Katrina. We were at a rally in the park for improved health care, housing, and behavioral health services. I knew of Kraybill's work in Seattle and nationally in motivational interviewing, de-escalation, trauma-informed care, and resiliency for care providers. He now
Honor Their Stories (opens the original)
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Working on my new narrative nonfiction book, tentatively titled Unbroken Ground: Surviving Displacement in Richmond, I plan to include stories of people and communities resisting erasure and displacement in my original hometown of Richmond, Virginia. This necessitates wrestling with 'how to tell the stories' of, or rather, how to amplify the stories of people and communities too often silenced and ignored. Formerly enslaved Black people living side-by-side with former Union spies and sympathizer
A Conversation with Rev Rick Reynolds (opens the original)
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Here is my Skid Road project interview with Rev Rick Reynolds on March 6, 2017. 'Rev Rick' talks about how he became involved in street ministry and Operation Nightwatch, and what he has learned from his decades of work. One piece of wisdom he shares in this interview, included in my "Listening to Skid Road" 25-minute video (edited by Jill Freidberg in 2018), is this: The housing first model really makes sense, and I think it takes a lot of convincing people who aren't current in the science of
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