Welcome to the first spring autumn session of the Café com Paulo Freire podcast! For this episode we are happy to welcome Sarah van Gelder, co-founder and columnist at YES! Magazine and long-time social activist.
For this recording session Azril and Daniel will be joined by Sarah van Gelder co-founder and columnist at YES! Magazine, founder of PeoplesHub, and author of The Revolution Where You Live: Stories from a 12,000-Mile Journey Through a New America.
Join us online, see link below, welcome!
When: September 30 kl. 17.00-18.00 CEST
Online: https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/66447645238
In collaboration with Studiefrämjandet and Café com Paulo Freire International.
Bio adapted from YES! Magazine web page
Sarah van Gelder has been advancing ideas for a more just, sustainable, and compassionate world for more than 30 years. As founding editor of YES!, Sarah led the magazine’s development from a scrappy startup operating out of a rented basement to a nationally recognized publication that covers leading-edge solutions to the ecological and human challenges of our times. Following two incredible decades at YES!, she founded PeoplesHub, an online community that offers training to individuals and groups around the country who making change where they live. Currently she is communications manager for an Indian tribe in the Pacific Northwest. Sarah is the author of The Revolution Where You Live: Stories from a 12,000 Mile Journey Through a New America, and the editor of Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference and This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99 Percent Movement. She speaks nationally and internationally, and has appeared on radio and television programs to talk about everything from cooperative economics and solving the climate crisis, to alternatives to prisons and confronting racism. She serves on the boards of Free Speech TV, The Rules, and the Suquamish Foundation, and was a founding board member of Winslow Cohousing and YES! Magazine. She has two adult children.
Read Sarah’s YES! columns here: https://www.yesmagazine.org/authors/sarah-van-gelder/
Café com Paulo Freire – Learning, Life and Liberation – podcast
Are you teacher in search of more inclusive and democratic ways to engage your students? Armchair digital activist looking for real-world change-making processes and community? Or just curious about the connection between coffee, student-led education, Freire and today’s interconnected emergencies? Then this is the podcast for you!
During the autumn 2021 in connection with the celebration of Paulo Freire’s 100th anniversary CEMUS started an online and Uppsala based Café com Paulo Freire series, inspired by the international concept with the same name and convened by Azril Bacal and Daniel Mossberg. Read more here: www.cemus.uu.se/cafe-paulo-freire
From October 2023 we are back with Café com Paulo Freire as a recorded podcast where you can join us live in studio here in CEMUS Library or online, or listen when you want to!
Azril Bacal is CEMUS affiliate with a lifetime of experience and knowledge Paulo Freire, education, research and activism.
Daniel Mossberg is lead outreach coordinator at CEMUS with a wide range of firsthand experience of student-led education, universities work for and against sustainability and conversations on existential issues, big and small.
