Welcome to 차 with Laura and Leah! Cha is a podcast and video series featuring conversations with our friends over tea. We are two diasporic Korean women who were inspired by Nina Simone's quote, “An artist’s duty is to reflect the times.” Cha is our offering to the collective and we hope our conversations inspire you to start having meaningful dialogues and reflections with your own communities. So make sure to brew a pot of cha and join our conversations about art, spirituality, culture, and liberation.
Nisreen is the founder of Mamas 4 A Free Palestine. As a Palestinian mother, Nisreen has been tirelessly dedicated to educating about and raising funds to support Palestine.
Nisreen is featured in the award winning documentary “Souls Not Numbers (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt39379682/),” which focuses on the devastating effects that generations of ethnic cleansing and occupation have had on the children of Palestine.
Please consider supporting Nisreen's organizations of choice: Gaza Kinder Relief (https://www.instagram.com/gazakinderrelief/) and the Voices Verses Etsy shop (https://www.etsy.com/shop/voicesverses/?etsrc=sdt&dd_referrer#items).
Welcome to the final episode of 차 with Laura and Leah! Cha has been a podcast and video series featuring conversations with our friends over tea. We are two diasporic Korean women who were inspired by Nina Simone's quote, “An artist’s duty is to reflect the times.” Cha has been our offering to the collective and we hope our conversations have inspired you to start having meaningful dialogues and reflections with your own communities. So make sure to brew a pot of cha and join our last conversation about art, spirituality, culture, and liberation.
We have loved working on this project together. We bid adieu to our community with this 33rd episode. May our paths cross again soon.
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22 Apr 2026
Cha with Thimali Kodikara
Thimali Kodikara is a multimedia artist and founder of impact media consultancy, OneLoudBellow. Thimali achieved global prominence as showrunner of the groundbreaking feminist climate solutions podcast, Mothers Of Invention – co-hosting the show with the first woman president of Ireland and former chair of The Elders, Mary Robinson and comedian Maeve Higgins. Thimali’s direction has brought Black, brown and indigenous women climate leaders to the forefront of the global climate conversation for the first time, with her impact editorial for climate justice successfully elevating frontline women leaders to boards of directors, keynote stage at international fora, and unlocking new funding for their critical yet underrepresented work.
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15 Apr 2026
Cha with Fred T. Joseph
Frederick Joseph is a three-time New York Times and USA Today bestselling author from Yonkers, New York, whose work spans poetry, nonfiction, children’s literature, and young adult fiction. He is the author of the acclaimed YA novel This Thing of Ours, which received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly, was nominated for The Georgia Peach Book Award, and was named one of the Best Young Adult Books of 2025 by Kirkus, the Chicago Public Library, and BookPage.
His body of work includes the poetry collection We Alive, Beloved; the bestselling nonfiction titles The Black Friend and Patriarchy Blues; the collaborative volume Better Than We Found It; and the children’s books Black Panther: Wakanda Forever—The Courage to Dream and Planting Hope. Across genres, Joseph’s writing is known for its emotional precision, cultural urgency, and commitment to reimagining how we understand identity, justice, and belonging.
Welcome to 차 with Laura and Leah! Cha is a podcast and video series featuring conversations with our friends over tea. We are two diasporic Korean women who were inspired by Nina Simone's quote, “An artist’s duty is to reflect the times.” Cha is our offering to the collective and we hope our conversations inspire you to start having meaningful dialogues and reflections with your own communities. So make sure to brew a pot of cha and join our conversations about art, spirituality, culture, and liberation.
Please consider becoming a paid subscriber so we can continue creating this work together. For a one-time donation, you can Venmo (https://account.venmo.com/u/laura-chung) Laura. For monthly support, you can join our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/chawithlauraleah). Thank you!
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