Every episode features engaging conversations with nonprofit leaders, entrepreneurs, business executives, philanthropists, artists, educators, healthcare professionals, volunteers, and community builders who are making a measurable difference in the lives of others.
On Doing Good, Giselle Hensel-Piburn explores how mentorship turns curiosity into confidence—and connects generations through the simple act of showing up. A siren grows louder outside Santa Fe’s Lensic theater. Paramedics rush a gurney down the aisle and onto the stage. Then a teenager takes the microphone and explains the steps to save a life. In this episode of Doing Good, Giselle Hensel-Piburn recalls that student presentation as an example of what becomes possible when adults take young ...
25 Sept 2026
Keeping Community at the Heart of Doing Good
Vicki Pozzebon explores how listening, living your values, and caring for the people doing the work can help nonprofits stay true to their purpose. In Vicki Pozzebon’s childhood home, generosity was a practice. Her Italian immigrant parents welcomed people with food, while her father taught newcomers skills in his well-drilling business. That spirit of sharing knowledge and making room for others still shapes her work. On this episode of Doing Good, Pozzebon explores how nonprofits can keep t...
25 Sept 2026
Bringing Tewa Home, One Generation at a Time
Porter Swentzell shares how a decade of community-led education is helping Santa Clara Pueblo carry its Native language into the future. For Porter Swentzell, the future of Tewa is something he hopes to hear: children, parents, and neighbors speaking their language freely and joyfully throughout Santa Clara Pueblo. On this episode of Doing Good, Swentzell describes the decade of work behind that vision at Kha’p’o Community School. In 2016, the community took control of its federally operated ...
25 Sept 2026
From The Vagina Monologues to Ripples of Change
Cecile Lipworth reflects on how art, intuition, and human connection turn shared experiences into lasting action. A conversation at a Christmas Eve dinner changed Cecile Lipworth’s life. An offer to help produce The Vagina Monologues at Madison Square Garden became an invitation into years of activism. She trusted her instincts, stepped through the door, and discovered how far one connection could travel. On this episode of Doing Good, Lipworth explores the relationship between creativity, co...
31 Aug 2026
The First Check Through the Door.
Giving anonymously, moving with “ferocious velocity” and trusting people to turn early support into lasting change. For the philanthropist known here as Mr. A, giving is not about recognition, naming rights, or checks. It is about moving “with ferocious velocity”—finding people, trusting their character, and providing the first money that allows an idea to become real. That instinct became urgent during COVID-19. After learning that Diné families in communities lacked water for sanitation, Mr...
31 Aug 2026
Carry Us Both Forward.
Jill Dixon’s work begins with a promise. When she was 18, her 15-year-old brother, Keith, died suddenly. As he was dying, she promised to carry them both forward. She has asked herself whether she is living fully enough to honor the life he did not get to live. Food insecurity was already woven into her family’s story. As an ill infant, Dixon required expensive formula, while her parents survived on inexpensive food so she could have what she needed. Years later, as a classroom teacher, she w...
31 Aug 2026
You Don’t Know If You Don’t Go.
Juliana Ciano’s willingness to follow momentum transformed one recycling experiment into a community where waste becomes soil, soil becomes food, and people become partners. Reunity Resources began with an experiment: could used cooking oil become biodiesel instead of waste? For co-founder Juliana Ciano, that question opened doors—into composting, farming, education, food access, and a community that could participate in its own solutions. The journey was not straightforward. When Ciano and h...
31 Aug 2026
Art Is Medicine: Roger Montoya on Creating a Place to Become
At Moving Arts Española, creativity helps young people discover their gifts, carry their culture forward, and guide the next generation. Roger Montoya’s life changed during the HIV/AIDS crisis. Returning to northern New Mexico after dancing in Los Angeles and New York, he expected his future to be short. Instead, loss clarified his purpose. He walked into Velarde Elementary School, asked how he could help, and began with a mural. That offering grew into an arts-in-the-schools program and Movi...
31 Aug 2026
Beyond Good and Bad: Dr. Zane Maroney on What Makes Us Human.
The Santa Fe psychiatrist explores how attachment, empathy, and belonging shape our capacity for kindness—and why understanding begins with asking what happened. Are people innately good? For Santa Fe psychiatrist Dr. Zane Maroney, the most honest answer is also the most human: it depends. In this episode of *Doing Good*, Dr. Maroney challenges the tidy division between “good people” and “bad people.” Human beings, he argues, are shaped by temperament, childhood, culture, security...
31 Aug 2026
The Power of Asking: Christine Winfield Turns Empathy into Action
From feeding unhoused neighbors to co-founding Comunidad de Colores, Winfield shows how one determined organizer can invite an entire community into “good trouble.” Christine Winfield jokes that volunteering keeps her “out of trouble”—or, as her friends put it, in good trouble. But beneath the humor is a philosophy: caring for one another is not a promise for later. It is work to be done here and now. A humanist, organizer, and self-described rabble-rouser, Winfield has spent years turning em...
31 Aug 2026
Planting Memory: Zach Ben on Feeding the Next Generation.
The Diné farmer, artist, and co-founder of Bidii Baby Foods draws from the same palette in his farming and sand painting: the earth itself. For Zach Ben, farming and art are inseparable expressions of culture. A sixth-generation farmer and accomplished sand painter, Zach learned both practices from his father. Whether gathering natural pigments for a painting or planting heritage seeds, he works with the same essential material—the earth. Both practices carry memory, tell stories, and connect...
31 Aug 2026
Before Anything Else, Say Hello.
Civil rights attorney, mediator, and Ubuntuworks founder Eric Sirotkin believes justice begins by recognizing the humanity we share. Eric Sirotkin entered the legal profession prepared to fight—and to win. But experiences representing sanctuary workers and witnessing conflict resolution in South Africa gradually changed his understanding of what the law could accomplish. Instead of deepening divisions, he began to see it as a potential healing practice. That transformation came into focus thr...
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