Equity Hour

About Equity Hour

Welcome to The Equity Hour, a Dragonfly Rising podcast where we delve into powerful conversations on social justice, equity, education, and personal growth. Join your host, Dr. Tami Dean—an experienced leader, coach, speaker and facilitator with over 25 years of expertise—as she offers practical tips, resources, and actionable strategies to help you integrate equity into learning and working environments. Whether it’s a solo episode filled with insights or an engaging discussion with passionate educators, thought leaders, and change-makers, each episode is designed to inspire and empower you to create more inclusive and equitablespaces. Tune in each week to explore the challenges and successes of fostering diversity, inclusion, and cultural competence in schools and beyond.

Publisher

Dr. Tami Dean

Category

business · education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Jul 2023

Latest episode

28 Oct 2025

Latest episodes

43 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 Oct 2025

   Learning to Relearn: Building Identity-Affirming Classrooms

   Send us a text In this episode of The Equity Hour, Dr. Tami Dean sits down with Kwame Sarfo-Mensah—founder of Identity Talk Consulting and author of Learning to Relearn—to unpack what it really takes to create identity-affirming, culturally responsive classrooms. They explore how “compliance culture” undermines agency, the history behind school policies (from uniforms to hair), and practical ways educators can “clean the lenses,” confront bias, and center joy, belonging, and critical thinking...

2. 

   30 Sept 2025

   Equity Starts Here: Why Joy Requires Belonging

   Send us a text What if “joy in schools” isn’t possible without belonging? Dr. Tami Dean and Dr. Max Weinberg unpack how humane, trauma-informed practice—and real partnership with families, paraprofessionals, and communities—creates conditions where every student is seen, safe, and able to learn. What You’ll Learn Why belonging is the prerequisite for joy—not the other way around.How testing culture and scripted curricula erode critical thinking and equity.Practical ways to center in loco pare...

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   17 Sept 2025

   The False Choice: Equity, Adoption & Abortion

   Send us a text Author and PhD student Shannon Quist joins Dr. Tami to unpack the false binary of adoption vs. abortion—and the equity issues hiding in plain sight. We trace the Baby Scoop era, Roe v. Wade, evangelical politics, and present-day practices like safe haven boxes and sealed birth certificates. Shannon shares her adoptee journey, the identity costs of transracial adoption, and why open records and community care matter. If you’ve wondered who profits, who’s protected, and who’s era...

Who has been a guest on Equity Hour

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Megan Fuciarelli
• Katie O’Malley
• LaTerrian "LT" Officer-McIntosh
• LeTerrian Officer-McIntosh
• Dr Shelly Jones Holt

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 51 / 100

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Quality

61

Social presence

91

YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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