Let's Care

About Let's Care

Let's Care, initially founded as 180º of Impact, is a platform to pass the mic to those that often go unheard in the social change space. We've interviewed 100+ underrepresented changemakers to-date. Your host is Matt Scott (@MattScottGW), a social impact project manager and storyteller previously working as global community manager and storyteller for the world's largest hackathon with NASA, and has also worked with Nike, USAID, the Obama White House and more. For more conversations like this or to subscribe to the email list, visit www.lets.care and follow @LetsYouCare on social media.

Publisher

Let's Care

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Aug 2018

Latest episode

26 Apr 2022

Latest episodes

56 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   26 Apr 2022

   Clint Smith III: Passing the word, doing the work (ft. Charlotte Rose LaMotte, Ra'mya Davis, Chris Cole, Kayla Waysome, & Scott Rechler)

   Often, we overlook the power of young people to create change. Yes to Youth is a podcast series getting to know changemakers who started early and are making a real impact, in spite of and often because of their age and identity. Yes to Youth is presented by Let’s Care in collaboration with LearnServe International. Your host is Matt Scott, creator of Let's Care and longtime LearnServe volunteer. Today's episode features a bonus episode centering Clint Smith III, recipient of LearnServe's 2022 Civic Champion Award and featuring the voices of LearnServe Co-Director and CEO Scott Rechler and alumni Charlotte Rose LaMotte, Ra'mya Davis, Chris Cole, and Kayla Waysome. Civic Champion Awardee Clint Smith Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of the narrative nonfiction book, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, which was a #1 New York Times bestseller and was selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 best books of 2021. He is also the author of the poetry collection Counting Descent, which won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. Clint has received fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New America, the Emerson Collective, the Art For Justice Fund, Cave Canem, and the National Science Foundation. His essays, poems, and scholarly writing have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, the Harvard Educational Review, and elsewhere. He is a 2014 National Poetry Slam champion and a 2017 recipient of the Jerome J. Shestack Prize from the American Poetry Review. Previously, Clint taught high school English in Prince George’s County, Maryland where, in 2013, he was named the Christine D. Sarbanes Teacher of the Year by the Maryland Humanities Council. While teaching, Clint served as a LearnServe Advisor, nominating and supporting students through the LearnServe Fellows, Incubator, and Abroad Programs.He is the host of the YouTube series Crash Course Black American History. Clint received his B.A. in English from Davidson College and his Ph.D. in Education from Harvard University. Born and raised in New Orleans, he currently lives in Maryland with his wife and their two children. For more on LearnServe International, visit www.learn-serve.org. For more on Let's Care, visit www.lets.care.

2. 

   29 Jan 2022

   Amy "Lita" Dumas: Act Like You're Supposed To Be There

   Amy Dumas is best known as WWE wrestler and Hall of Famer Lita. Over the last 20+ years, she has made her mark in sports entertainment, paving a way for women (and so many others) in pro wrestling and beyond to make road where there weren't roads. This weekend, Amy is taking part in WWE's Royal Rumble PPV, which reminds us of a few years back, when she wore a "Time's Up" shirt on a global stage, sending a message about the treatment of women and abusers in the entertainment industry. This interview appears in the 20s & Change: San Francisco film, which has been recognized at the 2021 San Francisco Black Film Festival and Las Vegas Queer Arts Film Festival. Watch the film at www.lets.care. Amy is an animal activist, a musician, a mental health advocate, a supporter of women's rights and justice for women dealing with insane laws to control their bodies, and someone who can not be contained. Amy is making an impact while dancing to the beat of her own drum, bringing the punk rock D.I.Y. spirit to the table each and every day. Follow Amy on Twitter @AmyDumas and on Instagram @MacheteGirl. For more on Let's Care, visit www.lets.care. Follow Matt Scott on social media @MattScottGW.

3. 

   7 Jan 2022

   Identity, Inspiration, Impact | Listen to the film 20s & Change: San Francisco

   20s & Change: San Francisco (hosted by Matt Scott) is our pilot film to “pass the mic” to the changemakers who often go unheard. It has been honored and screened at the 2021 San Francisco Black Film Festival and Las Vegas Queer Arts Film Festival. 20s & Change features a number of themes that are relevant to young changemakers, in particular. Those themes include: using your unique talents to make a positive impact in the world creating a way out of (seemingly) no way prioritizing diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice the power of representation and storytelling having “uncomfortable” conversation about identity and impact The film is meant to model conversations about impact and identity. These are conversations that our world needs, in order to help others see their own identities as superpowers in changing the world for the better. Watch the film at www.lets.care/film (//www.lets.care/film). Celebrate 5 years with us at www.lets.care/five (//www.lets.care/five). Learn more about Let's Care at www.lets.care (//www.lets.care). Follow Matt Scott: @MattScottGW on all platforms

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