Standpoints is a podcast for living and loving blackness, in which hosts Andrea Baldwin and Jenaya Amore welcome guests who explore black feminist experiences within a scholarly, pedagogical, and community praxis of care.
Today, we are presenting a special standalone episode recorded live during a panel discussion hosted by Andrea Baldwin, titled “The Time Is Always Right to Do What Is Right.” The panel was presented in collaboration with the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah during events commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This live audience conversation was recorded on January 20 2026.
Joining Andrea on the panel were three powerful voices in the Salt Lake City area. Ashley Finley is a birth keeper, medicine maker, poet, activist, and educator. Bianca Mittendorf is a community-rooted leader, educator, and candidate for House District 7 in Ogden, Utah. Dr. Chelsea Bouldin is an Assistant Professor whose work engages Black women’s imaginative self-making and archival praxis.
In their conversation panelists approach the civil rights movement not as a closed chapter of the past, but as an ongoing struggle, shaped by history and intensified in the present by backlash, misinformation, and renewed efforts to narrow who belongs, who is protected, and whose voice counts, in Utah and across the United States. The group takes on the question, “If the time is always right to do what is right, what does it mean to DO what is right?” As individuals? Collectively? And especially within institutions that claim neutrality?
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Nana Brantuo
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Cándida Duran Taveras
Ashley Finley
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