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In our 84th episode, we catch up with Samanta Helou Hernandez (@Samanta_Helou) and Ali Rachel Pearl (@alirachelpearl) on Instagram Live to discuss our new Substack together, launched exactly one year after the start of our panel series, Making Our Neighborhood: Redlining, Gentrification and Housing in East Hollywood. Tune in to hear about our goals for this new collaboration, including new cuentos we’ll each be publishing soon via the newsletter, and how you can support or learn more!
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In our 69th episode, we chat with Robin Petering (@robinpetering), the executive director of Lens. Co, a research and advocacy company committed to ending youth homelessness in Los Angeles. We speak with Robin about her journey from community-based clinics in Oregon as an undergrad student to her PHD program at USC, which she completed in 2017. Robin and I discuss the definition of “youth homelessness,” including what we do not know about youth experiencing housing insecurity given our current frameworks. We also shout out the Hello Dogtown podcast, a podcast by and for youth with lived experiences of homelessness. Hello Dogtown is produced by Lens Co in partnership with Safe Place for Youth and funded by the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health Innovations 2.
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