The Sifu Mimi Chan Show
Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk is a board member of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, a former co-chair of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition & and a part of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe.
We discuss the historic and present-day struggles of Native Americans and their displacement from their lands. Regina educates me on petroglyphs, the Bears Ears National Monument, and the climate crisis.
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Stewart Kwoh is a nationally recognized leader and expert in race relations, Asian American studies, nonprofit organizations and philanthropies, civil rights, and legal services. He co-founded Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles and the Asian American Education Project.
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As many of you know, I am currently writing a bill with Representative Anna V. Eskamani and Senator Linda Stewart to include AAPI history for the k-12 education curriculum in Florida.
I had the privilege of sitting down with students from diverse backgrounds across the state of Florida to discuss why they believe AAPI history should be included in their education.
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Spencer Ackerman has been a national-security correspondent for outlets like The New Republic, WIRED, The Guardian, and currently The Daily Beast for nearly the entire War on Terror.
He is the author of the new acclaimed book REIGN OF TERROR: HOW THE 9/11 ERA DESTABILIZED AMERICA AND PRODUCED TRUMP. As the former U.S. national security editor for the Guardian, Ackerman was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team reporting on Edward Snowden’s surveillance revelations.
Welcome back to The Mimi and Greg Show where Greg Rucka and I just dive right in. As a matter of fact, I thought I’d leave our pre-roll chat in today, since at 40+ episodes, we pretty much are just vamping anyway.
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If you can’t get enough of The Mimi and Greg Show this episode will certainly hold you over! Greg Rucka and I chat about everything going on in the world right now.
We tackle climate change, the withdrawal from Afghanistan, voter suppression, comics, book recommendations, death, and how to find the zen we need in our lives right now.
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Shelley Zalis is an internationally renowned thought leader, movement maker, and champion of equality. As the CEO of The Female Quotient, she works with Fortune 500 companies and impacts organizations to advance equality in the workplace.
I was shocked when I learned that it would take 99.5 years to eliminate global gender equality at the current rate of progress.
We discuss ways they are working to bridge the gap for gender pay equity and leadership roles.
I was honored to have this Facebook live conversation with three incredible women to celebrate Pride month back in June.
Dr. Davis was a professor and administrator at universities in both Canada and the United States teaching biomechanics and anatomy. She is also a founding member of the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles.
After attempting to transition in the early 1990s, Dr. Davis was forced to detransition having lost her job and in order to find work to support her children.
Dr. Davis made her final transition in 2015 having gender affirmation surgery in 2016 and has since lived as her authentic self.
Tim Larkin is a former military intelligence officer who was part of a beta group that redesigned how Special Operations personnel trained for close combat. He has a 25-year career of training people in 52 countries on how to deal with imminent violence.
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Dan John discusses loss during the pandemic and how to cope with grief. We continue to explore the philosophies of The Sword in the Stone and I am always amazed at how much I can relate to the stories in the book.
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Gene Luen Yang began making comics and graphic novels in the fifth grade. In 2006, his book American Born Chinese was published and became the first graphic novel to be nominated for a National Book Award and the first to win the American Library Association’s Printz Award. It also won an Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album-New.
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