Episode #58: Student Advocacy as the Conscience

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Today, Wendy chats with Matt St.Clair to learn about his advocacy work, starting with the ground-breaking UC Go Solar Campaign in 2003 to his current position as the UC’s Chief Sustainability officer. We learn about cross-department collaboration, effective communication for change, and staying grounded in mission. Enjoy!

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Matthew St.Clair is the first Chief Sustainability Officer for the University of California’s Office of the President and has been leading sustainability efforts across the 10-campus UC system since 2004. He was a founding member of the Board of Directors for the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Strategic Energy Innovations, an environmental nonprofit building leaders to drive sustainability solutions. As an accomplished LEED Fellow and a Certified Energy Manager,  He has advised the U.S. House of Representatives on the formation of an Office of Sustainability for the U.S. Capitol.

Episode #57: Where Food Meets Performance with Elizabeth Schiffler

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You don’t want to miss today’s episode–mainly because Wendy and Elizabeth reveal their reigning favorite salt! How’d we get there? Because Elizabeth shares how she guides her students through a mindful salt tasting–an exercise that embodies her research at the intersection of food and performance. A PhD candidate at UCLA in Theater and Performance Studies with a graduate certificate in Food Studies, Elizabeth discusses how she approaches food experiences and food justice through an artistic research lens.

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Elizabeth Schiffler is a PhD candidate at UCLA in Theater and Performance Studies, with a graduate certificate in Food Studies. She is a part-time faculty member in Food Studies at The New School. Her work focuses on contemporary performance that uses food in and as performance, entangled with human, nonhuman, and ecological scales. She is the 2022 recipient of the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge Fellowship at UCLA, and a Global Food Initiative Fellow with University of California Office of the President. She has contributed to Theatre Journal, Food, Culture & Society, and the Graduate Journal for Food Studies.

Episode #53: Coffee, Community, Connection with Joe and Celia Ward-Wallace

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Coffee, community, and connection are the ways that Joe and Celia Ward-Wallace advocate for their South Central LA community. As founders of the South LA Cafe and the South LA community nonprofit, this dynamic duo is paving the path toward food justice and community health. Learn how Celia, with her coaching and consulting background, and Joe, with his firefighting background, came together to create a place of gathering.

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About Celia Ward-Wallace:

Celia Ward-Wallace is a leading business coach and consultant for social enterprises creating a business with an impact. She is an internationally recognized empowerment, entrepreneurship, and leadership expert who leads her clients to start, launch, and grow purpose-driven businesses and become thought leaders through entrepreneurship, coaching, speaking, writing, community building, and activism. Celia’s coaching and consulting firm The Ward-Wallace Group, has worked with over 1,000 social enterprises, non-profit organizations, brands, coaches, and entrepreneurs to help them launch and scale world-changing ideas. Their impressive corporate client list includes The Honest Company, Downtown Crenshaw, The Los Angeles Urban League, LAFD, USC, UCLA, and the Leimert Park Village Vendors. She also serves as a contributor for the Huffington Post, a featured guest expert for ABC7 Eyewitness News & an awarded Top 20 Business Coach in Los Angeles. To learn more about Celia here and connect via email at info@southlacafe.com.

About Joe Ward-Wallace:

Joe Ward-Wallace is a life-long resident of South Central Los Angeles, a retired Los Angeles City Fighter, and a sales and marketing expert with over 25 years of business experience. A child of evangelists and entrepreneurs, Joe brings his unparalleled faith and resilience to all of his diverse ventures, which include real estate investing and management, an impressive career as a college basketball referee, and founder and CEO of the SLAC ecosystem which. aims to break the shackles of systemic oppression and inequality by creating, building, and empowering an equitable, healthy, and sustainable South Central community for all. To connect with Joe or learn more, visit or email at info@southlacafe.com.

Episode #52: Part 2: A Culture of Care with Peter Sellars

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How is controversy a good thing? What does it mean to have five eyes? Why is there no such thing as spectatorship? 

This is what we set out to uncover in Part 2 of our Special Series with Peter Sellars, world-renowned theater and opera director. Join us as we discuss imagining new and revolutionary solutions to issues and injustices by centering art and community care. 

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MacArthur Fellow Peter Sellars is a world-renowned Director and artist, regarded as one of the most influential opera, theater, and film directors of the past four decades. Peter explores challenging moral issues through his work, abstracting traditional performances into a socio-political spectacle. His work spans disciplines and cultures across both academia and art. He also happens to be a distinguished professor in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, where he has taught since 1988, and is the founding director of the Boethius Institute at UCLA. As mentioned on the Boethius Initiative site, Peter’s work illuminates art’s power as a means of moral expression and social action. Sellars has led major arts festivals in Los Angeles, Adelaide and Vienna. His many awards include a MacArthur Fellowship, the Erasmus Prize, the Gish Prize, and the Polar Music Prize. Sellars conceived and directed “this body is so impermanent…” in response to the global pandemic .

Episode #51: Part 1: A Culture of Care with Peter Sellars

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Why were snakes at the original Olympics? How are the arts and sports intimately connected? How did the Greek tragedy come to be? Somehow, we cover all of these questions in Part 1 of our Special 2 Part Interview  with Peter Sellars. 

Peter, with his gift of storytelling, takes us on a journey to the Olympics in ancient Greece, where health, theater, and the arts were of equal importance in this celebration of togetherness. Fast forward to today, we look at how arts and sports are both lifelong commitments to navigating struggle in thrilling, liberating, and uniting ways.

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MacArthur Fellow Peter Sellars is a world-renowned Director and artist, regarded as one of the most influential opera, theater, and film directors of the past four decades. Peter explores challenging moral issues through his work, abstracting traditional performances into a socio-political spectacle. His work spans disciplines and cultures across both academia and art. He also happens to be a distinguished professor in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, where he has taught since 1988, and is the founding director of the Boethius Institute at UCLA. As mentioned on the Boethius Initiative site, Peter’s work illuminates art’s power as a means of moral expression and social action. Sellars has led major arts festivals in Los Angeles, Adelaide and Vienna. His many awards include a MacArthur Fellowship, the Erasmus Prize, the Gish Prize, and the Polar Music Prize. Sellars conceived and directed “this body is so impermanent…” in response to the global pandemic .

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Episode #47: Leading with Empathy and Inclusivity with Mick Deluca

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Today, we’re getting the inside scoop on what it takes to lead empathetically and inclusively from UCLA’s very own Mick Deluca, Associate Vice Chancellor of Campus Life for over 30 years. In his work, Mick strives to create an environment that everyone has access to–from students and staff to future Olympians.

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Mick Deluca is the Assistant Vice Chancellor of Campus Life at UCLA where he has worked for the last 29 years. Prior to UCLA, he held positions at the University of Wyoming and the University of Denver. In this role Mick oversees a campus cluster to include the Community Programs Office (CPO) to include Student Initiated Access, Campus Retention, Student Initiated Service Projects, and support of the Food Closet and Basic Needs Committee, UCLA Recreation and a wide variety of recreation programs and services including instructional programs, summer camps, youth and family programs, competitive and intramural sports, 54 club teams, outdoor adventures, fitness and wellness, cultural arts, adaptive sports, and open recreation, and oversight of 22 recreational and multi-use sport facilities including the John Wooden Center and Pauley Pavilion. In addition, he provides administrative oversight of Student Organizations, Leadership, and Engagement (SOLE), student activities and leadership programs, over 1200 student organizations, student event planning, and Student Affairs “Team External Funding” of Development Officers, Corporate Sponsorships and Partnerships Officer, and Grant Officer. During his career he has overseen over 20 major capital projects and chaired over 50 university committees. He is currently on the steering committee of the UCLA Health Campus Initiative, UCLA Sustainability Committee, was a university lead for the 2015 World Special Olympics Games Los Angeles, part of the UCLA team working on Veteran Affairs with the Greater Los Angeles VA, and is key university lead with the LA2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games planning. He is recognized as an active leader within the University of California system and Pac 12 Conference and has served nationally within NASPA and NIRSA, Leaders in Collegiate Recreation, where he was in the position of President, 2012-13 and was recognized with the National Honor Award in 2016.

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#46: Re-Release: Empowering Communities to Thrive

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The last time we talked to Dr. D’Artagnan Scorza was in 2018. While much has changed since then including his additional role as the Executive Director of Racial Equity in Los Angeles County, this discussion of community empowerment remains as relevant as ever. His experiences in a variety of communities–from the military to leading the Social Justice Learning Institute–shares a timeless message.

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Dr. D’Artagnan Scorza’s work is grounded in efforts to create communities where all people can thrive. Dr. Scorza is currently the Executive Director of Racial Equity with Los Angeles County. Prior to this, D’Artagnan was the founder and executive director of the Social Justice Learning Institute—a non-profit organization that works to help communities achieve health and educational equity.  He formerly served on the Inglewood Unified School District Board of Education. As a US Navy Iraq-War Veteran he helped establish a naval operations unit supporting navy personnel traveling in and out of hostile zones. He attended both UCLA and National University and earned his Ph.D. in Education from UCLA. At UCLA, he helped organize an effort to increase enrollment of African American and Latino students and served on the UC Board of Regents.  To that end, he’s written extensively on the importance of social justice youth development as a strategy that fosters academic development. D’Artagnan also chaired Inglewood Unified School District’s Measure GG campaign, which secured $90 million in school improvement bonds to renovate Inglewood schools and expand access to a safe, healthy, and quality education.  He served as a spokesperson for the Citizens for Revitalizing the City of Champions Revitalization Initiative, an organization gathering support to add a sports and entertainment zone to the Hollywood Park project in Inglewood, California.  He was named a 2010 Education Pioneers Fellow and a 2013-2014 Business Alliance for Local Living Economies Fellow.

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He served as the Public Health Director and Health Officer for Los Angeles County for 16 years where he created the restaurant ABC grading system, directed  major improvement in preparedness for major public health threats, increased the use of evidence based policies and programs and oversaw the Los Angeles County Health Survey, which provided essential information on the health, health risks and health attitudes of different socio-demographic subpopulations. Today, we are chatting with Dr. Jonathan Fielding about his insights and perspective on some of the most pressing public health issues our world faces today. 

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Jonathan is currently a Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management, and of Pediatrics in the Schools of Public Health and Medicine at UCLA.  A brief list of just some of his accomplishments include: founding the UCLA Center for Health Advancement, serving as the Director and Chair of the Truth Initiative, dedicated to ending youth smoking, and in 2011, he was appointed by President Barack Obama to the National Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion and Integrative and Public Health. In addition to having earned three master’s degrees and an MD, he has authored or coauthored more than 300 original articles, commentaries, editorials and chapters on various aspects of public health, preventive medicine, and health services. 

Tune in to find out what Jonathan believes are some of the most concerning public health issues today…and why he doesn’t believe in careers!