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Tashana Curtis
Portia LaMarr
Ingrid Nuttall
 

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Current Season: Season 3

S3E9 - What comes next? With Roslyn Perry | 02/14/2025

For this episode, HEARD sits down with Roslyn Perry, AACRAO's Vice President for Access and Equity and Registrar and Associate Dean of Records at Allegheny College. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is at the front and center of the current political agenda and dominates so much discourse.

S3E8 - Rhetoric or Reality with AACRAO's Bill Gil, Senior Director of Government Relations | 12/10/2024

Join Portia, Tashana, and Ingrid for a conversation with Bill Gil, Senior Director of Government Relations for AACRAO, to unpack what we might expect for higher education under the next Trump administration.

S3E7 - Just Us - aka the Flop Phone Debate | 12/02/2024

In this special episode of HEARD, Portia, Tashana, and Ingrid take a moment as the year nears its close to catch up and reflect on allyship, imposter thinking, belonging, blue bracelets, and strengths (among other things).

S3E6 - A Way of Knowing Someone: Empathy in the Workplace | 10/16/2024

On this episode, Portia, Tashana and Ingrid spoke with Chris Boldon, Director or Workforce Data Management in the Office of Human Resources at the University of Minnesota, about HR's role in supporting employees in toxic work environments.

S3E5 - Feelings are Data: Building Healthy Culture with Shamis Pitts | 09/18/2024

Portia and Ingrid spoke with Shamis Pitts, Founder and CEO of Pitts Leadership Consulting, about her experiences working with people and systems to make culture work by focusing on ways of working; the importance of self-awareness; and the difference between self-care and self-compassion.