Be the Change Radio

Tina Clarke, Certified Transition Trainer. Transition Network supports community-led responses to climate change and shrinking supplies of cheap energy, building resilience and happiness. These involve meeting your neighbors, sharing resources and skills, and having fun doing it! Tina will be leading a Training for Transition in Marbletown on March 17-18.

Maraleen Manos-Jones is The Butterfly Lady. She started raising and releasing monarch butterflies in the 1970s, which inspired a trip to Mexico to search for their hibernation grounds. She has been studying and advocating for butterflies ever since, including her work with Forests for Monarchs, an organization that has planted over 5 million trees in [...]

Livia and Bill Vanaver and Gaby O’Shea of The Vanaver Caravan, a dance company committed to promoting peace and cross-cultural understanding through live dance and music.

Tyrell Bennermon, Natasha Thomas and Shakiba Storts all lead programs at the New Hope Community Center on Smith St in Poughkeepsie. They share with us their passion for their work, their enthusiasm towards the young people who come to the Center, and their hopes and vision for the future. New Hope offers many programs at [...]

Chris Bowser, Science Education Specialist with the NYSDEC Hudson River Estuary Program and National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Estuary Program and Research Reserve protects and improves the natural and scenic Hudson River watershed for all its residents. Chris directs several citizen-science projects, including A Day in the Life of the Hudson River and research on [...]

Arts Educator Danica Ankele, of Mill Street Loft in Poughkeepsie, shares her passion for the arts as a way of empowering young people.  Danica cultivates aspiration through the arts, helping youth to create, witness, explore themselves individually, have a communal experience, and discover new possibilities for positive change.

Listen: Be the Change 2010-10-27 John Raffaele speaks about his work providing educational support for direct support professionals — those who work directly with people with developmental disabilities. John’s work focuses on the front-line professionals who support and partner with those in our society who need a little extra help day-to-day. A well-educated and developed [...]

Listen: Be the Change 2010-04-21 Joan Henry of Mill Street Loft and some of the young women of Project AWARE (Adolescent Women Are Realizing Empowerment) join us.

Listen: Be the Change 2010-03-31 Whitney Bonura of the Crime Victims Assistance Program, a program of Family Services of NY.

Listen: Be the Change 2010-03-10 Peter Muir, co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Music and Health (IMH). IMH is a center based in New York’s Hudson Valley providing specialized training and service for those interested in using music for wellness. If you can’t listen to the whole interview, be sure not to miss the [...]