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Creativity to the People: Unai Reglero on The Public GoodSeptember 6, 2022, 10:30-11 am

Tanvier Peart

Join us on The Public Good. This week's guest is Unai Reglero, who recently joined PPG as recipient of he Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY) Artist Employment Program. For the next two years he'll be hosting "Creativity To The People," a creative advocacy agency working to amplify community-based …

Youth Education at MAP: Neena Hussey and Echo Martinez on The Public GoodAugust 30, 2022, 10:30-11 am

Sarah Wooton

Join us on The Public Good. This week’s guests are Neena Hussey, Youth Education Director at Massachusetts Avenue Project (MAP). She’ll be joined by MAP Youth Echo Martinez. The Massachusetts Avenue Project’s (MAP) mission is to nurture the growth of a diverse, accessible, …

The Calamus Project: Brian Brown and Sam Magavern on The Public GoodAugust 23, 2022, 10:30-11 am

Andrea Ó Súilleabháin

Join us on The Public Good. Our guests this week are Brian Brown, Production Manager, and Sam Magavern, Executive Producer, with the Calamus Project.  Calamus is a sequence of 45 poems that Walt Whitman wrote in the late 1850s about camaraderie, friendship, and love among men. The …

#HALTsolitary Western New York: Jerome Wright and Steve Hart on The Public GoodAugust 16, 2022, 10:30-11 am

Tanvier Peart

Join us on The Public Good. This week we’re featuring Jerome Wright and Steve Hart with the Western New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement and the #HALTsolitary Campaign. They’ll be discussing the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term (“HALT”) Solitary …

The Forgotten Population: Leah Angel Daniel on The Public GoodAugust 9, 2022, 10:30-11 am

Sarah Wooton

Join us on The Public Good. This week’s guest is Leah Angel Daniels, Founder and CEO of Fostering Greatness, Inc. The fourth item on the PPG's 2022 Community Agenda is The Forgotten Population: Foster Care Youth, Young Adults, and Alumni, on which Fostering Greatness is a leading …

City of Buffalo Proactive Rental Inspection Program: Cathy Amdur and Michael Ramos on The Public GoodAugust 2, 2022, 10:30-11 am

Sarah Wooton

Join us on The Public Good. This week’s guests are Cathy Amdur, Commissioner of the Department of Permit & Inspection Services along with the department’s Lead Hazard Control Outreach & Education Specialist Michael Ramos. They’ll be talking about their Proactive …

Clean Slate: NYS Assembly Members Jon Rivera and Catalina Cruz on The Public GoodJuly 26, 2022, 10:30-11 am

Tanvier Peart

Join us on The Public Good. This week we're talking with New York State Assembly Member Jon Rivera (representing Assembly District 149) and Assembly Member Catalina Cruz (representing Assembly District 39). Assembly Member Cruz is the primary Assembly sponsor of Clean Slate (A6399B).  Those …

Common Council Conversations: Council President Darius Pridgen on The Public GoodJuly 19, 2022, 10:30-11 am

Tanvier Peart

Over the next few months, PPG is hosting Buffalo Common Council members on The Public Good as they discuss their goals and plans for the upcoming year.  This week on The Public Good, we feature Council President Darius G. Pridgen of the Ellicott

African Heritage Food Co-op: Alexander J. Wright on The Public GoodJuly 12, 2022, 10:30-11 am

Tanvier Peart

Join us on The Public Good. This week we’re talking with Alexander J. Wright, Founder and President of the African Heritage Food Co-op. We’ll be discussing food equity issues, particularly in communities of color and Buffalo’s East Side. We’ll be discussing what a food …

Buffalo Council Council Redistricting: Jillian Hanesworth and Rusty Weaver on The Public GoodJuly 5, 2022, 10:30-11 am

Tanvier Peart

Join us on The Public Good. This week we’re talking with Poet Jillian Hanesworth, Buffalo’s Poet Laureate and social change artist, along with Dr. Rusty Weaver, Director of Research at the Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab. Once every 10 years, the Buffalo Common Council is responsible …