Shades of Impact: Recent Episodes
Surge Institute
The Surge Institute is creating a space for unscripted, unfiltered, unbound dialogue about the challenges and triumphs of leadership. From entrepreneurship to mobilizing, leaders of color from all over come together to teach, learn and grow.
Surge Founder and President Carmita Semaan shares the future of the organization and the ongoing work to transform systems for our youth and communities.
Original Airdate: October 13, 2021
Uniting people toward collective impact isn't easy. Over the past year, it was even more challenging. Join us to hear the stories and insights of three leaders in different spaces, all working to bring people together. Our guests share about their journies in mobilizing communities.
Guests: Lilly Cruz (El Griot & Areito Project), Jane Lee (People of Change), Jon Veal (ALT_ Chicago)
Original Airdate: May 5, 2021
In honor of the 2021 Surge Alumni Convening, the March live stream took a powerful turn and became a space for Surge Alums to own and design, a powerful raw dialogue that could go in whatever direction our alums chose.
Guests: Halleemah Nash, Nicole Magtoto, Edgar Palacios, Eric Wilkinson
Original Airdate: March 3, 2021
Shades of Impact is a growing ongoing series that brings together leaders of color using their genius to stoke the fires of movement and change. It is unscripted, unfiltered, and unbound in where the conversations go.
This Shades of Impact dialogue brings together three entrepreneurs of color for some real talk about peaks and valleys around starting and running a for-profit business while living in the skin you are in. As always, this is unfiltered, unscripted, and unbound.
Guests: Adrian "A" Deleon (Innovare - Social Innovation Partners), Halleemah Nash (Rosecrans Ventures), Paul Morgan (Northwestern Mutual)
Original Airdate: January 12, 2021
It's been referred to and promoted as "Hispanic Heritage Month." As this well-meaning celebratory month comes to a close, we want to have some raw dialogue about the complicated nature of the term "Hispanic" as well as the complexity of cultural identity in a new era.
Guests: Noemí Cortés, Dulce Torres-Petty, David O. Blancas, and Edgar Palacios.
Original Airdate: October 14, 2020
At this moment, folks are deciding on this nation’s next wave of governmental leadership. The conversation around the value of voting has taken center stage, especially as it pertains to communities of color. As part of the #VoteWithLove initiative, we feel that it is necessary to come together to talk about what it means to not only participate in but also continue to challenge and re-imagine this aspect of our civic duty.
Surge VP of Marketing Strategy, Chris Paicely, is joined by Latanya "LT" Hilton, Ariel Johnson, and Luis A. Miranda, Jr. to engage in raw and unfiltered conversations about the power of Voters of Color.
Original Airdate: October 29, 2020
During a challenging and pivotal year in the journey toward tearing down racial inequity and building an inclusive United States, unity between oppressed communities is critical. What does that look like? How do we achieve it?
In Episode 2, a new group of leaders talks about Black and Brown solidarity in a time when we need to lean on and lift up each other more than ever. Joining the conversation are four Surge Alums doing incredible work to transform the system: Jorge Fuller, Vanessa Gutierrez, Steven Rosado, and Tyfahra Singleton.
Episode one of Shades of Impact is an open dialogue between black men navigating the civil unrest in the aftermath of George Floyd's murder. It was a moment that put the image of the black male, once again, at the center of a national conversation. Surge VP of Marketing Chris Paicely spoke with three men from three cities who directly serve young people in different ways.
This episode features Harold Pearson, Executive Director of SPAAT, David Muhammad, Executive Director and Head Youth Instructor of Integrity Martial Arts Academy, and Brian Harris, a Postsecondary Coach for Chicago Public Schools.Original airdate: June 23, 2020.