The Blue Mountain Center Podcast: Recent Episodes
Blue Mountain Center
Blue Mountain Center, founded in 1982, provides a supportive working community for writers, artists, and activists. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, the center also serves as a meeting place and resource for progressive movement building. We expand and deepen conversation among cultural workers and support projects that emerge from these dialogues. This podcast, co-hosted by Luke Stoddard Nathan and Zohar Gitlis, features long-form interviews with BMC friends, alumni, and staff.
Zohar talks to labor lawyer John Provost, this year's Boren Chertkov Resident, about his background in journalism, his law practice, and the book he completed while at Blue Mountain Center.
Zohar talks to Jane McAlevey, activist and author of Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement, about writing, organizing, and her upbringing.
Zohar talks to three young leaders in The Encampment for Citizenship, a non-profit organization that conducts residential summer programs with year-round follow-up for young people of widely diverse backgrounds.
Zohar talks to Jenny Johnson, a poet and lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh, about her work, her interest in nature, and her residency at Blue Mountain Center.
Luke talks to Jonathan Smucker, an activist/organizer and Berkeley sociology Ph.D. student about his Mennonite background, his work with groups like Iraq Veterans Against the War and Beautiful Trouble, and his new experiences in academia.
Zohar talks to Cali Brooks, Executive Director of the Adirondack Foundation, about the Adirondacks, rural life, and the challenges of philanthropy.
Luke talks to Ashley Makar, editor at Killing the Buddha and author of You Were Strangers: Dispatches from Exile, about her work with refugees, her faith, and her cancer diagnosis.
Zohar talks to poet Jon Sands, author of The New Clean and founding curator of Poets in Unexpected Places, about childhood, activism, therapy, and salad dressing.
We join Kristin Kimball, co-owner of Essex Farm in Essex, NY and author of The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love, to talk about her transformation from city gal to farmhand.
Hosts Luke Nathan and Zohar Gitlis introduce the Blue Mountain Center Podcast and themselves. Luke talks to Aditi Vaidya, Senior Program Officer at the Solidago Foundation.