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First Voices Indigenous Radio

Ukumb­wa Sauti is an ini­ti­at­ed Elder in the Dagara tra­di­tion from Burk­i­na Faso in west Africa. He is a divin­er, numerol­o­gist and spir­i­tu­al coun­selor. Ukumb­wa is a Producer/​Partner at Moja Medi­a­works, devel­op­ing the World Ances­tor Con­cert and facil­i­tat­ing social jus­tice work­shop expe­ri­ences along with for­ward­ing pro­gres­sive mes­sag­ing through online mer­chan­dis­ing. He has taught cul­tur­al media stud­ies for 16 years in high­er edu­ca­tion. Ukumb­wa cre­at­ed a blog enti­tled Indige­ny & Ener­get­ics” out­lin­ing, in part, the his­to­ry and effects of Chris­tian­i­ty in the Indige­nous and mod­ern world and the per­sis­tence of the ele­ments of reli­gious priv­i­lege and preda­to­ry mis­sion­ary work. Ukumb­wa also has been active in the Pan-African move­ment, Black Lives Mat­ter and oth­er anti-racism work and the Occupy/​Decolonize to Lib­er­ate move­ments. He has pre­sent­ed at spir­i­tu­al con­fer­ences and polit­i­cal events in the New Eng­land region, Cal­i­for­nia and Bar­ba­dos; and has been active in cre­at­ing rit­u­al work in the Boston, New York and Toron­to, Cana­da. Ukumb­wa can be reached on Face­book, Twit­ter and email at ukumbwa@​gmail.​com. Find his cur­rent work at www​.worl​dances​tor​con​cert​.com, on Face­book and oth­er Glob­al Media Net­work platforms.

Mered­ith Bee­son is a state and local gov­ern­ment affairs pro­fes­sion­al liv­ing in the Min­neapo­lis and Saint Paul (Twin Cities), area with a deep pas­sion for civic engage­ment and com­mu­ni­ty activism. After being laid off her cor­po­rate job in 2017, Mered­ith par­tic­i­pat­ed in a human rights sol­i­dar­i­ty trip to Hon­duras to deep­en her under­stand­ing of U.S. influ­ence in Cen­tral Amer­i­ca. As a mem­ber of this media-mak­ers del­e­ga­tion to Hon­duras, Mered­ith had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to learn more about the deep con­nec­tions between cur­rent social, eco­nom­ic, and polit­i­cal issues in Hon­duras and the influ­ence of U.S. pol­i­cy in the region more broad​ly​.In addi­tion to her new explo­rations of inter­na­tion­al issues, Mered­ith has worked in city, state and fed­er­al lev­els of gov­ern­ment. Her pas­sion for civic and com­mu­ni­ty engage­ment has led her to vol­un­teer at KRSM (a low-pow­ered com­mu­ni­ty radio sta­tion in South Min­neapo­lis); serv­ing as Vice Chair of the Min­neso­ta Human­i­ties Cen­ter board of direc­tors; and vol­un­teer­ing at a local com­mu­ni­ty gar­den pro­gram focused on food jus­tice issues.