Citizen Hope

Today’s episode features Valerie Thomas, an American inventor who worked with NASA. Thomas’s story shows us that even though our parents, our teachers, and societal standards may try to dictate what we create and give to the world, we can overcome those barriers, work hard in the direction of our dreams, and become who we are meant to be. 

 
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 SOURCES:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Thomas 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_transmitter 

http://www.myblackhistory.net/Valerie_Thomas.htm 

https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/face-behind-landsat-images-meet-dr-valerie-l-thomas 

https://www.revolt.tv/2021/2/17/22287474/nasa-valerie-thomas-interview 

https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/valerie-thomas 

https://www.beyondcurie.com/valerie-thomas 

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nssdc_news/sept95/04_j_green_0995.html 

https://www.biography.com/scientist/valerie-thomas 

https://scoop.upworthy.com/meet-valerie-thomas-the-nasa-scientist-who-invented-3-d-movies 

https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/jim-crow-laws 

https://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm 

Today is the second installment of everyday heroes! We’ll learn that kids are incredible givers, too. Maybe even the best givers.  A quick note that some of the stories I share have videos that accompany them. You can find those videos on the website – check the show notes for a link to the site!

 SHOW NOTES:

Website: https://citizenhopepodcast.com   

Go Fund Me for Mikey Neidigk: https://www.gofundme.com/f/mikey-neidigks-medical-bills 

Go Fund Me for Jose Villaruel: https://www.gofundme.com/f/2b320zi4dc?qid=b7b01ce0faf38555a9be9fd792392b8a 

 SOURCES:

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/student-gives-ice-cream-money-help-pay-funeral-teachers-father-law/

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/teacher-kept-petition-61-years-memento-student-kindness/

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/former-students-return-to-surprise-their-music-teacher-she-drops-to-her-knees-in-tears/ 

https://www.11alive.com/article/life/heartwarming/substitute-teacher-living-car-27k-check-former-student/85-fcea014c-2fb5-4d7a-abe4-4d08e01f5577 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-do-students-give-teachers-apples-and-more-from-the-fruits-juicy-past-26381703/ 

https://www.yaktrinews.com/student-gives-teacher-all-of-the-marshmallows-from-her-cereal/#/questions 

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/teacher-moved-to-tears-by-students-replacing-stolen-shoes/ 

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/teacher-cant-afford-holiday-gifts-sick-son-students-leave-surprise-desk/ 

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/students-ensure-teacher-will-finish-bucket-list/ 

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/students-serenade-choir-teacher-last-minutes-life/ 

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/400-students-gather-sing-outside-window-teacher-fighting-cancer-watch/ 

https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/why-a-retired-anacortes-teacher-kept-a-piece-of-paper-for-more-than-60-years/ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVyIlVzA1Ng 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hanlIxl0Ts 

Today’s episode explores the lengths that humans will go to survive. Aron Ralston was a 27 year old outdoor enthusiast out for a day hike and climb in Utah’s Canyonlands National Park, when a bolder fell on his hand and trapped him in a slot canyon. What followed shows the unshakeable nature of the human spirit, and how far we’ll go when our life is on the line. 

SHOW NOTES:

·       Website: https://citizenhopepodcast.com   

·       Instagram: @CitizenHopePodcast

·       Twitter: @CitizenHopePod1

For more on Aron Ralston:

·       Book: Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston

·       Movie: 127 Hours, directed by Danny Boyles, available on Amazon Prime Video

·       Ralston Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd01hidVzv4 

SOURCES:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Ralston

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/dec/15/story-danny-boyles-127-hours 

https://www.5280.com/2018/10/its-been-15-years-since-aron-ralston-amputated-his-arm-in-blue-john-canyon/ 

https://www.outsideonline.com/1821786/aron-ralston-between-rock-and-hardest-place 

https://www.cmu.edu/magazine/03fall/aralston.html 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd01hidVzv4 

https://listverse.com/2018/12/20/10-unbelievable-cases-of-self-amputation-for-survival/ 

https://aliciapatterson.org/stories/when-sea-calls 

https://www.backcountrysurvival.co.uk/2016/05/20/minimum-amount-of-water-needed-to-survive/ 

Today’s episode covers two tales of human ingenuity from different points in time – The Loretto Chapel staircase, and the Discrete Cosine Transform developed by Nasir Ahmed. We learn that there is evidence all around us, and from all points in human history, that our incredible brains can create real-life miracles. 

SHOW NOTES:

Nasir Ahmed’s Books:

·       Orthogonal Transforms for Digital Signal Processing

·       Discrete Time Signals and Systems

SOURCES:

https://www.lorettochapel.com/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretto_Chapel 

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/a35539211/who-is-nasir-ahmed-esther-true-story/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasir_Ahmed_(engineer) 

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fJ9_Og0AAAAJ&hl=en 

https://dblp.org/pid/60/3286-1.html 

https://meaww.com/nasir-ahmed-esther-love-story-real-life-this-is-us-genius-indian-engineer-dct-jpg-file 

https://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave.Marshall/Multimedia/node231.html 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_cosine_transform 

https://squidarth.com/rc/math/2018/06/24/fourier.html 

https://news.yahoo.com/incredible-true-story-behind-nasir-000000344.html 

https://people.com/tv/this-is-us-nasir-ahmed-pearsons-births-covid/ 

This week features a collection of short stories about amazing teachers!

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Follow Citizen Hope on Social Media:

·       Twitter: @CitizenHopePod1

·       Instagram: @CitizenHopePodcast

Good News Resources:

·       Tanks Good News: https://tanksgoodnews.com/ and @tanksgoodnews on Instagram

·       Good News Network: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ 

·       Today: https://www.today.com/news/good-news 

·       Sunny Skyz: https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news 

·       Upworthy: https://www.upworthy.com/ and @upworthy on Instagram

SOURCES:

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/jonte-lee-at-home-chemistry-class-videos-washington-dc/ 

https://youtu.be/G0LQxRp0Rxw

https://youtu.be/I0jgcyfC2r8

https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/teachers-going-above-and-beyond-for-their-students-during-covid-19/97-325fa1e5-c4dd-47b1-b0dc-17f055010f7c 

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/minnesota-teacher-donated-a-kidney-to-custodian/

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/teacher-saves-life-via-zoom/

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/uk-teacher-delivered-7500-packed-lunches-to-pupils-during-lockdown/

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/no-one-came-to-students-graduation-so-teacher-takes-him-out-to-dinner-and-buys-him-a-car/

Malala Yousafzai stood up to the Taliban and was nearly killed for her courage and activism. The attempt against her life did not silence her. In fact, it only served to ground her more solidly in her cause – championing the right to quality education for all children around the world. Her story demonstrates that all of us have the strength to stand up, raise our voices, and win, even against the most violent of oppressors. 

SHOW NOTES:

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Change.org Petition to rename Donald J. Trump Park to Sojourner Truth Park: https://www.change.org/p/new-york-state-house-rename-of-donald-j-trump-park-to-sojourner-truth-park

 Learn More about Malala Yousafzai:

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban is Malala’s autobiography, released in October 2013. It became an international bestseller. The book was abridged in 2018 for young chapter book readers as Malala: My Story of Standing Up for Girls' Rights.

HE NAMED ME MALALA, is a documentary directed by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, Waiting for Superman), giving viewers an intimate look into the life of Yousafzai, her family, and her commitment to supporting education for girls around the world.

Malala's Magic Pencilis a children’s book, published in 2017, thatintroduces her childhood in Pakistan through a well-known TV show where a young boy uses his magic pencil to help people. In the book, the magic pencil instructs readers how to make the world a better place.

Published in 2018, We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World explores Yousafzai's story as well as the stories of girls she met in her travels to refugee camps in Colombia, Guatemala, Syria and Yemen.

SOURCES:

https://malala.org/malalas-story 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai 

https://www.biography.com/activist/malala-yousafzai 

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2014/yousafzai/biographical/ 

https://theirworld.org/explainers/malala-yousafzais-speech-at-the-youth-takeover-of-the-united-nations 

https://news.un.org/en/story/2017/10/567872-interview-fighting-girls-education-un-advocate-malala-yousafzai-finds-her 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29177946 

It's the first EVER episode of Citizen Hope! I'm so happy you're here! Today's episode is about Sojourner Truth. Her story teaches us that despite our circumstances, we can rise up and make an impact, and maybe even influence the course of history.   

I want to share your stories! Email me at citizenhopepodcast@gmail.com

SOURCES:
https://www.thesojournertruthproject.com/compare-the-speeches/ 

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83035487/1851-06-21/ed-1/seq-4/ 

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sojourner-truth 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojourner_Truth 

https://www.biography.com/activist/sojourner-truth 

https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/antebellum/truth-sojourner/ 

https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/abraham-lincoln-and-sojourner-truth/ 

Are you feeling a little hopeless? Does the current state of the world have you worried about what's next for humanity? You've come to the right place. Welcome to Citizen Hope! Get ready for a new perspective....