Baratunde on How to Citizen

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Tom Vander Ark is joined by one of his favorite podcast hosts… Baratunde Thurston, host of the How to Citizen podcast.

Baratunde is an Emmy-nominated host, author of the New York Times bestseller How To Be Black, and creator/host of How To Citizen with Baratunde which Apple named one of its favorite podcasts of 2020. He’s also a founding partner of the new media startup Puck.

He will also be keynoting SXSW EDU alongside his friend Priya Parker, author of The Art of Gathering.

We appreciate the work that Baratunde is doing to shed light on important people, organizations and methods to turn citizen into a verb. 

Links

• How to Citizen
• How to Be Black
• SXSW with Priya Parker
• Community Solutions
• Folded Map Project
• See No Stranger by Valerie Kaur
• Eric Liu
• Build 

Some of our favorite How to Citizen Episodes

• Fast, Fair, Fun (with Digital Minister Audrey Tang)
• Building Bridges, Not Walls (With Tonika Johnson)
• Why Is Our Economy So … White? (with Heather McGhee)

One-Two-One

One person that inspired citizen as a verb? 

• Mother: encouraged to question power, to question school. Modeled how to citizen.

Insights for edleaders? 

• Someone has to be responsible for holding the conversation.
• Coauthoring entrepreneurship with young people is a great way to build agency and understand power dynamics.

Another insight 

• It is worth asking communities and fellow leaders: “What is your goal?” “What are you afraid of… what do you hope for?”