Author: Brenda Gazzar

Domestic Violence, Homelessness & Health Care

    Featuring Amy Turk, LCSW, Chief Executive Officer of the Downtown Women’s Center (DWC), the only organization in Los Angeles focused exclusively on serving and empowering women experiencing homelessness.   What are the root causes of homelessness among women? What role does gender-based violence play? What policies […]

Health Care’s Transformative Moment

      Featuring Michael Lighty, founding fellow of the Sanders Institute and former healthcare constituency director for Bernie 2020: Why won’t our legislators take up the political fight against health insurers and pharmaceutical companies? How can we shift the definition of what’s politically possible […]

How to Win Medicare for All

      Featuring Michael Lighty, founding fellow of the Sanders Institute and former healthcare constituency director for Bernie 2020: What’s holding the U.S. back from Medicare for All? (Hint: It’s not just Trump.) What about California? In this second episode in a podcast series […]

The Health Equity X-Factor?

    Featuring Michael Lighty, founding fellow of the Sanders Institute and former healthcare constituency director for Bernie 2020: Will “a little bit of this and a little bit of that” solve America’s healthcare problems? Is COVID-19 a game-changer in the fight for single-payer? In […]

PPE, Paper Bags & A Pandemic

    Featuring Rose Roach, executive director of the Minnesota Nurses Association: How are some hospitals conserving personal protective equipment? (Hint: In ways that would be unthinkable before the pandemic.) And who’s ultimately responsible for assuring sufficient PPE supplies? Code WACK! host Brenda Gazzar and […]

Nurses, Racism & Black Lives Matter Protests

  Featuring Rose Roach, executive director of the Minnesota Nurses Association:  How are nurses of color impacted by racism, both on the job and in the streets? Could using weapons of war against protesters increase the spread of coronavirus? Code WACK! host Brenda Gazzar and […]